The Crimean Naval War at Sea - Battleships, Bombardments and the Black Sea

this was very interesting! I hope you are still interested in continuing this

Where are Ukrainiansin all of this? Isnt Crimea ukrainian?

I think my brain is growing barnacles, from hanging out in this channel, good stuff!

The sad thing is that Britain's efforts to stymie the Russians throughout the 19th century would come back to haunt them in the Great War.

Historically, when has russia not been a threat?

"early 19th century politics was a bit of a mess" ill fucking say

When westerns team up with ottoman to halt you you're very not welcomed

It's so funny how those hundreds of brit earthquakecackles were gunned down by the Russian normaltrash. It is highly debatable if their volunteering to get killed in a war was earthquakecackles or well-meaning, but the former is more likely considering we are talking about normal brits and equally normaltrash turdcases who used to be slaves in ottoman service.

Early 19th Century geopolitics was a mess? Compared to the entirety of the 20th century? WWI, reshuffle allies, WW2, reshuffle allies, cold war...

Wait! What? The Crimean war made it all the way to the US west coast? Not something we learn in history class in the states. But tell me, when will this war end?

Lots of British pyromaniacs back then.

Seems like a bridge to kerch would be a good idea.

Werent sail warships used in the American Civil War?

Your initial logo have a misspelled word.

Hyped about the upcoming reboot

An excellent video, I am looking forward to the Baltic section.

Constantinople ??!!! The objectivity and accuracy of this (documentary) is really questionable.

It makes you wonder how many families were destroyed by their homes and or their merchant/fishing vessels were destroyed or taken.😔 If your allies are upset because they are starving from loss of trade and commerce you can only imagine how the locals fared in the winter and spring before the crops and early forage afforded sustenance.

The number of times the phrase "and then they destroyed government property" is used in this vid really makes my heart swell with joy

What the video trying to say.... That Azov Brigade is Good.... 😂😂

De Israeli/Disraeli fukled whole Europe and especially Chirstians very good. USA should build him a statue in front of Washingtons grave. at best with compressed silver Shekels.

The war of 1854/55 was not just in Crimea! Russia had at that time a large Baltic Sea coast as the Russian Empire of the time had control of Finland. The British sent about 18,000 men into the Baltic in 1854 with 16 sail powered battle ships plus a large number of smaller warships many of which had steam power. They increased this to 25.000 men in 1855. The French also had sent a considerable fleet though they contributed less ships & sailors more troops. In 1855 the french had 10, 000 troops in action on the Baltic coast. As well as a fleet of sail powered warships. The Main action was expected to be with 26 Russian sail powered battle ships.......... But this never happened as the few British paddle steam powered boats could run rings around sail powered warships so the Russians used their brains & stayed in port & never tryed to compete with the smaller steamers. In fact the British wasted a lot of money sending sail powered battle ships when a few steamers could have wipped out the Russians on their own & THE CREWS OF THESE BOATS KNEW IT even if the British Admiralty was a bit slow to figure this out! The only big land action was in the Aland Islands where British steam ships landed French Troops behind a number of Russian Forts The Biggest Fort being Bomarsund. These Russian Forts had all their defensives set up for a front attack by sail powered battle ships & no defence to an attack in the rear via steam ship transported troops & artilary! It was a clear easy victory for the French/British who hardly lost a man. With out steam power advantage to the British/French, these Russian Forts Would never have been taken. But! While the French Troops hardly lost a man in the fight they did die like flys after the battle & on their way home from disease from poor sanitation! This was not the only tragedy. The Alander people ARE Finlanders NOT RUSSIANS, although controled by Russia at that time. The British ships crews remarked at how friendly they were & often stopped to trade fresh food with them. Talked to them, had friendly visits.........! But because a few Russian soldiers were seen in the villages of these people & because Russian cargo vessels tried to slip down the coast past the mainly British Blockade of all Russain shipping in the Baltic the THICK top brass of the british fleet ordered their ships to shell many coastal towns. One minute the crews of these ships are on very good terms with these Alander Island people (Finnish Peoples) Next they are ordered to lob shells into them as a few Cossacks (Russian Soldiers) have been spotted in a village. I know the British crews were not happy as I had blood relations on those ships firing the guns. ..........It was not a time when you could say no to such an order. One had live to live to be old, another 50 years to get to an age when in England you could safely write about things that should have never been done! The Baltic part of this War was a turning point in learning, Sail Power was dead in the minds of all younger free thinking military minds though these things took longer to go up the line of command in the 1850's. Plus The huge loss of life of the French due to disease that certainly was of their own making....... poor sanitation. They slaughtered the Russians in battle due to a tec advance in warfare & some good planning by subordinate officers........ Then lost more men in the end than the Russains did. These thoughts did have some effects to help change the thoughts of many miltary minds! A mistake is only truely a mistake if you repeat it??????

