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  1. Weird I was expecting an April fool's video
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  2. "We already named that one Thor and that one Orion, how about this one?" "Pinguin"
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  3. "Most of the Japanese Cruiser fleet was already forming a series of interesting artificial reefs" " Curtsy of the attentions of US Aviators and Submarines" rotflmao
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  4. 15:40 Well no wonder Nelson fell there, some idiot's put a plaque on the floor!
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  5. When you a not a major power and suddenly build a op BB and the world don't believe the BB is yours XD
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  6. A bulbous bow allowed, on some ships, for the crew to engage in the unofficial sport of, 'Bow Jumping'. On a Knox Class, for example, the forward supply room was in the bow. After a long voyage, the store room would be mostly empty- leaving a large space that sailors can 'chill out' in. In heavy seas when steaming through the waves, the pitch of the ship could make the deck change elevation by as much as 20 feet. So, to play the sport, you crouch ready to jump as the deck rises. When the ship crests the wave and the bow begins to go down, you jump as high as you can. Whomever stayed in the air longest wins.
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  7. " a classic British inventor in that his ideas wandered back and forth over the razors edge that divides utter genius from complete insanity... all the time." -great writing.
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  8. Greatest enemy of the Russian fleet, the kamchatka
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  9. For some reason, the savage kicking Washington dished out against Kirishima just puts a smile on my face. Also I genuinely laughed out-loud at Jingles' "Hello, Its MEEEE"
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  10. Mavis Batey was born in 1921. Which means, the leading female codebreaker at Bletchley Park, was 19 years old when she helped break the Italian Navy Enigma. 19.
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  11. "We leave that to dwarves who dig too greedily and too deep" Please standby for Diggy Diggy Hole
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  12. US: "What exactly are the British doing with the Nelson class?" UK: "What exactly are we doing with the Nelson class?"
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  13. We know showing off the paint job was the main reason.
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  14. I swear, the hammer thing almost sounds like a Monty Python routine. "I say, seems there's a periscope over there." "Should we take action stations, sir?" "No no, let's not disturb the captain's tea. Just send out a boat with a petty officer and a pair of midshipmen to give it a good knock." "Aye aye, sir."
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  15. I'm Malaysian, Force Z was actually been mentioned in our school history book, and our local defence magazine published an article about Force Z, this when I was 15 y/o back in 2013. They gain my respect for those who went down with the ship protecting Malaya at that time.
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  16. The great thing is also, the guy on the barge that was boarded firing the machine gun until he died got the VC after the war... by recommendation of Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Karl Paul, the guy commanding Jaguar at that time
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  17. " Go away or shall have to taunt you a second time." Nice Monty python drop man.
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  18. I qualified submarines in 1980. I knew two men who had served aboard WWII diesel boats, although their service was after WWII. Our own submarine, one of the early "41 for Freedom" Missile boats built in the 1960's, still had a lot of interior gear that was exactly the same as a WWII submarine. When I see something on the discovery channel today that shows the interior of new Nuclear submarines, I am well amazed. We were gages, valves, torn clothing, linoleum covered decks forward, asbestos lagged piping, etc. We all owe everything we have learned as a group to those brave men of WWII. There is a submarine memorial in Oklahoma (of all places, also my home state) where the USS Batfish SS310 is on display. The ship needs help, it is in peril of decay and has accidentally been floated by floods on more than one occasion. Every year that passes there is less interest in her. Batfish is the champion submarine killer of all time, a record that has stood since 1945
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  19. Absolutely genius, Britsh sarcasm and humor explaining naval history. I particularly enjoyed the mines. Even as a full blood German, I found this funny and yet efficient.
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  20. A remarkably balanced, restrained, and objective look at a man that it would have been easy to dismiss as nothing more than an irritable egotist from the British perspective. Very, very well done Drach..
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  21. "We're suckering them into 40mm range" Nelson would have been proud!
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  22. "[Praying that] Hood, Renown, and Repulse would magically poof out of existence should there ever be hostilities". To be fair to them, two of the three very much did do that in pretty short order.
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  23. Thomas Jefferson excelled at arguing both sides of an issue simultaneously; that way he could tell himself he was never wrong
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  24. "USS Compensation" and "Senator Tillman then did everyone a favor by dying"... this is pure comedy gold LOL
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  25. They're like aquatic roombas.
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  26. "Hello Japanese battleships, dodge this!" Now that is going down as one of my favorites from this channels wealth of quotes.
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  27. Japanese bomber crew: Oh, you're approaching Mr. Wildcat? You have no ammunition!" Cactus Air Force pilot: I can't beat you the shit out of you with my landing gear without getting closer. Japanese bomber crew: Nani!?
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  28. Now that's a name that should be kept permanently in commission.
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  29. The story of Stephen Decatur and the scuttling of the USS Philadelphia, an operation which Lord Nelson called "the most bold and daring act of the Age" really deserved its own video.
