U-Boats of World War 1 - Numbers, Location & How to sink them (Part 1 of 2)
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- Today we take a look at the WW1 U-Boat forces with the help of expert Michael Lowrey, check out his work at uboat.net!
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Pinned post for Q&A :)
If the Royal Navy had the Green Boy Shells at Jutland how does that effect the war going forward? Would more of the Grand Fleet be detached for work in the empire, Mediterranean, adriatic etc.
Also, What can you tell us of Carrier/Sea plane tender operations and tactics in ww1.
Can you please make a video about the type 21 U-boat?
Interesting fact the Geman UC-8 an UC I-class mine laying submarine got stranded near the dutch island of terschelling in november 1915 was interned and later bought by the dutch goverment she was launced in march 1915 .
A year later the british H-class submarine H6 got stranded at one of the other islands schiermonikoog , also launched in june 1915 stranded in januari 1916 and got inerned as well.
Both submarines where bought /not returend and pressed in to dutch service as M1 and where the the H6 now Hnmls O8 got refitted with knowledge gained from the german build M1 ,
where she got the Zeisperiscoop of the m1 and some other instrumentation and equipment. when the german invasion of the netherlands started she was scuttle by the dutch captured by the germans refloated and deemed to old for service and got asigned for training dutys for the german Kriegsmarine. as the UD-1 where she almost survived the war and was scutteled on 3rd of may 1945.
It woul be nice to see if there where more of these stories around of ships that got in neurtral hands and where in service in by both hostile nations. during ww1 and ww2
Can you make a video or talk about the service of USS Kidd(DD-661), a Fletcher museum ship here in my hometown of Baton Rouge, LA? She survived a through and through hit by a kamikaze and lived to tell the tale.
How different would the war in thr Atlantic be had the Bismarck been able to reach German Air Cover?
My Grandfather's ship, the destroyer HMS Firedrake, was the first to sink a U-Boat, U-39, in WW2. Firedrake sunk one other, but when escorting convoy ON 153 on 16th Dec 1942 was torpedoed in 20 metre high waves, and became the only ship to be sunk by U-211, losing 169 crew. The sub was eventually sunk with all hands on 19th Nov 43 by depth charges from a Wellington of RAF Sqn 179/F.
My Grandfather and 25 others were all rescued by the effort of Able Seaman George Fury on Sunflower.
US Navy (nuke) Sub veteran here; thanks for sharing that! We have to keep history alive on the level you did here. The names are important. Hope you write that all down so it survives after you are gone...thanks again!
@@pugsymalone6539 Fortunately there is an HMS Firedrake Association, and a book was published about her before she was sunk because she was the first warship to sail a million miles in the war. See:
www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk
for further information.
That is a really cool name for a ship. Especially a destroyer.
@@lindsayheyes925 Thanks, I'll check it out!
Thats actually a really cool story, all I have in my family regarding the Navy is my Great Grandfather served on the HMCS Saskatchewan (originally the HMS Fortune) in Korea and was near the USS Missouri he said and I quote "it looked like we were an oversized life boat next to the damn thing"
It's a striking fact that the U-Boats of WWI actually sank MORE tonnage than WWII submarines. And yet we barely talk about it.
Thanks for the great information. I'm trying to tweak some rules in A&A 1914 for naval warfare and this gives me great ideas.
This is great content !
That is crazy how these offical narratives are created. Like that battle of britain was some close call where british heroicly and bearly avoidet speakin german.
"Your country needs you, but I need a lifeboat!" Such a brilliant line ahahahahaha. I`m so stealing that.
I remember that quote from A "horrible histories" book. Which i read in the late 1990s. I love that Drac knows it too!
A good line, but Kitchener seems to have voluntarily gone down with the ship - he was last seen standing in full uniform at attention on the deck.
As a Yank might say, SNAFU.
Posted at 4 in the morning my time, and I Just put my book down... Who needs sleep anway?
Just got back from the bar and playing a.a.... and I agree whole heartedly. More coffee than seamen had before their morning bit of war.....I think I'll be fine
Apparently you, because you misspelled "anyway" >.> :D
Midday in the UK
What’s up fellow west coaster
The voice of Michael won’t help in staying awake :D
Being in a submarine during WW1 was just as terrifying as being attacked by a submarine.
