The Incredible Story of the U-47 and “The Bull of Scapa Flow”
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That was truly badass. Everyone, on all sides, who went to sea in a sub was incredibly brave.
Highlight needs this biographical blazing reboot! Maybe you could do a mega sideproject on the xploration of the Whistleverse? Casually of course…
I’ve dived on ROYAL OAK several times and it’s an incredible experience. She is in incredible condition and the size of the torpedo holes is shocking.
My great grandfather was a leftenant commander on there
who was the righttennant, i didnt know they had apartments on board@@matthaeusrex5627
get uboat or one of the old silent hunter games and try to sink his ship lol , its hard in sh but easy in uboat @@matthaeusrex5627
It’s back! Now for an xplrd one :)
Blaze on fact boi
I feel like we are about to be assaulted with videos from all of his channels. I can't wait (:
I've been really missing this channel, thank you guys!
Glad this channel is alive again ❤️
Seems like there is just one video a month.
@@gethroenteralastname2210 yeah but it was one a year for a while so progress. Its one of my favourite SimonTube channels
Happy new year you weird dude
The thing I love about this channel is that it's literally highlighting lesser known or vaguely forgotten parts of history! Such a shame it hasn't taken off like some of Simon's other channels.
Glad to see we finally got a new video on this channel.
Good video 👍
It's alive! This channel is like a zombie, just when you thought it was dead, boom! It comes back out of nowhere and I love it 😅🧟
Worth the wait.
The quote at the end is the definition of what it means to be dedicated to one's craft. To lose oneself in the moment, in the action. Notoriety, fame, recognition means nothing at that moment. It is simply doing what one feels right at that moment.
I've enjoyed every one of the videos on this channel immensely. I guess they are long-form narratives of a single "story" but they are able to draw me in. Geo/Biographics is more of an overview of many events, which is great, but lacks narrative continuity. So to Simon: In my opinion this channel has value in terms of bringing something slightly different than the others, it has it's own niche. And I'd like to see it survive if possible! Thanks for the endless entertainment and education as always.
Excellent narration
The Churchill Barriers are an amazing bit of engineering, still in use today for the road that runs north/south through the islands.
The History Guy did a great video on Scapa Flow recently. Worth a watch AFTER this one lol
Just imagine if he had The full harbor and fleet as targets, seemingly the confusion would have allowed him to even select secondary targets as he made his way out, the damage could have been catastrophic. I've always marveled that this was even attempted let alone succeeded. I remember playing silent Hunter 2 and enjoying reenacting this mission
Every time I hear Scapa Flow, all I can think of is the mission against the Bismarck.
Pride before a fall...more like a float 😂🚢
A local lady told me it was their Pearl Harbor when I visited Scapa Flow while in Scotland Sept 2017. The hushed tones and total experience was very much like visiting Pearl Harbor. Very moving.
Not quite the same, though, since the UK had already declared war on Germany the previous month following Germany's invasion in Poland, so there was an official state of war.
How is this story not a movie yet?
kind of is a documentary. Hell Below The Sea: Killer Strike
A few years ago, during a survey of Scapa, they discovered an unexploded torpedo. It was identified as one of U47's shots that missed. Sadly, it couldn't be made safe and was destroyed.
Cool! But also, scary that there was a torpedo in the water that entire time.
@@PauloGarcia-sp5ws there's a lot still in the Baltic sea
I thought you might have forgot this channel
It's a type VII (roman numeral 7)
Minor point here, but when covering historical events, it's always good to get details right. U-47 was a type VIIB uboat, not a type VIIC. Also, noone says V I I. These are Roman numerals, so type 7 would be the correct way to refer to them.
🎶Do Dee do do do 😁
and here i was thinking that highlight history was... well... history...
I have read that the book, "My Way to Scapa Flow was written by another fellow claiming to be Prien and that it contains false facts about the attack.
One of the more daring actions of the war? What about SWIMMING directly into Gibraltar to attack with limpet mines?
Type VIIc aka type 7c
Vee, eye, eye, C !!!!! Think you'll find that VII C is roman for 7 C
british pearl harbor i will say
correction Doenetz asked for 300 U-boats not 500
Boss move by Prien .
Simon, my dude... Wilhems-haven 😭
How about the story of U505 now in Chicago?
