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CentralCrossing
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Welcome to my channel.
I give history lessons based off my research over various ships, people, tanks, and buildings. Enjoy the videos.
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*Information is also constantly changing do to being works in progress. Old videos might be subject to corrections in newer videos.
-The channel was originally known as Yamato30, but that has been archived.
I give history lessons based off my research over various ships, people, tanks, and buildings. Enjoy the videos.
* This channel is not sponsored in any way.
* Opinions on the topic at hand do not reflect the research of Crosser. Any misleading information, political comments, or inappropriate statements are subject to being reported and deleted. You have been warned.
*Information is also constantly changing do to being works in progress. Old videos might be subject to corrections in newer videos.
-The channel was originally known as Yamato30, but that has been archived.
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Shōkakū vs Yorktown: Getting to Midway
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Shōkakū vs Yorktown: Getting to Midway
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they should raise it
It took a hell of a lot of firepower to bring to Bismarck down good Lord she was hit with everything she definitely was not going down without a fight
Heya, awesome video. Its me bowie btw
Heya, awesome vid, miss you budd
@@Bowie525 thanks, it has been awhile.
Quirky behavior of giant liners; Lusitania would dig her nose in, Imperator had her list. Information packed video, thanks for posting!
Albert Ballin supposedly remarked on the Imperator that "It was a first class hotel and a third class ship "!
Fascinating stuff.
Were the C Deck lifeboats a late addition to the design in the aftermath of the Titanic?
@@timothyhh Partially. When looking at the design concepts of Imperator, the C-deck recess was not included. The number of lifeboats changed from image to image with all being located on the boat deck. Hamburg America was looking into options regarding lifeboats before the Titanic's loss just because the ship's capacity was above 5,000. The recess was decided on after the Titanic's loss as a means of dispersing a number that was not only able to match, but surpass the necessary number needed.
Very nice, can't believe, I'm first, and early, so far that I know. I hope your Summer is doing great. Take care, and all the best.
@@christophersnyder1532 First or not, I know to look for what you add in every video. I'm doing great, how about yourself? Thank you.
@centralcrossing4732 I am doing well, too. And I hope your Fourth Of July will be spectacular, as Canada Day was for myself, here. Take care, and all the best.
Nice job of explaining!
They should have taken the 15 inch guns off the R class ships & built more Vanguards.
Without doubt the most beautiful battleship ever constructed.
I assume the wreck isn't raisable? Looks in better condition than titanic but probably too heavy to bring up.
Too heavy and the stern is gone
My late Uncle, James Roberts served aboard HMS Ark Royal. His duties included leading munitions such as tin fish and the guns on the Stringbags. They were on shore leave in Gibraltar when the order came from the Admiralty to make full speed toward Brest in North Western France where Bismarck was headed after her scrap with the Hood. Ark Royal set sail with 20 fewer crewman as they couldn't be found in time. With 150 miles to go, the Captain ordered the launch of the Swordfish knowing they'd have to ditch before getting back to the Ark. After launch, the Captain had radioed the Chief Engineer and told him to maintain flank speed to which he replied 'My engines have been pushed too hard, we need to reduce speed' The Captain replied 'Fuck your precious engines, I'm not losing my aircrew' (All overheard by my Uncle) Thanks to his actions, all Stringbags made it back though 3 came in 'dead atick' as their tanks were dry and had to glide. 3 others had their engines cut out from fuel starvation as they touched down. Uncle Jim only told me the story two weeks before he died. May all those souls lost on HMS Hood and Bismarck rest in Peace.
The guns that were being planned for use on the Puritan were actually Dahlgren guns, not Rodman guns. While both guns looked and pretty much functioned the same way (lengthy legal battles and accusations of design theft were common between the two ordnance designers), Rodman guns were generally used for coastal defense operations while Dahlgren guns were designed for use upon naval vessels. A couple rare pictures actually exist of the XX-inch Dahlgren gun that was supposed to be installed upon the Puritan!
I have a couple of 8”x10” photos of the Bismarck, and one of them is signed by Bruno Rsonca, one of the 118 survivors of the sinking. I talked to him at a gun show some years ago and bought the signed Bismarck picture and a signed 5x7 picture of himself, when he was on the light cruiser Karlsruhe. He was one of the last men rescued by the British. He told me he grabbed one of the rescue lines from a cruiser just as it started to move, due to a U-boat warning, and was able to hang on and get pulled aboard. On the Bismarck, he was part of the crew manning the aircraft catapult. Very interesting to talk to.
At 0:40, why is the name of the ship reversed? キヅキア "Kizukia"
Fascinating program, Sir.
