Kamchatka - Guide 151 

Q&A How exactly does one accidentally signal that they're under attack?

Did the gunner in HMS Malaya eat his birthday cake after all was setled and done?

Kamchatka vs. Yamato and Musashi but Kamchatka isnt limited by all these nasty topredo boats trying to sink her.

Possible refits to HMS incomparable and how good what the ship be if converted to an aircraft carrier?

Will we get some more Submarine guides?. Asking in part because - be it history documentary or scale modelling - the Royal Navy's Silent Service and their Sub's are seldom mentioned in detail... unlike their opponents.

Oh yes, we *definitely* do.

*ↁо Ўоц ѕээ Гоѓрэↁо Боатѕ?*

T-Fury is a thing, go for it!

I would buy that.

I'd buy one.

Kamchatka's primary merit as a warship is a complete invulnerability to binoculars.

@keith moore or fed to the agrieved nations it shot at...

The baltic fleet was lucky to reach the tsushima strait at all. The Brits should have imprissoned them out of safety reasons.

@@Feiora nah, used as a fleet gunnery target.

"I'd rather have the Flying Dutchman than that deathtrap!"

Kamchatka: *whispering*: They’re in the trees! Fleet: *suffers simultaneous aneurysm from the stupidity*:....w...w-WHAT?! Kamchatka: *screaming*: ThEy’Re In ThE tReEs!!!

Kamchatka: *whispering* "I see Japanese torpedo boats all the time."

"When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." Kamchatka: sole armament only capable of dealing with torpedo boats. Ergo: "We're surrounded by torpedo boats! Attaaaaaaack!"

Kamchatka hides under blanket and looks at Bruce Willis: I see torpedo boats everywhere.

Some times they don't even know their torpedo boats.

Flaming1100 Why wait for a shadow?

There is a rumour that at one point they put the captain in front of a firing squad and missed.

@@bigblue6917 And they couldn't reload to try again because they fired all their remaining ammo at fishing squadrons.

@@barleysixseventwo6665 Why didn't they just feed them to one of the many dangerous creatures roaming the fleet? Or just let Admiral Rosesvensky beat them to death with his bare hands and save him tossing yet another set of binoculars over the side?

@@bigblue6917 It's not a rumor, there's actual footage of the attempted execution and even a colorized version of it: facebook.com/classictvmoments/videos/execution-in-russia/1978880318811992/

Sounds kinda like me running from group projects.

@Kamchatka,The 2nd Pacific Naval Squadron. Agreed

@Kamchatka,The 2nd Pacific Naval Squadron. Indeed, wait until Roshesvetsky finds out that there are two of us

@Kamchatka,The 2nd Pacific Naval Squadron. *And then things got better intensifies*

@Kamchatka,The 2nd Pacific Naval Squadron. Fools indeed. We had only been trapped in ice for years before.

Sunk by them. Means - Japanese broke one of the most important rules of warfare: Never interrupt enemy when he is doing a mistake!

@@mungo7136 Sound like the power rangers transformation rule. No attacking while transforming into my power suit!!!

"RN BB "Oh, you silly, poor summer child you. unlike your fleet--I CAN ACTUALLY HIT THINGS." (Guns proceed to swing around onto target...)

I doubt that. That would provoke a war with the British. Well, if the enemy noticed that they were under attack, that is...

@Findlay Robertson dude... Don't even think about it... The consequences would be beyond imagination

He was probably praying to God that Kamchatka would get run over by a British battleship. Or devoured by the Kraken. Or lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Or...

that battleship would get noble peace prize for save the world from this abomination.

Maybe the engine, having been finally freed from its curse of powering such a vile ship, gave out the smoke and air as a last happy belch of joy, that even if it sank, it would take the Kamchatka with it down to Davy Jones' Locker.

I wonder how difficult it was for the Russian admiral to not send a message to the Japanese fleet thanking them for sinking that ship.

@@TheRealGraylocke Greater effort was never seen by man before or since.

Perhaps, it's not so funny, considering that 327 (including 68 civilian repairmen) people lost their lives on that ill-fated ship. Show some respect to the fallen!

@@amedv I don't respect incompetence, I will how ever offer them 5 mins of silence along side my cousin who was killed in Iraq by a sniper.

