Youtube hearted comments of Alex (@Alex-cw3rz).

  1. Weird I was expecting an April fool's video
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  2. 15:40 Well no wonder Nelson fell there, some idiot's put a plaque on the floor!
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  3. My favourite bit was when Zizek asked him to name one post modern neo Marxist and of course Peterson couldn't name one.
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  4. That is just such a funny image, of just pottering about on a boat to stumble on a major naval battle, during a war you didn't know existed
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  5. Wonder if he'd say the same about the confederate flag 🤔... especially as they did try to overthrow the government
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  6. That's when you know you are doing really well "the questions are wrong"
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  7. God that story about Tom is heatbreaking
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  8. 8:40 that must have been one hell of a moment hearing all those ships responding in turn with there sirens and moving into formation, reminds me of the Ride of the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields
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  9. 4:25 "which would included germany's historically built fleet, that we all know and... Well we know" 😂😂😂
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  10. Something paintings have revealed for me (specifically ones of the Battle of Trafalgar come to mind) is that they show how diverse navies were back then. A fascinating thing you see in pictures of Nelson's death for example is women on the deck tending to the injured, something you'd never realise was a thing. In the most famous paintings of his death you see a black sailor pointing out the sniper that shot Nelson, this was specifically done to honor their service. It leads you down rabbit holes that are quite fascinating like the amazing amount of women who'd cross dress to join the Royal Navy and then you have characters like Joseph Johnson. I'd never know about this if those paintings were unrealistic or didn't exist.
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  11. It doesn't even make sense she gave so much respect to it and even gave a great message about learning history.
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  12. Could you do a video on the submarine HMS Venturer, being the only submarine to have sunk another while both were submerged, would be a great video to here, could even be a special.
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  13. I know the battering ram in Lord Of The Rings is called Grond, but whenever I here Grom. I just think of orcs going GROM! GROM! GROM!
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  14. I think a great example is HMS Shannon who actually had a 1v1 fight in 1812, her armament and the performance of her sister ship HMS Guerriere, would show she should lose to Chesapeake, but not just did she win, she won so decisively, you'd need 4 chessapeake's too have the same number of cannon balls hitting Shannon as hit Chessapeake. This doesn't even go into the tactics and the way the Shannon had a cannon at the bow specifically placed their to act like a giant sniper rifle taking out the cheesapeakes helmsmen and wheel, this wasn't a particularly normal tactic, but won them the battle. Another example is HMS Speedy Vs El Gamo 14 guns vs 32 guns of bigger calibre, yet Speedy won. The idea of doing a 1v1 based on specs does not show training or how ships are set up differently, the accuracy or preferred tactics, it doesn't examine the captains. Or as you said when, where and why they are fighting which create 100s of different results.
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  15. This video really shows why South Carolina was able to fit 9 16 inch guns, it was all in the armour, with less thick armour over smaller areas, it was able to get to the desired number of guns, but sacrifice armour.
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  16. 29:50 Love the WATU coat of arms with the chessboard and checkmate.
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  17. One thing that sort of proves your point is the opposite as well, the golden age of piracy has very little contemporary paintings on it and nothing to the scale were you can understand the actual lines of a ship as almost all are 2d things that the measurement are all wrong for, if they were correct Bartholomew Roberts ship Royal Fortune was bigger than a city, and the earth is concave. The time was one of great change in ship design, you can find many paintings of grand 1st rates which are so over the top I still can't wrap my head around that those transom existed, but frigates and smaller ships pirates would use, there are no detailed paintings of, so you have to do a bit of guess work, you don't know how orinate they would be, how squared the transom is etc. It's no wonder pirate movies and TV shows always get the ships wrong, as they are looking at ships 9x+ heavier.
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  18. 14:41 these curves were quite pronounced so much so Captain Philip Broke of HMS Shannon, cut down the wheels on the "up-slope" side of each cannon's carriage in order that all guns were level with the horizon. He introduced so many other innovative solutions He added adjustable tangent sites to the guns, he added Groves to mark degrees of elevation on the quions (the wedged piece of wood that goes under the barrel) and had bearings added to the floors behind the guns to give degrees of angle allowing crews that couldn't see the target to still fire, creating an early version of 'director firing' there is a good diagram of this on Google. He added a 9 pounder gun on the quarter deck to act as a giant sniper rifle to take out the healmsman and wheel. He also extensively trained his crews in hand to hand combat and would even blindfold the crew in excerises and just give them the location of the target(often a barrel) and they had to hit it off that alone. This made the crews over four times as accurate against the USS Chesapeake in a very short engagement that favour the less accurate Chesapeake as it came into close quarters quickly. You should do a video on Captain Brokes and the Shannon.