You better get your facts straight Ballard lost control over the wreck and it was looted
Why do you people keep saying that the Rodney was there at the battle that never took place when she never left NY harbor until 1205 on the 25th witch means she could not have made it to the battle .
Please shut up with your complete nonsense.
Akizuki class DDs, initially designed as low-cost (compared to AA cruisers) AA carrier escorts, eventually proved to be one of the best ww2 destroyers.
In Jan 1944 sistership Suzutsuki had her bow blown off past no.2 gun and her stern blown off just past no.4 gun by torpedos. She survived to be repaired, to then be hit in the bow in October by another torpedo and again survived. In 1945 she was one of the four destroyers that survived Operation Ten-Go, the Yamato's suicide mission, she was badly bombed and almost lost her bow (again!) and had to sail home in reverse!
Thanks for great video. I really enjoyed its storytelling and visual contend. Keep up the good work!
Amatsukaze also have a similar case of being torpedoed but by USS Redfin (SS-272), with bow and bridge was completely blown off, fitted with wave-cutter bow but never made it back to Japan for proper repairs
Great video and thanks for work on this.
So only 3/4 s of the ship made it home.what happened to the rest of the ship..?
The Akizuki class were large (larger than the USN's Fletcher class) robust destroyers. The explosive charge in US Mark14 torpedoes was much less than IJN torpedoes, but that was a good hit. Akizuki's good design (and good crew) saved her to fight another day.
I am glad I have Kegero's Super Drawings In 3d, of Akizuki, which is useful for both, in using for building a model of either sister, and drawing. It was great hearing that one of her sisters were discovered, Niizuki. I was wondering what your thoughts are of the website Combined Fleet, and what how you found it as a source for reference for some of these topics on the Imperial Japanese Navy? Take care, and all the best.
@@christophersnyder1532 Overall, I think combined fleet is a solid website information wise when compared to others, but by no means definitive. For instance, this video and my previous one (battle of Sunda Strait) had virtually no help from it as it was vague. It also misses information occasionally like Akizuki's trials after October 23, 1943. Some articles are also old and out of date like the shokaku sinking analysis. All that said, dates and corresponding information are usually correct in my experience. Thanks, take care as well.
Hi Crosser, where do you source the bulk of your information, outside of Combined Fleet, then?. Your videos are very good soure of info from us IJN tragically. Keep up the great work
@@Wayne.J That's a difficult question to answer due to the scope of my research. To summarize it, I use as much primary sourcing as possible followed by secondary. Many Japanese accounts and records survived the war and have been made accessible through archives and institutions in Japan. The USN also spent much time investigating the technology/equipment used by the IJN and those records are usually accessible online in PDF formats. Of course, the USN records need to be approached cautiously as comparisons with equipment are usually made from lacking corresponding data (Shinano turret armor tests come to mind first). When it comes to individual ship design and history, I specifically hunt for the ships I want information on and purchase items I find that tick the boxes. It gets expensive sometimes, especially when it comes to German ships in my experience. The best tip I can really give is cross check. History can provide conflicting details at times and getting more is better in many cases, but not all. Some sources are terrible like Colin Simpson's 'The Lusitania.' It's a book made on conspiracies and unsupported assumptions, but is a good example of what not to use.
@@centralcrossing4732 Thx, you do great videos. I am IJN fan from the start of the Combined Fleet webpage from mid to late 1990s. I know the old guys have passed over and guys left have rarely updated. But agree it is a bit old, and a little out of date, though bulk of it, at least as a general overview is probably still correct. I was just looking for "new" updates so seeing your site and 1 or 2 other IJN sites recently, has led me to renew my interest. Keep up the great work ❤❤❤
Another great video. Was U.S.S. Nautilus having technical issues?
USS Nautilus was comparatively old, so that is possible, but US Mark 14 torpedoes had serious problems, at least one of which was evident in her attack on Akizuki. The contact exploder often failed to set off the warhead, as happened with Akizuki. Another that may have been relevant was that until the problem was found and correction made, the things ran ~10 feet (~3 meters) deeper than set. The Mark 14s used a year later had the problems corrected and actually worked.
Mark XIV torpedoes. They were notoriously unreliable in almost every way
Nautilus was not a standard fleet type sub, which were built in the hundreds during the war. She was one of a class of 3 large subs built in the 30s as a USN experiment with what were called cruiser submarines, armed with a pair of 6" guns, and meant for longe range cruising and surface actions. A good idea for going after Japanese merchant shipping, which was the primary purpose of her existence. As a result of her size, she was slow to dive and not very maneuverable while submerged. A destroyer was the last thing she would want to get involved with.
