"Single-Handed"/"Sailor of the King" (1953) - Naval Battle

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H.M.S. Amesbury engages in battle with the Essen in Roy Boulting's "Sailor of the King" (British title: "Single-Handed"), the second movie based on C.S. Forester's "Brown on Resolution" (1929). In this clip: Jeffrey Hunter, Patrick Barr, Robin Bailey, Bernard Lee, Victor Maddern, Michael Rennie, John Horsley et al.

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@trevorgeorge5814 11 месяцев назад

My father was a serving sailor on HMS Manxman where this film was made, all shot around Malta in 1953. All the crew were dressed as German sailors as the ship was disguised as a German cruiser. Geoffrey Hunter was one of the main stars, our family still has a signed autograph of Geoffrey Hunter addressed to my late father James George.

@peterclague3539 8 месяцев назад

I’m a Manx Man....we hold her very high in our history, even had a Airfix model of her. Thanks for fathers service. 🇮🇲

@John-ob7dh 4 месяца назад

Very sad end for Hunter.

@stevenpilling5318 4 месяца назад

HMS Manxman was one of the remarkable Abdiel class cruisers of the Royal Navy. Capable of a good forty knots, they were intended as fast minelayers. In practice, they performed in an amazing variety of roles due to their outstanding speed and rugged constitution.

@TheRealist2022 3 месяца назад

@@stevenpilling5318 Abdiel (or Abdab as we called her) was a welcome sight when we joined her in port. One of the last ships in the RN that had a chokey laundry!

@KJs581 2 месяца назад

@@TheRealist2022As you obviously have experienced the Asian laundry hands, we had a similar system (RAN). We used to pic them up first time on an Asian 6 month deployment, usually in Singas or HK, can't remember, drop them off last time there at end of deployment. We had a lot of trouble when we were up top on Parramatta, we picked them up as usual. We had the tailor in the fwd DC area, the shoemaker ("Wak a Tak") in the mortar metadyne room, and the usual 3 laundry hands. The problem came when we brought them (laundry hands) back to Australia. The reason we did was that the ship relieving us was leaving only about a week after we got back to Sydney. (Could have been Vendetta). They would berth outboard of us, and the three laundry hands would cross deck to Vendetta, never having to actually step ashore. Now, the idea was that they were never ever going to step ashore, so never set foot in Australia, so no immigration problem. But someone leaked it to the press, and they went berzerk, with stories of "visa breaches/international spies" blah blah. Huge furore, but technically no offence committed, as they never left the ship/never stepped ashore. But no ship ever brought them back to Australia again AFAIK. Storm in a teacup.

@Bruce-1956 11 месяцев назад

One of the great British 1950s b&w films where most if not all the actors fought in WW2 and knew what war was.

@coleparker 3 года назад

I love these old British War movies. They are accurate in their portrayals

@Bruce-1956 Год назад

Yes because most of the actors knew war.

@lordeden2732 11 месяцев назад

Because they used advisers who had served in the Royal Navy during the war.

@Bruce-1956 11 месяцев назад

@@lordeden2732and men who had known war.

@jacktattis 11 месяцев назад

Yes warts and all.

@peterharvey1762 11 месяцев назад

Also most of the ships used where in WW2 , like HMS Exeter in the Battle river plate

@paulgumbley4868 3 года назад

You can't beat a good old british black and white war film, with you're Sunday roast, and the kip after. Happier days. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@roybennett6330 3 года назад

Too right,my dad was ex subs,rn.. remember him stopping the gardening say 1400 for slap up feed of sardines,or spotted dick for bridge on river Kwai,Mr chips, battle of Britain.. good English fare on both fronts.

@danielguy1963 3 года назад

Absolutely 👍🇦🇺

@StickTheGlue 3 года назад

how to confuse an American in 1 sentence :P

@jonny7491 2 года назад

I was just about to (corrected, write) right the same.

@gregtaylor6146 2 года назад

@@jonny7491 - write

@Barouche 3 года назад

I remember reading Brown On Resolution 50 years ago. It must have been good to stay in my memory all of that time.

@Laceykat66 3 года назад

I am a big movie fan and have never even HEARD of this film before. Thank you for expanding my education.

@overlycreative1 4 года назад

I hope the sound editor got a proper award for this great work.

@Sid1035 8 лет назад

I remember exercising with Indian Navy Ship DELHI in 50's off Ceylon. Dehli was originally HMS Achillies and later HMNZ Achillies (Battle of the River Plate) I was a telegraphist on HMS Newfoundland (Colony class Cruiser) at the time.

