Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "The Drydock - Episode 067" video.

Great work as always Drach I loved the comment about one of the reasons for Derfflinger's toughness was defective British AP shells. This is all too often ignored by those less informed but rabid supporters of uber German toughness. Hope you have a great time on your US trip. One warning I can give you is to be very careful when using US currency. Unlike Australian or British notes, theirs are all the same colour and size so you have to pay attention when using them. Showing Aussie notes to US shop assistants their response was "Oh why can't ours be like that? They are so easy to tell apart"
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@CharlesStearman Yes that is correct. German ships in WW1 were designed for North Sea/Baltic Sea operations, in harbour the crews left the ship and lived ashore. I've read reports that due to their extensive subdivision you had to leave one boiler room, go all the way up to the weather deck and down again just to get to the next boiler room. This makes them hard to sink but inefficient for extended voyages. Navies which had to cruise for extended periods of time could not do this, there had to be more comfort for the crew, otherwise they would fall ill and become far less effective.
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@chopchop7938 Bah, Stereotypical American. A shallow reading of events. The Germans were NOT better sailors or tougher people. Their rangefinders were quicker to get on target but required perfect eyesight in both eyes to use (which cut the number of available people) but also required intense concentration. Battle however is full of distractions. Thus while starting better their accuracy diminished as operators tired while the easier to use British system took longer to get on target but improved rapidly and was able to maintain accuracy as it was more user friendly. As for excused for failures I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black. And every non American I've met says that about American currency. We use decimal currency too and you can tell the different denominations at a glance from across the room due to the different colours, (a system many nations use) can't say that about the standardized grey-green American notes
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