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@Desertduleler_88
9 ай бұрын
The German's did some audacious missions across the channel, gutsy effort on their part considering the odds.
@ashleyupshall7641
4 ай бұрын
The Great White of the seas. A very fearsome boat in its time, i hope the restoration comes to completion.
@buttgereit
Жыл бұрын
I have met Vice Admiral Klose after he retired as Commander of the German Navy. A truly remarkable person. Two of his S-Boats were sunk and he saved one of his soldiers by swimming with him on his back. Because he was in three Navies he retired three times. For his service in the English Navy he was given a ceremony in Britain (which is the picture where he signs the guestbook of HMS Victory). His live is full of anecdotes. One of them was that he never performed a driving test for a driver's license. He went with the sinking certificate (Versenkungsurkunde) to the office that issues those kind of things and they handed him one. When he commanded a destroyer, he left the WO (watch officer) to steer the ship in the treacherous North Sea while he retired to his quarters and it ran on ground. The next day he received a telegram. He thought for sure he would be relieved of command, but it was his promotion to Admiral. Some of his soldiers put together a booklet of "Klosisms", i.e. a collection of his one liners. I have seen hit, but unfortunately I don't have a copy. Dönitz's son reported to him for a while. He had epilepsy and Klose couldn't have him on the squadron, so he went to Berlin and talked to the old Dönitz directly about it. Dönitz was not impressed, but eventually moved his son to a different unit. Klose said about Dönitz that he "pissed ice".
@dicksonfranssen
3 ай бұрын
I have to ask a possibly stupid question. If Klose was a Commander of the German Navy the line "For his service in the English Navy" makes no sense to me. My parents lived in occupied Holland so I'm not a closet Nazi but Dönitz losing both sons was tragic and wouldn't happen today. If you're rich or in a position of power you or your daddy will find a way to not serve. Like that guy with the orange head and his "flat feet".
@walterseaman2556
3 ай бұрын
Admiral Donitz had to be necessarily cold as ice to lead the submarine force during 6 war years, and then command the whole of the Kriegsmarine, plus the burden in the late stages of the war of evacuating millions of refugees from Prussia , and on top of that replacing Hitler after the Fuhrer's getaway...Too much pressure, too much stress...impossible to resist if you don't "piss ice".
@walterseaman2556
3 ай бұрын
Klose getting his boat sunk and saving one of his men by swimming with the guy grabbing him, reminded me of late US President John Kennedy, who got his own PT Boat sunk by the Japs and then swam a long way to look for help for his men till he reached an inhabited island. Tough young men on both sides.
@StuartPeacock-e2t
3 ай бұрын
Wonderful story
@saxonstacker1078
3 ай бұрын
Save S130....she deserves to sail again.
@Tekjoe25
3 ай бұрын
Agree 100% but a very recent vid and interview reveals there is many years of restoration ahead before this happens. Stripped of most of its outer planking with the interior structure needing much attention. It doesn't look like the pictures at all right now.
@knurft886
3 ай бұрын
How steady those boats plow through the water, without bouncing , incredible and impressiv
@BarbaraOakley-c6i
3 ай бұрын
I believe HMS Frobisher, a cruiser, was torpedoed by an E boat while shelling the D Day landing fields. Not sunk, but forced to retire hurt.
@stillworkin9813
3 ай бұрын
the crews on those S Boats were Brave Lads
@lyricallyunwaxable1234
3 ай бұрын
The old battle and commando magazines
@robkunkel8833
3 ай бұрын
The first thought that I had was the US PT boats but this is another animal. Wow!
@tonyromano6220
3 ай бұрын
Seeems better. Or heavier.
@LokiOdinson-fz8ps
3 ай бұрын
@@tonyromano6220 S boats were better than the U.S. PT boat.
@TheShanampan
3 ай бұрын
Now, I could be wrong here, But at the school I went to in Kent in the late 60s we had a chemistry teacher called Chris Harvey, he lived on a converted German MTB at Shoreham on sea. Could this have been the same boat? It would be interesting to find out.
@BarryRudge
3 ай бұрын
An appalling loss of American lives through poor planning and miss management and was all hushed up at the time
@jerryumfress9030
3 ай бұрын
Karl Donitz lost one son who was a submariner, after his U-boat was sunk. I didn't know about the other son, I'm glad I saw this video
@Outlier999
3 ай бұрын
He died in the war too.
@paulbriggs3072
3 ай бұрын
Very impressive boats. Though I hate the look of the broken sheer to launch torpedoes.
@gregbolitho9775
3 ай бұрын
Nice, not enough WW2 boats are still round and in sailin condition. Its all history, no matter side they come from.
@dicksonfranssen
3 ай бұрын
Our city had a WWII destroyer at the docks. A real piece of history that sat there rusting away for years. They kept slobbering on some kind of rubberized coating on the decks and one day in a blizzard it nearly capsized under the weight. Private money finally saved it.
@Frederik_Berlin
3 ай бұрын
„Schnell-Boots“ 🥾🥾
@janolschewski7578
3 ай бұрын
It is not a speed boat it is a Torpedo boat.
