Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "The Drydock - Episode 202" video.

  1. Go to Page 84 of Chapelle's American Sailing Navy for a discussion of the Galley Frigate USS Confederacy (1778) versus HMS Charles Galley of 1676. He also points out the Southampton class of 1756 and Alarm ckass of 1757 (both 32's) were equipped for being rowed by sweeps. Battle Turn Away - for an example of the results of getting the turning circle wrong, see the fate of HMS Victoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)#Camperdown_strikes_Victoria Mahanian Battle - "Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon" - Winston Churchill
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  2. To which you can add the USS Serpens, Port Chicago and Texas City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Serpens_(AK-97)#Destruction,_29_January_1945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster Serpens was moored in the middle of the harbor and Port Chicago was deliberately chosen as a remote area in San Francisco Bay. But Texas City was in the middle of an industrial area (the ship that blew up was at a pier next to an oil refinery). "The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on Wednesday, April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City, Texas, United States, at Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. A mid-morning fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked in the port) and detonated her cargo of about 2,300 tons (about 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate. This started a chain reaction of fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities, ultimately killing at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City volunteer fire department" The fire was blamed on someone smoking in the hold of the Grandcamp. Ammonium Nitrate is a fertilizer (the cargo was intended to aid French agriculture devastated by WW2), but it is a low explosive that the US Army uses in cratering charges (it "heaves" rather than "shatters" like high explosives)and it is used in mining
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  3. From 2 (British G class) to 16 (US Gridley and Bagley classes). It depends on the Navy and the date
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  4. "The SS Mont Blanc, a 3121 ton French munitions ship captained by Aime Le Medec, arrived at the Examination Anchorage in late afternoon. Examining officer Mate Terrence Freeman boarded the ship and was surprised to find the cargo was almost exclusively explosives; 3,000 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, and 10 tons of gun cotton stored in the hold and on the deck. Drums of benzol (35 tons total) were stacked three and four high on the decks along with 300 rounds of ammunition."
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  5.  @WildBillCox13  speaks with forked tongue
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  6. According Friedman's British Destroyers Vol 1 Pages 236-237, the standard British depth charge pattern in WW2 was (depending on the period) 10 or 14 depth charges. Hedgehog fired 24 bombs, not 18 Your post is drivel and shows you are totally ignorant of the subject Squid was NOT a failure. Three of first four attacks using it sank the U-boat with one volley. Friedman's British Destroyers Vol 2 Page 146 Regarding trials aboard HMS Ambuscade "They showed that her double Squid was the best ASW weapon devised to date, FAR SUPERIOR TO HEDGEHOG." farther down the page, "In practice, in 1945 (Squid) effectiveness was 40.3 percent compared to 26,3 percent for Hedgehog and 7.5 percent for depth charges." "A trio of squids going off on your foredeck is likely to take out the bridge crew. Not so much for hedgehog" Tell that to the crew of the USS Turner, whose sinking has been blamed on a mishandled Mousetrap round (Mousetrap was a rocket propelled Hedgehog). Or the crew of the USS Solar, which mishandled a Hedgehog round "On 30 April 1946, Solar was berthed at Leonardo Pier I of the Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, New Jersey, to discharge ammunition. The operation went smoothly until, shortly after 11:30, one of the crewmen dropped a hedgehog charge. ("The United Press quoted witnesses as saying a shell being passed by Seaman Joseph Stuckinski of Baltimore from the ship to a truck on the pier exploded in his arms and set off the blasts. Stuckinski was not injured.") He was able to escape with relatively minor injuries, but three ensuing explosions blasted the ship near her number 2 upper handling rooms. Her number 2 gun was demolished and the bridge, main battery director, and mast were all blown aft and to starboard. Both sides of the ship were torn open, and her deck was a mass of flames. The order to abandon ship came after the second explosion and was carried out expeditiously. Nevertheless, the tragedy claimed the lives of seven sailors and injured 125 others" "Why did Hedgehog fall out of favor? Simple. Submarine sailors dominated procurement after the war." Absolute garbage, Squid was a far superior weapon which enabled the Hedgehog armed River Class frigates depth charge load out (as back up weapons) to go from as many as up to 150 charges to 15 in the Squid armed Loch class that followed them.
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  7. Paintings of HMS Charles Galley Before a light breeze https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/The_Charles_Galley-Willem_van_de_Velde_the_Younger-2.jpg With sweeps out https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Charles_Galley_1688.jpg
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  8.  @thegoodcaptain1217  But a cruiser is, by definition, not a capital ship. In terms of vessels of that rank, Sealion sank BB Kongo and Archerfish sank CVB Shinano.
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  9.  @cirno9356  Yes, one was a WW1 S class destroyer, another a WW2 S class sub and the third, out of Drach's normal range of coverage, a nuclear attack boat
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  10. During the late 1800's the sloop evolved from a cruising vessel to one used in the "colonial policing" role. They can be looked on small, slow, lightly armed cruisers with good habitability and, usually, space for an Army or Marine landing party for service on distant, remote stations. When Lord Fisher came to power, he stopped their construction and scrapped many of them, feeling they absorbed too much of the RN's resources, which could then be applied to the battle fleet. But the mission still remained. What did Fisher propose to build in their place and what did the RN use to cover this mission?
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