My father was officer on S 130 from end of 1944 until end of WW II. After the surrender of Germany he handed over the boat to the british marines and afterwards - on behalf of the british marines - was one of the responsibles for the boat until 1946, when he went back home. I did not not know that S-130 still exists and I hope to have the opportunity for a visit.
@andrewmorgan2537
5 жыл бұрын
This channel is like the History Channel used to be before all the Ancient Aliens crap. Great job.
@EntryLevelLuxury
5 жыл бұрын
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the E-boats were actually created to rendezvous with USO's emerging from the English Channel. The "E" actually stood for extra-terrestrial...
@brickpictureproductions3077
5 жыл бұрын
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
@sapiotone
5 жыл бұрын
Sold! Subscribed on this recommendation. This is the first thing I've seen on the channel and I'm impressed with what Mark's done. Looking forward to seeing more!
@michaelburley3819
3 жыл бұрын
During the late 1980s, I was on holiday in Ibiza. In the harbour of Ibiza town was an 'island tour' boat, an old 'early version' S-Boot. (As portrayed in the Airfix 1/72nd scale kit). It was exSpanish Navy. Decks stripped of all military fixtures, it was fitted with seats along both sides of the deck behind the wheelhouse. After circling the island of Ibiza, and on an open stretch of water on the approach back to the harbour, the helmsman opened the throttle to 'full speed'. The bow rose up, and the adrenaline rush was exhilarating, as the boat skipped over the water! I couldn't help but think of how the Wartime crews must have felt, when THEY were speeding through the water.
@ChristinaMitchell-USA
4 жыл бұрын
My compliments to Mark Felton for producing historical documentaries that are factual and entertaining.
@TheDeJureTour
6 жыл бұрын
Amazing to think that early 1940's German tech was in service all the way into the 1990's. Simply incredible.
@robotbjorn4952
6 жыл бұрын
There were a number of WW1 era tanks operating in the middle east til quite recently if I'm not mistaken. I think you can still find WW2 era equipment in use with some Latin American militaries as well.
@brownpcsuncedu
6 жыл бұрын
hans wurst Tanks, nuclear weapons, and submarines weren't German inventions. Tanks were invented by the British during World War I. (Germany built tanks during that war, but theirs generally lagged the British.) Nuclear weapons were first created (a *lot* of inventions were required, not just one) by the Americans--much (not all) of the basic science was indeed done by German scientists, but many of those were expatriates working in the U.S. Submarines were another American invention, although the Imperial German Navy was the first to exploit their potential. Missiles, you're arguably right. (*Everybody* wanted the V-2 team after World War II.) Stealth fighters--I have no idea what you're really referring to there. So--one (or two) out of five...
@petergoodwin2465
6 жыл бұрын
@@hanswurst-ft1ih They were so close to winning the war , lookat the 262 , Tiger tank , Horten flying wing. Bismark , Graf spee , and hundreds of other inventions. Even their uniforms looked great. My grandfather's said our governments would sell us out and wished Germany had won.
@miked1042
6 жыл бұрын
There are still two US subs from World War Two in service with the Thai Navy. Many US aircraft from the second world war were in service with various Air Force's well into the 1980's. Not to mention the DC-3's/C-47's from the war, and pre-war years that are still in service.
@dulls8475
6 жыл бұрын
Peter Goodwin 262 was poorly used, Tiger Tank was poor. Too heavy to deploy quickly and too much effort to build. Horten flying wing was used when? Bismark lacked the radar quality that gave the British the edge. Graff spee was nothing special. Good helmet though. Radar, Huff Duff, The proximity shell, code breaking, asdic. Aircraft carriers etc meant the allies were always ahead in the end.
@bobmason5408
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry but it’s not the last E-Boat and not even the last one in the UK. There is an E-boat in a small marina in Castleford near Leeds, which the owner has been restoring for years
@thechillpill3233
5 жыл бұрын
Actually it wasn't a mix up in communications, it was a total failure of the Americans to inform the Royal Navy they were even having this exercise , because they thought they didn't have to, and didn't need the help. This fact is further recognised that after the war the American authorities recognised the fact British people were forced from their homes near Slapton Sands to create this training area, and built them a monument to thank them, but refused to honour their own dead. A monument was eventually erected, the recovered Sherman Tank, by a British effort in later years.
@BoggWeasel
5 жыл бұрын
My great uncle was a stoker on HMS Wakeful. Wakeful, with a ships co of over 100 and carrying 640 troops below decks, was sunk by an " E boat" during the Dunkirk evacuation. Only two soldiers and twenty five crew members survived the attack, unfortunately, my uncle wasn't one of them.
