Thanks for watching everyone! Sorry if my voice sounds a little more rough than usual. I'm dealing with a sore throat of some sort, I think it ended up okay though. Let me know what other ships you want to see!
Thank you guys! I did find out what was wrong. I had been taking a nasal spray to help with my allergies, and found out its side effect is a dry/sore throat so I promptly stopped that!
Funny thing is SMS Viper of the Wespe class survived as a crane ship conversion until at least 1967. Some even suspect she's still around as an unrecognized hulk or work platform somewhere
Honestly this was a very good video start to finish. You talked about ships that i had never even heard of before (doing more digging on the first two because well Knowledge). Can't wait to see more! However if you ever decide to do a video like this on American ships. I have to ask you to incorporate the Sub Class of the Fletchers. It consisted of three ships, USS Halford (DD-480), USS Pringle (DD-477), and the USS Stevens (DD-479). There was 6 of these ships planned, but only thoe three were completed. These ships had the 3rd 5in gun removed as well as one of their torpedo tubes, and in their place a catapult was fitted in thier spot. Its a very weird design choice, and worth talking about.
What strikes me is that when discussing the German navy of 2nd Empire, people seem to forget that the coastal German states had plenty of maritime history and experience as merchant sailors, that Germany entered the industrial age together with the old naval powers having certain advantages over them and that all navies were transitioning in the second half of the nineteenth century. That’s why in relatively short time the German Imperial Navy grew into a formidable force culminating in the Hochseeflotte of WW1.
Ah, SMS Hessen, defiantly one of the lesser known vessels of the Kaiserliche Marine, and even more so during her service with the Kreigsmarine. Hessen is probably most known for her wacky rebuild as a radio-controlled target ship, being the only vessel that Tirpitz ever fired upon, even if she was only a target ship, and being one of the very few german surface warships to survive WWII, even if she still was only a disarmed target ship. Cool Vid!
Thanks for covering lesser known German vessels from the late 19th century. An excellent presentation as usual. Perhaps you could do a video on Japanese warships during the same era.
I enjoyed your presentation. I have always had a fondness for the panzerships of the German navy. I'd like for you to do one on the Mississippi class ships that were sold to the Greeks.
If you want to make a video on a truely unique and new area of sea warfare you should look into the naval warfare in the wadden see in the wars between german states and Denmark for Schleswig-Holstein. It featured some unique vessels and interesting battles, as larger ships couldnt operate in the area, due to the tides rowboats with cannons where used in the shallow areas. That war featured some of themost modern ships at that time on the danish side and some true scrap in the various german navies (some of the best prussian ships couldnt leave port, as they would just sink, if they left the harbour).
Hessen was very interesting. Remote controlled or drone ships are older than one might expect. I saw an early 20th century model at Windermere last week. Very interesting doco. Honey and lemon will sooth your throat. Get well soon ship mate 👍🏽
Congratulation and thanks for this very good and interisting video. The three "Panzerschiffe" were very famous, the "Wespe-Class" was a interisting, but failed experiment and the "Hessen" was """only""" a Pre-Dreadnought like many others. But a longlife one. And the modification to a RC-Targetship made "Hessen" together with the other RC-Targetship, the even older Pre-Dreadnought "Zähringen", very unique. Here is a old german movie: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zYA-qBpNzWI.htmlsi=1zP6VxLsD2Jpza1i From 1:07:35 you can see "Hessen" or "Zähringen" together with the Controllship and the technical details. It seems that the German sailors were very good at inventing nicknames. They came up with two for the "Hessen". Another pre-dreadnought, the "Preussen", was scrapped in 1931. However, a 63-meter-long section in the middle was still used as a target for mines and torpedos. The nickname of this remaining section was SMS Vierkant (SMS Square).
They’re on the list! My current problem is the fact I don’t have the sources I need to do the video properly. Although I do have a list of books to purchase in the future when I have the money to do so.
