Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Loss of HMS Hood - But why did it blow up??" video.

  1. Not only would most of his material be easily lecture worthy at any prestigious university but ALSO his voice is also really awesome for documentaries as well. All of his stuff is very well written and very well narrated too.
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  2. What gets me about the Hood, is that it was GONE IN 3 MINUTES!!!(GONE IN 180 SECONDS!!!) For a ship that big to go completely beneath the surface of the water in 3 minutes is truly incredible & VERY VERY SCARY!!! Taking 1415 lives with it & only leaving behind 3 men. It boggles the mind! With that being said, I myself having no idea of the layout of the ship, AND I thought it was obvious as ti what had happened. They were in a battle, firing these huge shells at the Bismarck with Bismarck firing back. Bismarck just happened to hit the most vulnerable part of the ship AND it blew up & sank in a matter of minutes. It being the flag ship of the British Navy & undoubtedly THE most famous warship in the world, the British, of course, want to know exactly what happened, so that maybe if it's some error in the design, then we can learn from it & make sure it NEVER happens again. Very understandable, you never want to lose a ship that is worth millions plus over 1400 lives of our countrymen. Like I said, in war, bad things are going to happen.
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  3. After a bit of my own research I found another unlikely possible scenario. Because everything had been cleared for action this one petty officer was late to the galley to get a bite to eat. This petty officer was in charge of the aft 15" magazine. When he arrived at the galley he told the cook on duty he had 10 mins to get to his post. So the cook gave him a sandwich to eat. And some cookies for dessert. But the cook was almost out of whole milk & only had a small amount of 2% milk available. Well, not giving it any thought the cook mixed the whole milk with the 2% and gave it to the petty officer with the cookies who had just finished his sandwich & was hurrying to his station because action had just opened. Anyway, after arriving at his station the petty officer dipped his cookie & the shit blew up! Catching the 15" charges on fire the whole magazine exploded tearing the ship into quickly sinking pieces of wreckage. The petty officer having no idea the cook had given him such a volatile drink to go with his Oreo's! He never knew that he caused the deaths of all of his shipmates. And actually, what I believe, people remarked about seeing something "arrive" aboard Hood but wasn't sure if it was a shell hit from Bismarck. What it really was, seriously, was the "Angel of Death" had just arrived aboard the doomed ship. And although they weren't able to really see it, it was similar to seeing a ghost. But with the ship exploding, the "ghost" on board was quickly forgotten with the horror of the burning wreckage quickly sinking. WTF!!!???
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  4. Wow, I made the mistake of listening to this but not watching as I was commuting home. Now I MUST replay the whole video & watch it at the same time. I find it all very intriguing. It was my thought that the turn along with the trough would have allowed the plunging shell through the deck armour, or the lack of deck armour. Yet, I am by no means one that knows or studies such things.
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  6. If a fire in the 4" magazine could cause enough degradation in the ships defenses & then could have enough of an explosion to compromise the 15" magazine and cause it to explode then is the 4" magazine more of a danger to the ship than the 4" guns are protecting the ship from? Basically meaning is it really worth having those guns if they are causing such a danger. And were future ships designed so that an explosion in the secondary magazine would NOT cause enough damage to set off the primary magazines?
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  7. ​ @Deevo037  Really? So it's Americans doing that & NOT Germans? I mean, I could maybe see some German Americans doing that but idk, seems kinda a waste of time to me! Like those saying the Germans WON at Jutland! Yeah, OK. IF the High Seas Fleet won then how come they hurried to their home port & never sailed in force again? IF THEY had won then it would have been the Royal Navy that hurried to their home port instead of trying to chase down the remaining High Seas Fleet which is what really happened! Like it was said "The prisoners some what assaulted their jailers YET IN PRISON THEY REMAIN!!"😊😮😅
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