@bobmetcalfe9640 8 лет назад

Hell, my dad was on Newfoundland in WW2. Small world.

@Sid1035 8 лет назад

Must have been the same commission as me. We brought 'Newfy' out of a major refit in Gus sailed for Trinco to become Flagship East Indies. Happiest ship i ever had.

@Sid1035 8 лет назад

Sorry i missed the WW2 part, she came out of major refit in 1952.

@bobmetcalfe9640 8 лет назад

"Happiest ship i ever had."That's what my dad said too. He was at the Japanese surrender. I've got some photos somewhere :).

@philipg52 7 лет назад

One of my patients was there too.

@tedjinla 13 лет назад

"In the Royal Navy, we never strike an ensign, see?" Best line in the movie...by "M' of James Bond fame.

@halnywiatr 4 года назад

Bernard Lee

@allenjenkins7947 3 года назад

Hence "nailing our colours (ensign) to the mast". Sometimes, a large battle ensign would also be unfurled on each side of the hull, just to make it really clear. That was also the symbolism of the giant U.S. flag draped down the side of the Pentagon following the "9-11" attacks - "No surrender!".

@archangel2143 3 года назад

Actually, the British struck their flag on September 23rd, 1779 during the American Revolution when John Paul Jones in the USS Bonhomme Richard defeated HMS Serapis off of Flamborough Head; however all is forgiven now! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

@chrismc410 3 года назад

@JZ's Best Friend adapt to situations as they happen and act as logic demands?

@lordeden2732 11 месяцев назад

Three colours One each side and one in the middle

@joeavent5554 3 года назад

"Take your hand out of your pocket"...discipline at all times.

@gregwalsh5880 3 года назад

50 black stitches to the inch and every 50th a white stitch. This stopped you pretty quick putting your hands in your pockets. Pockets were for putting items in, not your hands. Discipline never hurt at all.

@joeavent5554 3 года назад

@@gregwalsh5880 In just about all military forces throughout the world it is forbidden to keep hands in pockets unless retrieving an object. Notice all the thumbs up? Prior service members get it. The director added this very tiny tidbit not just for nostalgia but to prove a point about attention to detail.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 3 года назад

Hands in pockets? "Manchester gloves".

@joeavent5554 3 года назад

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Lol

@teecee1567 3 года назад

@@gregwalsh5880 What's the deal with the stitches?

@tedjinla 13 лет назад

This movie was filmed in the Mediterranean using HMS Cleopatra as Amesbury, Cambridge and Stratford, and the fast minelayer HMS Manxman as Essen. They fitted fake turrets and funnels to try and make a convincing German light cruiser out of her. The lagoon where most of the "shooting" took place (yuk yuk) was Gozo the northern-most island of the Maltese archipelago to stand in for Resolution Island in the Galapagos. Thanks for uploading this wonderful sequence. TEDJ in LA

@stevewright2444 4 года назад

My dad was serving on the manxman when they used her in this film

@KJs581 3 года назад

Good info mate. These ships were of the time of the AA evolution of these ships. Originally light cruisers were the "sort out raiders/run away if get in trouble" ships, as in the 30's surface ships were the major threat. Cleo had the 5.25 guns here (down from 6 inch previously) which were an interim AA (dual purpose) solution, but as aircraft emerged as the major threat to convoys, (and aircraft got faster) even that was found wanting, as the traverse rate, elevation capability and rate of fire was too limited. Later cruisers had multilple 4.5 and more capable HACS (and early radar). The faster traverse/more rounds carried/higher ROF - AND the VT fuse made for the first (and very capable) true AA cruisers. The Americans did the same with the "Atlanta" class (5 inch guns) and they were capable AA ships; but had to be careful, two were caught in surface battles and outgunned by 6 inch cruisers and sunk. Mountbatten (who the producer knew) liked the internals of guns to be in these movies, and he allowed them to use the ships for movies like this - and the internals of "Vanguard" to be used in "Sink the Bismarck!" where they use Vanguard's 15 inch mounts to portray all loading sequences.

@Bruce-1956 Год назад

Thanks for the information.

@Aethelwolf 3 года назад

Great movie. I remember watching this as a kid.

@alexanderwaterman7480 3 месяца назад

Me too, and just about every other naval film out there.

@carrickrichards2457 11 месяцев назад

I found this by far the saddest of all Forester's books. The film sought to hide that, even filming two endings (both endings were shown at the premier for the audience to choose).

