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

  1.  @bobsakowski8298  Chuck in Wednesday's Rum Ration an that's over 10 hours of naval history in a week. We are definitely being spoiled.
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  2.  @chefchaudard3580  Knowing the poms, it was damned lucky not to have been pronounced "Chomondley", frankly.
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  3. Always a high point in the movie "Down Periscope".
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  4. Yeah. I love the ironclads for their sheer absurdities. Theirs was the classic age of "a bloke in a shed has an idea". And I'm hunbly aware that I speak with the benefit of hindsight.
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  5. Life in a galley. "We keep you alive to serve this slop to. Bon appetit."
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  6. Not a pre-dread per se, but the Italia class ironclads make a good case for being pre-Yamato Yamatos. In the 1870s, a 17" battery is an argument that's hard to ignore.
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  7. Some people say that her rangefinnders are made out of actual human eyeballs. And that none of her crew can taste the flavour peppermint. All we know is she's callef HMS Warstig.
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  8. Who can resist a video on Darwin Award winners?
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  9. How does the batman signal "nose up a bit"?
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  10. A pair of forward-facing 110 ton guns is all well and good, but the lack of a bow-mounted corvus displays a want to offensive spirit by the Admiralty, in my opinion. The designers of HMS By Jove would never have displayed such a lack of zeal.
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  11. The Brigitte Bardot of battlecruisers (both best appreciated from stern 3/4 view).
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  12. Not necessarilly a backward step if you're introducing rifled weapons to replace smooth bores. Nor indeed if your breechloaders have a tendency to go bang at the wrong end, which was an issue with early breechloaders.
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  13. It would be much easier if he wore a red & white striped jersey and beanie.
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  14. Why do failed designs of this period always look so cute?
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  15. ​ @MonkeyJedi99  If somewhat vulnerable to plunging fire.
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  16. Oh, I don't know. At least he'd still be alive to write one, which is more than most of the captains of the ships that he was escorting could say.
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  17. I believe that under English law, the bagpipes are still classified as weapons of war; the term "weapon of mass destruction" not having been coined in 1745.
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  18. If you have the space to berth more crew, you don't have enough AA guns.
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  19. I was told by an old sailorman that dog watches were instituted so that the same watch didn't have to stand the same duty hours everyday. That way, each watchkeeper got a chance to be awakened by a broomhandle.
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  20. Thanks cor that info. I tecall being told in my far-off school days that the Roman Republic had created a fleet of galleys based upon a captured Carthaginian vessel prior to the Second Punic War. Given Carthage's use of prefabrication, I think that both cases could be used to argue for the existence of a class.
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  21. What! Only 1:08:33 hours in a Drydock? What are we supposed to do with the rest of the week? Seriously, congrats on 250 K subscribers. 👍
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  22. Ceuta and Meilila are sort of like Gibraltar, but the spaniards don't like to talk about that. 🥸
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  23. I was a bit surprised to hear the phrase "at about the same time he saw Nelson's Column enerting action". With the sight of an architectural folly wading in to battle like it was the Crimson Permanent Assurance building, I'm surprised that the entire franco-spanish fleet didn't surrender on the spot.
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  24. Or better, an alternative history of HMS St Lawrence vs USS Sable in a night action. That could be really fun.
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  25. The reason that the Oberons are being preserved is that because of the way the AUKUS SSN project is progressing. The RAN will probably have to recomission them after the last of the Collins class gives up the ghost. And if you ever win the lottery and can afford to visit Oz again, you should drive up/down the Hume highway to a little town called Holbrook in NSW, where you will find (100 miles inland and 900 feet above sea level) a nice 1:10 model of HM Submarine B11 and the entire casing of HMAS Otway; yet another preserved Oberon. There is also a really good little museum in the park with lots of submarine related paraphenalia. They have even preserved a section of Otway's living quarters and have been able to reproduce the diesel/ozone/linoleum smell exactly!
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  26. If only u-boats had been attracted to chips.