Leroy Jenkins 😆

And also some small islands, clouds and even random larger waves.

i start every round (whilst playing as Bismarck) with chat to everyone: "do you see torpedo boats?"

All the opposing side become allies, and its team becomes the enemy. And it can only damage allied ships whilst showing small boat markers on the map everywhere.

Nah, random allies become red, and random enemies become blue, but to all your allies you are still blue, and to all your enemies, you are still red

Honestly I was surprised that this ship was even less competent than mentioned in the earlier videos.

one of the only ships less fourtnate then the USS William D. Porter. Aka the ship that tryed to torp FDR.

@@josephdedrick9337 "Don't shoot we are Republicans!"

Correction: several global superpowers

Don't forget the Kamchatka.

I'm just surprised that the Russians did not use it as target practise. It's not that they didn't need the practise.

@@bigblue6917 probably didnt think it was worth wasting ammo on.. haha

@@bigblue6917 The fact that Admiral Rozhestvensky never used the ship for target practice (or make her captain walk the plank into shark infested waters) demonstrates a remarkable amount of restraint on his part and really casts some serious doubt on his reputation of being a choleric person who's prone to fits of rage.

Remember the Kamchatka carried a lot fuel and spares probably and she was great at shipping goods. So they could not afford to miss her. And you'd still need men to sail it. In hindsight, it was no accident that Japanese military intelligence managed to recruit the ship before she set off for the Pacific. Mind you, this is all classified still. I mean, this would still be classified if

@@brotlowskyrgseg1018 As an Admiral, especially one in the Russian fleet, he'd probably seen every act of stupidity that one might dream up while he got to that rank. He also understood that he needed the parts, and that the Kamchatka's captain, as terrible as he was, would be hard to replace with anyone nearly as competent. He needed what few competent officers he had where they were on the warships, and had to settle for throwing binoculars and insults instead of hanging the Kamchatka's captain from her own yardarm like he would have probably preferred.

Unfortunately, she was completely unlimited in her ability to damage the morale and sanity of the rest of the fleet.

@@willrogers3793 Or to drive Rozhestvensky into depression.

the fun thing though is that the one time it actually hit something, it was a fellow russian ship

Not enough - the damage she did to Aurora was quite significant. On the other hand the Aurora is the only combatant from the Battle of Tsushima that is still afloat…

@@allangibson2408 one of two, the other is Mikasa

As far as the Japanese fleet was concerned, it most probably was.

Like he said in the voyage of the second Pacific squadron video there are not a lot of surviving images of the ships in the second Pacific squadron because assuming they did take lots of pictures on the voyage they likely went down with the ships. Whereas that would very much not be the case for anything the Japanese made during the battle of tsushima

Well also he uses pictures of a model, likely on board the Mikasa which is a lovely museum with poor translations. He also uses a drawing, possibly from a book, and I can tell you Japan has a thriving book and magazine market for military history nerds

I have a feeling it cheered up the Japanese Navy as well

@@bigblue6917 ...alongwith a few others I'd bet ;)

@@bigblue6917 i said, 'Oh jeez,' and clicked so fast, I didn't even know it.

Me too lol

Yeah, saw the title and first thought was "This is gonna be good".

No less and so much more!

I thought it was going to be about the geology of a certain volcanic peninsula! :-(

oh, but not just _any_ repair ship!

@Kabuki Kitsune Wouldn't be surprised if he has said, "Captain, get this man a hammock, we just found someone with some common sense"

I’d honestly prefer it if they just threw me back in the water

@Kabuki Kitsune I could see him busting out some vodka for the guy

Sadly, I suspect that the sailor was subjected to one of the most draconian policies in the Russian navy. He was sent back to the Kamchatka.

the ship istelf was fine it was her crew that was the issue

@@Revkor Well..not every ship can say of itself that it had the chance to single handedly start a world war....

USS Vestal would like to dispute the "broken ship" claim...

i think the crew was broken

You know, I just realized that nobody ever talks about the Kamchatka's crew or officers. Maybe they were all erased from history?

Tovarich? This is IMPERIAL Russia, not SOVIET Russia.

@@podemosurss8316 Shhhh they are both secretly bolksevik (alot of Navy join the revolution)

Seaman shoots himself in the head and misses. Officer: "Congratulations! You are promoted to a gunnery officer."