Fantastic video as always Drach, your guest was great. Looking forward to part 2.
seems like thats pretty much everything in ww1.. the first tanks would have terrified german soldiers facing them but the soldiers inside were choking on carbon monoxide and buckets of their own excrement.. oh and if a machine gun was shooting at them they would explode and burn everyone inside.. sign up today..
As a submarine sailor of the modern era(US 688I class in my case), I can't imagine what it was like for the guys who went to sea and more significantly into combat on those early boats. Massive amounts of respect for those men.
All bedding and clothing was offloaded and burned immediately upon return. The boat was fumigated next. No shit.
How the f*ck does he manage to do 5 hr Q&A as well as 3 other videos in a week?
Time anomalies, mostly. I'm sure caffeine helps marginally
@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Maybe some cloning as well :)
Invaded China probably
The secret ingredient is rum. Lots of rum. Trust me you don't want to know the amounts of rum needed for that.
@UNSCForwardontodawn that's his normal fuel, yes 🤣
“... torpedo botes...”
I hear Kamchatka screaming in the distance
Loved that story too, came back to listen to it again but got distracted by first letters of title
Yes!
@Niek Vels Binoculars thrown.
Make sure to have a box of them for reloads.
@@robertowen-crumpton3176 the box was already thrown....
20:47 - My grandmother travelled on HMHS Britannic's last voyage. Fortunately, she got off at Malta.
Please. this is a family channel. I don't need to know who your grandmother got of with, and I don't need to know where she was when she did.
@@benholroyd5221 Is this the legendary British sense of humor?
@@jamesharding3459 yes
Is "getting off at Malta" a form of Onanistic contraception?
I suspect this channel may be secret experiment by Her Majesty's government on time compression, with the test subject (code named "Drachinifel") being tasked to produce high-quality CZcams content at an unusually rapid pace to demonstrate the value of the project. Possible applications include a 24-hour workday within normal working hours, which may allow the civil service to approve an application for a building permit within a single human lifespan.
^underrated comment lol
My grandfather enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1907 and served until 1920. He was discharged with a chief's rating and as a master machinist of diesel and steam. He did some escorting to France and back sailing on a cruiser and a troop ship. As a kid I was naturally curious about the war but it was something he never would tell me much at all about it. I don't know if others were so reluctant to talk about it but these histories must be very difficult to put together. I do appreciate your effort. It helps to answer a lot of questions I have had for a long time. Thank you very much. I have yet to listen to part II but have it queued.
We often hear about U-Boats in WW2 but rarely for WW1. This is interesting
We rarely hear about WWI in general compared to WW2.
@@kyle857 not entirely true, but certainly a trend
You rarely hear about Submarines in general during WW1
Pretty much all anyone ever knows (or discusses) about WW1 is the trench warfare. And maybe a footnote about how the Germans played a part in the Russian Civil War.
Here are some books on U-Boats in WW1 -
www.amazon.com/Killing-Time-German-U-Boats-1914-1918/dp/0330242857
www.amazon.com/U-Boat-War-1914-1918-Edwyn-Gray/dp/0850524059
www.amazon.com/Anti-Submarine-Warfare-World-War-Aviation/dp/0415763835
www.amazon.com/U-Boat-Offensive-1914-1945-V-Tarrant/dp/087021764X
These all seem to be out of print, so you’ll either need to pay a premium or to go to your local library.
You, sir, are a machine. Four hours livestream, five and a half hour drydock, and now this within a week? Madness!
I love it!
This request is totally unrelated to U-Boat video. Could you please do a documentary on fresh water onboard ship. Storage, preservation, consumption, recycling, and production. There is sorely lacking on water subjects except on copper stills and Nelson's flagship before the marine evaporator for marine steam engines came online. Please and thank you.
Good suggestion!
.... professionals discuss logistics. I second that request!
You might want to repost this in the pinned comment if you haven't already.
Great point. The USN used Kleinschmidt (sp) distillers in its WW2 subs. Were these derived from a German design?
