Rare WW2 Footage - The Tragedy of the HMS Hood - Intense Sound 

If you go the the website of the HMS Hood association there on the crew memorial pages you will find an individual memorial page for Francis O'Neill Dall, Born in Leith in 1922, together with a photograph of the handsome young lad. Sincerest repsects to his memory & service.

My 3rd great uncle was on bismarck in turret #3 when she was going down, he died in england in 1974 from a stroke, from what i was told when i was a kid

not so mighty eh

@@neamtu7676 PRICK!!!!!!

Rip Francis Dall.

first of all the bismarck were nazis there is no resting in peace for them, these clowns listened and followed a crazy maniac.

Well said. ☮

not trying to sound rude or anything but i highly doubt that the Bismarck would've been converted to a museum ship

Some German subs are, so why not?

@@carloscollomps1552 I agree and it would have been cool. Seeing as the Prinz Eugen was used for nuclear bomb testing, I would think that if the US got ahold of a captured Bismark, it would have had a similar end. They should have saved the Prinz Eugen too imo.

Actually most seamen were terrified because they knew once they were at sea they had no where to run or hide if they desperately needed to. You were basically fucked if the ship got hit bad

@@mmx4gaming12 Definitely terrified when the firing began, but probably feeling Invincible steaming proudly along before that.

Well, be reminded, we're talking about NAZIS.

He was a stoker and I have zero knowledge of him or his life.His brother nicknamed sunny died when on leave in 44.Just before D day.Knocked over by an American G I in a jeep.

Agreed

If only they could’ve both been saved

True. I hate nazi’s but i love the bismarck.

@@Echo_8054 Agreed I don’t like the association of anything German with Nazi‘s. They ruined Germany and forever tainted the history of that great country. Bismarck was a German battleship not a Nazi one. A majority if not all of the men who served on her fought for their home, families, and wives not the fruher himself.

Hood was killed with only one shell to her ammo. She fought even after her death. Bismarck fell to many hands. He too fought with every ounce of his being. I salute the fallen crew of both ships! Brave men they were!

Get rid of zelensky. He îs killing your country în The name of others.

Nonsense.

RIP and Respect for the men of the Bismarck.

the crew of the Bismark was murdered

@@rexgeorg7324 Do you mind to elaborate on what you mean?

@@davecopp9356 they were left to drown

​@@rexgeorg7324I mean of course. it's not like there were other Nazi ships out there that could save them

Thin deck plating that was never addressed.

Watch Drachs video on her, nothing to do with deck armour.

​@@adamcarreras-neal4697The Hood had been scheduled for the deck armor to be upgraded but due to Hoods busy schedule it was never done. If the Hoods armor decking was sufficient then why was admiralty recommending the up grade.

@TerryKnight-hw3pg it's was her machinery that was to be replaced, with the weigh saving, the armour scheme would have been reviewed and upgraded. According to Drachs research and he's thinks the fatal shell hit her in a wave trough, below the armour belt. Again, go watch his video, rather than regurgitating the thin armour trope.

People can think whatever they want just because someone thinks the shell entered the wave trough doesn't mean it did. Regardless of all the guessing what we do know is the Hoods armor deck plating was no where as thick as POW or Bismarck and that was a weakness, would thicker plating have changed the outcome of the battle? We will never know.

Once Rodney was in range, it was lights out for the Bismarck.

@@steriskyline4470Bismarck destroyed the pride of the royal navy, and severely damaged its newest battleship with like 8 salvos. Rodney fired way more, and couldn’t sink the Bismarck. Bismarck scuttled itself.

​@@slimwilsonWasn't the Rodney , the battle ship accompanying the Hood was the Prince of Wales.

@@TerryKnight-hw3pg I know, I was responding to both comments

@slimwilson Bismarck barely lasted a week of its first and only mission. Then it's sister ship hid for most of the rest of the war. That's the truth.

The Bismarck was accompanied by the cruiser Prince Eugen

Well, no close comparison with Hitler and co. on the UK side

​@@flyingphobiahelpreally? 1 million dead civilians in Iraq.

@@flyingphobiahelp Dümmster Kommentar überhaupt.

I wonder if you meant commies or Jews. Or perhaps both...

