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History's Weirdest Warships

Warship Designs with Mike Brady

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Warships have come in all different shapes and sizes and these - well they’re some of the weirdest. From the enormous French ironclads that were more like floating castles - to the British submarine with a 50 ton sniper rifle - the British battleships too big for their own good - the American aircraft carriers made out of old paddle wheel passenger ships - and finally the tiny Italian monitor with a battleship’s main gun.

Featuring the French ironclad Carnot, the British M Class submarine, the battleship HMS Colossus of 1882, the American training carrier USS Wolverine and Italian monitor Faa di Bruno

Warship Designs - the sister-channel to Oceanliner Designs - explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest machines and vessels– from battleships like Bismarck and HMS King George V to aircraft carriers like USS Gerald R. Ford and IJN Akagi. Join researcher Mike Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous machines!

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0:00 French ironclad Carnot
07:29 Brish M-Class Submarine
17:56 British battleship HMS Colossus
22:27 American carrier USS Wolverine
28:18 Italian monitor Faa di Bruno

20 Comments

@WarshipDesigns Creator 2 months ago Pinned

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@JamesDavis-mm2mi 2 months ago

This guy should do a colab with Mike Brady from ocean liner designs and Mike Brady from airliner designs

@sebstiangoriesky5265 2 months ago

Fun bit of trivia regarding the Wolverine and Sable is that a large portion of the naval warbirds in private ownership in the US were salvage sourced from planes damaged during training flights and pushed over the side

@ZGryphon 2 months ago

4:00 On a point of order, that is not a warship, sir; it is clearly a railway station hotel.

@kennethhanks6712 2 months ago

The Wolverine and Sable were not only the US Navy's only paddlewheel aircraft carriers they both were also the only COAL FIRED carriers which served OK except when the winds were not monitored adequately and the aircraft on deck got a coating of soot which definitely upset the pilots and the air operations officer!

@TheSaneHatter 2 months ago (edited)

If nothing else, that M-Class sub certainly LOOKED intimidating: perhaps that fact alone is what got the design approved?

@MrDmitriRavenoff 2 months ago

"Michigan is known as the Wolverine state. Go Spartans." Is either a gross misunderstanding or comedy gold.

@christaylor8776 2 months ago

Don't forget the British K-class steam powered submarines! Madness!

@backpackingtony1779 2 months ago

Nothing better than spending a Sunday afternoon with my tea and my friend Mike Brady!

@legiran9564 2 months ago

How the French navy went from Carnot to Richelieu still astounds me.

@Thar-b3d 2 months ago

the M1 was the admiralty compensantig for sure

@theevildrummingsithlord1492 2 months ago

I want to see some alternate universe story where all these silly designs are used in combat against each other in a small scale conflict.

@Kun2112 2 months ago

No Vice-Admiral Popov class? Those are the oddest warships ever built, even for Monitors!

@josephgreeley5569 2 months ago

I think the conversion of the Seeandbee and the Greater Buffalo was a stroke of genius given the needs of the time.

@tonybennett638 2 months ago

Those old French battleships that look like apartment buildings are bsolutely beautiful 😊

@elijahhodges4405 2 months ago

I would think a portable mortar would be better than a big heavy gun.

@Richard-y8l5w 10 days ago

Some of the conversions of WW2 warships are amazing/amusing. My father’s seaplane tender became a small cruise ship.

@cmdredstrakerofshado1159 2 months ago

Actually of all these odd ball the Wolverine and the Sable were the most successful because it really aid to the US Navy's pilots success who were trained in the basics of operating off of Aircraft carriers saving countless hours of training away from combat missions. It was truly amazing , practical and effective modification of two near end of life paddle wheelers playing a crucial war time train mission. A+ odd ball success in my books 📚. 👍

@marcwilke2521 2 months ago

By WW1 submarines were not defined by "staying submerged for relatively long periods of time". Quite the opposite, they were defined by "once submerged being able to resurface after short periods of time" compared to the years, decades, or even centuries that traditional ships stayed under once submerged.