@coaleoli
3 ай бұрын
Thanks from Canada , Wow great video !!
@bladder1010
3 ай бұрын
"Lativa"
@dicksonfranssen
3 ай бұрын
Mention PT boats & the image of a handsome JFK, hair blowing in the breeze comes to mind. PT boats were noisy & flimsy death traps despite the bravery of the crews. They used WWI torpedoes that often got jammed in the tubes. MacArthur fled the Philippines to Australia with two of the four boat flotilla never seen again. Too bad MacArthur didn't go down. He was a great man in WWI but a pompous & inept coward in WWII and desperately wanted to nuke China in the Korean war. As an example try and imagine Rudy Giuliani replacing Omar Bradley, all of Europe would have been speaking German by 43.
@johnnunn8688
3 ай бұрын
Look at the later RN fast boats of the Brave class.
@CarLos-yi7ne
4 ай бұрын
Not much happening on this project for about the last 10years.. 😑
@nicholassiminson2699
3 ай бұрын
There is one in a Backwater in Wilhelmshaven !
@mikepette4422
3 ай бұрын
What an excellent video I learned a lot ! Just fyi KEEL is how the city is said not kee-el and Boot is said like Boat It now seems so silly that they are remembered as E-Boats and not S-Boots
@dicksonfranssen
3 ай бұрын
Also, it's Lat-vee-ah, not la-teev-ah.
@theculturedthug6609
Жыл бұрын
The Nazis should hand made more of those fast boats they coukd have caused havoic in hit and run attacks all over the coasts of The UK.
@A.G.798
3 ай бұрын
Die Nazi's bauten überhaupt gar nichts, daß war die Leitung der deutschen Kriegsmarine, die diese in Auftrag gegeben hat. Außerdem war die Kriegsmarine, die Teilstreitkraft mit den aller wenigsten NS - Partei Mitglieder,sowie die Masse des Deutschen Feldheeres.
@matthewbratton3825
3 ай бұрын
Hitler being Hitler dashed all of that.......
@twowheelexploration9228
Жыл бұрын
Incredible history wow
@allaboutboats
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have any recent photos or how to find a restoration progress update for this boat?
@SurvivingHistory
2 жыл бұрын
I have not seen any images of S-130 that date after 2015, nor have I found a website that stays up-to-date with the restoration progress. One website I found during my research was rovcom.co.uk but it hasn't been updated since April 2012.
@allaboutboats
2 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivingHistory I just did a deep dive into this and found that the Kevin Wheatcroft Collection who purchased the boat, has a facebook page, and they last posted images of S130 on the 75th Anniversary of DDay. There were people there for the remembrance ceremony of the Slapton Sands Disaster. The date of this post was I think in June 6, 2019? I had to scroll down multiple pages of their Facebook to scan for anything about S130. He recently purchased a historic drydock, and after it is cleaned up it will be the new home of the S130. But right now it is still looking pretty sparse, as several upper planks have been removed. You can see that much work has been completed. Additionally they have collected numerous pieces of equipment and even torpedoes, so it will be soon when they start the restoration progress again. Just a little longer now and they will start the restoration again. It is kind of frustrating because whenever anybody asks them for an update on the S130 progress, the canned answer that everyone receives goes something like: "Not much has changed on S130, so no update is needed, stay tuned until the drydock is ready and the boat will be moved there" So it is pointless to ask for any update information until they are good and ready to let us know. I wish them much luck and am following the progress closely. She will be amazing to see when they are finished! Jerry
@SurvivingHistory
2 жыл бұрын
@@allaboutboats Well it's good to hear the restoration project is still underway and she's getting a new home soon. I'll definitely be following the progress on their page. Thanks for the update!
@jamesdeath3477
2 жыл бұрын
@@allaboutboats They have bought a historic dock to keep her at when she's finished, but that also needs restoring first. They have a FB page that gives updates on the whole collection regularly.
@allaboutboats
2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesdeath3477 Thanks James! Nobody else has replied since OP was six months ago. I had given up on any updates from this group.
@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
3 ай бұрын
Kriegsmarine lacked coherence and overall mission. Despite this it was a terror to the Royal Navy again!
@Outlier999
3 ай бұрын
What does it matter? They lost.
@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
3 ай бұрын
@patrickmiano7901 You got it, you can return to your knitting. Thanks for your call.
@24934637
Ай бұрын
I KNOW that they are responsible for the deaths of thousands of allied troops and sailors, but they ARE absolutely gorgeous boats! Personally I think they've got the edge as far as style goes over the British and American equivelent.
@VolkerStangier
3 ай бұрын
So ein schnittiges Boot sollte erhalten werden. Warum hat man kein englisches MTB dafür genommen 😅
@Grandizer8989
3 ай бұрын
A turret on the Iowa weighs more than almost all surviving ships from WW2 from other countries combined
@j.granger1120
3 ай бұрын
Was anyone reprimanded for allowing the S boats to engage the transports These insertions of agents were betrayed by trator Kim Philby.