@GeneralBurkhalter1
6 жыл бұрын
A fascinating piece. My grandfather was one of the drivers who was woken up early in the morning and forced to collect, and bury, the dead after the catastrophe at Slapton Sands and throughout Exercise Tiger. Sworn to secrecy, he never spoke of the matter until the mid-late 2000s, just before he died. We were ill-able to figure out what he was talking about (this being a decade ago, little was published on Wikipedia on the matter) until I happened along a copy of Richard Bass's "Exercise Tiger" and saw his name in the listed rosters.
@neilphillips162
5 жыл бұрын
God bless your grandfather and all the others who gave for such little
@ziggy8190
5 жыл бұрын
I live near Slapton and I remember walking the beach and finding a solitary .30 calibre case , after finding it I walked up to the hull of the Sherman tank and placed it in a poppy wreath I saw on it .Such a tragic loss of life, and god bless your grandfather I can not comprehend what it must have been like
@pizzapanda8527
5 жыл бұрын
*e v e r y m a n a k i n g*
@italovernazza4758
5 жыл бұрын
The reason why the S-Boote were so fast was mostly the so-called "Lürssen Effekt" (Lürssen was their designer and builder) which was due to a sort of hydrofoil effect produced by the hull thanks to the special design of it.
@ur2c8
6 жыл бұрын
You never hear much about Britain's battle against the E-boats in the North Sea and English Channel. It's a shame as it is a really interesting story. Luckily there are plenty of books on the subject for anyone who is interested. E-boats were a constant menace for much of the war and we never really got to grips with them. They were fast and very seaworthy and better than anything we had.
@bigblue6917
5 жыл бұрын
Charles Dickens great grandson commanded a squadron of MTB during the war.
@geronimo5537
5 жыл бұрын
In service from WW2 until 1991, that is impressive.
@model-man7802
6 жыл бұрын
Very glad someone had the forethought to save this Snellboat for future generations.Ive read this story years ago but only now learned of a survivor's existence from this raid.Thanks for saving her Kevin!!!
@sci-fifuture465
6 жыл бұрын
Every day I learn something new :D
@IntyMichael
6 жыл бұрын
An uncle of mine served on one of this boats. They got the order to attack the invasion fleet on D-day. When the crew spotted the massive fleet at the horizon they turned the boat immediately back to their base.
@victorhoe2321
6 жыл бұрын
Isn't schnell boats mean quick boats??
@sergeantpanther678
6 жыл бұрын
Fast Boats,yes. In reference to their role as quick, light, run-and-gun boats.
@Braun30
6 жыл бұрын
Exact. It is mean fast boat.
@modelleg
6 жыл бұрын
How fast were the american PT boats?
@von_dusenhain2523
6 жыл бұрын
according to wikipedia about 41 knots. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Torpedo_Boat_PT-109
@scootergeorge9576
6 жыл бұрын
About 45 kts. Around 50 MPH. Not bad at all for an 80' boat.
@justg6871
6 жыл бұрын
Hope she's restored to her full glory.... too much history goes down the drain because no one wants to preserve it..
@RedfishInc
6 жыл бұрын
Not only do people not want to preserve history they want to deny it. The WW2 generation has all but passed from this world and so have the witnesses to history. History cannot be trusted to historians with an axe to grind and an agenda to promote. History like the truth is often inconvenient but history is history and truth is truth.
@ZeroBlackfire
5 жыл бұрын
Well it's usually more like "There are lots of people who want to, but cant because they are broke. And the people that do have the money either dont know/ dont care/ or simply just dont want too.
@stormywindmill
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed . I wonder how long before Dachau and other such establishments disappear under a new Supermarket of shopping Mall
@SamhainBe
6 жыл бұрын
Schnellboote and American PT boats have always held a fascination with me. I'm glad one managed to survive and is being restored. Some of the PTs are being/have been restored here in the States and when I was a boy, there were several PT boats operating as headboats (boats that took groups out to fish) out of New Jersey/Delaware (?) - memory is starting to go. I always thought it was such an indignity for those war veterans but it did keep them on the water and the sound of those engines...beautiful.
