The Strange Battleship Handed Over As a Present 

This thing is loaded with footage errors. Also she was NOT scrapped in 1957. She was scrapped at the Inverkeithing yard commencing on May 18, 1949. If you're going to produce these things get your footage and facts right.

Dark Seas! PLEASE stop saying "THE" HMS whatever! HMS stands for His (or Her) Majesty's Ship so what you are saying is "The His Majesty's Ship", which is plainly WRONG!!! OK, it works with American ships, e.g, The United States' Ship Texas, but it does NOT work with Royal Navy ships. So stop it! Thank you. That is all. 😜

Yup, the Russians often ruined ships gifted during WW2. The same thing happened to the old US cruiser Milwaukee. they used it, broke it and returned it to the US in a condition only described as a severly damaged pig sty.

Just like a teenager getting a car for free at 16, they don't care for it because they didn't have to work for it!

Typical Russians they don't know what they're doing use something break it ruin it and then return it which is shocking but then it's completely useless so bad that they had a scrap the ship

We shouldn't have given them anything. No gratitude from them to this day.

Please don't mis-pronounce warspites name. There was never a greater battlship and she at least deserves her name being pronounced correctly. There was no greater crime than the british government not turning her into the UK's only museum battleship. It was a grave crime :(

It bothers me hearing "War-spit" instead of "War-spite"... Spite, as in you are going to do something in Spite of what others want. Also yeah, Russia ruining a ship isn't new, but at the same time the British did similar things with their ships such as every Tribal class destroyer that they had which survived ww2, they were in such poor condition that they were only good for scrap, where the 5 Canadian Tribals and 3 Australian Tribals ended the war in quite a bit better condition, even taking into account combat damage and such. HMCS Haida, the last surviving Tribal class destroyer is a museum ship in Hamilton Ontario, she saw plenty of action during the war and Korean War, but was never left in such terrible shape, her crew kept her in the best shape possible, and she performed extremely well.

😂 War Spit?!😅 It's War Spite! (Long i )

Despite the video, HMS Nelson also missed Jutland. Warspite is pronounced 'War-spite' not 'Warspit'. When attacked on arctic convoy escort duty by U-711, Royal Sovereign/Arkangel was not saved by torpedo nets. Nets are not deployed while a ship is underway. If you read the wiki page again you will see the nets were used later when she had arrived in port at Kola, successfully defeating subsequent submarine attacks. When she ran aground, in 1947, she did not suffer 'significant damage'. In fact the Soviets did virtually no maintenance at all but without repair she was fit to sail back to the UK a year later. She arrived at the scrapyard in May 1949, not 1957. The elevation gear from her main guns was stored and used at the Jodrell bank site in 1955. So good wikipedia summary, and some nice shots mostly of similar aged battleships.

I'm confused what destroyer?!

HMS Royal Sovereign, nicknamed 'The Tiddly Quid; by her ships crew.

No wonder he was confused, titling a video about a Battleship a Destroyer. He doesn’t know the difference between SPIT and SPITE either. It makes his videos hard to take seriously. For those who love history, it matters.

Another great subject spoilt with shoddy dialogue and basic inaccuracy. Did the author do even basic research on the subject?

We built it, we used it, later we sold it then we sank it...

I´m always suprised at how little actual research this chanel does. Most of the facts presented in this video are completely wrong ( Roay Sovereign missed the battle of jutland because of a technical defect and not because of an inexperienced crew and a lot more nonsense like that) and the pictures don´t even show the right ship at a lot of points. If you want real quality naval history stop watching this chanel and watch a proper naval history chanel like drachinifel.

My dad’s ship USS Evansville was handed over to the USSR in Alaska in 1945. It served in several Asian navies before scrapping. Not bad for Tacoma class patrol frigate built in rush using older technology for asw.

All dramatic and inaccurate as usual.

It's pronounced Ra-mill-ees Not Ra-Mileez...

WARSPITE it sounds like WAR-SP-IGHT like the word Fight. Not SPIT like what you do with saliva from your mouth, Spite is more of an action/feeling, its in the famous saying "bite your nose off to spite your face". WARSPITE is sych a great name for a ship WAR-SPIT is definitely not. I know your American and pronouncing some words isn't your strong point, you all tend to say exactly how its written, but some letters do have more than one way to say them which can affect how a word is pronounced.

Leave it to the orcs to tear up a battleship......

