Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "Obscure Ships - Five vessels that deserve to be better known" video.

  1. Probably the Barents and North Seas were a bit more lively than the South Pacific, hence the differences in design...
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  2. Many navies used metric rather than inches, and some like the French were based on older calibers that derived from land-based cannon, like the equivalent to a six or twelve-pounder gun.
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  3. How they originally discovered those islands is another question - weather patterns? bird migrations? The world wonders...
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  4. Did you mean Ceylon instead of Malta? For a surprise first strike the Kido Butai would have to sail all the way around Africa or South America just to get to the Med...
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  5.  @enriquecasalinsmira9795  Can you recommend any good Spanish histories that have been translated into English?
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  6.  @enriquecasalinsmira9795  No - how did you send them?
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  7. Drach is usually very careful to differentiate between what he can assert as fact based on multiple reliable sources versus what his own opinion about things is. He even gives us some evaluation of the reliability of different sources some times.
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