@leondarrylfenton7036
5 жыл бұрын
I have been aboard this particular Eboat ..She is currently being restored in Mashfords Boat Yard at Cremyll in S/E Cornwall
@BoydCooperLegend
6 жыл бұрын
As a German, it is an honor that relatives of former opponents restore a "Schnellboot" from the "old days". Actually, I can not believe that it should be the last surviving boat. During my service in 1971-73 as a member of the 'Bundesmarine', I saw quite a few of them ( Flottille ) in the Danish military harbor in Copenhagen. They were almost unchanged after my short impression, but deviantly dark olive-colored. (And they looked excellently groomed ......)
@kennethmason8073
6 жыл бұрын
BoydCooperLege
@jaisheelal4002
6 жыл бұрын
BoydCooperLegend I read an article a couple of years ago suggesting that one had been intercepted smuggling drugs in the bay of Biscay - her excellent speed and manoeuvrability making her almost impossible to catch...
@folkestender2025
5 жыл бұрын
@@jaisheelal4002 These were not these boats, they were newer S-boats (after WW 2) of the German Navy (Jaguar class), which were retired in the 1970s or sold to Greece, Turkey and privat. Some of them were later used as drug boats, after they were also retired in Greece and Turkey. They were very similar to the old S-boats. I worked in the town where a shipyard later converted some of these ex-drug boats into yachts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar-class_fast_attack_craft
@Bulletguy07
5 жыл бұрын
@BoydCooperLegend....10 years ago wandering around Peenemunde i spotted a Schütze-Klasse Minesweeper moored up in the smaller harbour for private owned boats. It looked in pretty good shape externally though i never got chance to see the inside. A year later in 2009 i was back in Germany and made another trip to Peenemunde to see if the old Minesweeper was still around.....only to find it had gone! I eventually discovered it had made it as far as Stralsund where it moored and later partially sank. Very sad as it seemed there was some sort of dispute involving the owner so not sure how it all ended.
@rasmusx15
5 жыл бұрын
Denmark recieved 18 S-boots after WWII. They were in service until the late 1960’s as the Glenten-class. It was probably the remainents of these, that you saw in Copenhagen. You can see an overview of them at navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/Classes/Glenten_Class(1947).htm
@idleonlooker1078
6 жыл бұрын
Incredible unique history of a boat that I hope will be preserved as a memorial.
@whatisbestinlife8112
5 жыл бұрын
What an amazing history for this craft. And the engineering must of been top-notch for it to prove so useful for major powers for so long.
@unclestuka8543
5 жыл бұрын
German Engineering, top notch !
@williamfindspeople4341
6 жыл бұрын
OMG that's outstanding information about cover ups. I don't know where you got your Intel but that is absolutely bloody marvelous information. I definitely saved that one and shared it with multiple people I've watched it over and over very very good!!! I wonder if there's any blueprints for that boat it would be a marvelous scale model to make.
@tommyfred6180
6 жыл бұрын
mate the coverup is an extremely well known bit of late war history. I did it at school back in the 70s and both films and documentary's have been made about it. as for blueprints they have be publicly available for over half a century from the german government. lastly, airfix make a model of the E boat at 1/72 and I think one of the japanese model making companies have one to at about 1/48
@ShellyAnn1a
5 жыл бұрын
William findspennies - I have seen a larger scale balsa wood model, maybe 1/32 scale or lager, that held one engine, do not remember the size. Have not been to a hobby shop in some time so I not sure if it is still available.
@mattperrin8372
6 жыл бұрын
Another fascinating insight. Just goes to show how needed metals were after the war that so few original boats survived due to being scrapped for other needs.
@danblo3705
6 жыл бұрын
Matt Perrin if you whant to se more similar boats search for motortorpedbåt ;)
@dieterhuhner8270
5 жыл бұрын
Bnht
@grahamwebb2000
5 жыл бұрын
A crew of 35 in a tiny space like that?!
@dylanspence3448
6 жыл бұрын
Another great video. Thank you Mark. I had no clue about E boats before this video. Amazing
@MarkFeltonProductions
6 жыл бұрын
Many thanks
@scdevon
5 жыл бұрын
Faster and more reliable with diesel power than our gasoline powered PT boats. PT boat engines were clapped out at 1000 hours or so. A heavy-built diesel is just getting broken it.
@outdoors5352
5 жыл бұрын
1991? That's a bloody good innings.
@melthedog6969
5 жыл бұрын
History is SO IMPORTANT! Thanks to those who help keep this excellent piece of living history in great shape! Thank you!
@rickreid81
6 жыл бұрын
What a great short film! Really enjoyed it. Glad the s-boat was saved.