At the end of ww1, Australia had the greatest navy and control of the Turkish empire, bad luck for the planet we gave it to the empire. How different the world would be as part of the Aussie ethos? Alas our population was to small to run an empire. We sunk our fleet and handed the Turkish empire to the British. In ww2 our land was governed by Mac Arthur, in ww1 America was under Australian command. Lawrence of Arabia was also under Australian command. Small population are we yet the Chinese are cow towing in between their threats. Arming against the Russians and Chinese. Possibly against Trump's insurrectionist.

All this channel does is put out bad information.

Please make a video about the USS Princeton (CG-59) mine strike of February 18, 1991 during Desert Storm. Thank you.

D O U S E THE ROCK-TECHNO MUZAK = UNLISTENABLE with your oversped, murky speaking pace. Outta heah, ya HEAH ...

Commentator, it's HMS Warspite not spit. Spite rhymes with right. Also it's not "the HMS". HMS is His Majesty's Ship, so what you're saying is "the His Majesty's Ship". Sounds stupid, doesn't it?

They were loaned Liberty Ship’s, when returned the lubrication systems had been pumped with sea water ruining the vessels. Ships were abandoned in Yokosuka navy yard....That’s gratitude for you.

Goddam it it’s spite not spit

The famous destroyer, Royal Sovereign (You would think this would be a video on Hibiki or Yukikaze)

my grandad was a naval parachutist,, telegraphist. calling in gunfire form ramillies and friends on d day

Which old enemy?

5:35 Invented 14 years ago, now being installed on battle ships! 😳😟

2:00 Jellico was a miserable captain who dissed Picard every chance he got.

Incredible speed of 23 knot? Massive ship of 30 000 tons ish? Massive Range of 8000 Nautical Miles? Considering the norm of battleships was 21-23 knot and the faster of the time period pushed 25-26.5 knots, 23 knot is not that impressive, and 30 000 tons was the norm too 8000 Nautical miles are very very limited when you compare the USN who had the New york class at 7000(when they were coal burner), the Nevada at 8000 and the Pennsylvania at 19 000; The R class was again pretty normal and that if its you even bothered to use NAUTICAL miles instead of normal miles for your figures. Too much embelishment is not inviting at all

Warspite is pronounced 'War-spite' not 'Warspit'.

The surrender of the Italian Navy meant that there were several battleships that were divided up between the Allies - Russia was owed one of these - as it was difficult to get the Italian ship prepared and crewed ( It was also in the Med and the Black Sea was ruled out as it would have to get past occupied Greece). After much negotiation Royal Sovereign was substituted - The R class battleships were already considered obsolete and the took too many men to crew so had been put in reserve. - An old, soon to be scrapped WW1 Dreadnaught was hardly a gift and I guess the Russians found little real use for her in Northern waters - to be fair the Italian ship without spares and repairs would have been little different.

so what your saying is they gave the russians a ship that did nothing of note

This was so dumb. no suport shoud have been given.

The gifted battleship was 30 years old ! She was worn out . Two years after this the whole lot were scrapped . When she was returned it didn't matter what condition she came back in..scrap is scrap .

The destroyer royal sovereign sailed with the battleship warspit 😂

German battle cruiser HMS. Molke? It joined the Royal Navy? Who knew?😂

Thank you that was interesting.

Dude, you can't use the phrase "handle substantial loads" so casually... 😂

radio telescope, cool fact.

HMS Royal Sovereign

Near as I figure Russia still owes us , just saying.... Lend-lease my arse ! 🇺🇲👍

Jodrell bank, my local radio telescope, if it is possible to hsve one!!

In the late 60's early 70's my dad served on an Icebreaker that had been Lend Leased and then returned by the USSR.

its warspite... not war spit

That ringing noise half way through is annoying AF

Thank you for sharing 🙏🎅🤶❄️❄️🎄

Battleship???? That was a " bad old ship"

Royal Sovereign was loaned to the Soviet Union as they did not have a battleship. It wa a bad idea as the Soviets had no clue on operating such a ship and it stayed rotting in dock and used as a toilet until returned in 1949. She had to be fumigated to prevent disease before she was sent to be scrapped.

Make a video on USS Diablo

Good One.

They

You call royal sovereign a battleship . But the video is about a destroyer

First.

Narrator is annoying, talking fast a d sucking in air at the same time. Slow down?

Is it me or was the Grand Fleet a paper tiger... only engage of favorable odds/invasion of England.... such courage!! Lol