@michaelgibson4705 11 месяцев назад

Fortunately Geoffrey Hunter had that old cockney stalwart Victor Maddern helping out,B&W British war films gave him a career a great character actor

@davidmoser3535 2 месяца назад

Jeffrey

@williamc.1198 4 года назад

I served aboard two former Royal Navy ships while attached to the Chilean Navy. British compartmentation is quite a bit different from ours. Far fewer openings for fore and aft passageways.

@eyemstillhear Год назад

I served on HMS NORFOLK County class destroyer in '79, sold onto the Chilean navy early eighties, who subsequently sank it. 🤣🤣🤣

@nemo6686 11 месяцев назад

To better maintain watertight and smoke integrity in the event of being hit. One of the lessons of the Falklands campaign was that they'd been putting holes in lateral bulkhead to run cables, vents, etc and this allowed smoke to spread and seriously hamper damage control and fighting the ship. It was one of many things that had been forgotten and had to be relearned, and the RN subsequently put a lot more effort into Operational Sea Training to try and minimize this backsliding.

@SvenTviking 11 месяцев назад

Learned that off the Germans when we took the High seas fleet.

@fixento 7 лет назад

You have to love the open bridges when men were men.

@s.sestric9929 7 лет назад

And sheep were scared.

@hhoward14 6 лет назад

In steam ships it made sense, because of the extra heat, from the boilers, and the window fogging moisture in an enclosed wheel house, or bridge. Also, the need for 360 deg visual communications.

@rollosnook3031 5 лет назад

Pleasant on the arctic convoy escort with a 30 knot speed and stormy headwind I'm sure...

@Bisexual_Sovereign 4 года назад

@@rollosnook3031 I mean they had some form of improvised cover but the front was still exposed

@mwnciboo 4 года назад

@@hhoward14 What? Thats not the reason at all, we didn't use piped steam like some kind of pseudo air conditioner through the ship, causing condensation or otherwise.

@Richard500 4 года назад

These older movies are all so much better acted, many of the actors were already War Veterans and knew the drill so to speak. Soldiers looked like soldiers and so did airmen and sailors. These days it makes you cringe when actors THINK they are looking very "military, and they're not. The Dido class cruiser HMS Cleopatra plays both the fictional Royal Navy ships "HMS Amesbury" and "HMS Stratford". Presumably with REAL sailors as extras.

@robsaunders9521 3 года назад

And the blanket stackers always tops 👍. Sua Tela Tonanti.

@davidsirett5560 4 года назад

Jeffrey Hunter Captain Christopher Pike of the space ship Enterprise from the stellar group at the other end of this galaxy.

@randyjohnson6845 4 года назад

You knew that right .Hunter was his son from the brief encounter with the British lady

@ivorholtskog5506 3 года назад

I think he also played in corvette K225.

@enochpowelghost 12 лет назад

yes thanks for uploading such a good film clip well done

@tag427 7 лет назад

Thanks for posting!

@NJPurling 3 года назад

The only thing the guns of the 'Essen' could not penetrate were the stiff upper lips of the officers.

@raymaxwell2940 3 года назад

victor maddern was in some iconic war movies served in the RN in ww2 joining at 14 these movies take me back to the 70s as a kid watching with my grandfather who was a RM in ww2 narvik dunkirk Russian convoys crete malta dieppe burma etc etc

@CRAZYHORSE19682003 2 года назад

I remember being a signalman striker in the USN in 1988, clapping the shutters on the signal lights was considered very bad form.

@ichabodon 4 года назад

Sorry James, that is not Compo from Last of the Summer Wine. It’s the great late Victor Madden

@teecee1567 3 года назад

Maddern...as opposed to Madden

@stevefisher8323 3 года назад

Michael Rennie in his uniform, very dashing indeed!

@johngreen3543 Год назад

The opening comment mentions that this was the 2d adaptation of Brown On Resolution. The first was "Forever England" starring John Mills. It is available on youtube.

@grindupBaker 4 года назад

If he could get GORT to assist they'd vaporize that other ship.

@teecee1567 3 года назад

I was wracking my brains to think what the acronym GORT meant. I'd been a navy man for 25 years and know that the RN uses acronyms for everything... ECR for engine control room, DC for damage control, NCS for naval control of shipping, STANAVFORLANT for standing naval force atlantic... etc etc... but was so annoyed to realise I never knew what it meant. then I bloody realised it wasn't an acronym at all..GORT is the name of the alien played by the Captain in this piece, Michael Rennie. DOHHH!!!!!