@@zelts 🤣🤣🤣 Or became a target for thrown binoculars 🤣🤣🤣

@@johngregory4801while being yelled at by the Admiral of the squadron

I was watching the movie "The Wackiest Ship in the Navy" the other day. They could really do a Russian version of the movie based on this ship..

@@zakofrx - McHale's Navy meets the Kamchatka. Watch the hilarity ensue.

@@gmow1571 if you don't know, the whole McHale's navy series is on RU-vid.

"The Ship with the Flat Tire" (ASS-1). I'd go to the movie...

@@zakofrx I would love if someone made a comedy movie about it just like The Death of Stalin

:'(

Its ok Kamchatka just because everyone judges you I will ALWAYS love you :)

@@CNMikado *Rozhestvensky* will remember that

@@aaronstorey9712 He was probably preparing to order the whole fleet to go full ahead,get out and push if needed after he got the "We are sinking" message :D "The Kamchatka signaled they are sinking" "Ahead flank, I don´t care if the ships fly appart,AHEAD FLANK!"

:(

that hypothesis is actually not all that far-fetched...

@OCTOOZZY Just don't say her name three times, whilst looking in a mirror!

@@Temp0raryName If you do then you will be attacked by Japanese torpedo boats!

@@LyricalStarr are the torpedo boats disguised as trawlers?

@@LyricalStarr Whose scarier, the torpedo boats or the admiral?

No that's just a sailing seagull. You can tell by the fact that it just flew away.

In ThE nORth SeA

No, mother, it's just the northern lights.

Нет. Just some fishing trawlers.

YES, ALL MEN TO BATTLESTATIONS !!! SHOOT AT EVERYTHING THAT MOVES

'We can even send some ships to escort the kamchatka back!!'

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@@PaulfromChicago I was just about to when I saw the number and thought just the same as you . The answer to life, the Universe and everything, now what is the question?

@@PaulfromChicago I have done it 42 likes

There's a rumor that the prototype Infinite Improbability Drive was installed on the Kamchatka and, working perfectly, caused every infinitely improbable problem possible to her and the fleet.

@@maxkennedy8075 Darn. Other people liked it.

Why didn't the Admiral just send Kamchatka back home? Or did he try and the Czar said "Ohhh No! Don't Even Try!"

I’d ‘ve done the same.

@@Stupidhead-et1je who wouldn't?

They would still miss.

(somehow, half the shells SOMEHOW hit the Aurora) Aurora: "Hey! I'm on your side, idiots!"

Guns turn to aim at cmdr riker

Calling the Kamchatka a double agent is an insult to double agents everywhere.

It would be a nice halloween ghost ship

I'm not sure the developers want to be reminded of Kamchatka - they are based in St. Petersbourg after all.

having observed the torpedo-skills of many low tier players, I think this might actually improve overall gameplay...

Don’t you think there are enough players randomly sending incorrect or misleading message in-game as it is?

It wouldn't fit the glorious Russian navy narrative. For the same reason the upcoming Borodino is some piece of fiction, instead of the battleship that was sunk at Tsushima.

There would be fewer ships

The Aurora seems like the best ship that put up with the most shit. She was hit by freindly guns more than once on the journey, fought bravely and was one of the few ships to survive the battle.

...and then was sunk by gunfire. "Japanese torpedo boats! They can't say we're crazy now! Do it! Hit us with torpedoes! We'll show them who was paranoid!" "No."

Maybe his next assignment was carrying the binoculars for the admiral then. 😂

That was a very wise sailor. Escape the ship crewed by The Keystone Kops, Three Stooges and Our Gang!

It was while at war. He deserted and they took pity of him. Speaks volumes.

I wonder if they sent him back.

@@NielsC68 honestly, the man deserted and the officers just went “Me too, kid.” I hope they chucked him back into the water so he could have a chance at survival

Rozzy: "Yeah, no you ain't."

Dude.... Uncool

Why you bully Kamchatka >:(

The answer was "that is what every japanese torpedo boat would say"

nah. kamchatka would radio in the co ordinates of every single other ship of the second pacific squadron saying "JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS"

I propose that we use Kamchatka as a measure of how much fail a ship has. 1 Kamchatka is the same amount of fail (incompetence, bad design, bad service record, pointlessness, etc) as the actual repair ship. I.e. the French predreadnought Massena has, IMO, approximately 0.9 Kamchatkas of fail due to being a horrific and pointless design with a terrible combat record.