@@AlexCatable Jetzt, wo ich Deinen Kommentar gelesen habe, da fällt es mir wieder ein warum wir uns bekriegen! Ihr könnt einfach nicht anders als Feindlich zu sein, darum habt Ihr Briten auch zwei mal Deutschland den Krieg erklärt, am 05.08.1914 und am 03.09.1939. Viele Briten hassen die Deutschen, das musste ich selber erfahren als ich 2014 in Snodland gearbeitet habe.

Lasted a week of its first and only mission then ended up on the bottom of the ocean.

It was not his time to die then, so the mixup occurred to he might live. Regards.

so you are here

@@Egg.335 yes I wouldn’t have been had he been on the hood

​​@@cmua9798so he was on price of wales? Thats awesome! Your grandad was a hero, the chase of the bis must have been a terrifying day or so! Huge respect.

@@steriskyline4470 hi I’m not sure what ship he was on , it was my Dad who told me the story, my grandpa is long since passed away , so can’t ask him , I couldn’t find the information in his Navy records .

sadly ..History is never that simple

That's war...battles and engagements happen all the time everywhere

Such a moronic comment OP. Do you think Bismarck was taking German pensioners on a spring cruise to the Caribbean? She was on a mission to destroy unarmed merchant shipping crossing the Atlantic that was supplying Britain. Do you think the British should have just left it alone to get on with its business of starving the British population?

"War knows No Nation" when Bismarck was finally sunk the Royal Navy Rescued as many of her crew as possible sadly most where left in the water because of U-boats.

Yes and no. Hood opened fire, but on the Prinz Eugen, confusing her for Bismarck. We can only wonder what would've happened if she did focus at the right target. Maybe without that confusion she also would've find the range.

That's Bismarck's gun flashes you're seeing, not Hood getting hit. She was 10,000 yards astern and nearly on the horizon. The distant rumble is Hood's magazine detonating because the deck plating was so lightly armored. The designers never factored in high trajectory impacts, only hits to the hull and superstructure.

The ironic thing is Hood was supposed to go for a deck refit sadly Bismarck happened and Hood was needed the rest we know.

@@badmojamma "so lightly armored" yet equally armored as battleships of her age. Deck armour was equal to that of the Queen Elizabeths. Besides, the range was closed enough at that point that plunging fire wasn't really a factor anymore. More likely she was hit under her armour belt.

She had lots of wood in her construction. Plus the shells hit on a downward plane.they were lofted above Hood and basically fell straight down and exploded below decks confining the explosion below decks.

@@Michael-no6jw Very interesting, thanks. I'll have to watch it again.

the ship with the flashes and black smoke is the Bismark firing on the Hood at some distance away. The shots of high smoke plume on the horizon is the Hood. I was a bit confused at first as well, but now it makes sense.

It was nothing to do with deck armour. Unfortunately HMS Renown would have gone down the same as Hood.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 nah mate she had her belt armour done up as well I know hood wasn't stuck in her deck armor

@@jayjayspoon8824 Well then you'll also know that HMS Renown had far thinner vertical armour than HMS Hood.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Renown was the only one of her class that got the full upgrade package

@@jayjayspoon8824 She was indeed modernised, but at the end of her major refits she was still far more lightly armoured than was Hood. (compare her vertical 9 inch belt to Hood's 12" belt angled at 13º. During the final battle on 27th May Adm Tovey commanding the RN Home Fleet specifically ordered Adm Somerville commanding "Force H" to keep HMS Renown away from the scene of the final battle for the very reason of her inadequate armour.

@@fgaviator So, the waiting is for a dance party?

All were added post production.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Was that a suggestion of your right shoe?

it is ai sound not real one

@@parvdhiman1959 Well, that sucks.

I believe that the explosion being heard so soon is the report of her guns firing - Not the impacts themselves

Prinze Eugen

@@Alan-tr5uj that’s my favorite ship!

Heavy-Cruiser......also an excellent fighting-ship.

HMS Hood HAD to go into battle when she did. Hindsight is a luxury only WE have. Bismarck belt armour = 12.6 inches Hood belt armour = 12 inches (Though angled so as to give 13 inches of protection). Bismarck deck armour = 4 inches Hood deck armour = 3 inches Hood's vertical armour was well upto the standard of contemporary battleships, her weakest aspect was her horizontal deck armour, but Holland already knew that and had raced to close on Bismarck. Hood had escaped the "danger zone" of plunging fire, only to be then hit by a million to one shot that found an obscure "achilles heel" in her vertical armour.