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  27. Between the four hours that are left of a six hour Drydock and a hour's worth if the Rum Ration, that's my Easter long weekend taken care of.
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  28. On the subject of riverine warfare, there was actually quite a lot of it going on during the Russian civil war; both between the reds and the whites and between the reds & various RN units. Unfortunately, it isn't a well documented field and what records there are are particularly partisan, as would be expected.
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  29. I just hope that Broke was bowling legitimate deliveries and that he didn't dismiss that box of cartridges with a no ball.
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  30.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  Well, the USN had other ships. Why was Furuta picking on the poor, old Enterprise ALL the time? Starts to look like bullying!
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  31. Goto should have signalled "I am the Swiss cruiser Tobblerone and am in an hotel minibar". No one would have touched him
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  32. My two favourite channels; probably because they're both hosted by extremely knowledgeabe and enthusiastic men who don't take their subjects toooooo seriously. I commend you on your good taste, Sir!
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  33. Include a ship from the British Pacific Fleet, build in some rum for ice cream swaps, some trading chicanery and ... I've just invented McHale's Navy. 😁
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  34. There's certainly an ex-german gunboat kicking around Lake Tanganyika that dates from WWI.
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  35. Oooh! I bet that the documentary which said that was one that started with the word "Dark".
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  36. HM also put his foot down when Churchill tried to gatecrash the Normandy landings, telling him that if the King couldn't go, then the PM certainly couldn't.
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  37. One convict was transported for "having carnal knowledge of a sheep". In Australia, that's a crime. In New Zealand ... weellll.
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  38. Nevertheless, they don't like it up 'em, Sir.
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  39. At least the East India Company didn't have access to your financial transactions and browsing history. We might come to think of it as relatively benign, unfortunately.
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  40. The town of Holbrook in New South Wales was named after Lt. Norman Holbrook, the commander of the B-11. If you're ever on the highway between Sydney and Melbourne, I reccomend that you pay it a visit. Aside from having a very good submarine museum, it boasts a truly estimable pie shop.
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  41. Forget the difficulties of siting 24 x 4" guns on an E class cruiser, disregard the difficulties in the stowage of enough ammo to keep it in action for more than two minutes; consider instead what the american reaction would have been if HMS Emerald had come sashaying into the Pacific so equipped. "Sir, that english cruiser has 24 main battery guns! Are they ALLOWED to do that?"
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  42. I do love Porco Rosso. The artwork in the aerial scenes is heartachingly beautiful.
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  43. Not the silliest question about the Battle of the Denmark Strait ever asked.
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  44. We all have our breaking points.
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  45. Looking forward to Reel Time History's doco series on the Hundred Years War.
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  46. HMS Bronington deserves to be preserved, not only as an example of ships of her era, but because the Ton class were so damned cute. They look like they should be pottering around the island of Sodor and having adventures with Thomas the Tank Engine.
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  47. I think that if they were going to accidentally-on-purpose turn up anywhere, if would be off Porto Belgrano. 😂 Just sayin'.
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  48. Hey, there was a flat surface onboard without a gun on it. What else was the USN supposed to do?
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  49. Usually from the officer who currently held it. It's useful to think of the sale of commissions as a kind of retirement plan. For example, if you purchased a lieutenantcy ( and assuming that there were no wars to thin out the ranks a liitle and let you earn a promotion) , then after about ten years or so you might be able to purchase a captaincy (which naturally cost more). Repeat every 10 years or so and by the time you retire, you might þe a colonel with a nice little nest egg. Of course, some damned frenchman might blow your head off in the low countries while you're still a lieutenant; then bang goes your retirement in Leamington.
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  50. I'm pertty sure that an Alaska could eat a pair of Leanders and a York for breakfast. Ignoring the radar advantage, the reduced speed differential and the better ammunition (not to mention improved systems redundancy) give her rhe aboĺity to dictate the terms of the engagement. Mind you, an Alaska up against a couple of Towns and a County could be interesting.
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