@sivedan
6 жыл бұрын
Good video Mark, have you considered making a video about the German "Wunderwaffe", specifically their efforts to achieve Nuclear capability and even Anti Gravity propulsion ? Thanks
@mandernachluca3774
6 жыл бұрын
The anti gravity devices seemingly developed by the germans are just myths. The nuclear weapons development of the germans never got over the stage of a dirty bomb since nuclear power was described as jewish sience and therefor not acceptable for nazi cultur.
@akwida
6 жыл бұрын
sivedan That would be great! And, also, maybe a video called "The Uniforms of Hans Kammler"....
@hendrikvanleeuwen9110
6 жыл бұрын
@@mandernachluca3774 Not true. The Germans were ahead in nuclear technology until their one source of deutronium (heavy water) was destroyed, in Norway by badass Norwegian winter commandos sent by Winston Churchill (facts, look it up.) That is what derailed their nuclear ambition. The Germans had the necessary theory in hand and the materials to do it, until that point. They were in the process of purifying enough heavy water to build their first bombs. As for the antigravity, lets just say both sides investigated a few far fetched ideas.
@blackbird8632
6 жыл бұрын
Hendrik van Leeuwen no they were not even close and the destruction of the heavy water did not matter in the end. Think of the scale of the manhatten project, now look up the scale of the german program.
@CarLos-yi7ne
6 жыл бұрын
@@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 Later on it was discovered that the Germans were on the wrong track in the development of a nucleair bomb: they were on a dead end without knowing it!
@littlejimmy8744
6 жыл бұрын
Wow these to boats killed more men then some of the beaches in normandy
@richardsellers-smith9496
5 жыл бұрын
One of the episodes of Foyles War was based around the event.
@rexmundi3108
5 жыл бұрын
1943-1991. That's a very long service life!
@Kyleinasailing
6 жыл бұрын
The British MTB's used petrol engines, the E boats diesel. You're chances of survival, under attack, with a diesel engined boat were very much greater.
@Paciat
6 жыл бұрын
If it would make a big difference, everyone would use diesel. Or coal.
@GhostRider659
6 жыл бұрын
1. Stephen was talking about British MTB's, not American PT Boats. 2. Gasoline/Petrol ignites more easily than Diesel.
@arandomsteve2251
6 жыл бұрын
also, petrol engines use glow plugs or spark plugs which are very susceptible to moisture. in a boat... on the other hand diesel engines can practically run underwater as long as the intake and exhaust ports are above water. this is why practically all boats which are designed to remain in the water for more than a couple of days at a time use diesel engines. they tend to start more often.
@ulfenburg7539
6 жыл бұрын
because the Sherman used gasoline it lit up in flames when it got hit by something. comparing it to the other tanks that didnt use gasoline it has a much higher flame rate
@xcalibertrekker6693
6 жыл бұрын
+ a random idiot Diesels use glow plugs and petrol spark plugs. And you are wrong about moisture as long as they are properly installed. Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
@johng.7
6 жыл бұрын
My late uncle was on one of the LST's that were torpedoed in Operation Tiger. Though he was in the cold water for hours, he did survive until he was in his 90's. He was unable to talk about what happened until the story was made public in the 1980's. The story he was able to tell on 60 Minutes and other shows was very tragic. I had heard that it was E-Boats that torpedoed the LST's but did not fully understand what they were. This video helps to understand them better.
@bulletsalad3927
6 жыл бұрын
very interesting I had heard of the schnell boat but did not know the history of them. very cool to hear S130 was used to drop MI6 agents into the Baltic states during the early days of the cold war
@williamreynolds8210
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark! 45 knotts!? Even prior to the speed mod they were fast.
@MrElis420
6 жыл бұрын
Just a clarification, it wasn't Omaha beach Exercise Tiger was the rehearsal for, it was the Utah beach landings. The ironic thing is, 196 men were killed landing on Utah beach itself, while at least 749 died during Exercise Tiger.
@sudaev
6 жыл бұрын
How is that ironic?
@DiggingForFacts
6 жыл бұрын
The definition according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica: "Irony, language device, either in spoken or written form in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the literal meanings of the words (verbal irony) or in a situation in which there is an incongruity between what is expected and what occurs." Ergo, the irony is that the excercise predicted that the landing would be far more costly than it turned out to be, at least on Utah beach.
@marc0523
6 жыл бұрын
Nothing is really ever ironic, the word is fine here. Don't worry about it, it doesn't really matter.