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  30. the idea of a net that catches submarines seems like something out of a cartoon that is used to foil the villan's escape. I just imagine Kaiser Wilhelm being hoisted out of the water and going "Curses! I'll get you next time Royal Navy"
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  31. Who needs a fleet when you have a fletcher class destroyer.
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  32. I always thought the Italians were incompetent through and through but the more I learn about their Aircraft design, their THEORETICAL work on warfare and the Regia Marina the more I understand that it really only was the leadership that was incompetent
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  33. I’m sure Ryan Szimanski will be proud to hear his ship took on the mighty Yamato and effectively won.
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  34. 9:10 A ship pretended to be an island to escape the Japanese? Is there a longer video there? That sounds really interesting.
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  35. "Queen Mary was somewhat more performance impaired, as it exploded..." Nothing like the dry and sardonic humor of a Brit.
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  36. The one dislike is from the Kamchatka
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  37. I enlisted in the USN back in 1977, went into the Naval Nuclear Power Program, all my time on submarines and a tour on the old sub tender Hunley. All the damage control gear and practices were still from the WWII / 1950's era. In 1982 when the Falklands War occurred, I was aboard the Hunley in Holy Loch Scotland. A year later I returned to the United States, and was stationed aboard one of the first Trident submarines in Washington state. I was amazed by what I saw as far as damage control gear - nearly all of the WWII / 1950's era gear was gone, except for the occasional bits that were still useful, even those having undergone a serious upgrade - but the vast majority of it had been completely replaced, they had leapfrogged ahead 30 years or more in technology, in the span of little more than a year - thermal imagers, full insulated fire suits, modern multi-position fire hose nozzles, Scott air packs, a serious upgrade to the old OBA oxygen canister breathing apparatus, they had adopted the RN practice of using flash hoods and protective clothing, updated their air sampling equipment, and updated their fire fighting techniques and strategy. The USN had taken a good hard look at what the RN had went thru in the Falklands War, and with what can only be described as amazing speed and alacrity for any agency of the US Government, had completely revamped all the damage control gear and practices based on the lessons they'd drawn from that analysis, little more than a year after that war was over. It could be that many of these changes were already being contemplated, with the Falklands War providing the necessary kick in the arse to get things moving and funding provided. Those lessons extended to ship construction as well - in the Arleigh Burke class, the USN abandoned the use of aluminum superstructures to save weight, and went back to steel, based in part on what happened to the Sheffield when struck by an Exocet missile.
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  38. IJN: "Sinks" Her USS Shaw: "I didn't hear no bell."
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  39. The best summary I ever heard of this battle is that, "Wooden ships with iron men beat iron ships with wooden men."
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  40. "Their skipper having lit the fuze, they rowed with considerable enthusiasm." Now that's an understatement.
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  41. It became pretty clear by the mid-30's that the 8" guns of the Lexingtons were a lot of weight and space for something that was unlikely to have ever been used in battle. There were plans to replace them with 5"/38 guns after their outstanding trials successes in the first postwar destroyers. However, the one good thing about the 8" guns was they received the then experimental FC (Mk3) radar fire control director. The Lexington received two of these in late-1941 and participated in trials of the first radar directed surface gunfire. It turned out to be accurate enough that it was able to get a fix within 50 meters on the range and direction of a surface target. It worked particularly well on the Lexington due to less local interference by the superstructure compared to a battleship, and the operators on Lexington were able to confirm distance to target by being able to track her own shell splashes, using lobe switching. The FC (Mk3) was installed on a number of battleships in late 1941, and the lessons learned from the Lexington were used to improve accuracy with the FC (Mk3). One of the first FC (Mk3) battleship units was installed on the USS Washington, and her radar operators, trained by the Lexington operators, were able to straddle the Japanese battleship Kirishima on her first salvo during the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, probably saving the South Dakota by doing so. In a way, the Lexington actually did participate in surface action almost six months after she was sunk.
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  42. "Bearing the only serviceable aerial torpedo in the country." Damn, the Greeks really wanted the Italians gone. Go Greece! :D
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  43. So anyway, we came up upon this Spanish Galleon with 52,000 ducats aboard. Since there were 50,0000 ducats aboard, I felt it was a good idea to capture her rather than sink her. So after discussing the situation with the captain of the other ship, he surrendered the 40,000 ducats to me, and I dutifully delivered all 25,000 ducats to the crown.
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  44. Imagine if all four DID happen to that sub in a single night. That was a bad night to be a Free French Submariner.
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  45. Upvoted for spinning seal... and the usual outstanding quality.
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  46. Drach: mentions "fly-over states" in a slightly negative way Me: watches to see how good Drach's damage control is
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  47. 35 min video. "Now, to be clear, we're not gonna talking about s ship's engines." This is the level of content I keep coming back for. Thank you for existing.
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  48. Only the USN could say, "Let's just build 50 aircraft carriers as an experiment and see if we want to get serious about mass producing them."
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  49. Being a Marine engineering student I completely agree, that anything above the basics is mind numbingly complex .
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  50. The issue with the British being who they are is, it's hard to tell whether it's entirely fictional, or mostly true with sprinkled in jokes and exaggerations.
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