The Wreck of SMS Hindenburg - Germany's Last Battlecruiser
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- The scuttling of the High Seas Fleet is, in the end, pretty well known. If you've looked at naval history at all. The last act of defiance by Imperial Germany.
The salvage of those ships is, also, a famous operation. From the British government pulling things up, to Ernest Cox and his mission to salvage the ships left over. In today's video, we'll be looking at the most notable of those operations.
SMS Hindenburg. Germany's last battlecruiser, and far and away the most stubborn of the lot. A ship that sank upright. A ship that required four different attempts to raise. And several years, for that matter.
This won't be a traditional shipwreck video, but hopefully still an interesting one.
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She was not as heavily battered as her elder sister (SMS Derfflinger), but as a wreck, Hindenburg was really stubborn.
Derflinger: "WHO WANTS MY HEAD?!"
Hindenburg reenacting that one scene with sleepy vampire from Witcher 3: "Is it 1358 yet?; No; Then fuck off"
I am in awe with Mr. Cox patience and determination.
I imagine Hindenburg missed her chance to slug it out with the Royal Navy, so she decided to "fight" the Englishman Cox's attempts to salvage her, and the various ships around them caught strays.
I suspect it was not a matter of missing her chance. Jellico reported the Grand Fleet would be ready to fight the next day. The Germans knew they were beaten and declined to try again.
Wow what a stubborn ass ship
An incredible salvage saga! I would have given up on it! OMG😮
I have an original photo of her being towed to the scrap yard shame CZcams doesn’t allow photo sharing in the comments
Hindeburg was a beast of a ship.
I bet the surviving crew members were cheering her on to continue causing trouble for the Englanders.
It was as if SMS Hindenburg was getting revenge for having to be scuttled.
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Did the project actually realise a profit? The costs of raising her must have been considerable.
As far as i know, it was extremely lucrative.
I read a book about this operation way back when I was a kid. Mid 60s or so. Damned if I can remember the name of it, It wasn't Cox's Navy, that came out in 2011. If anyone knows the title please let me know.
There is a book "Jutland to Junkyard" by S.C.George with a lot of pictures of the raising and scrapping of the ships (but not the scrapping of SMS Hindenburg). It also describes the battle of Jutland and the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow.
Maybe the book you mean? It's also available in german "Vom Skagerrak nach Scapa Flow". Greetings from Germany.
‘If at first you don’t succeed……..’. 👍🏻🏴
That was a stubborn ship to say the least.
Pretty good video story. Too bad you didn't have any photos of the ship being broken up.
Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be any. Derfflinger, yes, but not Hindenburg.
I’m sure *someone* took photos, but they either haven’t survived or are in an attic somewhere.
Big fan of yours. This was great vid that in books was a paragraph or two . You did a fantastic job on expanding the story. Keep it up . If I can, what is your day job?
How much was the ship was worth in scrap? Do you think some of the metal ended up in WW2 ships and planes?
I know of submarines that went down and came back up fewer times than this ship!
The lesson here being, "never name your vehicle\craft HINDENBURG".
same name as the blimp that burned....a zeplin maybe/? whats nutty was cities were planning to have these things dock on top of sky scrapers but im prob mixing up the story lol
Hindenburg was not a blimp but a zeppelin. These are two entirely different types of airship.
gonna research pre-atomic steel rarity
Got a leak bro
After reading the book "The Sleepwalkers" by the Australian Prof. Christopher Clark you may ask yourself with what right did the Brits intern these ships? Every nation was responsible for the outbreak of the war but the Brits portrayed it as if Germany was the only offender and of course demanded to get the fleet. But ok, this wasn´t their first sugarcoating in their history.
I don't think that Britain wanted the German ships, as they already had more of their own than they needed or could afford post WW1. The ships were supposed to be distributed to the various Allied nations as part of the peace negotiations. So with Britain not needing their share, having what would have been the other nations shares removed from play, was probably a good result for Britain. As it prevented the other nations from getting a cheap naval boost, that would eat into the Royal Navies numerical supremacy.
As for what right did Britain have to intern the ships, it was agreed to by the Germans as one of the conditions of the armistice. That the ships would be interned at Scapa Flow, until their future was decided at the end of war peace settlement negotiations.
@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 It was an act of spying about what technologies were used by the Germans.
Skynea time
I thought that it was a deridgable!,(blimp)
It was an Airship(doped fabrric covered metal skeleton containing compartments each holding huge bags of lighter-than-air gas(hydrogen was cheapest & readily available but one spark could turn the thing into a fireball)
The start of a German Navy tradition
Yeah, kinda the opposite of how the French do things. The Germans fight til the bitter end, and only then do they surrender. But they refuse to give up their ships. The French throw in the towel from the get-go, and their allies have to sink their fleet just in case they decide to hand the ships over to the enemy.
@@HighlanderNorth1 I doubt it is as simple as that, I'm sure there's reasons for France to give up more easily if that's true.
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Yeah you're right, I'm just joking(mostly).
I am still of the opinion that the British stole German property salvaging these ships for their own benefit. It simply was not their property.