Dont think recycling was invented back then. The consumer culture had yet to be born. If something brakes (except things like cars or houses haha) now you are likely to buy another. Back then youd repair it (or pay someone to do so).
I think the ships themselves might be one of the few things being recycled (scrapped for steel) from WWII
Very thankful for the work on the sub video . Really love the storytelling about the battles very stimulating in style and presence . My wife is now enjoying the historic battle series . She loves the USS Alabama and warspite and the Kamchatka . She said your voice is calm and instructive .
I replied Drach is the David Attenborough of the high seas So very well done sir keep up your strength with iron brew . Prost
with the utmost respect, I disagree, David Attenborough is a clone and parasite of the BBC, whereas Drach is several light years above and beyond anything that the Beeb, or NBC, or Foxtel, or anybody else will ever contemplate !!!
Well done Michael Lowery. You certainly have the history down pat. But what struck me was that this was a very well "organized" presentation. As I was listening, questions began to occur to me. And, within a few minutes/sentences, you addressed them.
its a drac vid, if its not good then you arent watching a drac vid
yeah, he goes beyond "providing information"
@@hazchemel "Battle of Samar" is phenomenal!
'The only Olympic Class Vessel to not sink after hitting something' Olympic did that a few times, she was rammed by HMS Hawke in 1911, rammed the U-103 in 1918, and cut the Nantucket lightship in half in 1934
Busy busy...
As a student of history, I really appreciate your productions and also your dedication to accuracy.
Fun fact: WW1 U-boat UC-97 currently rests at the bottom of Lake Michigan in the United States.
How in the heck did she get there?
@@carsongeye1462 She was surrendered at the end of the war and subsequently taken on a war prize tour of the Great Lakes. Eventually she was sunk as target practice in 1921.
@@ce69sscamaro oh wow, yeah that makes sense. Thank you.
Hahaha no way
I can only imagine the "wtf" face of the divers who don't know the story and stumble upon it. His dive mates at the pub afterwards will be like "Bs, you're talking out of your arse", a German sub, here?
I will send the link for this to my German friend. His grandfather served in the boats during that war. Opa survived. Thank you for this.
Respect to your Opa, I’m glad he survived.
Thanks to you for both saying Opa. Mine passed away in 1981 and I miss saying it.😢
I've been into this subject for years but still manage to learn something new ten minutes in. This channel is a monument.
Whenever I hear someone, especially drach, say torpedo boat my mind always jumps to DO YOU SEE TORPEDO BOATS?
NO Kamchatka and neither do YOU!
Yes admiral we have engaged 4 Japanese torpedo boats successfullly although they did have British flags on them but they must of been trying to fool us meanwhile a very angry rn fleet is spotted in the distance waiting to destroy every single ship that they have
I hear odd little female voices when he mentions “Mines”.
As it does for me.
@@davidbrennan660 aaah yes the fuckin mine 😂
I'm so early Beattie was a good candidate for command
Haha
So early, that the phrase was "there seems to be NOTHING wrong with our bloody ships today" rathe than "there seems to be SOMETHING wrong with our bloody ships today".
You're so late with that joke
@@rictusmetallicus very much so, but I felt like contributing to the original Admiral Beatty comment.
Bwwahhh we know we’re all Drach addicts when that’s actually funny to us! Hahahaha NOW GIMME MY FIX DRACH!! 🤣😂
I’m just happy to know that there was a u-boat called UB-40, presumably with British reggae music playing to keep those sailors entertained.
Red red wineeeee 😂
A rat in my galley what am a ginna do
1:02:59 "Our wonderful, classic 'spikey' mine"
Sometimes, the technical jargon is overwhelming.
Operation Cerebrus mines are the cutest ever!
"...it's so cold and lonely down here...oooh! a thing! hello there!"
Bloop bloop
“How to sink WW1 U-boat”
RN: Simple. Deploy the “Crushing Hand Of God”
Guaranteed a kill at the cost of your stern
Nah, let's just give em a good knock with the hammer to the periscope
"I'm a mine, I'm a mine, what a happy time to be a mine....."
@@Alobo075 "Oooooh a thing, hello there!" *(KABOOM!!!)*
“Cast off ships boats, deploy claw hammers !”
