Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Judging by the name, the Armada Española has been spending way too much time with the Royal Navy. That said, she's a pretty little minx.
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  2.  @stencilled  Hence the White Ensign. 😉
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  3. So, following the loss of the White Ship, the Anarchy would have been an excellent time to go a' waltzing? Australian joke. Sorry. I won't do it again. 😟
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  4. I was speaking to a bloke who used to serve on the RAN Oberon class boats. He said that when they returned to base, even after a thorough tubbing, he was guaranteed to get a train seat to himself on his way home.
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  5. I hope that you're getting better, ED. Sorry to hear thst you can't wstch the Drydovks, but remember that lots of viewers like to listen to Drach as they drift off to sleep. Best wishes.
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  6. What! Admiral Persano got passed over. Disgraceful.
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  7.  @theoutcastraven9777  Thanks for the info. Appreciate the extra details.
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  8. Too big a crew. An MTB would be too small. A Flower class corvette would be about right, I think. Maybe a destroyer at a pinch.
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  9. Goooooaaaallll!
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  10. ​ @nicksykes4575  In the movie, he claims that Nelson dismissed L'Orient with a yorker.
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  11. Hard hats mandatory for besketballers and pogo-stick afficionados.
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  12. I think that the ship was HMAS Wyatt Earp. I'm not joking.
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  13. I believe that the US navy used to use cranberry juice rather than lime juice. The american matelots might well have picked up a nickname such as "crannies" had not british sailors been rather coy about the multiple entendres attached to such a usage.
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  14.  @cartmann94  Not to mention USS Blue Öyster Cult.
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  15. Good to see Drach doing a recap on the decap. Sorry Officer. It won't happen again.
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  16. Well, to be fair, a four year existence doesn't leave much time for a country to establish a naval tradition, does it?
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  17. I've always thought that Gila Monster would be a great name for a US carrier.
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  18. @АртурМилкович  tThe navigation of the USS Doobie Brothers might be a bit iftfy, tho.
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  19. Hi Drach. Firstly, many thanks for all your work creating the most informative & amusing channèl on youtube. Secondly, the guide to the USS Birmingham reminds me that HMAS Australia (II) was also a popular Prom Date for the IJN, as 5 kamikaze hits in 6 days of operations seem to indicate. This raises the question though of why, with presumably only one life to give for their God-Emperor, did kamikaze pilots waste their attacks on ships they were unlikely to sink, such as battleships, cruisers and RN carriers when there were so many US soft tops & troopships on offer? Were such attacks according to plan, or were they just the result of pilot indiscipline?
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  20. Hey Drach, if you're reluctant to clone yourself, have you considered acquiring some baby Drachs? Just a thought.
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  21. You might like to discuss this with Mrs. Drach at some point.
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  22. As far as figureheads go, I believe that lots of Royal Navy ships used a red lion ( the beast, not the pub) as a generic figurehead where the ship's name didn't suggest an obvious candidate. I think that the dutch did much the same.
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  23. In the UK before the creation of the MoD, the First Sea Lord was a cabinet position in charge of the Navy (Churchill held it a the beginning of both world wars). The Admiralty was a department of State, staffed by naval personnel and civil servants. The Army's equivalent was the War Minister, while the RAF had the Secretary of State for Air. Both of these were also Cabinet posts, but not so prominent nor influential as that of the First Lord. There were often clashes when the naval professional viewpoint conflicted with political demands. The confrontations between Churchill and Fisher make for interesting reading.
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  24. That only works if you've just washed and polished your u-boat.
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  25.  CipiRipi00  Oh, wasn't aware of that. Thanks!
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  26. On the bright side, at least she would ha e been easy to scrap. Just remove the bit of folded cardboard that looked like it was load-bearing and stand back.
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  27. On the topic of what body parts Nelson would have to lose to be invalided out of the service, I can only think of two.; and I'm too polite to mention them.
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  28. Here's a coincidence. Another question about flying-off platforms. Near the end of the Great War, the RN started building flying-off platforms over the guns of the superfiring turrets on some of its battleships. How would this work in combat? Were they disassembled before action or were the guns fired with them in situ? The first option sounds slow & clumsy and the second seems like it could do some serious damage to the guns; not to mention the Sopwith Pup sitting on top of them. Having large bits of timber being blasted about the ship doesn't sound very Health & Safety compliant either.
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  29. @Mike Goldsberry Thanks Logan. Presumably they'd have to ditch the planes or fly them off before fighting commenced. Ye Gods! Can you imagine the signals? " I say, Hipper, old chap. Would you mind awfully hanging about for a bit while I clear my decks for action?"
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  30. Sounds reasonable, but there would also be some horizontal force imparted, would there not? This would force the hull further onto whatever it was grounded on. I can only suggest that we get our hands on a 74 and try it out.
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  31. Maybe you should ask for sponsorship.
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  32. I 've always been a bit puzzled that the Japanese made relatively little use of Singapore and its huge naval base after all the trouble they went through to get it.
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  33. At various times the RN has categorised its artillery by calibre, by shot eeight and by gun weight. Standardisation is for weaklings!
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  34. Sorry Drach, but the Death Star alert is actually a speeded-up poll hereford. 🐪
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  35. Not uncommon.Hipper was Bavarian.
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  36. "Who gets to be on catching duty?" A philosophical proposition of aritotolean depth.
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  37. Nauughty Drach! Don't you know that Kinder eggs are illegal in the US? Waaay too dangerous to be allowed to fall into the hands of americans.
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  38. ... iit remarkable.
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  39.  @tokul76  ita certai ly true that a sizeable percentage of afrikaaners qouldn't have minded if the jolly old Kaiser or that nice Mr Hitler had smashed the british; but its also true that many of them were quite reconciled to being part of the wmpire. And a lot of afrikaaners had fought beside the brits in both Boer wars. It really wasn't until after the qàr that the afrikaaner nationalists began to substantially outnumber , shall we call them united empire loyalists? And British attitude to "the winds if change" rather than remembrances of events 50 years previously probably had more influence on afrikaaner thinking.
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  40. Admiral Drax... Any relation?
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  41. Hi Drach, viewing the profile of the Lyon class (as well as other early french dreadnoughts) seems to indicate that french naval designers had developed an active animus against forecastles. Do you think that this was a psychological reaction to their being forced to give up the "fierce face" designs and tumblehomes on theiŕ pre-dreadnoghts?
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  42.  @stevevalley7835  Fascinating; and distinctly probable. Thanks!
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  43. The producers of Tora Tora Tora built a wooden waterline recreation of the Nagato for the film; though I'm not sure if you woild tèchnically call that a model.
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  44. Gotta keep the rain off. It's difficult to work the guns while holding an umbrella.
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  45. I agree that Japan's long term prospects of retaining thw Hawaiian Islands are very poor due to the logistical considerations that you mention. Nevertheless, the Japanese leadership might have considered it as a short-term bargaining chip to force the US into negotiations. They didn't all hold with Yamamoto's Sleeping Giant view.
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  46. Thanks for answering my question, Drach. Incidentally, I really enjoyed your naval report card, though your end of term comments lead me to suspect that you'd be, wbat we used to call at my school, a hard marker.
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  47. It's like in the TV shows featuring antiques & "pickers". Patina just sounds nicer than plain, old "dirty".
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  48. So did that mean that the Sherman tanks that the US used & supplied to the UK also came with tea-urns? If so, how civilised.
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  49.  @DuraLexSedLex  Thanks. I thought that it was done fairly early in WWII. Still, better late than never.
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  50. Sounds like quite enlightened legislation.😆
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