@pracylopgonzer3176 3 года назад

Gory couldn’t swim

@randyjohnson6845 4 года назад

At this range you couldn't hit a British cruiser. 32.5 knots zigzagging, straight line and making smoke.not a chance if the cruiser was trying to survive

@flagwanker6346 4 года назад

10” lamp being answered by 20” carbon arc lamp. 20” carbon arc lamp carbon rods were a bitch to change!

@KJs581 3 года назад

Yeah, ours only ever had the 10". The older RN based ships had them; saw some on some of the older Kiwi ships.

@garfieldsmith332 3 года назад

Great little movie. Available on DVD. Two different endings were filmed for the American release.

@Marafox2 13 лет назад

Thanks for the upload! Where did you get the pictures from? Is there a DVD buyable? I would like to get the hole film, because I love the book of C.S. Forester really a lot. Thanks for a repy.

@gerry343 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uB0F5QOurXo.html

@statewidefilms 4 года назад

Ha har .... the guy on the right at 3.09 was my uncle Victor Maddern . He lives on in movies ..

@pungarehu 4 года назад

He was a fantastic actor. What was he like as your uncle?

@statewidefilms 4 года назад

@@pungarehu would you believe I never met him .. but my father spoke of him all the time .. we came to Australia and they all lived in England ..

@agwhitaker 6 лет назад

Open bridge or whatever - those Dido class cruisers were hansom ships.

@torinbrown8196 4 года назад

Yes, except ships are "she" not "he." She's beautiful not handsome.

@jonathanstrong4812 2 года назад

the Dido light anti-aircraft-cruiser HMS Cleopatra a veteran warship which who fought in WW2 against the Italian-Navy to force a desperate Malta-convoy to relieved Malta in March 1942 And the Cleopatra was the flagship of the desperate situation And the Cleopatra play in the A Sailor Of The King in a double roll one was the doomed HMS Amesbury and also the victorious HMS Stratford

@Auge2011 7 лет назад

rarely i seen in any war movie ships using torpedoes launchers

@georgebuller1914 9 лет назад

3-12. 'I say, let's stop engines altogether and just sit here waiting for it!' LOL

@j3lny425 4 года назад

So you noticed that as well. If you noticed the torpedo aiming the German ship was not moving either.

@S250385 11 лет назад

No, the movie was definitely B&W (I have it on DVD), but there are many colour posters of it.

@cttc4132 7 лет назад

Those must be special homing torpedoes. They fired them where their opponent is, as opposed to where the opponent is headed.

@sirderam1 6 лет назад

Ct Tc. I dont know how this torpedo system worked, but perhaps the sights were offset, by a calculated deflection angle, with respect to the tubes. If not you'd be sighting on empty ocean, which would be a bit pointless since you'd have no aiming mark.

@flybobbie1449 4 года назад

I had a customer who was in the navy, he said they would practise shooting guns at a sea target with offset, not to destroy target. But he said they often knew the offset and deliberately fired to hit the target. Reckoned he was one of the last to use cordite firing guns. A miss fire was an exciting time in the turret if you were nominated to unload the gun.

@barthoving2053 3 года назад

@@sirderam1 That's generally how sights work. Even rifle sights you adjust to range and at longer ranges wind.

@sirderam1 3 года назад

@@barthoving2053 Yes, thanks. I've a fair idea how sights work, I shot full bore target rifle for many years in my younger days. 😂😜

@KJs581 3 года назад

@@flybobbie1449 Yeah, misfires still suck. Worse with a "hot gun" if a HE round.

@TheRealist2022 3 месяца назад

FUN FACT. Jeffrey Hunter (the sailor who took the message) Became a Captain! (of USS Enterprise!)

@davidevans-eg1ut 7 лет назад

The original story was called Brown on Resolution and was written by C.S. Forrester. The book differed from the film.

@gerry343 3 года назад

The book is set in World War 1.

@johngreen3543 Год назад

Only on minor points. But in the main Brown does prevent Essen from getting repaired quickly. That is the essence of the story and that is preserved in the movie.

@bambam144 6 лет назад

Ah a T6 fight :D

@songking1144 6 лет назад

🎵🎵

@GrenvilleP710 2 месяца назад

Wasn't the alternate title Brown of Resolution. ?

@danieldravot341 3 месяца назад

I knew M, from His Majesty’s Secret Service, had been a naval man but I would’ve thought he’d have been an officer by this time . . .

@rongray6291 3 месяца назад

Canadian hero of course

@JohnSmith-zf1lq 7 лет назад

What's the vest the damage control men are wearing over their coveralls? Life preserver? Respirator? Storage?

@232nightowl 4 года назад

Floatation devices in case they go overboard

@dickvarga6908 6 лет назад

damned smooth seas, eh?

