BBC - Scotland's War at Sea (2015) The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow | HD 

Scapa Flow, Dread Nought, Jellico, Scheer, Galatea, Hippa, etc....what magnificent names for an epic time. My imagination can't do this battle and the men involved on both sides justice. They are giants in history. May their souls soar forever across time and not be forgotten.

Being of Scottish descent, and having a keen interest of naval history/ships, this historical documentary has a special place in my heart.

Mistake at 50:53. It was Jellicoe not Beatty who assembled his ships into a single arced line.

Excellent presentation! I tip my hat to host David Hayman for a fine job. Thanks for posting.

Just finished reading "The Spy Who Sat and Waited," which revolved around Scapa Flow's events during WWII. Good to see an historical context as background. Thank you.

A superb film, visually powerful and simply yet eloquently presented.

Great documentary on a comparatively little known, but vitally-important, dimension of the conflict.

Excellent depiction of the tactics used by the 2 fleets. The animation of the ship formations gave a much clearer picture of the battle....

Spruance gambled at midway and decided the pacific war in a 5 minute period though thousands still had to die over the next 3 years

If you're going to leave your magazine doors and hatches open, you're going to lose ships. It goes against the grain of the Royal Navy to turn from a fight.

Once again Hayman gives us an extremely interesting documentary.

The Brit's own the television medium . Drama , comedy ànd documentaries . Very rewarding viewing experience . Again .

As usual brilliant background music matching superb documentary.

the revelation about the public reaction after Jutland was astonishing, taunting them and throwing pieces of coal down on the ships below...I knew a bit about Jutland and other Ww1 sea battles, but I did not know that..

Those losses and few survivors, unimaginable.

Had beatty been in command of the entire fleet, he'd have lost most of the Battleships, like he lost 1/2 his Battle Cruisers.

Excellent movie! Thank you!!!

The information on Scapa Flow is even more interesting when you consider that early in World War II, the German submarine U-47 was able to penetrate a small weakness in the anchorage defenses, and torpedo and sink the battleship HMS Royal Oak.

David Hayman as Usual Did Great Job on This Presentation

Really top-notch program. Wish there were more like this. Thank you.

Brave Men On Both Sides Thank You Britain For Your Stellar Stand Go Navy

My children went to Lakeland High School, here in Lakeland Fl. This school's football team is named the Lakeland Dreadnoughts, and their mascot is a copy of a British Dreadnought Light Cruiser. The school motto is Latin for "second to none" This school is the only school in FL and the nation to be named after a British war ship.

Very interesting! Thanks for posting.

I had read, "Jutland: The Unfinished Battle" by Nicholas Jellicoe (Grandson of Admiral Jellicoe) and this presentation of the Battle of Jutland helped me to visualize the battle better than the e-book. The book made the point that Jellicoe was concerned about taking heavy losses from German Submarines. Overall a real first class presentation. Thank you for posting this wonderful BBC presentation.

Jellicoe crossed Scheer's T: The supreme moment of strategic naval warfare.

No mention of Beatty’s four Queen Elizabeth-class battleships holding off the whole German fleet at one point.

Excellent documentary! I'm predominantly a WW2 researcher...but now dabbling into the "Great War" and prior. Interesting to say the least. Thanks so much for this insight to the British and German Navies.

The book that changed my perception of Jutland, and the best book on how Beatty and Jellicoe compared is "The Rules of the Game", by Andrew Gordon, I highly recommend it.

Just noticed for the first time ever, that Queen Victory bears a striking resemblance to Albert the Magic Pudding. Albert later married another woman who was his dead-ringer, Condalisa Rice, who then became Mrs. Condalisa Rice-Pudding. Delicious.

excellent. thank you!

what an interesting and well made documentary this is.. I'm pretty good on WW1 and the RN's participation.. so learning about how the fleet at Scapa was managed and defended is a real treat.. with (to me at least) interesting and new information about a subject that has been heavily covered.

8:44 The USS TEXAS is less than an hour's drive from my house. I have visited her many times from when I was a small child living in Texas City to my present day, 60 years later. If you ever visit Houston, TX, you must put the USS TEXAS on your list of must see places.

What a cast of admirals: "Warren" Beatty, "Jellyroll" Jellicoe, "Nylon" Scheer and "Hip Hip" Hipper.

Stood on the Missouri once. Have to admit that the Texas looks amazing!