I’d say the William D. Porter is about 1 Kamchatka ( or 0.5Kka if you only count official records)

@@sirboomsalot4902 Given that most of her mishaps probablt never happened she deserves only the 0.5 KKA.

@BK Jeong Who will Second this Motion?

The insult “Kamchatka” has entered my vocabulary.

Oucj

-covers Kamchatka’s ears (what ever)- don’t talk like that around the precious ship you jerk

Kamchatka: I did just about evrything other than torpedoing the President

One source listed the name of the captain as Stephanov, couldn't find anything else though

The lookout bravely went down with the Titanic.

Список офицеров флота , Корпусов , Медицинских и Грaжданских чинов Морского Ведомства , погибших в бою у острова Цусима 14-го мая 1905 г. на транспорте «Камчатка» Антонов Николай Александрович, р. 25.05.1870 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., капитан корпуса инженер-механиков, старший судовой механик (оф. № 264) Аристов Александр Владимирович, р. 10.08.1883 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., мичман, вахтенный офицер (оф. № 263) Ген Густав Романович, р. 25.01.1880 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., лейтенант, штурманский офицер (оф. № 259) Делялич-де-Лаваль Павел Иосифович, р. 29.06.1881 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., мичман, вахтенный начальник (оф. № 261) Кирштейн Иоганн Иоганнович, ум. 14.05.1905 г., прапорщик по механической части, младший судовой механик (оф. № 270) Лубо Николай Казимирович, р. 19.03.1879 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., штабс-капитан корпуса инженер-механиков, младший судовой механик (оф. № 266) Примечание: Уступил место в баркасе мастеровым и попытавшись спастись вплавь без спасательного пояса. Михайлов-Рославлев Сергей Михайлович, р. 10.12.1866 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., лейтенант, вахтенный начальник (оф. № 260) Примечание: Флагманский офицер Штаба командующего 2-й эскадры флота Тихого океана (вице-адмирала З. Рожественского) Никанов Владимир Владимирович, р. 25.05.1872 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., лейтенант, старший офицер (оф. № 257) Обниский Казимир Сигизмундович, р. 04.06.1876 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., лекарь, судовой врач (оф. № 271) Петров Александр Федосеевич, ум. 14.05.1905 г., поручик корпуса инженер-механиков, младший судовой механик (оф. № 268) Плешков Александр Михайлович, р. 16.08.1880 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., поручик корпуса инженер-механиков, младший судовой механик (оф. № 265) Примечание: Младший инженер-механик (17.08.1904), поручик КИМ (01.01.1905); «Аврора» (вольнонаемный механик, младший судовой механик 22.06.1904 - конец августа 1904), «Камчатка» (помощник старшего судового механика, зав. маш. и котел. отделениями конец августа 1904-14.05.1905 гг.) Рейхель Николай Алексеевич, р. 1863 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., поручик корпуса инженер-механиков, младший судовой механик (оф. № 267) Примечание: Инженер-технолог (1890), инженер-технолог Министерства путей сообщения (1904), младший инженер-механик (19.07.1904), поручик корпуса инженер-механиков (01.01.1905). Самойлов Адриан Михайлович, р. 30.09.1883 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., мичман, вахтенный начальник (оф. № 262) Степанов Андрей Степанович, р. 31.01.1863 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., капитан 2-го ранга, командир корабля (оф. № 256) Примечание: Крейсер «Память Азова» (старший офицер 01.01.1901-1904 гг.), «Камчатка» (командир 30.08.1904-14.05.1905 гг.) Шевченко Георгий Пантелеймонович, ум. 14.05.1905 г., прапорщик по механической части, младший судовой механик (оф. № 269) Шидловский Михаил Дмитриевич, р. 23.07.1883 г., ум. 14.05.1905 г., мичман, ревизор (оф. № 258)

@@mordentus I don't read Cyrillic, but I can decipher enough from your comment to guess that this is a list of the crew of the Kamchatka. Thank you.