@willbest1547 10 лет назад

Good one, have not seen it.

@raspano1 4 года назад

Why is the Brit boat dead in the water???

@woods457 4 года назад

I suppose they wanted the ship in shot when the bag charges in the water exploded..

@alohathaxted 4 года назад

Its tea time.

@tazmod7272 4 года назад

I saw the whole movie. It was a gooder.

@ianholt8157 3 месяца назад

God bless the royal navy.

@mwbright 10 месяцев назад

If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Amesbury would be lost.

@seymourskinner2533 2 года назад

Is that sailor at the start Jeff hunter?

@JimMorrisonLoL 3 года назад

"Action Stations, please."

@melbea03 3 года назад

War is no excuse to forget our manners

@KJs581 3 года назад

Skippers are always polite/calm/quiet/collected........ when they aren't, that is scarier than the enemy. :p

@MrJoeRiley 11 лет назад

hey i've searched amazon, cant find the copy to buy! any chance of a link?

@marvinwatkins8889 7 лет назад

Oy? What's that Yank Brown doin' 'ere ( or is e a Canuck? Eh, what?) ? BTW: those flashes would appear much before the "booms."

@johnbower7452 4 года назад

I would have thought the 'booms' would get to you at the same time as the shells. Surely they travel as fast as sound due to the distance they have to travel.

@robwilde855 4 года назад

@@johnbower7452 Your point is interesting. At about two and a half thousand feet per second, big naval shells in WW2 travelled at more than twice the speed of sound. First the flash - almost instantaneous to the moment of firing - then the shell's arrival and explosion; and only after that, the sound. If you've been hit, you never hear the gun that's killed you.

@robwilde855 4 года назад

And shells from the largest guns would take over a minute to travel along the high arc needed at maximum range of well over twenty miles. Impressive - and frightening - stuff.

@rubenoteiza9261 2 года назад

Klatuu barada fire!

@SvenTviking 11 месяцев назад

“Amesbury”? For a Dido class cruiser?

@g2macs 3 года назад

Up the Andrew!

@mikjon67 4 года назад

Was the sailor who brought the message British or American???

@jrt818 4 года назад

A Canadian character.

@mikjon67 4 года назад

@@jrt818 Canadian??? Thank you!!!

@wileycoyotesr8623 11 месяцев назад

Sorry for sounding vulgar here but war is bloody heck.

@timgosling6189 4 месяца назад

Petty Officer Wheatley would survive the war and end up as ‘M’ in the Secret Intelligence Service sending James Bond off around the world 😳

@POBulkhead 6 лет назад

That was fun.

@graysonedwards8875 3 года назад

Notice every shot around the ship she isn't under power

@mickypful Год назад

Thank goodness for upper class officers, winning the war for us. If it was up to the jolly Jack's, we'll we would never won a battle, despite their ultimate sacrifices. Hip Hip Hooray for the gentry. 😅

@ieatoutoften872 11 месяцев назад

At 1:03 The ship's surgeon is sterilizing surgical instruments by boiling them in a tray of water.

@peterfalkner4436 Месяц назад

the mog wanny

@jeffpotipco736 6 месяцев назад

Have that you! I'm going below for black Japanese tea!!

@louisdemarco591 3 года назад

The Royal Navy struck her colors to John Paul Jones

@dovetonsturdee7033 3 года назад

Indeed, but Captain Pearson, despite being seriously outgunned, saved the convoy he was escorting.

@learemington1700 4 года назад

Didnt see anybody wearing pfd

@patlittle4642 4 года назад

some of the ships company, sounds Canadian?

@allybally0021 4 года назад

Thats the accent they have in Canada.

@olelarsen7688 3 года назад

This movie just forget the delay of sound, you know, it takes 1 sec. for the sound to travel 300 m. And what not else. Like the guns fire when a sign says fire. Maybe stupid people thinks it looks good, but I think it looks.......stupid.

@gregtaylor6146 2 года назад

Fabulous! though, imagine a remake, made today ...... suggestions on a postcard please??? (I'll start you off, captain will be blk!)

@GravesRWFiA 4 месяца назад

the yeoman lost me in the first 30 seconds- clearly an american by voice and an american salute. ship baring green 2o- i thought port was green but they're all looking out the starboard side

@georgebuller1914 9 лет назад

I hope that sailor at '09' is supposed to be Canadian? LOL

@S250385 9 лет назад

+George Buller He IS suposed to be Canadian :) (www.imdb.com/title/tt0046267/).

