Youtube hearted comments of Dave Sisson (@Dave_Sisson).

  1. Hopefully we will get a history of the First Rates built at the same time which included HMVS Nelson, which was sold to the cashed up Colony of Victoria and thus became the only First Rate ever to be owned by a colonial navy.
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  2. I suspect the Boer War name Drach was struggling with is Colquhoun, which is usually pronounced car-hoon.
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  3. Thanks for the tips on scanning century old photos. I write Australian mountain history and I often get photos sent to me of ski scenes, mountain huts, mines, etc. to identify. I use much the same technique of identifying the time period and then eliminating possibilities that Drach uses.
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  4. I saw Drach in Melbourne filming on board HMAS Castlemaine today. I thought it best not to interrupt him and his extensive entourage, so I chatted to the very informative crew instead. 🙂
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  5. The world was very different back then, people lived differently and had different values. As a writer of popular histories, I keep coming up against people who are outraged that historic characters did not think or act as people do in the 21st century. I find it very frustrating.
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  6. Perhaps a series of short vids on the smaller navies and what they did in WWII? The Canadians with their convoy escort speciality, Australians with their Scrap Iron Flotilla in the Mediterranean and then fighting in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Dutch, mostly in the East Indies, but also in the Atlantic, whatever the Soviets did, etc. But whatever you do it will be great. Thanks for both entertaining and educating us.
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