General History: SMS Derfflinger - Too Stubborn to Sink 

I like how Derfflinger was so badass that her enemies gave her a positive nickname. Truly an impressive ship.

One of my favorite WW1 Dreadnoughts. She's a beauty.

The most beautiful of WW1 warships in my opinion. Reaching the 2 forward, 2 aft town turret configuration, low freeboard. A picture of speed, of power and of grace

Derfflinger. The Iron Dog. The Legend.

Excellent content as usual, my friend. Respect from the UK. Si vis pacem, para bellum

The Derfflinger class is, to me, the most attractive class of capital ships produced during WWI and into the immediate post-war era. Perhaps the most prominent aspect of their design is that, despite being _German_ battlecruisers, they have a distinctly cruiser type hull form. This is a huge departue from the battleship type hull forms of earlier German battlecruisers.

An absolute beauty. My favorite of any german capitol ship in either war

Why we are legion of lovers of Derfflingers?

Nice vid! Love your use of photos and paintings!

Excellent video. Thank you so much. Amazing, how SMS Derflingger, the old iron dog, was the last capital ship to be salvaged at Scapa in 1939 but spent ww2 upside down in her salvage cradle until 1946 when she could finally be moved and scrapped. Her upturned hulk showed up in German Luwftawafife recon photos of Scapa flow in late 1939. One can only imagine if the sight of this once mighty imperial vessel, keel up, the last of a much more vast navy from the previous futile struggle, gave pause to the younger German generation now at war again. SMS Hindenburg, unlike so many of the rest of the scuttled battleships and battle cruisers, sank upright. She at least had the dignity of sailing even keeled to the breakers (minus a bit of her super structure and guns due to weight). Just more wastage that war begets. Of course, one wonders, if she had been salvaged a bit later, might her hull have been useful for conversion into something like a small carrier rather than scrapping? Or would it have been useless to attempt to repurpose a vessel after it had been underwater for so long?

I've read that during the war the German navy had serious problems with low quality coal. German ships routinely failed to reach their maximum speed and klinker build up in their boilers ment the High Seas Fleet was always on the back foot.

Afloat longer upside down than right side up. Wow.

After more than a year i noticed?The very first picture appears to be Lützow :D Same height funnels 7 150mm guns per side Admirals Bridge actually being there

You do great videos. I hope some day you do one on the USS Belleau Wood CVL 24.

Despite being a warship, she looked quite sporty!

I got passed by one of these in Wows, its sleek silhouette instantly struck me and i grinded it out te next day.

Honestly I am far, far less impressed by the "Invincible" German BC's than many. Though hit by a large number of heavy shells, the British AP shells had defective fuses which exploded on contact, inflicting mostly superficial damage against ships which had near Battleship level armour, yet were basically hors de combat at the end of Jutland. In contrast British BC's had far lighter armour and were hit by almost as many AP shells which performed exactly as they were designed to, yet Lion and Tiger (at the end of Jutland) were still at sea, still combat effective and eager to fight while the much over vaunted German ships barely made it back. Indeed Seydlitz sank due to combat damage but it was in such shallow water clsoe to home she was able to be salvaged, so she should be counted as a combat loss. The British losses can be attributed to either poor propellant design or (in the case of the I's) having armour never meant to face battleship grade guns.

Gutes Schiff, aber es gibt schönere und bessere.

Blew her turbines. Sounds like some of my girlfriends. Seriously though, our vessel blew its turbine about 240 miles south of NZ. A 24 hour steam to port took over five days, because we could only make about three knots. Close to port a northerly blew in and began pushing us backwards, so tugs steamed out to tow us in. A very boring five days, but the crew did get a night in port. Crews tend to be very reckless with money. Months worth of income can get blown during a port call. My wife was worse with money though. After three seven week trips at sea there was not enough in my account to pay for a round of beers in port. She had spent the lot living like a princess (about $45,000 NZD). I got a separate bank account for my wages, so arrived home after my next trip at sea to an empty house and a pile of unpaid bills on the floor. At least my mechanic refused to give her my Harley that was in his workshop (it took a while to get my guitar stuff back, e.g., a custom shop Gibson Les Paul etc). I am older and wiser now though -- hopefully at least. P.S. She was German, but I have not thought up a maritime related nickname for her yet.

Ich kann das den ganzen Tag machen.

El nombre de sms derfflinger todavía provoca escalofrios en la royal navy y fue el héroe de los buques de von hipper en jutlandia

Derplinger

To the point with a bit of humour.

The guys below wrote better comments than I could so I'll just feed the algorithm.