Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "The Drydock - Episode 111" video.

  1. In the late 1940s the Australians were keen to set up Antarctic bases, but they were short of ships, so they got a war surplus flatish bottomed LST (Landing Ship Tanks) and sailed it through the stormy seas of the Southern Ocean to establish a station on Heard Island. The LST flexed and bent so much that it had to be written off on its return to Melbourne, but it was due to be scrapped anyway. They used ice strengthened ships on later voyages.
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  2. Yep, I use Squarespace for a website with articles on Australian mountains and I have used that photo carousel feature a couple of times.
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  3. Everyone likes The Cruel Sea and Battle of the River Plate. In Which We Serve is rather old fashioned and modern viewers will cringe a bit, but it does depict realistic action on a WW2 destroyer.
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