Incredible content. Suggest everyone listen at 1.25x speed to achieve a normal if still quite slow pace of speaking. 1.5x is also quite good.
I couldn't think of a nice way to say that. Great content, delivery tough to handle. Drach's sense of humor also makes it more fun, something I've learned to appreciate the more I watch history content.
On radio direction finding; there is a saying in the SIGINT community "No SIG, no INT." Radio silence eliminates operational intelligence available to your enemy.
It also eliminates / radically diminishes your ability to command and control your forces - especially beyond visual distance.
@@noremorsewoodworking2258 False: You can exercise command and control by a one way broadcast. That is how the US controlled submarines in the Pacific.
Last time I was this early the yamato was still under construction
Been binge watching your channel on and off for the last couple months, really REALLY love your stuff. The short vids and the long. The fact you cover all types of naval subjects and all sides. Also that you cover WW1, the time before it and after....most movies/games/channels/etc tend to focus only on WW2 and everything after so it's nice to see stuff from even earlier and the predecessors of what we consider 'modern' today. Gonna enjoy this next hour and a half ( especially since I love anything submarine )
I just watched a TED talk about the value of good sleep, and I was genuinely resolved to go to bed now at 11:30pm and try to work on my sleep. Then Drachinifel posts a video, about U-boats nonetheless... I guess I can prematurely age for another night ;)
Australia?
@@ross.venner indeed
It's July 5th 2024 and this morning I heard on the news that people who stay awake later and sleep in longer have more responsive brains apparently
The intro music always gets me pumped
Its really insane how much content this guy puts out.
This is solid gold. Thank you Drach & Michael Lowrey for this. Looking forward to the second part!
I'm an ex Naval Instructor. Michael Lowrey is excellent in knowledge and could use a bit of work in delivery. This seems to be one of his earliest experiences "on the block"
It’s not that good. Lowrey comes off as he is, a website moderator with past average knowledge and socially inept delivery
Quite the best of the whole Drachinifel series, IMHO.
The American interviewed was, quite literally, revelatory!
More interviews with experts like this, please.
6th of january Polish time. I came back from mountain hiking and than I thought nothing better will occur to me that day. Then I opened yt and saw this magnificent title. My first thought „bollocks, it cant be!”, I thought I would play along video to get sleep, but No, such a video diservs all my attention. So I watched it today. Totally wort it. I finally subscried, bcs earlier yt was just poping up Drach videos and I was too lazy and ungreatfull. I was thinking that next videos would be about some surface vessels. I dont remember when I was so well suprised by yt historian! Great work, awesome video, thank you for spreading such knowledge worldwide! Best regards
Guest Michael Lowrey sounds not unlike Jack Nicholson, and he was fascinating to listen to. I hope he will be guest more often. Listening to him talk felt like being a little tyke again in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and hearing someone who originated from another state; it struck a nostalgic chord.
Hey Drach. I have been a subscriber for a while now and have watched many of your videos and thoroughly enjoy your content and find it great that you dedicate so much effort into delivering excellent videos on a regular base on this genre. I love your longer videos on specific topics and look forward to all of them, but, and I realize this may be an unpopular opinion which might get me some backlash and that others differ on this: I really do NOT like this sort of open discussion videos where you have a guest speaker giving a lecture.
In opposition to your regular content you only play a minor role, asking questions, not bringing your own knowledge and wit as well as the sarcastic jokes into the game, which I believe your audience loves most.
Due to the apparent lack of proper recording equipment on the side of your guests, the audio quality is rather poor compared to regular videos.
The lectures often seem unstructured and unscripted, where the guests seem to simply recite facts from their minds.
Though I do not doubt the competence and knowledge of your guests, I have not seen one guest speaker who was good at giving an audio lecture. They may be accomplished authors or website hosts, but they are not good lecturers. This guy here takes ages to finish just one sentence.
The videos drag on for much longer than your regular videos, sometimes feature length, but convey much less information than you yourself could deliver in half the time.
Consequently, I find myself aborting these around halfway through because I am bored to death and just can not bear listening any longer.
Maybe there are ways to address these issues in the future.