@hglasier
6 жыл бұрын
Although securing the beach took minimal losses "Around 700 men were lost in engineering units, 70th Tank Battalion, and seaborne vessels sunk by the enemy." Still, the losses from Tiger are significant and not ones I was aware of. I wonder if the beach has a memorial.
@ebayerr
6 жыл бұрын
sudaev : It's ironic that nearly four times the number of soldiers were killed on friendly shores during a non-lethal exercise,than the actual assault they were practicing for.
@stewartellinson8846
5 жыл бұрын
I'm rather surprised that the German navy didn't preserve S-130 in 1990.
@scottleft3672
5 жыл бұрын
Snail on my boot....awsome. German tools just last and last, don't they.
@piercecushenbery5876
6 жыл бұрын
Well done buddy. your content is great, keep up the good/hard work
@colarisaka
5 жыл бұрын
We, the USA, grounded most of our PT boats on beaches in the Philippines and burned them. Only a few of them survive and they have been so butchered by private owners as to be virtually unrecognizable. Higgins and Elco made the PTs.
@jchuggins4534
4 жыл бұрын
Also my Dad was on Pt-Boats in ww2 and to look at this boat made out of wood its Amazing to have lasted so long in action.!?.
@ASQUITHZ9
5 жыл бұрын
One of my old customers Ron Hedgecocks was a captain of a MGB in WW2...he used to tell me stories of his and crews escapades with the e boats they used to chase them about around the dutch french coasts and then run as fast as they could back home .He was on patrol at the front of the action during the d day business and in charge of a few eboats and crew that were held up on the east coast at the end of hostilities, some were glad it was all over others wanted to have a go right away at the Russkies! ...When he took charge of the Motor Gun Boat ( US made) he was looking over the boat and he noticed a circular object... thinking it was some sort of..maybe a radar component the yank replied " Gee buddy that's the ice cream making machine" He seemed to have a good type of life on the MGB plenty of official Whiskey and the like and he knew about the D day landings about two weeks before not the actual day but the timing..Happy days!
@dawnofjustice4689
5 жыл бұрын
Nice Video. Greetings from Germany 😉 Thanks to the Britains, that have to save our history... Your Welcome
@thetourettesgamer8851
5 жыл бұрын
Just as long as someone keeps it alive..... but still Germany has many fantastic museums with great artefacts in them like the panzer museum
@volkssturmer5820
5 жыл бұрын
German unrivalled master tech always past and present.
@jamespeterburch
6 жыл бұрын
I’ve been to that Sherman memorial, as I live in Devon.
@highlandrab19
5 жыл бұрын
*in the confusion the Americans shot at eachother* where have i heard that before
@lingerslongest
6 жыл бұрын
And not forgetting that other wartime Survivor MTB 102 :)
@kentnielsen8034
6 жыл бұрын
it is not the last e-boat ,there is a rebuild one in denmark they did remove the torpedotubes and rebuild the hull to get more space ,it now a diving boat
@lordeden1475
6 жыл бұрын
Even more than that quite a few right around Europe were turn in to house boats.
@markdavis2475
6 жыл бұрын
Nice post thanks! I met one of the guys who moved S-130 from Germany to the UK after BP Co bought her. I think a vid is somewhere on YT. One of her props was freewheeling the whole way and making a lot of noise! After she come to the UK she managed to almost sink! The Wheatcroft Collection did have a nice website covering the restoration but its not up anymore. They purchased a slightly newer German patrol boat to use her engines and systems. There was a slight controversy (only because of erroneous info that the boats were war graves) over some recovery work on some S boats sunk in the channel, the parts were needed to allow new ones to be fabricated. Not much more info from them for a few years now. There was one more survivor, S-97 (from memory) it had lain out of the way in a small river on the South Coast, she was in a bit of a mess, she was recovered then promptly scrapped!!! More info is on the BMPT website Forum.
@MarkFeltonProductions
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the additional information - fascinating stuff!
@juniatapark54
6 жыл бұрын
Enjoyable and informative, thanks. The British turned the boat over to the West German navy. There was also the GDR's Volksmarine which was founded in 1956.
@Nitramrec
6 жыл бұрын
@juniatapark: Right, but only for 40 years ... ;-)
@pedrolistacarey4880
5 жыл бұрын
Surprising...though I've followed for decades all naval encounters during WW2, I had never heard of this E-Boat victory prior to D-Day ! Seems the cover-up was so keenly performed that it lasts to the present day (with your exception, of course !). Thanks for leaking out the secret !