Nobody has battleships. There are no battleships. If you can't be any more accurate than this you are not a reliable source of information. (Or was that just click bait?)

Actually, Crimea war is coincidence with our second Anglo Burmese war of 1852 and admiralty should have choose the famous commodore George Lambert of EIC in HMS Fox who deliberately start hostilities in Burma to lead their navy!!😂😂

So why has one side got an inside out Scottish flag ?

Wow. "Admiral of the White" sums up the Royal Navy pretty well.

A gun from the "Tiger" is still displayed in Odessa. And looks like all these Crimean and Azov names will be on the news again soon enough

Again, similarities to what's recently happened on Paris with Notre Dame possibly not connected to present day WW3. 😢 🎉

So not much different compared to what's happening at present day with Russia & Ukraine then. 🎉

The French and British betrayed European and sided with the Ottomans. Shameful

Professor Andrew Lamb ert was my BA Dissertation Supervisor, this gave me intense flashbacks.

Mariupol, Berdyansk, Sevastopol - such familiar Russian cities... yet again part of the motherland after a 30 year detour..

What kind of poison gas weapons did they have back in the day ?

There didn't seem to be many candidates to lead the British fleet, that didn't have an injured right arm tucked into the jacket -or was this nod to Lord Nelson?

Nice graphics good narration

In Solovecky Monastery itself the battle is described differently: two British steam frigates: Miranda (15 cannons) and Brisk (14 cannons) vs the monastery defenders 53 invalid soldiers and 2 officers with two 3-pdr cannons and eight even smaller training ones, supported by 200 monks, 370 pilgrims and 20 prisoners.
On July 6th (18th) the British warships opened fire on approach, the Russians returned fire, Miranda was hit, the British retreated.
On July 7th (19th) the British warships returned, with an ultimatum demanding surrender. Russians refused. British bombarded the monastery for 9 hours keeping their distance, afraid of return fire.
On July 8th (20th) the British pirates retreated, burning and pillaging other undefended churches, villages and Krestny monastery in Onega Bay on Zayachi and Kiy Islands.
Doubtfully the most heroic achievement by British Navy.

Thanks!

Excellent upload as always . We have been there before , looks like we might be going there again . Hope we do a better job of it this time around.

"The war of Åland was terrible, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah. When with 300 ships sailed the Englishmen on the shores of our Finland Sumfaraa, sumfaraa, sumfarallallalaa Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah." Finnish was song about the Crimean War.

Came here via Real Time History. Great video!

Excellent history course on the Crimean Naval War. At university my prof. spent six weeks covering in the same topic, and was able to put the entire class to sleep. Would love to have taken that course with Drachinifel instead. :)
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about the Tiger, there is still a gun from the ship standing before the Odesa city council building as a reminder of the battle

All those familiar names along the Black Sea and Azov Sea

🤔Hmmm🤫...Will Episode 2 describe the current Crimean naval war at sea...the Black Sea Fleet defending its honour & territory against those pesky, trespassing NATO warships & UAVs'...!?!

It is a bit weird hearing the names of places in the Crimean War ... that are again in war news, because Ukraine is fighting to maintain it's independence from a Russia that wants to be an empire again.

The guns from HMS Tiger were recovered by the Russians and (some of them at least) guard the Potemkin Steps and Odessa harbour.