However, please don't take this the wrong way and please keep doing what you do. Thanks
I FELL ASLEEP & IT WAS OVER WHEN I WOKE UP. And I just remember saying to myself "thank God"!!! Sorry Drach. Nothing against you but PLEASE Drach next time can you get someone that can express their thoughts in a complete & timely manner. It was like, I found myself waiting for him to finish a sentence & he rarely ever did. But thank you Drach. Would much rather hear content that comes from you.
Just a reminder: when Mr Lowery talks about Austria, its a bit of simplification, like using England instead of Great Britain - the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy included the current Czech Republik, Slovakia, parts of current day Poland and Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and some more. Ports and bases were in current day Croatia. Mostly.
Mostly...
A book I was reading a while back mentioned how the Royal Navy Admiralty attaché to the US Navy said that, without US help, Brittain would starve into submission in 6 months because of the amount of shipping being lost to U-boats. This was right when the US entered World War 1. Suffice to say, the Secretary of the Navy was stunned. The Clemson swarm did a lot to help our British allies across the Atlantic.
Britain has been saved in both WW by Uncle Sam....Hadn't it been for the overwhelming American industry strength and manpower, the Queen would have fled to Canada forever... and the Soviet Union, without the Western Allies shipments would have crumbled and fallen by mid '42.
There German civilian population were literally starving because the Royal Navy blockade.
This website of your guest is fascinating. Well thought out, well stocked with information, and well put together. Fantastic!
Thanks, that was very interesting.
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The discrepancy between the number of subs sunk by aircraft and the number claimed is similar to the criticism of the M1 Carbine later.
Pilot says "I dropped a bomb, it exploded, sub went under, sub sunk." Planes are good against subs.
Soldier says "I fired my rifle, the enemy fell down, enemy got up and ran away (or didn't react like he'd been hit)." M1 is useless.
It falls to take into account that soldiers tend to drop to the ground when being shot at or that the person doing the shooting just missed.
realy exited to see this series. when i was a child here in germany, i found on my grand parents attic an old book from the 20ies or 30ies about the german side of the ww 1 u-boat war. totaly thrilled me at the time. must have a look if it is still around in one of the book-shelters.
The guest was very knowledgeable and I could see you wanted desperately to inject some witty stuff but that guy was as dry as a popcorn fart! 😂😂😂
Steve Tilford True he was dry. Didn't get British humor. (His humor is not dry, if existent.) But he seems to know his stuff! I'd spend another 86 minutes with him anytime.
Agreed! Very well versed in the information, could just use a bit more gusto as he get's more comfortable being in Drach's almighty presence!
love this stuff and hes got great info but needs to talk a bit faster! dramatic pauses after every sentence lol.
A n d h e . . . t a l k e d . . . s o . . . s l o w l y.
W i t h . . . t o o m a n y . . . l o n g . . . p a u s e s.
He is a great guest. Thank you.
These videos with experts are great! Always a really interesting topic.
Seriously how do you manage to find all these experts, drac i swear you drag these guys up from the deep somehow.
Hi,I thought that you may be interested in this little bit of history.I bought some recycled Burmese teak from e bay to mount some deck hardware on my boat.The biggest piece I got was 3" thick by 6 foot and 3 foot wide.The seller had a load, and this information.....The SS Pegu en route from Rangoon to Liverpool with a cargo of burmese teak for heavy gun emplacements in flanders, was on the 8th july 1917 sunk by U57 (carl siegfield ritter von georg) Just off the coast of southern ireland.The teak was salvaged in the 90s so it has been under the Irish sea for almost a hundred years.I am proud to have some pieces on my small boat.The captain Carl Ritter was I think a u boat ace and had more kills (tonnage) than any other boat. Stay safe. :}
His name was Carl-Siegfried Georg until he was knighted in july 1918 and became Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg. Ritter is the German word for Knight, it is comparable to a British Baronetcy.
@@GeorgHaeder Thank you,Did he survive the war?
@@peterbamforth6453 Yes, IIRC he did.
Literally just got home from 3rd shift. Hats off to you mate for making my day. :D
I have been waiting for a sub video for months! Awesomeness
Expert or not, listening to this guy makes me appreciate Drach so much. Get a this-century microphone!