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 HMS Hood wasnt ready for a fight and so was Prince of Wales with her inexperienced crew and faulty turrets .. but in their overconfidence they were betting on fear that might push the bismarck away but it was too late when the first shells were coming in .. Holland acted very stupid

@@spionsilver9626 It was nothing to do with "overconfidence". The simple unescapable fact is that Bismarck's & Prinz Eugen's sole aim was to steam into the British transatlantic convoy lanes and sink as much tonnage and cause as much disruption to the convoy schedules as possible. The two German ships were on the very threshold of those convoy lanes and the wider north Atlantic, where it would have been immeasurably harder to force them to engage. The British admiralty did what it HAD to do, WHEN it needed to be done and with what tools were then available. And regardless of the loss of Hood the British mission objective, that is to prevent the unhindered escape of the German ships into the north Atlantic, was achieved.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 but not by sacrificing the hood tho

@@spionsilver9626 Of course Hood's sacrifice was not intended. On paper The British Admiralty had every reason to believe that Hood/PoW would have given as good as they took. Hindsight is a luxury only WE enjoy, and NOT one shared by the commanders "on the spot".

And yet saved the rest of Europe from nazi tyranny. You're welcome.

Prinz Eugen is where the recording came from. The ship you see firing nearby is Bismarck, the smoke on the horizon at the end is Hood's sinking

@@nathjohn3158 Thanks for the insight

You heard wrong.

@jeffpotico736 What you heard is people talking shite. It was near completely impossible for a 203 mm shell from Prinz Eugen to penetrate it's way into the magazines.

@@Al.J_02 On top of which minutes prior to the time of Hood's destruction, Lütjens, on the recommendation of Bismarck's chief gunnery officer (Adalbert Schneider) had ordered PE to switch target to PoW which had been enjoying uninterrupted target practice on Bismarck.

@@Al.J_02 8 Inch won't go through 3.5 inch deck? Maybe they left all the flash doors open, like at Jutland. Well, regardless, she exploded.

@@jeffpotipco736 There is no evidence for the flash doors being opened in Hood. The practice was strictly forbidden and everyone in the Royal Navy knew exactly why. Even if it wasn't expressly prohibited, thousands of men dying horribly with only a handful of men surviving was probably discouraging enough. Hood had more than just one armoured Deck. IF the Shell were to fly at an angle to be able to penetrate the first deck, it would loose a significant amount of it's penetrative power and in all likelyhood be stopped by the second armour deck below (Hood had three). It would explode, if at all considering the quality of German shells during the Denmark Strait, far outside of the reach of the cordite stored in the magazines. Plus, the range that day was very close, so Prinz Eugen's shells would have had a flatter trajectory when fired off, similar to the Bismarck, meaning they would have skidded along the deck, deflected. The tighter the angle of the shell hitting the deck, the further the relative thickness of the armour increases, thus greatly increasing the chance of the shell deflecting.

So did Bismarck, it's irrelevant. Wooden decking had nothing to do with the ship's armour.

@Michael-no6jw Where do idiots like you come from? Genuinely interested...

It's not as if Bismarck was minding its own business on a pleasure cruise. Hood was acting in defence of British merchant shipping.

@@Fricasso79 It's embarrasing that you have to explain the completely fecking obvious to these small nazi entralled children in public. When I was a kid we used to read books and not display our childish ignorance for the whole world to see.

"Soldiers"? Really?

@@konradheumann8342 Was it written wrong?

@@davecopp9356 - They're sailors. Not soldiers. The Bismarck was a ship. At sea.

@@konradheumann8342 Ok. I thought I may have made a spelling mistake. And they were soldiers who served in the Naval branche or Marine of the german Wehrmacht. But what ever makes you happy and if it is calling them sailors so be it. Did the Bismarck have sails? Just joking. Have a nice day.

@@davecopp9356 A mature response would have been to admit the mistake, thank the person for pointing it out and correct it. I wasn't attacking you as a person. Everyone makes mistakes.

Does your mental health nurse know you've gained access to the PC?

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Nazi workers party 1933 -145

1945

@@SurprisedDrumKit-rj1fw Hatstand !!!!

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thats straight up wrong? a 15 inch shell from bismarck penetrated hood's armor and blew up the ammunition

Yeah,right......Go back to school.....

And ended up murdering millions of innocents who had nothing to do with the Great British Empire. You silly silly child.

But you didn't, you little tit.