@dbo1309 it's might be a difference cus the ship might get invaded by either somali or moso pirates and I would too think its a hijacked with a flag that got picked by rocky priates
@@hategoes2way345 That's the original USS Kidd, fletcher class. There is a guided missile destroyer USS Kidd that is active duty. When Navy ships are retired the name is passed to a new ship, the pirate flag tradition was passed too.
I need to correct something in this video. ALL Navy ships crossing the equator fly the Jolly Roger during Shellback Ceremonies. This is a long-standing Navy tradition that I have been through when the USS O'Bannon (DD-987) crossed the Equator in 1999. The USS Kidd is the only Navy ship allowed to fly the Jolly Roger in US territorial waters, including when pulling into or out of US ports.
It's because George Washington signed a parton to ALL Pirates if they fight for the Colonies to take out the Royal Navy Fleet. They keep the booty but keep the ship's that they attack in tack so that we could rebuild them to our standards. Pirate's helped create the United States Navy. The Queen Anne's Revenge was one of those ship's. Look up were the Queen Anne's Revenge Remains were found.
The Jolly Roger, a symbol historically linked with pirates, is often used in the context of "Crossing the Line" ceremonies, which are traditional naval rituals that commemorate a ship's crossing of the equator for the first time. During these ceremonies, sailors who are crossing the equator for the first time are often initiated into the "Order of the Shellback" by more experienced sailors.
@@bodhiswayze1892 Did you ever see the movie Animal House? Sort of imagine the crazy behavior with a lot of garbage and without the alcohol and a lot of ass paddling. You might look on here I imagine there are some videos.
In my 66th year and I discovered the US flies a flag called a Union Jack, or Jack of the United States, being a flag showing all 50 stars, without the stripes. I only ever knew the Union Jack as being the British flag, flown on all Royal Navy ships. Often confused with the British, Union flag, which most people wrongly identify as the Union Jack. As a fairly well educated Englishman, I never knew there was more than one naval Union Jack.
The Union Jack or Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom. The Union Flag was also used as the official flag of several British colonies and dominions before they adopted their own national flags. The flag continues to have official status in Canada, by parliamentary resolution, where it is known as the Royal Union Flag.
Thanks for clarifying my misunderstanding. I've learned something today, and I appreciate that. I love learning new facts about our great country and it's allies 🎉. Thank you 💯🇺🇲♥️🇺🇸
As a native Louisiana resident and someone who is in and out of Baton Rouge and has been on the kidd multiple times. This is very based and I didn’t know abt this story. I’m just glad she’s finally being restored.
@@sagenbabin8786 Nevertheless, I am well within my right to reject the redefinition of words. Make grammar syntax great once again. Have a nice weekend
To be fair, with the amount of pirated videos, games, and e-books that go around, you could make a solid case for the US Navy being the largest pirate fleet in the world
Rear Admiral Kidd was onboard of the USS Arizona and refused to leave her to continue giving orders on ground. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor.
Toured the USS Kidd years ago in southern Louisiana. Beautiful ship. It ran exercises with the submarine my great grandfather served on. He told me a story of a particular exercise where the USS Sea Devil would evade replica depth charges. He said they would listen to the charges bounce off of the top of the submarine and when the radio man from the Kidd would ask if any hit the Sea Devil would tell them it was a clean miss. Rest in peace Paw Son.
This is why I respect the Armed Forces. They always take care of their own... even if they're gone. Rest in Peace Rear Admrial Issac Kidd... gone but never forgotten
Every Navy ship has a skull and crossbones on board. And they fly it while crossing the equator during shellback initiation. Only the USS Kid Battle Flag is skull and crossbones and can fly anytime.
@@elijahjames8837 the flags are technically a intention thing, black meaning surrender or else and red meaning we give no quarter. doubt they carry a red one tho
Well obviously one must display proper humility and obeisance when passing through King Neptunes Court. Only thing I’ll say on the matter is that it is unlike anything I had ever done.
I crossed the equator for the first time in April 1987. But I was flying on a commercial jet. No ceremony, lol, but I do like the Navy tradition described by many here. Who doesn’t have an historical affinity for the Jolly Roger 🏴☠️ flag? Everybody loves the romanticized image of the Pirates of the Caribbean of old.
The Royal Navy still has a tradition of its submarines flying the Jolly Roger, from the days of WWI where subs were seen as "ungentlemanly", so their crews were referred to as pirates. HMS Conqueror flew the flag when returning home after becomin the only nuclear sub to sink an enemy ship.
Plot twist - pirates hijacked the ship but were mistaken to be US seals , then ofcourse because of all the benefits from the government pirates chose to stay silent , and the flag became tradition .😂
The only destroyer with an ice cream maker on board, ice cream supplies were not included as they weren’t supposed to have the machine in the first place. It was common for the crew to raid battleships and carries for what they needed.
Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd was commander of Battleship Division One. His flagship was the USS Arizona (BB-39). 7 December 1941, when the Japanese began their attack, the call to Battlestations was given. The Arizona's skipper, Captain Van Valkenburgh, and Admiral Kidd rushed to the ship's bridge. They were last seen there, trying to direct the Arizona's defense. When an armor-piercing bomb penetrated the deck near #2 turret, it set off a daisy-chain explosion in the forward magazines. Creating a massive explosion, so powerful it put out the fires on the USS Vestal moored alongside by sucking away all the oxygen, and even violently threw about the Japanese planes flying 10,000 feet overhead. The fires on the Arizona burned for two days and it required another two days for the metal to cool enough to be worked on. Both the bodies of Captain Van Valkenburgh and Admiral Kidd were never found. All that was found of them were their Annapolis class rings, melted and fuzed into the ship's structure. When salvage crews came on board, they found the deck of the Arizona strewn with spent shell casings, and her 5" anti-aircraft guns still trained skyward. Proof that she went down fighting.
Correct. In addition, Admiral Kidd was both the first American flag officer to ever die in battle against a foreign enemy and the first American flag officer to die in battle during World War II.
I’m in Baton Rouge where the USS Kidd DD261, is on display. It’s away on overhaul in Texas which won’t be completed till about mid 2025. Years ago I was stationed on a training ship practically identical to the Kidd. BTW….. during the ritual Shellback initiations many USN Ships fly the Jolly Roger, skull & cross bones as part of the celebration.
Also, USS Kidd is famous for being that ship on Transformers 2 that equips a Highly advanced Railgun that defeats Devastator that was supposed to destroy the top part of pyramid and reveal the secret machine inside of it.
That’s part of universal submarine code. Submarines returning from a successful patrol will fly the Jolly Roger (US subs do it too). Submarines that sank all enemy ships they encountered will also tie a broom to the periscope when they return to port to signal “clean sweep”.
Kidd wasn't a pirate. He was a privateer with official letters of marque by His Majesty's Government. Normally the huge haul from the Quedagh Merchant should have kept everybody happy, but it was politically inconvenient so the powers that were sold him downriver and he got to do the hemp fandango.
Been to the USS Kidd many times. Even slept onboard. It WAS in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the Mississippi River. Has been moved to dry dock for some repairs and a repaint.
I've been on it 3 times and went overnight once. Was a pretty cool experience! I've also been to the USS Razorback, USS Alabama, USS Drum, and CSS Cairo, a civil war iron clad in Mississippi
The repair crew found where it was being flooded more than they realized while it was still by the bridge (that everyone hates getting stuck atop during work traffic)
At first I was thinking Devgru Blue Squadron but then they said USS Kidd and I was like “Hey that ship was in the second transformers movie” and they mentioned the pirate too I was like “Yo James Kidd in AC4. Black flag was a great game.” Cool history all around
The only time they don't back up their military is when they're veterans after coming back from war blown up missing limbs and having major PTSD and what not. They don't back those guys...
Only the navy knows it as the Union Jack, to all other Americans it's The Jack of the United States. Most people know the Union Jack as the British one.
Even more confusing is that the British, Union Jack is only flown on Royal Navy ships. The flag everyone calls the Union Jack, is correctly called the Union Flag, not the Union Jack.
US Navy Ships, subs and planes at sea only need ice cream and coffee. 😊 On all my time at sea on 5 different subs the only constant was the ice cream machine ran 24/7 and the coffee urns stayed full and fresh.
And I took 2 weeks in prison for showing the scull and bones while playing "Once upon a time ...." on a German Mine Hunter Boat in 1986 ... This is not fair ... lol
Tbf ice cream was so loved that when one of our aircraft carriers was sinking (I forgot which one), the crew raided the freezer to grab the ice cream before hopping into the life rafts. They had priorities.....I approve.
In case of conflict at sea, displaying that flag gives any European Navy the legal right to sink that ship. Flags at sea are a serious matter and admit little or no frivolity. And this, clearly, is it.
😂🤣 I did catv and put a jolly Roger sticker on my ladder and the CEOs freaked out when they seen it 😳 thought it was some kinda code and shit🤣😂🤣😂 hats off to them 😉
Some countries fly a smaller version of their flag or the canton on its own. I think Union is self explanatory, but I argue United should have been used instead to avoid some confusion
We should fly the "Captain America Flag" :D union jack is great too lol. Although the most fantastic thing would be if we flew something from the colonial era.
Every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships. WWII ice cream barge, able to create 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes to support morale- a chilling display of soft power. Ha!
Sailing under False Colors - As they aren't pirates. "parlance false colors means flying the national flag of some other nation thereby misidentifying your true nationality. The ruse de guerre of flying the national flag of the enemy or of a neutral is as old as the practice of naval-warfare itself." Not like pirates haven't done the same thing, so... fair is fair.
A few clarifications the video didn't make. The USS Kidd that was commissioned in 1943 was DD-661. A WWII Fletcher Class Destroyer. She was decommissioned in the 1960s and is now a museum ship in Louisiana. The current USS Kidd DDG-100 an Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer was commissioned in 2007 and yes, she still flies the Jolly Roger.
Im a military veteran Bull crap it's to intimidate actual piracy we don't put flags on ships because of a person do you know how many heroes are military veteran S
