Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 197 (Part 1)" video.

  1. The thing about impressment is if you are at sea & have just lost a battle to the English & you managed to survive. Well once you surrender the ship belongs to the English. They could just kill you and toss you overboard. You are at sea, they could just put you overboard & say "good luck mate." Or if there are any serviceable dingy's left they could put you in that & let you go. They could make you a POW & put you in the stockade, where at sea, food & water is NOT plentiful, so your not going to get much. Or Hey, the Brits only had crew for one ship & now they have two. And if you help crew the ship you get food & water with the rest of the crew & have a much better chance of making it back to land as a healthy human being. Plus being in the "stockade" of a ship & there is a lot of people in the stockade. It's not going to be very clean & chances of you getting some horrible disease COULD be an issue as well. I think I'd much rather help sail the ship. BUT I would also make it clear that if they were to go into battle against another ship of my countrymen, then please don't ask or expect my help for such a battle. Since I've already surrendered to you, I will not hinder you. For I don't mind helping to sail the ship, I refuse to fight against my own country even if it means my life. And I believe MOST reasonable & intelligent men would find that acceptable & put you in the stockade if it's clear that they are going into action against a ship of your nation.
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  2. In the first ten minutes you were asked to give an MVP for each side in the Battle of Jutland. And you picked Seydlitz & Iron Duke. I personally feel that I would have picked Warspite for the same reason you picked Seydlitz. I forget the name of the ship, but when Warspite lost her steering and did a 360 it absorbed A LOT of shells that would have gone into another ship. I forget the name of the ship, but that ship might have been destroyed and sunk right there & then. And although I do believe that ship did ultimately sink,BUT most of the crew was taken off the ship before it sank. And so the survivors of that ship can pretty much say that Warspite helped save their lives.
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