Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "The Drydock - Episode 189" video.

22:08 one of the other issues is that some are named for cities but the ship does not bare the name of the city in question i.e. the town of Bolton where I'm from has it's name honoured by HMS Dido, as the town raised £1.2 million during warship week and adopted HMS Dido and the new HMS Dido being built is named in honour of the town as well. I imagine there are others like this.
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00:47 Would one of the other things to take into account in USA vs UK 1930s would be the use of night fighting of the Royal Navy, at the start of WW2 the US sustained heavy losses due to this, with aircraft carrier night fighting as well. It would tip the balance heavily in the Royal navies favour.
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@phillip_iv_planetking6354 UK ship industry was still massive and this was not including the empire include that and the US is smaller. And unlike in ww2 they aren't being bankrolled by the UK, meaning the output they historically were able to in the war would never occur. Why are talking about detriot in a naval war? And you've just show your bias, the UK wasn't borrowing it was paying back ww1 debts, and in fact if war happened the UK would stop paying and have a huge increase in national expenditure i.e. before 1937 interest on government debt, so the interest alone was larger than the entire defence budget. Basically you are asserting that the war would have to last over 3-4 years for the US to overtake the UK and that presumes not one US ship sunk, in reality 4 years into that war especially with American pre war training vs Royal Navy, the US wouldn't have a navy in 4 years. This hasn't even got onto the fact the Royal Navy had ships lined up to build in the later 1930s, whereas the US was still in late design processes.
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@phillip_iv_planetking6354 just to preface this please be concise and stop lying it's exsorting having to talk to a goal post shifter like yourself. that's not true the US didn't output more than the British empire in the 30s. It outputted more than Britain, but not the empire included. You are a bit of a fantasist aren't you, Detriot was a big car producer it's factories were pretty standard and weren't special, there were just a lot of them. Oh interesting so it's now the early 30s, I'm still struggling to find the evidence of this, but you've already changed your point Where is the evidence that rearming required the US to pay in 1937? And then you say nothing from this point how sad.
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@phillip_iv_planetking6354 yeah wonder where the security for those bonds came from, oh it wouldn't be from other countries war debts and war profiteering both things that wouldn't occur. Now I know you have the issue that you know you are not telling the truth. So instead of shifting the goalposts again just leave the conversation.
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@phillip_iv_planetking6354 cite your source that it was higher That's just untrue So you've changed the goalposts again, now it's gone to repayment being paused 🤦‍♂️ 1935? The rearmememt started in 1934 Are you dumb? I'm pointing out the only way people are going to give you bonds is if you have something as security against bond? I.e. war profiteering and British debt. I have to ask are you old enough to have had a loan, if not I'll explain what a security is, as it seems that word went straight over your head. And your last sentence says nothing and shows you have again shown how little you understand of this topic.
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Are you going to do a video on Endurance now it's been found?
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It could have been but probably wouldn't, the shot Bismarck fired that sunk hood was the luckiest shot in naval history, if it was hood and repulse they would have been steaming towards bismarck at a different speed meaning that shot wouldn't have hit hood in the same place meaning the ship wouldn't have been lost. As just changing the ships would have changed the speed meaning the shot from Bismarck that hit Hood wouldn't 2 battlecruisers vs 1 battleship and a cruiser. Due to the fact that lucky shot can't happen Bismarcks lost, Prince of Wales with new crew and only a few guns working was hitting Bismarck repeatedly. Same would go for Repulse and when they've closed the distance the Germans would have to run or get shot up.
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@toddwebb7521 although the US would be split as well and in a worse way as you say split between the Atlantic and Pacific and in a theoretical war the UK would either have Japan on their side making them out number the Americans everywhere or would move ships out of the Pacific. It doesn't take long to move ships out of the med quicker than the US fleet steaming across the Atlantic and the Pacific fleet wouldn't have even reach the Panama Canal.
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