Agreed. And not exactly a snappy style of diction from the guest.
You can listen to this at 1.5 speed and not miss a thing. That way you can listen on your lunch hour. :)
Any submariner has to be brave, but being a submariner in those early craft needed really big cojones .... and the British thought K Class steam powered submarines were possible .... shows you how immature the technology was.
Real brave them u-boaters sinking the Lusitania.
@@insertclevernickname who really knows the whole truth? But It would be a reasonable suspicion that the Americans on the Lusitania were bait.
Politicians are the worst kind of people.
The only thing they got wrong was how to boil the kettle! Modern submarines are steam powered. :>)
The K-class worked most of the time. They were just compromised because the submarine was longer than the pressure rating of the hull - the bow could be at crush depth with the stern still on the surface. Steam propulsion was the least of their problems…
Thanks for your work!
Always happy to see a new video from you, even more if it is this format!
Overheard in German war room after game 1917:
“He got me,” Kaiser Wilhelm said of Drachs's video. "That f***ing Drach boomed me."
Wilhelm added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.
Wilhelm then said he wanted to add Drach's house to the list of places he invades this summer.
Can't wait for part 2!
The US designed the Mk 37 ASW torpedo to be sub caliber so it could "swim" out of the tube which is much quieter than ejecting them.
Last time I was that early, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare xD
thanks! I love uboat.net!
Still prefer Drachinifel's narrative. He's got the voice for it.
Ww1 uboats are under rated, there should be a silent hunter game based on WW1
Who rates them
Incredibly interesting, thank you!
All those who went to sea to fight were very brave, but as someone who really really really doesn't like deep water, the submariners have my added respect as they have such a low chance of survival.
I went aboard Soviet museum submarine B-515 which is docked in Hamburg. Being 6,5ft it was most claustrophobic but imagining being under the ocean and under attack... utterly terrifying.
Fun fact - I also have a phobia of cottage cheese
Lame-o
“I’m quirky and fun! Lolz, cottage chez scurry”
A french steam powered boat was caught on the surface and "taken prisoner" by an Austrian Flying Boat armed with one machine gun
Was this Curie?
I did hear of a floatplane downing a submarine, but I thought that was part of their regular patrols.
The seefliegerkorps had something like 400 of them doing constant recon and occaisonally bombing italian destroyers.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 it was the "Foucault", sunk by Lt. Konjovic, who took 2 officers with him on the plane, the rest of the man were saved by a Torpedo-boat
Thanks Drach. Love these long, in depth specials. Perfect for a long soak after a long day working out in the cold.
Love these Wednesday specials, by far the best content of on this channel and I love how you get experts a voice who otherwise wouldn't have such a wide audience (my all-time favorite Is your talk with justin about my favorite plane the a6m)
31:27 That is one happy U-boat :)
Great job - both of you.
Great Video can't wait for part 2.
This is a terrific two parter... Excellent job on this... The guest, Michael Lowrey has that almost synonymous high I.Q. with the odd some what socially awkward demeanor... Drach understands this and defers to him often... Makes for some comedic reactions like Drach is playing straight man for us... My take anyways... Good show ol' boy !
This is my all time favorite subject thank you.
Das Drach.
After this video Drach will likely be reviewing his Anti Torpedo Defences planned for his refit.
its just one outstanding video after another these days. good work!
The second syllable of Rosyth is pronounced like the agricultural mowing tool. Your pronunciation of the first one was great. Love your channel.
The Japanese ironclad Kōnetsu would be interesting to cover I think.
Maybe he can cover the French ironclad the sphinx, the Danish ship the staerkodder, the confederate ironclad the stonewall, and the japanese ironclad azuma. It would be a really efficient video.
Amazing detail and to realise how effective the WW1 boats in fact were was a surprise to me. An informative conversation in true academic style, fabulous.
“Academic”
Hey Drach! I just wanted to say that you have single handedly made be interested in this subject. Thank for for being my guide "down the rabbit hole." Thank you!!
Read some actual scholars
Drachinifel eventually gets this right, in later videos he finally had the clout to interview real scholars who have done research outside their internet bubble
@@Al-jt3dw who asked you anyway…
9:55 "Kaiser hopes 1915 will bring peace" ... I guess history didn't quite play out as hoped.
