Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Drydock - Episode 056" video.

  1. Too late for the Swedish Trireme team . . . all right lads! Switch to bikinis!
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  2. Turbines also require reduction gears . . . which re-add all that complexity and vibration (and noise). Garcia Class Ex-Snipe here.
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  3. One of the great ironies of history is the problem of obtaining quality mastwood for the British Fleet. Eventually, having used up her entire supply of mature forest giants, she had to turn to . . . her greatest potential enemy, France, for sourcing her masts.
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  4. Better, I should think, if Japan had set up a manufactury to produce the 40mm Bofors gun, or the octuple pom pom mount, both of which she had samples of. So-o, Drach . . . how would a Yamato + Musashi pair have done if rearmed with over one hundred 40mm barrels each instead? Sweep those allied flies from the skies? ;-)
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  5. I recognize that, the lack of ship to ship coordination (the stay together doctrine wins, it seems) during air attack is part of what doomed Nihon Kaigun.
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  6.  @davidmurphy8190  reduction gears are a big ticket item
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