👏👏👏👏👏💯💯💯💯💯
The reason there was a gap allowing Prien to get in, in the first place was because the block ship that should have been there was sunk on the way to Scapa,.....by a Uboat! 😉
My grandads uncle donnie died on the royal oak i believe he was pulled under trying to save the boy sea men. Can't begin to imagine what was going through there minds.
Quotable Quotes from the U Boat Commander
Tsk. It's Orkney, not 'the Orkneys' no plural. Same as Shetland.
If only 'the cause he served' was just, instead of the vile ideology he followed, you mean.
6:44 The port is pronounced WILHELMS-HAFEN not WILHELM - SHAFEN
cause 'Hafen' means Harbour and has nothing to do with shave or shaving as it sound now.
The average german would ask what wilhelm schafen should be cause also the 'a' in hafen is pronounced like in harbour - same roots of the languages.
It is the port named after the emperor Wilhelm which is a natural deep water harbour, one of the few sites in Germany for a deep water harbour. The whole town was build around the garrison and harbour.
Correct....And it's a type 7C, not a Vee Eye Eye C.....Roman numerals LOL.
Just noticing as Austrian I've heard of the place especially since I used to have a pen pal there (yes I'm old 😂) but I never noticed that the name has an actual meaning
@TYPE,xxi - WOLF The city is actually called Wilhelmshaven, but yes, the proper pronunciation would be Wilhelms-Haven. The "v" in German is pronounced like a soft "f".
Beside that, the German submarines got model numbers using Roman numerals, hence it was a Typ 7C. And the name of the captain would be pronounced "preen"not pree-en, an "e" after another vowel is commonly used to denote a "stretched" subsequent vowel.
This is a pretty sloppy production, with numerous errors of pronunciation, fact, and choice of pictures (although there are some good pics - HMS Courageous, for example is one that I have only seen very recently), the seaplane carrier clearly not HMS Pegasus (WW2) but the WW1 Pegasus, mention of battlecruisers Gneisenau and Köln.......
Aye, Scapa. What of it English?
Günther Prien died at age 33 in his U-boat off the cost of Ireland.
If your going to make historical video's like this they should be historically correct, u 47 was a type 7 B u boat ( 7 as in roman numerals V11 B) the type V11C was a development and improvement on the earlier type V11 B
Excellent presentation but there is no 'r' in Scapa Flow. Pronounced ska·puh flow, it irritates Orcadians to hear 'Scarpa Flow'
cant wait to see what u got wrong about this, im a naval history expert so
6:40 Willhelm shaven, you say?
Surely you meant to say Willhelm's Haven?!
Do you need a new optical prescription, Sigh?
In one aspect, you were correct.
U-boat crew shaved prior to sailing, and then only again when they returned to port.
So they DID leave Willhelm'shaven shaven.
Another fuckin channel, because, of course....
Prien Uber Alles
Vee eye eye See ???? do you mean 7 C (VII C)??? :-))
If only you'd watched a one minute clip about the place, you'd know it's pronounced 'Scappa', not 'Scarper'.
Donitz=Dernitz. You've pronounced it correctly before, why not now?
He's English! He knows it's 'Scappa'. Everyone in the UK knows Scapa Flow. It's his accent. Deal with it. Jutland is pronounced Yootland and he knows that too but guess what, HE DOESNT CARE. Do you think he gets less money for pronouncing it wrong? It's all about the Benjamins. 🤑💰🪙💰🤑
@@slcpunk2740 No, it is Jutland in English and is pronouned that way or every person I've ever seen talking about the Battle of Jutland got it wrong.
Who to believe, professional historians or randoo youtube?
Yootland sounds like a New Jersey theme park for kids.
This episode is just a bridesmaid not the bride. The History Guy did this very episode in advance of you guys. Essentially the very same story. Too bad you guys didn’t check before posting this redundancy. No Bull!
Certain topic are so big it's inevitable multiple channels will do videos on them and concurrent uploads are just mathematical quirks. Only thing each channel can do is to put their own spin on the subject.
No idea who history guy is, but Simon does about a million videos, even TIFO says they can't care about what topics Simon has done on other channels otherwise they'll run out of topics so why would Simon care which topics have been done by other channels?
@@stephjovi If you don't know who "The History Guy" is, you are really missing out,