Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "HMS Agamemnon - Guide 139 (Extended)" video.

  1.  @adamdubin1276  The Spaniards built the best ships, but suffered under the nobles in the spanish society. A spanish comission was a bought privilege, public yachting. As in France spanish officers did not want to fight. In the battle of the Saintes, Drach mentioned it in the vid, you see the failure of de Grasse, who saw sea-warfare as a project. Rodney was no genius, but de Grasse had no aim to find him and to destroy the Brits. In the war of Independence the Brits were obiously lost, if there would not have been a lack of political will in France and Spain to destroy the Empire for once and forever. Check the fate of the best French admiral ever, Bali de Suffren, who was more british than the Brits. His officers were not willing to follow his ideas and orders. The secret of British sea-superiority lays behind one court-marshalled and shot british admiral, Mr. Byng, after he lost battle of Menorca. Even Admiral Hollands decision to attack immediatly the Germans at Denmark Strait in 1941, instead to wait for Norfolk & Suffolk, refers too this one judgement of 1757.
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  2. With a British captain and a british crew Santisima Trinidad would have shot the Brits to pieces.
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  3.  @Dave_Sisson  (1757) till 1942, when the superiority of the Royal Navy ended and the empire died by self-destruction. Adm. Byng was not jugded guilty for cowardice, the main words in the court marshall were "not doing his utmost", easily to understand even for non-native speakers.
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  4.  @Smokey298  The Brits unleashed 2 WWs, destroying the Empire & Europe. From an imperial point of view the Europeans had to fight & finish the US & not themselves. Is this answer understandable?
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  5. No, Sir, Agamemnon proved that the Buckler's-hard shipyard worked not properly on mondays.
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  6. Nelson's most beloved ship, which is the evidence that Nelson had not so many ideas about ships. At the battle of Copenhagen the Brits scratched all 64s together and were happy that they had some left. Agamemnon was a unlucky ship, obviously the most expensive ship in the history of the RN. Most time the ship spended in refitting actions.
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