@ralebeau 9 лет назад

+George Buller As I recall, he was the illegitimate (and unknown) son of Michael Rennie whose mother had taken him to Canada. But it's been a long time since I saw the film.

@factnotfictionpeople1313 9 лет назад

+S250385 Apologies for the reply. Yes, I see what you mean, thanks. :-)

@Bruce-1956 8 лет назад

He gets his own ship eventually , USS Enterprise :).

@calanon534 6 лет назад

Quite the upgrade, too.

@pgroove163 7 лет назад

i dig the Brits...especially this era....hello from Brooklyn...WTF happened to England anyway ??

@pauldg837 7 лет назад

pgroove163 Changed a lot since those days. Probably the same can be said of so many other countries, that we used to recognize. Regards from London.

@ОлегЖурба-э2у 7 лет назад

Paul DG

@JohnSmith-zv8km 6 лет назад

we are still here waiting for WW3 so you guys can rescue us again.

@septiccalling8341 6 лет назад

Bloody good question old boy!

@dudleybarber7199 5 лет назад

We're still here mate 🇬🇧

@soubhagyabagui9747 3 года назад

The British colony Battleship launch torcato

@paulkirkpatrick6371 3 года назад

Stiff upper lip from British commander aboard destroyer per usual before getting sunk all the usual English actors on board /ie Bernard Lee etc from belfast northern ireland

@robertmorris7641 3 года назад

There was nothing realistic about that clip.

@Loosehead 4 года назад

Jeffrey Hunter's American accent, taking the memo, did seem a little jarring.

@S250385 4 года назад

His character is Canadian in the movie.

@twotone3070 4 года назад

@@S250385 They needed some more lines with "oot" in to reinforce the characterisation. :)

@anthonykoller4459 4 месяца назад

The good old days when the captain was the master of his ship, now with the power of satellite communications he is under the watch of Whitehall 24hrs and is now just a political puppet for the civil service

@kueagle1 4 года назад

They don't strike their colors unless they come across the US Navy. That occurred in the Revolution and the war of 1812

@tincoffin 4 года назад

Sir - they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging . Pass the port

@colindebourg9012 4 месяца назад

You mean like when the 5th rate frigate Shannon knocked Hell out of the larger Chespeake and captured her as she tried to run away back into port.

@raymondmyers6899 4 года назад

No volume at all to speak of. Get a sound engineer!

@saintparis8204 4 года назад

Get better speakers or headphones. Sounds fine

@gabrielm8263 3 года назад

Uwaga platforma obywatelska i uchocy z polskiego sejmu na kursie do Niemiec

@IvesMarcelin Месяц назад

Hô fan de chichoune la Guerre quelle merde ..... ..

@ptsmith4660 3 года назад

wow ... this really sucks

@andrewnicholson4811 4 месяца назад

even on a british ship ... the hero has to be american ...ffs !!!!!

@volkerkalhoefer3973 3 месяца назад

It's to sell it on the American market 😂Eddie Izzard made a point of this once

@tomhanna8508 4 года назад

I love the authenticity of the lookout using his eyes and then confirming with binoculars. Too often you see binoculars glued to the observer’s eyes which is exhausting and inefficient.

@benwilson6145 3 года назад

Well said, obviously you have kept a lookout at sea.

@KJs581 3 года назад

Part of the drill is a policy broadcast. In the policy broadcast is "lookout routine xxxxxx"; where they insert "standard" or "shadowers". The two routines take into account whether the lookouts will be there for days (not expecting much/less tiring) or "contact expected" (more active). I could rattle off a policy broadcast, but few would be interested, and ship specific; and most wouldn't be interested/raise more questions than it answers (acronyms/abbreviations), but "lookout routine" used to be the last line of a very long policy broadcast.

@just-dl 3 года назад

@@KJs581 I for one would be fascinated, and love to hear about it!

@ВладимирГригорьев-ы5ъ Год назад

В детстве я не понимал, для чего бинокль, мне было все видно и без него на любом расстоянии

@michaelmixon2479 4 года назад

I love the older movies! Especially in black and white!

@pieterweatherall2826 4 года назад

Surprising what a few years of movie making can do!

@tobytaylor2154 3 года назад

Theirs is the glory is a good watch, filmed just after the war on the ground it was fought over, starring the men who were there. Not good acting obviously, but a interesting watch about arnhem.

@mikebrown1926 3 года назад

This is based on "Brown on Resolution" by C. S. Forester, which is an excellent book to read. Also if you have seen the clips from "Greyhound" with Tom Hanks, that film is also based on a C. S. Forester novel, "The Good Shepherd'. In fact, if you like great sea stories, I recommend that you read everything that Forester wrote.

