Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 260" video.

  1. 6:25 Long-range fire control principle, ca. 1905: 1) Choose target 2) Guess target’s course and speed 3) Guess where that course and speed will place the target when your shells arrive 4) Rotate turret so guns point somewhere near a bearing to 3) 5) Elevate guns so they point near enough where they need to be to make shells arrive at 3) 6) Fire guns 7) … 8) PROFIT!!
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  2.  @RedXlV  Agree. The design for 4 triples would have had hull form and dimensions appropriate to that armament.
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  3. Glad to hear that this music hasn’t been targeted by slimeball parasites.
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  4. 15:03 A flight in the career of Drachinifel, Navigator Extraordinaire: “Where’s the North African coast?” “It’s … ummm … off to starboard. I guess?” “Good. We’re on course.”
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  5.  @niclasjohansson4333  Also, the issue wasn’t “how much freeboard did they have.” It was more the design / shape of the stem, forepeak and fo’csle that caused German capital ships up to Bismarck (and even that class had their issues) to take so much green water over their bows.
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  6.  @jackgee3200  Up to the Battle of the Yellow Sea on 10 August 1904, naval guns were controlled locally by a gunnery officer. The Dumaresq table was developed ~1902, and the Dreyer not until 1908. The director system of fire control was incorporated first into battleship designs by the Royal Navy in 1912. So, y’know … :-(
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  7. No. That posits that air-dropped torpedoes, and the technique used to drop them, were as effective in 1919 as they were in 1940.
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  8. Do you mean “what plane is at 1:50?”
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