Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Drydock - Episode 202" video.

  1. Honda Point Disaster. Poor navigation. 4th Fleet Incident. Weather and bad design. Typhoon Cobra incident. Weather and an admiral's idiocy.
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  2. Tin Can sailor weighing in (though only a lowly Snipe) on WW2 ASW tactics and weapons: DC patterns and numbers used per "run". Figure 2x Y guns on either side of the aft deckhouse and rolling two more DC off the fantail. So-6 Depth Charges per pass in a glocke (bell shaped) pattern. Then there's Hedgehog, which could throw 18 charges (with contact detonators) in a broad circle ahead, or to either beam (P/S). A potential war winner. The later Squid could throw 3 charges (DC) ahead or to the beam. Was generally considered a failure. Dangers and contraindications: DC were large warheads stacked on your fantail (18-50). Dumb idea if crew or ship survival is your primary focus. It's the same with torpedoes. Hedgehog operation could, by repeated fire, damage the deck under the mounting-but that's nothing like having a depth charge or torpedo sympathetic detonation occur on the same ship. Squid is much the same. A trio of squids going off on your foredeck is likely to take out the bridge crew. Not so much for hedgehog. The biggest advantage to Hedgehog is the ability to maintain contact while launching and all the way after-unless you get a hit. The others make you lose contact as soon as one detonates. The resulting disruption renders the DD's SoNAR useless for a couple minutes after. Why did Hedgehog fall out of favor? Simple. Submarine sailors dominated procurement after the war. ;-)
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  3. 6 April 1941. SS Clan Frazier. <Civilian two miles away> "It's raining men!" 5 December 1918. Mont-Blanc. From the wiki: "Approximately 20 minutes later at 9:04:35 am, the Mont-Blanc exploded. Nearly all structures within an 800-metre (half-mile) radius, including the community of Richmond, were obliterated.[3] A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels (including Imo, which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami), and scattered fragments of Mont-Blanc for kilometres. Across the harbour, in Dartmouth, there was also widespread damage.[4] A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of the Mi'kmaq First Nation who had lived in the Tufts Cove area for generations."
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  4. Warships with huge ammo loads? Try an aircraft carrier. Battleships are lightweights compared to carriers for ordnance carried in terms of the spectacular explosion they make if compromised.
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  5. Lesson learned by the Mi'kmaq: when white men tell you something is safe they lie*. *That's a lesson many of us have yet to learn.
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  6. Akagi, Taiho, Princeton . . .
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  7. Ba-da-BOOM!
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  8. Atlanta class didn't need torpedo tubes, but they sure needed torpedo bulges. Big ones.
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  9.  @colbeausabre8842  Hehe.
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  10. None of these systems is the answer for restricted or coastal waters. Shallow seaways become turbid with bottom sediments stirred up in the wake (pun intended) of Antisubmarine volleys. The ASW unit becomes as blind as the Submarine it hunts-maybe blinder, as the sub skipper is used to operating submerged (sans optique). A Hedgehog barrage might strike the bottom and detonate-or not. I think we need to make a treaty with Atlantis . . . get Aquaman (R), or Namor (D) to trail near peer subs with sharks and whales and maybe send a few mermaids to our Destroyer crews . . . hey. We tin can sailors need love, too!
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  11.  @colbeausabre8842  Most interesting data.
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