@edl617 10 месяцев назад

I read almost everything written by C.S. Forester. Including The one the movie Greyhound was based on, which I found the movie lacking

@DragoonEnNoir 5 лет назад

HMS Amesbury is 'played' by the Dido-class light cruiser HMS Cleopatra

@jacktattis 11 месяцев назад

The DIDO class had a very busy war 33% were lost.

@Crackdennumber1 8 лет назад

The 3rd Marine [0:47] is my dad Ron Crabb...

@brentmiller7714 6 лет назад

God bless him and you

@Exciteduser 4 месяца назад

This reminds me of "The Cruel Sea," made about the same time. Excellent film.

@paulmoffat9306 4 года назад

Shows the craftsmanship of movie makers in the days before CGI became prevalent. Today's Academy Award for 'Special Effects' should be discarded, as it has become 'Animation' instead, and no longer has relevance.

@lisabrooks8092 7 лет назад

Jeffrey Hunter is the absolute bomb! One British sailor holding off an entire German cruiser. Of course, that feat was accomplished by the original Captain Kirk!

@deborahparker-mcgee8600 5 лет назад

Lisa Brooks His name was Captain Pike on the original STAR TREK.

@deborahparker-mcgee8600 5 лет назад

His character’s name on STAR TREK was Captain Pike.

@sirsydneycamm1883 4 месяца назад

There are a few Kirks to choose. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Goodrich_Kirk@@deborahparker-mcgee8600

@teresaponziani7983 5 лет назад

God bless the greatest generation!!!!!

@photodom2000 4 года назад

Spotted Jeffrey straight away. What was a Yank doing in the Royal Navy? Or was he Canadian? I used to love watching these films on a Sunday afternoon when I were a lad.

@1chish 4 года назад

He played the role of "Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown"

@Fjobiden 4 года назад

Those movies are still better than anything they can come up with today

@rb1179 4 года назад

What was HITLER'S nephew doing in the US Navy during WW2?

@HootOwl513 4 года назад

@@rb1179 He was a Corpsman.

@photodom2000 4 года назад

@@rb1179 You'll need to explain that one?

@simul8guy75 3 года назад

The ship is supposed too be making 10 knots but is clearly dead in the water as the German shells are finding the range... Gotta love old movies...

@andrewstackpool4911 3 года назад

AMESBURY's movements are the major weaknesses of the footage. And noting the CO's comments I think Essen is meant to be a heavy cruiser which outranges Amesbury. Of well, never let the facts get in the way of a good dit, but perhaps they could have looked at Sink The Bismarck for authenticity. Oh and 10 knots? At Action Stations. Not in any war canoe in which I served.

@andywhysall6744 10 месяцев назад

Needs Noel Coward on the bridge. He'd get the steam up.

@JohnSmith-zv8km 6 лет назад

would have been believable if the ship was actually moving

@ieatoutoften872 11 месяцев назад

This scene features a Dido class destroyer (small ship, with relatively short range gns) attacking a German heavy cruiser (a medium sized ship, with longer range gns). About three times, various British sailors mention [His Majesty's Ship] Cambridge (fictitious as to being a W.W.2 era heavy cruiser), and an even match for the German ship), hoping it would join this battle. This fictitious (imagined) scene on fictional destroyer H.M.S. Amesbury has several parallels (honorary references) to The Battle of the River Plate [or rather the estuary of said river; or more so the southwest Atlantic Ocean] (December 1939). The outcome of that December 1939 battle was probably on the front page of every newspaper in the U.K., and New Zealand, and many other places by the time the month of January 1940 passed. There were newsreel films shown at movie theaters of those three ships' triumphant return to respective home ports. And the respective crews were filmed marching in parade formation in front of ecstatic, welcoming civilians. The ships in the December 1939 battle were heavy cruiser H.M.S. Exeter, destroyer H.M.S. Achilles (home port New Zealand), destroyer H.M.S. Ajax, and the German "pocket battleship" (super heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee. In that battle, enemy shrapnel cut a rope holding H.M.S. Achilles' battle ensign (flag). Great grandparents in New Zealand are still talking about the news story about how a replacement flag was raised in the midst of the battle. It was like the U.S.A.'s national anthem: "Oh say can you see that our flag was still there?" That emotional moment is also referenced in this short video when the master chief is showing and teaching the enlisted men why a rolled up flag is made ready, and why there are two extra ropes ready to hoist it up.

