Heinkel He 59 and 60 floatplanes patrolling shipping lanes in the North Sea in 1940

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Komentáře • 32

  • @gram40
    @gram40 Před 14 dny +45

    This channel is amazing, no false colouration, no added sound effects, just original footage. Whilst some of it is obviously from propaganda films, it doesn't detract in any way from the content. Thank you.

  • @Makkaravuori
    @Makkaravuori Před 14 dny +16

    @1:41 Finnish ship "SS Herakles" which was built in Scotland in 1910 and during the second world war it sailed mostly on the Baltic sea. It gained local notoriety in 1946, when it brought first batch of coffee from Brazil to Finland after the long years almost completely without coffee.

  • @josefhorndl3469
    @josefhorndl3469 Před 14 dny +12

    And again brilliant footage! The badge of the He 59 S4+VL shows the skull of a ram (Widderschädel), which was the marking of 3./Kü.Fl.Gr 506.

  • @northernskys
    @northernskys Před 14 dny +17

    Awesome footage as usual. Love the shot of the two He 60's taking off together. Pure propaganda shot, but really nice flying. The shots of the He 59 overflying the ships, and then landing to inspect their papers, was really interesting. Knew these aircraft were used for reconnaissance, and for air-sea rescue, but never realised that they landed, to check the ships papers. Learn something new every day from this channel! Great stuff!

  •  Před 14 dny +6

    I’m so glad I found this fantastic channel. The footage is always great with a wide variety of topics covered.

  • @MM22966
    @MM22966 Před 14 dny +11

    2:40 Dude brought two potato-mashers on a friendly boarding inspection. Somebody is green and way too high-speed.

    • @-NINE-THREE-
      @-NINE-THREE- Před 14 dny +1

      Exactly, because nothing ever happens unexpectedly during war!
      It's always predictable, is that why they say "war never changes"? Lol

    • @DenisR1973
      @DenisR1973 Před 14 dny +1

      Dude brought two potato-mashers but his MP is without a magazine attached :))

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 Před 13 dny +1

      @@DenisR1973 I am seeing a vision of Green Fritz loading his mag on a previous stop, tripping getting off the ladder, and letting a burst of 9mm into the side of the ship that got him reamed up one side and down the other...But they were short-handed and couldn't just leave him the next time.

  • @chriswerkes8313
    @chriswerkes8313 Před 14 dny +6

    Great video. The chap with the two hand grenades in his belt looks to be carrying a Bergmann MP18 without a magazine in it.

    • @Sokol10
      @Sokol10 Před 14 dny +4

      Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 MP 34.
      In the MP 18 the magazine receiver is more straight.

    • @kwk343
      @kwk343 Před 12 dny

      That is an MP34.

  • @MM22966
    @MM22966 Před 14 dny +7

    0:40 Somebody showing off for the camera.

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 Před 13 dny

    Thanks for this and new to me 👍

  • @ThePilot4ever
    @ThePilot4ever Před 14 dny +8

    Danish ship 🛶😃📰🚢- Swedish ship 😠🌂🔥🛳

  • @amerigo88
    @amerigo88 Před 13 dny

    Piece of cake in such calm seas. Would require an actual boat in bigger waves.

  • @brucelownhole
    @brucelownhole Před 14 dny +3

    And I thought our coasties were harsh.

  • @sheepdip6452
    @sheepdip6452 Před 14 dny +2

    Damn cool.

  • @buffygum
    @buffygum Před 14 dny +2

    Austrian MP 34 at 2:33

  • @MA-uk6zg
    @MA-uk6zg Před 3 dny

    The headline says North sea but based on the Danish, Swedish ships and not least the wreck of Algol, I would assume this is taken in Kattegat or the South Baltic sea (Østersøen) between Denmark, Sweden and Germany

  • @slick4401
    @slick4401 Před 14 dny +1

    1:12 There is a small propeller under the port side engine of the He 59.

    • @Sokol10
      @Sokol10 Před 14 dny +2

      Power generator for radios.

    • @copperlemon1
      @copperlemon1 Před 14 dny +1

      Called a ram air turbine. Many modern aircraft have them, but they are typically retractable and only deployed in exceptional circumstances. Me-163 and SM. 79 have them featured quite prominently.

  • @Sokol10
    @Sokol10 Před 14 dny +1

    3:08 0- The sunken shipping - ALGOL SVERICE; is from Sweden?

    • @Davvisth
      @Davvisth Před 13 dny +3

      Yes, I looked it up:
      The tanker Algol of Trelleborg, which was mined between Falsterbo lighthouse and Falsterborev on December 13, 1939. The crew was rescued. After a couple of accidents with strandings of the wreck, salvage began in the summer of 1940. The two halves of the hull were salvaged after many difficulties and brought to Kockums shipyard where it was reassembled and returned to service in May 1941. Under the name Soya VII she passed into German ownership soon after. After the war she was handed over to the British and was first named Empire Tigaven and later renamed Peter M.

  • @notthecia4486
    @notthecia4486 Před 14 dny +1

    Granted a different time but even with armed personal you see one of them carrying an unloaded firearm, clearly they weren't expecting a fight and looks to be business as usual for inspections

  • @Ittou-Ogami
    @Ittou-Ogami Před 13 dny

    отличная операторская работа

  • @gordonhall9871
    @gordonhall9871 Před 14 dny +1

    mail call

  • @MM22966
    @MM22966 Před 14 dny +3

    Merchie skippers had to sweating a bit. If anything went truly bad in the inspection, the watching floatplanes would probably whistle up some Stukas inside an hour or two.

    • @daiichidoku
      @daiichidoku Před 14 dny

      he 59s could carry bombs or a torpedo

    • @MM22966
      @MM22966 Před 13 dny +2

      @@daiichidoku I wondered. I did not see any of the birds in this film loaded.

    • @daiichidoku
      @daiichidoku Před 13 dny

      @@MM22966 maybe, maybe not. He 59 had an internal bomb bay that cold also be used for more fuel tanks. its more likely than not that it did not have bombs on this occasion...but one never knows....and civilian skippers almost certainly wouldnt know much about it.