@ericvantassell6809
2 ай бұрын
ok, so you can't pronounce german but "Lativa"?
@robkunkel8833
3 ай бұрын
4:50 An interesting term: “taken as a war trophy.” That probably means … “it’s ours and no changings” … it probably goes back centuries to old Admiralty Law. No title transfer needed. Any THOUGHTS? Lawyers? Enlighten me, please.
@deaterk
3 ай бұрын
…that’s a super common term Rob. Referring to any materials (arms, or material seized by a conquering army). It’s not like buying a car or a boat and ‘transferring ownership’. Cheers! ✌🏼🇬🇧
@dicksonfranssen
3 ай бұрын
@deaterk War trophies were a real thing but applied to sword, gun & knives etc. Like the German jets this would have ended up being studied by engineers in a secure facility. On a more grim note check out LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944. A Marine's girlfriend pondering what to write him for his "gift" of a Japanese soldiers skull. If memory serves me the soldier had been burned alive in a tank. If nothing else at least Germans were Christian but the Japanese were slant eyed savages. Those aren't my thoughts, look at the posters from WWII.
@clanrobertson7200
3 ай бұрын
My father’s oldest brother died in the April slaughter of the 600+/- soldiers that were in full gear and drowned without any life preservers. My uncle was a sailor on one of the two LSTs that night and a great part of the tragedy for the Allied troops was that a British Destroyer was assigned for protection (as usual that night) and could have given much more protection for the convoy with it’s larger guns and trained gun crews that could handle multiple targets, however the captain of the destroyer put into port for repairs and failed to report that to command for a replacement which left the largest and most potent weapon out of the plane and those men paid the price for stupidity and arrogance in the cold water of the English Channel. To say that Eisenhower was pissed when he heard about this fiasco is an understatement. But beyond the huge death toll from a training session 6 weeks before D Day, he was outraged by the loss of the LSTs which had been difficult to get because of their cost of $250,000 each which was an amazing amount of money to get congress to approve for only less than a dozen specifically for this invasion. I researched the total number of LSTs, but could never get an answer. However, Navy records indicate that 26 were sunk by the end of September 1944. And out of the total, one was kept afloat in the Navy, although LST 715 was listed as lost in June of 1944, it also shows up in Vietnam in and was back in the US and decommissioned in 1973. In one of two flukes, I happened to meet a veteran and we talked about my father’s service as the gunner and copilot on an SBD DOUGLAS DIVE BOMBER and it got around to my uncle’s death in the slaughter that was the result of the British captain’s dereliction of duty (who also never had any action taken against him because the entire event was covered up and everyone who died in it was buried in mass graves and it was not until the mid 1980’s when another uncle saw an article in the paper from a freedom of information act telling the truth about his oldest brothers death. My grandparents were told by the military that he had died during D Day and we decided that there was no reason to tell them the truth as they were in their 80s and the stress might have killed them), the second fluke of an event was that my wife and I went to England in 1991 for almost 3 weeks and after the obligatory tourist experience in London for two days we headed north and ended up in the town of Hexam in a B&B in the home of a lovely family who were so nice that we stayed 3 days touring the area of Hadrian’s Wall and the Moors during the days and enjoying their company at the pub and home in the evening. During one evening, I told the story about my uncle’s death and the wife became very quiet for a moment and then began telling me that she had been a nurse down on the SE Coast back then when she was just more than a girl. She said that they were called into an auditorium early that morning and told that they were about to see things that was extremely top secret and that should anyone be caught talking to outsiders, they would face the death penalty. When they left, they had to begin processing the bodies of the soldiers and sailors (over 150 sailors per LST) for burial in mass graves. The recovery of and processing of the dead took several days. I was blown away to have come to England and ended up meeting this lovely woman and her family! I understand that the town where this happened now holds a memorial service each year in April, and I regret that I am too old to attend one of these now, but I am pleased that the men who died in the service of our country are finally receiving the recognition and honor that they deserve! I have to say that I have always questioned the reason to have sent the men so far into the channel just to turn and practice a landing. But, that’s why I was not in command! God bless my uncle and all of his compatriots! The old professor Live free or die!!! Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic!!! Pedophiles too!!! No Shit………….
@Wolfen443
3 ай бұрын
They were the German PT Boats then?.
@gregchijoff9959
3 ай бұрын
Zelensky will take it!
@KeithHays-ek4vr
3 ай бұрын
For God's sake, do something about all the spelling mistakes.
@dimitriwolfs9370
3 ай бұрын
😂New country of Lativa ????
@johnnunn8688
3 ай бұрын
Anyone know what type of construction she was built with?
@Vtarngpb
3 ай бұрын
Bro… blow your nose…
@ristube3319
3 ай бұрын
6:18 LATT VIAH
@gilloup9672
Жыл бұрын
No real sound 😢
@holgerspangenberg3706
4 ай бұрын
Germany 💪💪💪
@bigp3006
3 ай бұрын
Attacked with no warning? Hmm, that must have been the only time that happened. 😅
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