HMHS Britannic DID have patients onboard but 1035 of 1065, patients and crew included, did survive the sinking.
Drach, a historian who shall surley go down in history for his service to those brave individuals who made history by their service and sacrifice on all sides. I salute you sir.
DRACH! I'm not even done getting caught up on the monster livestream and Drydock combo from this weekend and you put out another hour and a half? WITH MORE TO COME?!
God I needed this video tonight
A WW I German torpedo was found near Smithtown NY in early 60’s. It was under a beach snack bar when it was renovated. So thousands of people walked on top of it for 50 years.
It was not a big story. Was in the local paper ( The Smiitjtown Messenger) and I have never seen anything else about it. I knew friends from my class in high school who saw it being removed . Crazy stuff.
“Das Boot - WWI” could be a good flick. Of course, all these nuances would be rather overwhelming for the average audience.
U-30 is my favorite submarine!
It is seen at 32:00 during its own personal happy times.
Thank you! It's great to learn about naval warfare and how it all works after serving in the navy a long time ago. I'm paying attention to the radio communications aspect of the U boats and if they used code and if bit was broke by the Allies. Great channel. BTW, @51:20 film of the large subs arriving in New York City is in the 1960s CBS series about WW1. Fascinating.
01:13 What a potential subject: "WW1 salvage diving on enemy submarines"
wow, over an hour of boondoggling while watching this and working from home today. GREAT STUFF DRACH!
I am confused by his repeated reference to "kerosene" and his characterization of this as some primitive technology that was replaced by diesel. Diesel fuel and kerosene are functionally the same thing. It is not incorrect to refer to a diesel engine as running on kerosene. The only possible difference might be some optimization of the cetane number to enable the engines to run more efficiently.
Kerosene is often referred to as #1 diesel. It is lighter and runs hotter than #2. It is essentially JP-5
Early days of engine development, some farm tractors used kerosene
The important point is that some pre-1914 U-boats used engines that were technologically different from diesel engines. SM U-1 in 1906 used an engine made by the Korting company, that is often named a "paraffin motor" or "kerosene motor". I believe it was similar to a hot-bulb engine, ie it did not have the high compression ratio of a diesel engine. A hot-bulb engine ignites fuel by contact with an uncooled metal chamber in the cylinder head, rather than by compression-ignition. Also, in a diesel engine, the fuel is injected at high pressure into the combustion chamber when the crank angle is almost at top-dead centre. In a hot-bulb engine, the fuel is sprayed at low pressure into a separate fuel-rich chamber (the hot-bulb) well before top-dead centre.
The "kerosene engines" referred to here are basically low compression, carbureted, spark-ignition engines, similar to a lot of the tractors of the 1930s and 1940s. They typically had to start on gas, and later a heat riser would get hot enough to vaporizing the incoming slobber of kerosene enough to be able to switch to kerosene. Kerosene at the time was much cheaper than gasoline. Obviously diesel engines were a huge improvement in efficiency, while also wing able to burn cheap distillate oil (diesel fuel or kerosene) fuel.
Nice. I took a look at uboat.net and found several books by Tomas Termote in the dutch section of the WW1 naval warfare books. here is another one: Oorlog onder water Unterseebootsflotille Flandern 1915-1918, published 2014 and describing inter alias history and fate of the boats of the Flotille.
Great video
My great grandfather capt James McArthur Mclean master of the Sutherland liner Ramsay was presented with the Lloyds meritorious service medal for sinking one of these U boats in April 1917
It was surprising to hear the term 'Kerosene engine' powered. Those early engines were similar to auto engines, with spark ignition. They were called, 'distillate engines', or oil engines. Some were started on gasolene, and switched over to kerosene when the engine was warmed up.
Another excellent program, thank you guys!
A chance to hone your skills before the next big show. Great guest and allot of details Very much appreciated the pictures.
U-boats: *exist*
Crushing Hand of God, depth charges, mines, and RMS Olympic: so you have chosen death
Superb. Thank you and guest lecturer for this amazing history.
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