Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Drydock - Episode 222" video.

  1. The length of time in raising steam is what propelled (pun intended) the move from oil fired steam plants to gas turbine engine. If you haven't rotated a shaft by hand to warm it evenly, you've missed an eclectic experience. "You kids with your "internal combustion" and UFOs flying around the carriers . . . back in my day, we'd just gunnel pump the ship to get it a'movin'! Three hundred men jumping up and down on command. All that flab . . . now I'm hungry for a burger!" Ahh Richard Simmons; we hardly knew ye.
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  2. The draft of that ship of the line prevents anyone standing in the space hauling on lines. They'd be floating-or drowning.
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  3. Ah, you dealt with it.
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