Brilliant narration by David hayman

Read a North Sea Diary By Commander Stephen King-Hall. He arrived at Scapa Flow August 1914 on HMS Southhampton, a light cruiser. He was on the ship during the Battle of Jutland, where he lost friends and shipmates on other ships. An excellent read about Scapa Flow, The Battle Fleet , and daily life at sea.

For one wishing for a more detailed account of the Royal Navy in WW1, I highly recommend Robert Massey's "Castles Of Steel".

What a really good film! The graphics were excellent bringing harbours and battles to life; and brilliant narration by David Hayman with a balanced script. Beatty should perhaps have been dismissed after the Dogger Bank fiasco; but signalling at sea in WW1 was very difficult. As was said in the film the result of the battle of Jutland was largely insignificant to the War's outcome unless the battle had resulted in much greater losses for the British. Jellicoe was correctly cautious at Jutland. Had the British won a stunning victory, the Germans may possibly have capitulated a little earlier?. It certainly would have seriously dented the Kaiser's and German moral, but that's mere conjecture I accept.

Battle of Jutland proved to the Germans that they must always use the assymetrical threat in future engangements......so they carried on not trying to antagonise in numbers but in quality of few and lots and lots of pirate tactics....it worked really well with the Uboats and the commercial raiders .....now.....as far as RN is concerned it,s finest hour was Trafalgar

Also read “Strange Intelligence - Memoirs of Naval Secret Service” published in 1931 covering British WW1 signals intelligence.

I downloaded this Thank you

Great video!

That British Fleet.was so beautiful! worldofwarships programmer nerds will never do it justice

Magnificent production. I loathe Beatty. Miserable, typical rotten scoundrel lifer who's only goal was to bring as much glory to self as he could. Insufferable lout. Shame he didn't go missing at sea on dark night.

Top notch program.

Fascinating documentary. I've lived in Texas my entire life and had no idea the USS Texas was a British dreadnought design. I knew that it looked different from other US battleships but never knew why. I am honored that the last dreadnought on earth resides in Texas.

The USS Texas is within 5 miles of my home. It is moored at the San Jacinto Monument grounds which is where Texas won it's independence.

Funny, I joined the USN in 1967 and spent time "moping" the deck.

Very good video.

thanks to those who worked on The program I really liked the video

I love the histori ,and the Host...

Beatty-Damned with faint praise. Good thing the German fleet stayed in port after that!

brilliant to see in person...fucking loved Orkney man!

It wasn't "Scotland's War At Sea" ....... it was the British Royal Navy who happened to be using a magnificent Scottish anchorage.

Jellicoe,...his son was a legend as well.

what magnificent ships!!

Beatty was as reluctant to risk dreadnoughts as Jellicoe once he took supreme command. Destroying the High Seas Fleet would not have changed the land campaigns one iota. Beatty for all his bravado, faux or otherwise, would not risk the British Empire either.

Great narrator!

this is awesome 😍

When speaking about Jellicoe & Beatty, they mentioned that Jellicoe was liable to turn up unannounced anywhere in the Iron Duke to see what his men were about. They might have added that Beatty's movements through the Lion were always preceded by a file of marines. I dig Jellicoe, he's a hard man - In 1900, during the march to Peking in the Boxer rebellion, he was shot in the heart!

You asked if I’m going? I will definitely see you there. I’m organizing it and will be speaking on one of the days. Nick

Simple fantastic!

In my estimation the German Navy beat the Heil out of the Jellico's. The score is all that counts in the game. The Germans did not come back out to play because they were out numbered and figured next time the Brit's may have a real fleet commander...maybe one of the Australian or Canadian Admirals .

There is something wrong with our ships" - Beatty The thing that was wrong with the British ships was Beatty himself".

How did the rail workers know the Brit fleet turned back?

thanks

Is it possible to find out the name of the music used in this very good documentary

After the Battle of Jutland the German High Seas fleet never set sail again against the Royal Navy so in a way we won the Battle

the museum ship, USS Texas, is the last of the dreadnought ships.

Is the Narrator Vince from the episode "Scran" of Still game ?

Was he in still game running the snack van? Vince the poisoner of clydeside ???

Why does he have a small fashlight inside the ships? There must be a lighting crew with him!

The vulnerability of the battlecruiser concept did not end here. The four Kongo class of the Japanese navy were originally designed as the ultimate in battlecruisers. Built in British shipyards and delivered to Japan in 1914. A program of upgrading the armor failed to turn them into survivable warships. Two were shredded in surface combat in WWII & a third succumbed to a torpedo salvo. The fourth was sunk by a dive bomber attack.

