SMS Seydlitz at Jutland - How to survive being a 25,000t Piñata

Today we take a look at just how much damage the famous German battlecruiser Seydlitz took during the Battle of Jutland

Sources:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:15 – Caveats
00:07:21 – Opening moves
00:09:51 – The Run to the South (Battlecruiser Action)
00:18:29 – The Run to the South (The QE’s arrive)
00:22:17 – The Run to the North (Early Action)
00:24:58 – A Brief Interlude
00:25:39 – The Run to the North (Fighting the QE’s again)
00:30:19 – The First Mina Fleet Action
00:31:41 – Escape and Evasion
00:32:31 – The Death Ride
00:37:54 – A Final Action
00:44:22 – A Fight for Survival

[Drachinifel]

Pinned post for Q&A :)

EDIT - Model has been claimed!

[Executioner]

"One Battle cruiser! Slightly used!"
*Bangs forecastle*
*Gun falls out of anton turret.*
"Now treaty compliant!" 😁

[josephlongbone]

Seydlitz and Derflinger were both clearly hacking at Jutland. Seydlitz herself only deactivated GodMode upon reaching home, which is why she sank in harbour.

[sixstringedthing]

The fact that Drach has to preemptively defend himself against pearl-clutchers who may be aghast at the incompleteness/inaccuracy of the model is both hilarious and deeply sad. The Internet, ladies and gentlemen. Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times and try not to stare overlong into the abyss.

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Seydlitz: "I go down on my own terms"
Another fine member of the "too angry too die" club

[princeoftonga]

42:36 oh wow! Despite being terribly wounded Witting’s thoughts are for his men rather than himself! It seems to happen a fair amount in all militaries that wounded servicemen implore the responders to help their mates first despite their own terrible wounds! Whenever I come across incidents like that it never fails to make me emotional.

[joshthomas-moore]

I think its fair to say SMS Seydlitz was the German version of HMS Warspite and USS Enterprise.

[TheCaptainbeefylog]

The progressive use of the model was immensely helpful! I would highly recommend that you do this again with other actions and ships. I understand that the building of the model and then adding the damage effects can be quite time-consuming and laborious, but I feel it has truly helped deliver a superior video.
Thank you for your labours in this.

[gurk_the_magnificent]

Seriously it’s like Doc Brown apologizing to Marty McFly because he didn’t have time to build the models to scale or paint them. Dude, it looks great!

[SirWilliamKidney]

Forget the British shells, Seydlitz should really be worried about the giant wave that's about to take her out @6:30

[Tom-ugkt]

SMS Seydlitz... when your ship reaches the next weight class by collecting all the shells it can.

[waynedavis]

The fact that her crew kept their ship afloat was a miracle. RIP to the men who lost their lives in the battle on both sides.

[barker]

I was first made aware about this ship as a school boy. My grandfather gave me a book in which the Seydlitz captains notes on Jutland were printed. He described how one of his crew, rerouted electric switches in a blacked out room by memory to keep the systems from collapse. I’ve always though the tale of its crew deserved a movie/book of their fight to save the ship.
If anyone knows of a book devoted to the vessel, I’d be grateful.

[rackstraw]

We need to fund a new Seydlitz model for Drach. I have visions of him at the workbench with a soldering iron and Dremel laughing maniacally during the filming of this video.

[hajoos.]

Seydlitz is the undefeated world record holder in fast reloading of it's 11 inch guns, performed at the Doggerbank. After both stern turrets blew up (when Wilhelm Heidkamp opened the red glowing valves with his hands to save the ship, which lowered Seydlitz' stern for 1, 5 meters), the captain thought after the explosion, the entire ship will be lost. So he wanted to cover the retreat of the other 2 battlecruisers and ordered "good & rapid fire" for the 3 remaining turrets. Seydlitz fired 128 shells in 6 rounds as per minute, best turret crews in history.

[jlvfr]

21 hits by heavy caliber, 35-40 by secondary battery, a torpedo... are we sure someone didn't turn on a magnet inside the ship?... to _attract_ shot?!

[cartmann]

Royal Navy: In ancient times the royals had a job for a “whipping boy”, where a selected person would take beatings reserved for misbehaving royalty.
SMS Seydlitz: Ja! you don’t say?

[davidbrennan]

Drach shooting at the model with a Webley Tempest air pistol was an interesting way to demonstrate the damage.

[De_Wit]

Oh man, having a model showing the impacts is absolutely brilliant for clarity. Much better than almost any collection 100 year old pictures can provide.
Very well done good Sir. Next level stuff 👍🏻

[themissouriranger]

My Great great grandfather served on SMS Seydlitz, from Dogger Bank to Scapa Flow, I might never have known him but it still inspired me to join the navy. Maat Wilhelm Heidkamp, he was. But anyways, Great video as always Drachinifel! Very much enjoy your videos