HMS Courageous - Guide 064 (Part 2/2)

The Courageous class aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy are today's subject.

Next on the list:
-HMS Glorious
-Erebus class
-Salamis (NB)
-B-65 class (NB)
-Deutschland class (pre-Dreadnought)
-G3 class (NB)
-USS North Carolina
-Tillman Battleship Special
-Deutschland class (1930)
-KMS Graf Spee
-Tone class
-HMS Warrior (1860)
-IRN Potemkin
-Hipper class
-KMS Prinz Eugen
-Yamato class
-Italia class
-Tsesarevich
-Βασίλισσα Ολγα (Basilissa Olga)
-Nagato class
-Monitor Parnaiba
-G-class destroyer
-HMS Glowworm
-Town class cruisers
-USS Wichita
-Lord Nelson class
-Essex class
-Slava (Pre-dreadnought)
-USS Massachusetts
-Pensacola class
-HIJMS Oyodo
-Riachuelo (NB)
-I-19
-HMS Ark Royal
-ORP Błyskawica
-USS West Virginia
-Amagi Class
-Tosa Class
-Alaska class
-Derfflinger class
-Yorktown class
-Tre Kronor class
-Nelson class
-Gato class
-Admiralen class
-H class (NB)
-Greek 'Monarch' class destroyers
-'Habbakuk' project
-USS Texas
-USS Olympia
-HIJMS Mikasa
-County class
-KMS Tirpitz
-Montana class
-Florida class
-USS Salt Lake City
-Storozhevoy
-Flower class
-USS San Juan
-HMS Sheffield
-USS Alaska
-Hipper class
-KMS Prinz Eugen
-USS Texas
-USS Johnston
-Dido class
-Hunt class

Specials:
-Fire Control Systems
-Protected Cruisers
-Scout Cruisers
-Naval Artillery
-Tirpitz (damage history)

[annteve]

My father’s first ship after HMS Ganges (training) was HMS Courageous in 1935. As an Ordinary Seaman (he was 18) he was assigned to the flight deck on a rotating basis. He received a Mention in Dispatches and Oak Leaf Cluster for injuries sustained on the flight deck when he grasped the lower wingtip of a Fairy Swordfish—which having missed the arrestor wires, was in peril of rolling off the deck with the possible loss of plane and crew—and swinging it into the island. I believe he was on the HMS Courageous World Tour just prior to the outbreak of war. Being of diminutive stature, he “volunteered” for the submarine service at the outbreak of hostilities and served on submarines for the duration rising to Chief Gunnery Officer.

[stevenpilling]

For starting out as so ill-conceived a vessel that her own people dubbed her "Spurious", HMS Furious pulled her weight in the war. Transporting those aircraft to Malta was a vital mission by itself. So was its keeping DKS Tirpitz incapacitated.

[brianhaygood]

I miss when all YouTube videos were about 5 minutes. Now people are just trying to see how long they can make you sit and watch. Excellent as always, Drach.

[jehb]

It's kind of a sad irony when aircraft carriers everywhere else in the world were sinking capital ships and HMS glorious got destroyed by capital ships.

And yes HMS furious was definitely the weird child of the trio.

[KTheFirst]

The infuriating thing about Glorious is how her commanding officer refused to send up a CAP. The reason? "It's a clear day out! Why waste the fuel when we can see the enemy just as he crosses the horizon?"

Well, at least the RN learned why.

[CaesarInVa]

Hmmmm, seems that instead of being a submarine hunter, Courageous became a submarine magnet.

[BlairInKW]

My father served on the Furious. A young Canadian 2nd Lt trained in radar technology, this young man from Saskatchewan played poker with the airmen who were bombing the Tirpiz. But there were no IOU's. No one knew if they would live another day, so you paid your debts or were dealt out. My father never spoke much about the war, but I remember that story.

[Occasionalcamper]

My dad was on Furious, until it’s time was up and ended the war on HMS Hunter which was one of the many escort carriers. Glad he was on the odd one, not on her sisters. He preferred Furious to Hunter, said it sailed smooth by comparison.

[RonJohn]

4:15 Sugar was a great morale booster for the home front.

[KoryMalleus]

We Canadians don't care about gold. We only care about the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve. Yes we really have one.

[Wandering]

Great Uncle Arthur was a Naval Airman on Courageous. Granny used to tell stories of digging the fuel oil out of his ears with a carving knife after the sinking, not sure how true that was.

[SN_]

"we need carrier-borne floatplanes, wat do" "O I L T H E D E C K"

[georgemello]

Please do a thorough look into the most fortuitous battleships, HMS Warspite. Please include her incredibly well trained crew and gunnery having some world records broken.

The other ship of interest for me is HMS Vanguard. What was the thinking behind the construction of one seemingly weaker battleship in an Empire that had yet actually collapsed?

A bit of a twist, but I would like a brief history of how the Island of Bermuda fit into the Royal Navy’s strategic control of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Seas.

Thank you for allowing us to participate in this manner. I can’t get enough of this YouTube channel.

[JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Your sarcastic humor in this and the prior video reached new heights! Great videos! I chuckled and snorted my way through!

[patrickradcliffe]

Interesting that only two of the prewar Washington Naval treaty carrier conversions survived the war.

[snicks]

Anyone else think the captain of the sugar criuse must have spent time as a merchantman before going navy?

"I see you have a shipment of sugar coming in eh?"
"Yeah so?"
"...How much a kilo's that goin' for?...."

[claypidgeon]

I would love to see the Kancolle version of these ships of only for the “b-different” hipster persona of Furious much to the consternation of her sisters.

[joshuamarvin]

When he said 'yes you guessed it', I was actually thinking Canada, not Norway. Either way, this ship spent and lot of time in the snow.

[iatsechannel]

Love the obsessive coverage of things that swim! Do not heed the calls to tamp down snark. I love this.
Two extra pumps of snark [personality]!

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