While the grand fleet sat in the Harbor all bold and splendid out in the Atlantic the U boats where putting a strangle hold on Great Britain. Where Dreadnoughts engaged in convoy duty? Nope. That situation came close to Germany winning the conflict.

Everything he says about working in the engine room is true, but there is more - all those men knew that if the ship went down, they were the ones almost guaranteed not to survive. Nothing quite like that to keep your mind on your job!

@23:18 that is FGS MOELDERS x-Adams class DDG

I want to know when a pilot Jack became the letter "D".

Does anyone know artist and title of the ending song?

weres the music from at 8:37

My Grandfather, Friedrich Fischer, was a machinist on a ship in scapa flow and he was 21 years old.

C2 and it's doctrine hadn't yet got of the age of sail.

Very interesting documentary of these evens taken place so long ago. So different of our thinking today which makes it so easy to put knowledge together in hineside and criticise. Taking a simple view on the incredible massacre of men during WWI I believe one can honestly say Jellicoe was one of the wiser man and did not fail like many others did. Even Churchill should had sticked to his story when Jellicoe proved right by not losing, meeting the objective to disable the German high fleets power nor allowing Germany to be supplied by sea and as well saving lives. Sounds more like a hero to me, one of the finest commanders in that era. Churchill made the choice to survive politically rather than to stand post. However he did challenge the most incompetent field commander who was allowed to remain in command by the aristocracy, Douglas Haig. A men very close to being a war criminal, if not only by the cheer number of volunteering soldiers that he had shot dead in front of a firing squads. Needless to mention his insane war tactics and the number of lives perished because of them. Believe his family is still paying for his atrocities by providing Haig homes or houses for crippled soldiers today to make it a little bit right. Good old Churchill failed himself finally after playing a general miserably with his Gallipoli peninsula campaign. So in the end all does gets well we are living comparably free lives, Jellicoe has his statue on Trafalgar square and good old Church learnt his lessons and did so much better in the next war... Downside is that there are so many who pay the price for it...

The battle cruisers were designed to stay OUT of range of the German ships-they could then pound them with their 1 heavy shells. they were never supposed to be used with range of the German guns. AS to the defective shells-the detonators (up to 30%) were bad. this was a design flaw that was rectified. The British lost a lot of ships, but they won the battle, because the German Fleet never ventured out again-Sheer realized it would be suicide.

What a sacred flag.

amazing that someone so incompetent can be in charge of such great power. but we see it time and again..

BBC - Brilliant Broadcasting Corporation

The movie itself was pretty well described, but nothing about a director, actors, or even what year the movie was made. Sort of odd to leave out such basic information, I mean not even in the description.

Where is part 2? ;)

The presenter is the embodiment of a rough scottish sea man.

Beaties battlecruisers has a massive range advantage over the German ones, there was no need for him to close like he did and no reason why those men’s lives were lost early in the engagement

How did battleships equipped with airplanes recover the planes when they finish patrols? How did the planes survive being exposed to the elements while on board? Did they pluck them from the water with cranes? Were the planes stored inside the ship during bad weather? Why didn't they equipe the planes with torpedoes and use them during battle? I'm ignorant of such things obviously.

The narrator's voice is so soothing. He could tell me he just killed my dog and I couldn't be mad.

Battlecruisers were a big mistake. They had the guns of a battleship, but the armor of a Cruiser. Their relatively thin armor made it possible to completely destroy them with just a few rounds. After the Battle of Jutland no more were ordered. The Battlecruiser HMS Hood was ordered before that battle, and was destroyed in one salvo by the Bismark in 1941.

was it not Jellicoe ? yes now it has been corrected

Gunther Prien didnt think Scapa Flow would stop the Kriegsmarine. And it didnt. The biggest black eye the RN ever got.

I always thought Portsmouth was the main base for the Royal Navy, Home of the Royal Navy

No mention how U47 got past the block ships 25 years later?

Jellicoe's fleet is worth 1 US super carrier on today's money.

Love how the British preserve their History!!

At approx 5:30 minutes, inside the National Maritime Museum,what ship is displayed in the background?....I was a tourist from US and visited there for a few hours in 1990 and don't remember seeing that ship on display......of course my time there was limited and I'm sure I missed much.....like to get back there before I'm wearing a toe tag........