@SidneyOrd
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Only found you recently. Dunno where you came from. Grew up in the vestiges of ww1 and 2 as child,and am so happy to see more of this era that awed me as a child. I thought it was all gone but you keep finding stuff. Thanks
@TraustiGeir
6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! With so many people raving on and on about Tirpitz, Bismarck, Graf Spee and the U-boats of course; smaller vessels that could still tip the scales are often forgotten. Thank you for the upload!
@Trillock-hy1cf
5 жыл бұрын
I am wondering if this last surviving S/E Boat has been fully restored, and is happily back where it belongs out at sea again? I can't seem to find much about it, and all I can find is what is said in this video. I believe the chap who bought it intends to spend some £5 million on restoring it. Another German machine once hated and feared, has now become something to lovingly restore back to its former self. Tiger 131, Panther etc....
@iceman213
6 жыл бұрын
Wow I had no idea that Germany had torpedo boats pretty amazing thank you for posting this video as someone else stated we learn something new every day again thank you
@herbwag6456
6 жыл бұрын
The cover-up of this small, late war German victory must have worked because until now I've never heard of it.
@peteralderson1483
6 жыл бұрын
Herb Wag A film called Code Name Emerald has part of the story about the disaster at Slapton Sands. It stars Ed Harris and Max Von Sydow. It’s not a bad film
@pd4165
6 жыл бұрын
And it's been mentioned in numerous documentaries. The cover up only worked fairly well (lots of people died, more survived but were told to keep quiet and mostly they did, which means that others didn't). Harsh truth - you aren't as well informed as you think you are.
@hymanocohann2698
6 жыл бұрын
Herb Wag I'd expect the mystery of why it was covered up lies in who ordered the withdrawal of rhe destroyer screen ..
@51WCDodge
6 жыл бұрын
I belive the Escort vessels were actually two of the 50 American Four stackers, ex USN 'Gifted' to Brtian in return fro bases in the Bahamas,. Best known of the bunch was USS Buchan, renamed HMS Cambeltown, She was used to ram the dry dock gates at St Nazaire.
@dan-berladyn
6 жыл бұрын
You NEVER looked. If you read on WWII you would find this information. It was 'covered' up because the landing were to be secret until they actually happened. There was little sense in the letting the Germans know you were coming and how. Then, there is morale of course. Don't want your boys depressed thinking about their buddies when they are already scared shitless.
@larryperez4789
5 жыл бұрын
Liked video thank you very informative history thanks
@hanssiegel9882
6 жыл бұрын
Looks like a good fit for Israel's defence against hamas sea attacks from gaza.
@Dive-Bar-Casanova
6 жыл бұрын
Amazing, effective boats. Brutal in action.
@eltigre249
5 жыл бұрын
I heard about that landing rehearsal, only I must have heard the cover story. 800 American soldiers died.
@HerpicussCosplay2
6 жыл бұрын
I heard about this boat, it turns out some of the restoration was done in a small village called Millbrook 7 miles away from my home town, which was really cool!
@yosyahyadi2835
5 жыл бұрын
You can find the story of schnellboote action in slapton sand in national geographic magazine, june 2002 edition.
@trevermcdonald2402
5 жыл бұрын
There is an E-boat near Sandwich in Kent, it lays in deep mud on the river Stour, alongside a small wharf that lies on the North side of the cut which itself lays between Sandwich and the river mouth, it was cut through to the same river but two miles were saved by avoiding a big loop in the river. Any how it’s totally buried now but I’m sure the local’s know about it.
@charlestemm4870
6 жыл бұрын
incredible story, still it's amazing one of those S-boats survived all these years under different flags and owners!
@peterapsel7170
5 жыл бұрын
Good Job mark.greetings from Germany
@kajani6181
6 жыл бұрын
If I heard correctly for over 10 years it was a (private) houseboat? With torpedo launch tubes. Should have pulled into a swanky marina with a set of "sunk yacht" tally symbols in plain view.
@FubarGuy666
6 жыл бұрын
Kajani Yeah love the way you think! Thirty plus knots and a tight curve in the no-wake zone! That would give all the interfering old bitches that infest marinas something real to complain about...
@1255XL
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome ship and video. Thinking about all the advanced weapons Germany had in WW2 it's a wonder they lost it. But we all know what sheer numbers do...
@Cult1022
6 жыл бұрын
Too few, too late. That's how they lost. And running out of experienced soldiers / pilots / captains / gunners etc, after the poly-front war they started fighting.