@ericadams3428 11 месяцев назад

The Dido class light cruiser HMS Cleopatra (10 x 5.25" played both Amesbury and Stratford. HMS Glasgow was also in the film and the Essen was played by the minelayer HMS Manxman.

@gerarddelmonte8776 11 месяцев назад

Ajax and Achilles were light cruisers, not destroyers.

@ieatoutoften872 11 месяцев назад

@@gerarddelmonte8776 I sincerely thank you for correcting my mistakes because my ambition is to be accurate, and I realize you are correct.

@Tourist1967 11 месяцев назад

@@ieatoutoften872 New Zealand ships are styled HMNZS.

@ieatoutoften872 11 месяцев назад

@@Tourist1967 There was some tricky history regarding the New Zealand Navy. In 1939, the New Zealand Navy was a subset of the Royal Navy. From 1921 to 1 October 1941 the force was known as the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. On 1 October 1941, the New Zealand Navy was established independent of the Royal Navy. And then, also on 1 October 1941, HMS Achilles was commissioned (recommissioned / styled) HMNZ Achilles. In 1948, it was sold to India.

@eeagleeric 8 лет назад

open bridges! they were tougher then...

@jonsouth1545 7 лет назад

still use them today all warships have both an enclosed and an open bridge and its the personal preference of the CO which one to use when I was in (only left a few years ago) we always used the open bridge as although it was bloody freezing you got a better view and was generally less cramped

@KJs581 3 года назад

The open bridges (on MFU's in any case) they have now are more of a flying bridge and not much up there, (if at all) all our ships have enclosed bridges. The skippers routinely use the bridge wings if they want to "get out in the breeze; hence why a "CO's Chair" both inside and out. Any flying bridge we have now has nowhere near the access old open bridges did - at least in my Navy (RAN); However; (as said below by Jon S) smaller ships (patrol boats/minehunter etc) often have everything duplicated; so in that sense, they DO have an "open bridge". They don't have the complex "ops room" larger fleet units have; so the open bridge is a good alternative for awareness. But is different now than above. CO's on Frigate size and above NEVER "fight the war" from the bridge now, they fight it from the ops room, along with the PWO (warfare officer) The bridge during action is run by the Officer of the watch, and he virtually "just checks ship is clear of stuff" - the full picture (radar/combat awareness) is in Ops. The open bridges of the past were "open" and EVERYTHING the CO needed could be accessed from there; but they had a "sheltered section" which was like a "shelf" that ran around the outside of the bridge. Under there was usually a chart table, a radar display, clearview screens, and (on really old ships) a side room for primitive sonar, before sonar grew and got it's own control room. By the time I came along, our Darings had enclosed bridges (got updated). But we went over to Duchess (older Daring we were loaned after losing Voyager) and had a look at her open bridge. They had an old JUA valve radar display. While under cover; that would be a nightmare to maintain with the spray and humidity. JUA's where horrible to maintain in an Airconned Ops room!!!!!!!

@TorontoJediMaster 4 года назад

Are the wearing berets, who are seen 0:46 going into a gun turret Royal Marines?

@andrewstackpool4911 3 года назад

Yes, Marines were part of the gun crews

@roybennett6330 3 года назад

@@andrewstackpool4911 I'm told generally X turret.mmm and to keep the silly sailors on their toes...bootneck, bootneck

@andrewstackpool4911 3 года назад

@@roybennett6330 Nah, to keep em busy lest they get into mischief. Incidentally, the Bofors used before Essen used her main armament (overkill?) was a 40/60, a radar-controlled version that was not built at the time of the story.

@KJs581 3 года назад

@@andrewstackpool4911 Probably a STAAG mount. Hardest radar EVER to maintain. Couldn't handle the vibration/weather; most of ours were removed and reverted to standard bofors. Essentially CIWS idea before it's time.

@KJs581 3 года назад

During action, it is not unusual for every branch/type of crew to man "lower quarters." Needed a lot of hands to get rounds from Mag/shellroom up to gunbay, and thence to breech/loaded on the older mounts. (16 sailors in each 4.5 mount on a Daring/DE). On these ships; marines not needed for their normal job during main armament engagement, so............................ On a current Anzac class FFH (for example) they cruised (defence) with 19 rounds in the drum, and could fire with the gunbay unmanned (we have one guy in there in case of problems, Kiwi's didn't). But go to action, have to man the mags (mixed mags) so that can get shells from mag racks, up hoist into drum as the FCO fires them. So they have a weapons sailor in each one as the expert (identify ammo/ensure proper handling), and "anyone else" (usually cooks) as the "spare hand." Makes sense. Unless "action messing" cooks won't be cooking much at action.