@@ewhartiii It's actually the list of ship's casualties of 14th of May 1905, but in case of Kamchatka it's basically the whole crew

... yet irony of ironies wasn't gobbled up by them ;)

@@jimtaylor294 that the boy who cry wolf but eaten by bears

If Kamchatka was in Azur Lane, she would always be crying out loud about torpedo boats.

hawkeye5955 If Kamchatka was in KC or AL I have a feeling she would not only be a ditz, but call everything/everyone a Japanese torpedo boat. Now I want to see this thing get a look at Yamato and call her a Japanese torpedo boat.....

@@bkjeong4302 THIS IS THE KAMCHATKA, WE HAVE LOCATED THE LARGEST TORPEDO BOAT THAT JAPAN HAS!

Good point.

Turns out they were shooting at themselves 🤣

Aurora’s revenge lol

@@Colt45hatchback And finally scored, ftw!

And mostlikly most beloved foreigh ship in IJN :)

You cant hate that particular ship , for beign most russian style shipe.

@@tadasdovii8262 true words

"Rozhestvensky's parrot? We named it Blue Streak." "Oh? Why?" *@#&?!!!* "Oh ... we had our reasons ..."

Sabaton needs to make a song about the ship and get the animation done by YarnHub (like their song "The Night Witches").

the best comment of all :)

They lost many goo..... Mediocore ships, trying to get rid of Kamchatka

Francesco Schettinovich

former aral sea?

I don't think there can be that many vessels as bad as this!

​@@Temp0raryName there was USS William D. Porter ;)

I think that video title would be more of Potential History's department, but either would be good candidates for such a series! :)

@@IgnisFatuum She has her own video and she wasn't near as bad as often made out to be. The only real fuckup she was behind was the torpedo incident (her sinking was just bad luck and everything else was fabricated post-war)

@@Temp0raryName In terms of sheer incompetence Kamchatka is unmatched but there are other warships that were extremely terrible in other ways, some of which already have their own video. - Vasa for literally being the worst warship ever. At least the Kamchatka could sail; Vasa couldn't. - the earlier French predreadnoughts for terrible design, terrible procurement decisions, terrible combat records and overall sheer ugliness. - anything that ended up entering service after it was already obsolete, like the last generation of predreadnoughts or WWII-era battleships. - some "we have no idea what's the point" designs like Vesuvius, the K-Class, Fisher's Follies, IJN torpedo cruisers, etc

...oh yes...! :D

I have to wonder if the Imperial Russian uniforms were made of a very comfortable velour-eh *Kif groans* Also, Kamchatka starts to come under fire: Kif: Captain, those are the Japanese ships! Zapp: Kif, that’s stupid! They’re clearly our welcoming party! *shells immediately hit and ship sinks* *Kif groan turns into gurgle as ship goes down* 😂

Have you been attacked by Japanese torpedo boats yet?

Better mount a couple 47 mm guns in case you are set upon by those darned Japanese torpedo boats

It is an honor for another ship of great importance to bear my name! Long live the Kamchatka

Clearly you hate the Russian Navy.

I'd like to call your attention to a sci-fi short story called "A Ship Named Francis," by John Ringo and Victor Mitchell. It's set in David Weber's Honorverse and takes place aboard the Francis Mueller, a dumping ground for the stupidest, most incompetent oafs ever to disgrace their country's nay. How disgraceful are they? To name just one example: the navigator manages to get lost in their home system. Because he forgot all about the PLANETS in his way.

We already have that character in Rosensvesky, no need to duplicate him

*sees neutral CIVILIAN vessel

Yes

Made the even funnier

"Kamchatka you sodding tic tac what the bloody hell did you just do!?"

Just found this comment and immediately heard James May yelling “KAMCHATKAAAAAAA!!!” 🤣🤣🤣

Nah it's these three people in charge of the ship

Next year in wows... not hunting rasputin (again) but trying to sink kamchatka, before it runs away from your destroyers to sink your trawler fishing fleet!

Every minute in the game , Japanese early tier destroyers (torpedo boats) summon because of the Kamchatka. Thats how the game mode would be like You survive much as you can. Every minute , more destroyers than before summons. You can also just sink Kamchatka , but that makes you gain less.

Halloween? Sure it's not Aprils Fools?

I would so definitely wear it.