SMS Lützow: The German Battlecruiser That Sank at Jutland

Step back in time and join us on an epic journey as we delve into the fascinating story of the German battlecruiser Lutzow. In this captivating video, we explore the history, and design. Commissioned in August 1915, Lutzow faced initial challenges with her machinery, delaying her service until February 1916. However, her wait was not in vain, as she went on to participate in numerous operations, including the historic shelling of Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth in April 1916. Lutzow's crowning moment came at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, where she served as Admiral Franz von Hipper's flagship. Despite enduring heavy damage from British battle cruisers and battleships, Lutzow remarkably withstood around 25 hits and managed to escape the battle. Sadly, her wounds proved too severe, and she was ultimately scuttled the following day.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Background
5:26 Pre-Jutland Career
7:00 Battle of Jutland
15:40 Sinking
18:13 Conclusion

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[nsu]

Gotta LOVE these great ships! Wish they could ALL be magically brought back.

[ImportantNavalHistory]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to preface this video by saying there might be pictures of Derfflinger or Hindenburg thrown in occasionally. Surprisingly enough, a ship that was in service as short of a time as Lützow it is pretty hard to find readily accessible photos.

Edit: Sorry I made a mistake when discussing the armor, I said meters and not millimeters.

[sftommy]

more of the crews role during the sinking...than I've heard before....thanks for sharing

[andrewemery]

I lived on London Road South in Lowestoft. Even today you can clearly see the repaired brickwork where some of the shells landed.

[jimmywrangles]

A beautiful ship. The Germans really knew how to build good looking ships.

[lyedavide]

Great video featuring not only the Lutzow, but also some of the action at the Battle of Jutland. The Germans were certainly better gunners than the British. But that alone did not necessarily mean that the British battle cruisers we in any physical way inferior to their German counterparts. It was the Royal Navy's obsession with rapid fire that led to the unsafe handling of munitions that resulted in not only inferior gunnery accuracy but also the loss of three battle cruisers with over 3, 000 officers and crew. War is Hell. RIP to all those who died at Jutland.

[uberduberdave]

I just blew a small bundle on the 1:700 Takom/Snowman Model - SMS Derfflinger 1916 & SMS Lutzow 1916 & Zeppelin Q Class model kit. it has comprehensive building and marking instructions but not one word about the history of of the ships. Back when I was a young'un, Revell, Monogram and other US kit makers back then would have a few sentences worth of the history behind whatever you were building on their instruction sheet, but out of the Chinese, you get squat.

It's nice to find someone, somewhere to tell the story about these vessels.

[WojciechWachniewski-stzm]

Appearance may be of not a special importance to warships, but it is always a pleasure to see beaitiful warship, like 'Bismarck', 'Scharnhorst' or 'Yamato'. Beauties among British warships were their destroyers (Tribal!!!) Beautiful are British names of warships. 'Luetzow' came from Danzig, now Gdańsk.

[RayyMusik]

4:22 Wow! A main belt from 100 meters to 300 meters is *really* impressive! 😁
Btw, “Ersatz xxxx“ was not really a name but a provisional designation until the ship was given an official name.

[craigfazekas]

There is a badass 1:700th scale model set on the market that includes LÜTZOW, DERRFLINGER & a P-class Zeppelin. There are upgrade parts with the kit (s) & a 1:35 scale resin figure of Adm. vonScheer. The maker of the model set is Snowman/Takom Models.
I hope knowing this inspires the model building contingent among us !!
🚬😎👍

[jarvisfamily]

Just a note - the name of Lützow's sister ship is not "dur-FLING-er", it's "DURF-ling-er" - accent on the first syllable - named for Georg von Derfflinger, a Prussian general during the Thirty Years War.

[waynedavis]

I'm shocked that Germany tried to stay within the treaties limitations.

[sidsod]

300 meters of armour wow no wander she was so hard to sink.

[xclaassen]

Kapitän or Kapitaen not Kapitan, Jade not Dscheyd. But from the rest, i am impressed

[Stale_Kracker]

Cant take it away from the germans they definitly could put shells on target. Ww1 and 2

[chloehennessey]

Wouldn’t you want high pressure steam as far away from crew as possible?
Like 800+ psi of steam is extremely dangerous isn’t it?

Beatty.
How that man… on god I’d have thrown every last one of those officers overboard if I was Jellicoe.
Beatty didn’t have to close the range. They had the advantage and could lobbed shells at them with no real danger of getting hit back.
FU, Beatty. FU to hell.

[randyfant]

She was not scuttled. She went down by the bow due to progressive flooding, taking a large number of her crew with her.

[drharmonica]

Boring. Might as well be reading the stock market report for all the interest this generates..