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

  1.  @MarkLawden  Sorry. I missed the WWI reference. I believe that he was still hawking the idea in WWII after he became PM . I recal reading a biography of KG VI that he suggested it as a name for HMS Vanguard. The King, by contrast, was quite keen on naming her HMS Home Guard. It's probably best that neither got his way.
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  2. 10,000 tons might be a big price to pay for an extra six knots of speed , but it should be remembered that Hood wasn't intended to be a single ship class. She was intended to have three sisters. If you've got four of those monsters on the loose, plus possibly a couple of G3s acting as a squadron; and that's another kettle of fish altogether
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  3. Drach, how do you manage to produce all this content and still research century old defences for an obscure fly-speck like Albany? You MUST own a Tardis.
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  4. Er, no. Nimitz was adamant that the BPF had to bring its own fleet train. King, famously, didn't want a BPF at all. There was, of course, a degree of mutual cross-supply, but this was local and informal.
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  5. I was thinking of a more ... remote part of the anatomy.
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  6. My goidness, that Argentine cruiser is a pretty little ship!
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  7. Eye candy cruisers.
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  8. Some shells filled with explosive rather than cement dust would have helped as well. Given their material disadvantages, I think that the chinese fleet performed admirably. I read somewhere that aboard the Lai-Yuen, which was well ablaze, the temperature in the engine rooms rose to over 200° F, but her black gang kept feeding the boilers. Not a bad effort when you're basically being grilled alive.
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  9. If your great grandfather is an old St. Custardian, he should have built up an immunity to anything that could be done to a skool sossage.
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  10.  @jimmiller5600  Oh , I can. 😄
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  11. The germans' blockade strategy in 1915, approved by the Kaiser, was to sink all ships approaching the British Isles, regardless of their flag or cargo. The Lusitània was not the only civilian liner torpedoed without warning and the vast majority were not carrying ammunition. In short, the germans deliberately set out to kill civilians and didn't worry about the fundamental bastardry of the act until it started to look like the US would enter the war.
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  12.  @jakemillar649  i once had a colleague who was a marine architect in a previous career. Whilst at uni ne designed a boat with a planing hull. It planed beautifully once up to speed. He did admit however that under a certain speed it went down like a rock.
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  13. There's also the question of operability. Two guns in a spacious turret will operate more efficiently than three guns in a cramped one; the Nelsons for example. For battleship turrets as for transplant organs, always err on the side of roominess.
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  14. Semper prorsum, Bian. Semper prorsum!
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  15. Take a photo of it for us, please!
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  16. Thankyou! That is the most reasonable explanation which I have heard for this otherwise looney configuration.
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  17. Re how high the Iowas ate riding, can't you just readthe depth markings on their bows to see how much water each was drawing?
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  18. Nah. You'd still need lots of sticky-up bits for radars, comms etc, so it wouldn't offer any real advantages. Not unless you placed all the electronics measures in stealth drones permanently circling above.
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  19. Drach finishes his series on carrier development. Oversimplified History finishes his series on Hannibal. All my Christmases have come at once. If a month late and at the wrong map reference.
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  20. "Well, I don't know about you but I have never seen so many gladii..." The shade of Dame Edna Everage appears and then fades away, disappointed. 🪻🪻
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  21. And of course the xebec, beloved of cross-worders
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  22. ​ @harryjohnson9215  True. Bearn has't spent as much time being on fire as has the Kuznetzov.
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  23. Can't resist a giant slinky. 😂
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  24. DRAT!
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  25. Not quite partially supporting a ship in a drydock, but a few years ago the Royal Australian Navy needed to do some repairs on her bow of one of their supply ships (fixing a sonar dome, I think) and there wasn't a handy dry dock in WA. They got around the problem by lightening the bow and ballasting the stern until the stem was out of the water. Made for an interesting photograph.
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  26. Shhh! You'll wake up Senator Tillman.
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  27. And the defenders of Bataan didn't have the welfare of a huge civillian population to consider.
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  28. Sorry squire, no luck with the Hedgehog. I can do you a Squid A/S mortar, if that's any use to you.
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  29. Hey, Joe Biden has been in US politics long enough to have been involved in the sinking of the Maine .... though if that were the case, he would have blamed the russians rather than the spanish.
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  30. Take that frock off, Bigglesworth! You're fooling no one.
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  31. Sgt. Harper never seemedto have trouble using the Nock volley gun. AND he was able to reload all seven barrels in mere seconds.
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  32. You might include Admiral Sir John Benbow in the list of postumous kind-of-victors for the action of August 1702; though admittedly: * He only chased-off du Casse's squadron as his captains didn't support him, and * It took him three months to die of his wounds. Damned inconsiderate to be such a long time dying, eh?
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  33. I believe that it is actually what is called a "cut away" bow. The idea was to avoid blast damage to the forecastle from the forward guns. The french continued to do this short forecastle stunt right up to their first series of dreadnoughts ; though never again so outrageously as on this grotesque thing.
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  34. So how were they crewed? Did they train soldiers, use merchant crews or (quite possibly) shanghai IJN sailors and chain 'em to the oars?
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  35. 🎶You Seydlitz, I say de hell with it ...🎶
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  36. On the twin subjects of pre-nominals and channel scope, any suggestions on what prefix we could use for the good ship Floaty Log?
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  37. Napoleon III had his own plans for the americas ( he was, after all, the one who installed that poor, dumb schlub Maximillian as Mexican Emperor) and was quite keen on stirring up trouble for the Union. The last thing that his american imperium needed was a revival of the Monroe Doctrine and he was very enthusiastic about egging on the British to join him in intervention. Fortunately, Lord Palmerston was made if mentally better balanced stuff than to fall for that.
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  38. Control Horatio Nelson? No one controls Horatio Nelson! Emma Hamilton excepted. 💞
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  39. Beatty would definitely be taking selfies. 😏
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  40. I believe that the USN, seeing her utility, offered to buy her, but the offer was refused and she was returned to her owners. The Atlee administration gave a Nene jet engine to Stalin instead; which tells you all that you need to know about post-war british governments.
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  41. On the topic of less than successful methods of determining longitude, Umberto Eco explained one in his book "The Island of the Day Before". It involved using something called the powder of sympathy. And torturing a puppy dog. Not one of his better books, sadly.
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  42. Hope thst we get the vid on armour production soon. 🤞
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  43. Ice cream for breakfast is great. After all, youhurt is just ice cream with a college education.
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  44. And the closing announcement .. "Ladies and gentlemen, Drach has left the battleship."
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  45. ​ @АртурМилкович  Interesting. I've always heard it attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.
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  46. It depends on which way you swing, I suppose.
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  47. Never mind. Global warming will get it, apparently.
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  48. Precious!
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  49. Another basis on who "won" the Washington Treaty is the technical one. For example, when it came to determining a ship's tonnage, the RN sucessfully argued that fuel and water should be excluded on the grounds that Britain's was a naval empire and consequently its ships needed to travel further and so needed greater fuel and water reserves. What wasn't nentioned was that the RN's designers had been researching the use of liquid filled spaces to enhance a ship's protection against artillery and were keeping schtum on the subject.
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  50. And just imagine the havoc the Akron and the Macon could have wrought; though to which side I am not sufficiently confident to predict.
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