Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned" video.

  1. I feel Admiral Rozhestvensky's pain. It is somewhat of a wonder that the Second Pacific Squadron actually made it to Tsushima (relatively) intact.
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  2. 40:56 - Huh; I'd read somewhere that Rozhestvensky's main force had gone around Africa instead of via the canal because the British had closed the canal to them in retaliation for the Dogger Bank incident rather than because he himself deemed it too dangerous.
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  3. Regarding Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea and Danish Narrows... TBF, if I'd been Admiral Togo, I probably would've had a few freighters modified to either serve as torpedo-boat tenders or just flat-out carry torpedo boats on board and then used those to send a torpedo-boat flotilla into the North or even the Baltic Sea. Thinking about it, it does at least seem reasonably-doable, at least at first glance (assuming I'm not missing something).
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