@dulls8475
6 жыл бұрын
Some great gear but the important stuff like huff duff and radar was where they were lacking. They built some great tactical weapons but not great strategic weapons. V1 and V2 were a poor waste of resources. The tiger tank was also a poor design, too big and heavy to deploy quickly.
@spookyshadowhawk6776
6 жыл бұрын
1255XL The Germans weren't the only ones with advanced weapons, but people forget that. Why? Best example is the Africa Corps Desert campaign, you are drawn into almost cheering for the Germans, out numbered, a large amount of their Supplies sunk before reaching them, still they fought a magnificent war, out foxing the British time after time. No Nazis here, just splendid Soldiers fighting a losing war with Courage and Tenacity. This is a lot of the Fasination with the Germans in this war. Yes, the Germans had some advanced technology, but much of it was either used improperly or came too late to do any good. Take Radar, the British and Americans stayed far ahead of the Germans, the British Developed much of this, the Americans manufactured it in huge amounts, putting Radar fuzes in Anti-aircraft Shell's, aircraft, submarines, destroyers, able to do this by making these in such large amounts, the price of the radar became cheap enough to use it this way. One centimeter wavelength radar could pick out a submarine periscope much farther than the submarine could see or hear them, planes equipped with this in combination with the Leigh searchlight Attacked German Submarines at night, the Engines would be cut off, as the aircraft glided in Turing on the light to blind the Anti-aircraft Guns on the Submarine while making it easy to target. The Germans used small radio and wire control glide bombs to sink a few ship's at the start of the war, but did little more with it, by 1944, Americans made Radio controlled bombs out of B-24s and B-17s, flying them by remolt Control to France and Germany. One of these killed President Kennedy's older brother. The Jets with the short range all early jets had could only be used as a defensive weapon, Germany didn't have access to the more exotic metals needed for a reliable jet Engine, if you tryed to accelerate too fast with a ME-262, the Engines would explode, this stage in take offs and landing is where many of these jets were lost to American and British Fighters, at 600 mph and a range of 600 miles total, at high speed meant these Aircraft could stay up less than a hour before running out of fuel. While the Rockets and buzz Bombs were Interesting, the V-1 Useing a Pulse Jet design patented in France after the First World War, both were a Expensive way to deliver a limited amount of explosive, if Germany had put the money into Developing a 4 Engine Bomber like the B-29 in Numbers over a Thousand, both the British and Russians would have had their Factory's destroyed as would the east coast of the United States. A radar night Bombing sight was used by both Americans and British, showing the contours of the land and rivers as well as city's. If Germany had 600 of the Electro U-boats at the beginning of the war instead of just coming into Service at the end, the British Convoys would have been destroyed putting the British out of the war in 6 months or less. While the Germans developed Interesting technology, it often was the wrong technology, used the wrong way or too late to make a difference. The Germans had a hard time launching the V-2 before being seen by Fighters looking for them, the much Bigger A-10 to hit the United States with would be Destroyed long before it could be set up and fired. Just too big to hide.
@johnferguson7235
6 жыл бұрын
"Quantity has a quality of its own" -- Joseph Stalin
@oldschool1993
6 жыл бұрын
The sheer numbers were no surprise- any one with an IQ greater than 2 digits could see they had no chance against the Russians, Brits and Americans- their failure then and now was arrogance.
@jeep146
5 жыл бұрын
Why are there so few S-boats? The same reason we have so few American PT boats. They were not intended to last for decades. Most PT boats were destroyed soon after the war. You cannot expect the government to fund equipment that is no longer needed. It is up to private groups to set up foundations to maintain them for historical purposes.
@alexwild4350
5 жыл бұрын
3 engines of 2.500 hp each ? On full chat the fuel consumption must have been staggering.
@dooleyhiggins3674
5 жыл бұрын
A crew of 35, wow! I wonder the comparisons between E-Boats and PT's?
@Spitsz01
5 жыл бұрын
Didn't realise these boats where so large.
@davidmg1925
6 жыл бұрын
During the 80s I was lodging in Littlehampton on the south coast. I sue to walk down to the water front where many boats had been converted house boats, inclusing many MTBs . Needless to say I would have loved to h\ve looked around them but they were clearly someones home...... at that time cost of a flat or house was notorious so I suppose you can t blame people for improvising. Im afraid there was talk at the t ime of the mud flats being required for housing so I think it all changed after I left 1990. The fate of the boats is probably best not dwelt on......... unless some archivist took them on as project as above. If I had had the fund s I would have doe it in the lnk of an eye but people unfortunately dont seem to think like that now; of what their fore fathers had to endure in that period. It's all me me me now. On my return to south wales I used to by pass Portsmouth and just before turning right onto the Salisbury War-minster Road again you could see old MTBs on the mud lats on solent. Had they been there since the war?
