First World War tech: Dreadnoughts

First World War tech: Dreadnoughts

British Admiral John Fisher, First Sea Lord was the driving force behind the dreadnought, a new type of warship that made all previous ships redundant.

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Narrator:

Christian H Miles

Direction, editing, artwork, animation:
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[Simplehistory]

What powerful machines of war (including experimental) do you want to see next?

[Simplehistory]

We are being reinforced with a Dreadnought

[slightlybetteratmemesthany]

WE ARE BEING REINFORCED WITH A DREADNAUGHT

[abellew]

“He’s going for the dreadnaught “
“Ah he’s insane”

[ChrisChoateJr]

I love how BF1 teaches people the technology that was used in past wars in a fun way.

[zerixor]

Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized over time
Their legend will rise
And their foes can't believe their eyes
Believe their size as they fall
And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all

[phaseblade]

good to see battlefield 1 did their homework

[forti]

"Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized, over time their legend will rise. And their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall
And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all"

[a_future_storyteller]

"Plug your ears kid, it's gonna be loud".
-Fredrick Bishop

[rhysherring]

I learn more here than I do at my school..

[micindelta]

this battleship even more better than i could build in "From The Depths"

[joevalice]

2 things with this video,

1. The first super dreadnoights were the British Orion class, due the the inclusion on 13.5 inch main guns all on the center line and an extra 2000 ton displacement.

2. The Queen Elizabeth's are considered the first fast battleships.

[CSLucasEpic]

There was also a South American Dreadnought race between the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile). Argentina ordered two, and so did Chile while Brazil went all out and ordered four. Argentina basically "won" that race when they got all their Dreadnoughts faster, since of the three ABC powers, they were the only ones to have them built in shipyards in the US, while Brazil and Chile ordered theirs built in European shipyards, when WW1 started, the European major powers needed all the ships they could get their hands on, so they "borrowed" the brazilian and chilean ships so those countries didn't get theirs until after WW1 was over, if they did at all, by then Argentina already had their two Dreadnoughts. Only one of Brazil's four Dreadnoughts ever made it to Brazil, the Minas Gerais, of the other three one sank en route, one was used by the Ottomans and later by the British, and the last one never got finished because WW1 started. Both of Chile's Dreadnoughts got taken by the British, one eventually reached Chile and the second one was kept by the British and later convered into an Aircraft carrier. So that was it, of a total of 8 Dreadnoughts only 4 reached South America, Argentina had 2, Chile had 1 and Brazil also had 1.

[arandomyoutuber]

U didn't say how the HMS dreadnaught rammed and sunk a German u-29 submarine

[jona]

do something about Partizans (resistance that fought against Nazis in Yugoslavia during world war 2)

[KillaskiChannel]

Dreadnought: Stronger than german battleship


U-Boat: Am i a joke to you?

[Courierth]

*when the armored train start speaking Russian*

German: Hans, get the lunger

[massineben]

When you are defending in Fao, and the enemy gets reinforced by a destroyer and a Behemoth
:)
*:)*

[cytorakdemon]

Unopposed under crimson skies,
Immortalized overtime, their legend will rise.
And their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size as they fall.
And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all.

[HeavyPhoton]

*Kamchatka enters the chat*

"Torpedo boats from all directions"