The V-boats pre-dated the classes that came to be known as fleet submarines. The V-boats were basically experiments with size, armament (number of torpedo tubes, types of guns - some had 5"/51 guns), and propulsion. All were slower than fleet boat classes, but the Dolphin and Cachalot V-boat subclasses seem to be the form the USN decided to optimize and incrementally improve in fleet boat classes. Some V-boats were used for regular war patrols early in the war and later used for special missions.
Is the original bow section still near Saipan?
Oh YEAH! FIRST!!!!!!
@@manilajohn0182 Long time channel supporters and regular commenters such as yourself deserve the honor occasionally.
@@centralcrossing4732 lol okay- and it IS an honor...
It is hard for me to undes¿rstand how a fighting ship could be built, that could deliver heavy blows, but could not take them. Although, Battle Cruisers were faster than BAttleships, they could not outrun their shells! For me it would have been better not to build them at all.
It took until the 1960s for the London bomb sites to go. We were broke and ships such as the Warspite and KGV were just broken up, same with Vanguard. In 1956 the RAF's last maritime rec. Lancaster flew away to be broken up at Wroughton MU.
Very interesting. Good video. Strange that Shokaku was eventually killed by Avgas vapors building up, which is what eventually destroyed the Lexington at Coral Sea. Shokaku's aircraft caused the damage that sank the Lexington.
It is probable that the stern fell off due to being weakened by the torpedo hit which jammed her rudders.
The rudder was jamed and it couldn't get away, only in circles. As it rolled over, Captain Lindemann was said to be holding a salute by the forward flag mast until the ship went under, a brave man.
Yes, he must have re-assembled himself from the millions of pieces he'd been smashed into by one of Rodeny's 16" shells that had obliterated Bismarck's bridge early on in the battle.
When looking at HMS Vanguard, that ship was very well designed and an excellent ship for a battleship era that unfortunately had come and gone, if only it and a couple more had been produced earlier... From an esthetical aspect, she was an elegant ship, thanks to the pronounced sheer compared to the HMS King George V class to improve seakeeping.
Question about a video from 4 years ago about uss maryland How long do you remember did it take to complete that ship?
The model was 1/700, rather simple. I'd say it took about 3-4 weeks to build.
Waste of time and energy, Should have built more carrier's.
Why? Carriers were far less important in the war against Germany & Italy than they became in the Pacific. Moreover, the British commissioned six battleships between 1949 & 1946. They commissioned almost three times as many carriers during that same period, by the way.
Would have been a great museum for Great Britain.
HMS Vanguard was alongside in Portsmouth dockyard in 1959, and was open to visitors during a Navy Day when I holidayed in Southsea that year as a lad. A memorable moment, and the sheer size of those gun barrels has stayed with me. A most impressive ship!
I remember alighting from the train at Portsmouth Harbour and seeing her there, impressively lit up in the sunshine. It was Navy Day. (I missed what my father remembered there, a decade before...the place jam-packed with D-Day ships of every type).
Yamamoto had served as captain of Akagi years before so he was reluctant to order the ship scuttled
Wow, they were ordered into a massacre….
Fast forward 5 decades --> & the world does a shocked Pikachu face when Japan creates the DDH (Helicopter Destroyer). Ships of less than 10k tones that carry about 24 helicopters. Fast forward another 2 ½ decades, & the 2 latest ones are undergoing major refits (1 done, 2nd one ongoing), to be able to handle the F-35 Lightening II S/VTOL variant (the Short Take-Off & Vertical Landing version). I guess, old habits die very hard. Lol
First- class video on an under- appreciated subject of the Pacific war...
My Dad was a U.S. Marine manning one of the guns on deck and also a survivor of the sinking . He also survived the entire war in Burma cutting the railroad tracks through the jungle in P.O.W. Camps . There is supposed to be a memorial in downtown Houston Texas and a yearly meeting that was for survivors and their families from what I understand . There is a webpage about the U.S.S. Houston with a list of those that passed away during the battle . Survivors of the battle and p.o.w. camp and the dates of passing for those survivors that passed later in life .
Thanks for video! James D Hornfischer's book Ship of Ghosts has a really chilling account of the battle. It was a great audio book to listen to while going to and from class at my University!
I am also watching films on the IJA, from the Chinese perspective, as well, mainly for reference for my comics, very interesting, even if many are purley ficticious. Take care, and all the best.
That does sound interesting. Reminds me of when you recommended the Great War of Archimedes, an entertaining historical fiction on Yamato. The Chinese front is definitely overlooked, so it's nice when it gets attention. Thanks, take care as well.
It is sometimes unclear regarding after a battle, what exactly happened. Almost similar with a crime scene, it takes time to learn all the details, and filter out any inconsistencies. Great illustrations as always, looking forward for your next video. Take care, and all the best.