@reedsilvesan2197
6 жыл бұрын
being the last of its kind and such a notable object in history this little boat is almost priceless
@jerrys13
6 жыл бұрын
I learn so much in these concise and very informative videos. Keep them coming!
@mtlicq
6 жыл бұрын
E boat?
@dannymathis1999
5 жыл бұрын
Another great video and learning lesson.
@jnichols3
5 жыл бұрын
A crew of 35? Is this including support people on shore or were there really 35 onboard during a sortie? Seems really crowded.
@tellmesomething2go
5 жыл бұрын
Three, twenty-five hundred horse engines, and only around thirty-five knots. Very disheartening.
@sshep86
5 жыл бұрын
American blue on blue? That's unheard of.
@VC27
5 жыл бұрын
What a shame! She became a houseboat??? I hope 130 is restored to her former glory.
@petyrkowalski9887
5 жыл бұрын
I have been to the memorial at Torcross by Slapton sands many times...my parents lived there. A local man and historian salvaged that tank from the bay and turned it into a memorial to the men who died. What a disaster but those E boats were amazing amd deadly for the era.
@creative-anon-ca______4560
5 жыл бұрын
Damn talk about incompetence. Those nazis just wiped them out. Dayum
@bengtaarflot3961
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, known about the rehearsal but it s still remarkable and typhical for military decisions sometimes. Bengt Aarflot Uppsala sweden.
@brando6BL
5 жыл бұрын
I think this boat was moored, used as a houseboat, on the Thames by Cheyne Walk down towards the Lot's Road end. I was staying aboard a converted Thames sailing barge in the late Sixties and there was a larger craft about seven or eight berths up from us. I always thought it had the look of an E-boat about it.
@yoooopery
5 жыл бұрын
glad to see it being restored
@fernandoguzman4202
6 жыл бұрын
I more then liked this short film..i LOVED IT....thank you kind sir..
@vespelian5274
6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if she was ever commissioned into the Royal Navy and what the British called her under their tenure?
@tommyfred6180
6 жыл бұрын
as I understand it, no to the first and I think she was nicknamed "rose" by the intelligence guys
@pd4165
6 жыл бұрын
S130 had an interesting after war job - inserting allied agents into Soviet occupied Baltic countries, and retrieving them. S boats were also used to spy on the Soviet fleet. I'm not sure if they were officially used by the RN - the wartime crews were, mostly, retained for the hush-hush jobs. Eventually the S Boats were taken on by the post war German navy as training boats and eventually sold on. S130 became a houseboat and lost (at least) one of her engines before being sold on again about 15 years ago. I don't think any of the navies gave them official names but in WWII S130 had the callsign 'Raven'. I hope I've remembered all that correctly - it should all be available online if you google S or E boat and S130 in particular.
@theeaselrider4032
5 жыл бұрын
A crew of 35? That seems a bit excessive for the size of it. Must have been a bit crowded.
@smellysam
5 жыл бұрын
In a ship construction course, the last versions of the Eboats where said to be of plastic composite construction, similar to modern PVC, that made them lighter than water, so even shot full of holes, they would not sink. This construction accidentally radar absorbent (discovered by the British after the war), so after replacing the Maybach by Napier Deltics, they were used in the Baltic to drop agents and other secret squirrel deeds. (This is from memory, might be wrong)
@cliffordsikora9841
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. The devastating and horrendous acts committed by and during an evil man's attempt to take the world. But most of the boats and weapons are impressive for their day and time
@nickthorp5790
5 жыл бұрын
Such a great channel. Thank you.
@pwb0511
4 жыл бұрын
Smart people these Germans!
@RadioactiveSaddam
5 жыл бұрын
You should do a video about the Tirpitz and what happened after the war. Parts of the hull can be seen in museums...
@MyLateralThawts
6 жыл бұрын
What happened to the Schnellboot that was at the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven? I saw it in the mid 80’s, but not on my more recent trip to the city about four years ago.
@swunt10
6 жыл бұрын
they also invented the Lürssen effect with these boats, which made them so fast.
@BREEZEONE1
6 жыл бұрын
Nice piece of history. Great video!
@FubarGuy666
6 жыл бұрын
A crew of thirty-five men? I guess they were fitted with a Wankel engine and needed some extra horsepower...
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