HMS King George V (1911) - Guide 411

The WW1-era King George V class, battleships of the British Royal Navy, are today's subject.

Read more about the ships here:

[robertmoyse]

Winston Churchill on the battleship race: “The Admiralty had demanded six ships; the economists offered four; and we finally compromised on eight.”

[jimroberts]

I'm really a tank and aircraft person but I find Drachs videos compulsive watching. I think it's his voice and presentation style, his humour and the detail of the information given in his videos. Anyway tanks were once called land ships!

[Yakko]

Moving the foremast forward of the funnels so the crew manning it wouldn't have to breathe smoke? Truly an innovation. 😁

[MattVF]

An Orion with the kinks ironed out. Good looking ships.

[robinmilford]

Thank you for putting this out. My late great-uncle James Pengelly served aboard HMS Ajax for most of WW1 as a carpenter and shipwright, including at Jutland, and I still have some of his notebooks with hand-drawn sketches of the structure and services - very sparse compared with what came later!

[kenellis]

In early August, 1954, on the very first day of my apprenticeship, to be a Marine Electrician, I stood on the for deck, and stared down the barrels of HMS KING GEORGE V ! She was in the Gladstone Dry Dock, Liverpool, being readied for her final voyage, to the Ship Breakers, on the Clyde. I’m in my 86year now, but the exhilaration I felt that day, is as just as vivid, but tinged a just a little, with sadness because she’s gone, but I was privileged, at least, to have been able to say Bon voyage.

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

WW2 KGVs to Centurion: wait a minute...who are you?

[georged]

Thank you for offering me the seat next to you yesterday on BB-62! The sign of a true gentleman.

[Rdeboer]

They and the Orions have a pugilistic appearance to them that I appreciate in a battleship.

[GrahamWKidd]

And thus the Patreon Drydock Saturday night trifecta is complete!
Thanks Uncle Drach.

[BalshazzarWastebasket]

look at that gorgeous girl. im actually surprised that there was no post on this ship yet. well, another fantastic production by the indefatigable and Drachinifel, defender of the high lore of the seas

[Reginald-]

I both love and hate how these ships were considered obsolete in a matter of years. Really shows the leaps and bounds naval technology was making at the time...

[vikkimcdonough]

Achievement get: Grand Fleets

You've covered every single dreadnought-and-onwards battleship-or-battlecruiser class of the Royal Navy. Jacky Fisher would be proud!

[ChandelordChandel-wihx]

That poor crewman on Liverpool has to be one of the unluckiest sailors to ever live

[Boba-Fett-GSEz]

Did anyone else's ears perk up when Drach said there might be bits of KGV in the sand in France?

[tuukka]

It is funny that in some videos you can’t be sure before the end if a ship with a familiar name served long (both wars) or if it was replaced before WWII

[kenbb]

Looking at 4:54 of the video, it is amazing that either the top of the foremast got launched out of the forward funnel, or the Royal Navy found a way of lightening these pesky masts by having them levitate. I like the idea of being a crewman in the top of this mast on the way up (Hello Moon), but not so much on the way down.

[andrewreynolds]

And the collection of guides for Royal Navy battleships is finally complete!

[stothal]

thank you for your labour of love, Drach

[anonnemo]

Many thanks for the video, as informative and professionally produced as ever. I am now subscribed to the channel. My father served on "HMS Searcher" during WWII. She was an escort carrier built in the US, launched in 1942, and took part in one of the strikes against Tirpitz. I would greatly appreciate a review of this ship's career. Many thanks again.