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  19. 53:17 As ultimately unnecessary the modified R class would have been, I wish they had done it seeing an almost oval shaped R having a huge number of torpedos in her side, bombs bouncing off the top of her, as she merrily plods on her way, really slowly towards the German fleet, as this unstoppable juggernaut, one of the old guard who may be past her prime, much slower than she used to and put on a bit of weight, but she's still ready to give them a good clobbering. Would have been such a cool story to tell.
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  20. Oh god I can't wait for when you talk about HMS St Lawrence 😂
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  21. Also to add a British submarine HMS Venturer is the only documented instance where one submarine intentionally sank another submarine while both were submerged.
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  22. 5:39 lot of love for the twin 4, I'm suprised Drach didn't say they should replace the galley with a twin 4, anchor chain twin 4, superstructure twin 4, captain twin 4, Hull twin 4.
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  23. Clive Dunn, who played Lance Corporal Jones in Dads army was captured at Corinth Canal in April 1941
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  24. This makes me so amazed my mum is a teacher in the UK and she had enough disposable income to send me to private school in the UK. Shows how backwards the US really is smh
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  25. 11:18 in the first combat experience with a steam powered vessel which occured during the Greek War of Independence in 1826 onwards. By the greek ship Kartería captained by a formally Royal Navy officer called Frank Abney Hastings, (interestingly the ship was partly funded by him). They would use sail to get to battle and then switch to steam power which allowed the ship to go against the wind, unlike it's opponents which was highly useful. I believe they would also spin the ship on the spot at times so they could have continous fire of guns. The other advantage of steam power was heated shot Hastings had developed a safe way of using heated shot (they fired 18,000 cannon balls in 1827 without a barrel explosion), which had a devastating effect. One of the other tactics which was because it was the only steam ship in the greek fleet they would use the ship to draw fire away from the rest of the fleet that could then with relative impunity hit the ottoman vessels.
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  26. Talking about bomb vessels, could you do a video onHMs Erebus and HMS Terror and Franklin's Lost Expedition
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  27. Just to add to the submarine vs submarine. HMS Venturer is currently the only submarine to have sunk another while both were submerged. This occurring on the 9th February 1945.
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  28. 00:42:12 looking at Captain Pellew and Captain Broke's Tangent Sights they fitted to their cannon 1,100 yards (1,005m, 3300 feet, 0.625 miles) is the highest gradation, so that gives you a there about of what two of the best naval officers of the age would think would be a possible speculative hit and just like sights fitted to rifles the actual range you'd normally hit at is much lower.
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  29. 56:36 The decade Erebus and Terror sailed in was usually cold, as was one of the issues was the ice never melted, I doubt going around King William Island would have afforded them much more movenment, however their escape route would have been shorter and that means they may have got to the outposts, before they all died. One of the most horrifying thing for me was that the last spotting of a sailor believed to be from Erebus and Terror specifically being Captain Crozier, by inuits was I believe 15 years later making him in his 60's, still looking for northern outposts.
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  30. Oh poor republican snowflakes are building there own safe spaces. 😢
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  31. My god there are an amazing amount of radars sets on Vanguard compared to other battleships
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  32. I remember in Hornblower they were quite annoyed at a midshipman who had to use a signal book to read the signal and another midshipman had to step in to say what the signal meant without consulting a book. I know it's fiction but it uses a lot of first hand information and as you say, it would not be hard to know some signals off by heart especially common ones.
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  33. 35:05 I think one of the major things that could happen if Transfers and sales were allowed is possibly another arms race in South America and France seeing what Italy and Germany is doing may pick up a battleship or battle cruiser or 2 as an interim. Same with the Dutch with their grand ideas for a navy in being in the far East, a cheap often would be to have the Iron Dukes or something like that
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  34. Today I learnt that Drach is left handed
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  35. 3:19 I laughed out loud in a library at that I feel embarrassed now, I just wasn't expecting it
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  36. 21:24 doesn't matter much but Ajax is a 0-4-0 and I imagine you knew that and just mispoke.
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  37.  @Drachinifel  oh right, thank you! Tomato was a pretty impressive ship still not sure why they painted it red tho 😉.
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  38. 1:01:24 not launched, but I believe the research Submairne Nautilus used the torpedo tubes to allow divers to do research outside of the sub (well if it had worked that is)
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  39. I've always wonder how some of the mechanics worked in prosthetics, great video! Very sad to hear Alistair's story hopefully he can be proud at how he's helping to make a somewhat better experience when using prosthetics.
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  40. Great video
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  41.  @Drachinifel  that is a good point, governemnt probably wouldn't be able to make that money back, but would be helpful to the industry and the economy in general. Although wouldn't be very good in the 70s with the high inflation, but that's a what if with the UK economy changing so much. Still I personally think it was the better option as the government did spend that money on other things anyway, which imprved the people all over the country this depending on what time frame we are talking e.g. housing post ww2. By the way it's not like I want a smaller navy tbh at the minute a bigger one would be fine by me, mainly so I can watch them sail by, just want to be practical about the usefulness of building them.
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