Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Worse - he doesn't think the Captain of a destroyer knows the range of his own torpedoes.
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  2. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about a nocturnal, maritime  fruit-seller, ... Hmmm.
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  3. "There was Dido, Fido, Bonzo and Rex, Rover and Lassie and Spot. There was Butch and Candy,  there was Patch and there was Sandy. These were the dogs what I had got." (Kipper Family)
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  4. Yes, the espionage question is concealed from casual view.
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  5. A defence treaty is not a blank cheque.
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  6. I seem to recall naval mutiny was a key part of the Russian revolution.
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  7. They (USA) were experimenting with remote control aircraft + tv in 1944 - see operations Aphrodites and Anvil.
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  8. I think it's the one that can launch the most potato the greatest distance in a given time.
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  9. Not just the Atlantic - all around the world.
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  10. "We are sa-line, we are sa-line, ..."
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  11. How would an import/export merchant stock up on torpedoes without the whole island knowing it?
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  12. That way, you can feed 3 or 4 people with one banana - and it's cheap, at  a time when food is expensive.
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  13. Pronouncing "j" as "y" is Spanish, not English. That said, we don't use "j" much - we often use "dg" for that sound, as in "badger". "Pyjamas" is an Indian word (I think). "Bijou" is French. ...
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  14.  @jonsouth1545  Well yes, the power of a particular gun is whatever it was built to do. I was giving a physics answer, based on the meaning of "power". Power = work/time, work = force x distance and force = mass x acceleration. So it's mass, moved some distance in some time.
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  15. The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Year Victory) is a Russian nuclear-powered ice-breaker, that does multiple tourist-trips to the North Pole each summer.
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  16. I could well be wrong, but aIui, if a quantity increases ... by addition, it increases arithmetically, and by multiplication, it increases geometrically.
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  17.  @HamboGlider  Thanks for the reply and for using terms I could understand. :)
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  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_submergence_transport_vehicle
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  19. Off topic - I found a free book on Project Gutenberg ...  Q-Ships and Their Story, by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54338/54338-h/54338-h.htm
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  20.  @martinsaunders2942  .... which means, as a refiner, you're not dependent on one (foreign) nation for your crude oil supply.
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  21. Open question: 8:05 Why are the anchor chains brought up on the weather-deck?  (I'm not a sailor - I may use the terms wrong. I'm happy to be corrected.) I know the chain lockers are dangerous (low oxygen). I know the chains go through the gunnels to keep water out of the chain lockers (but it gets in anyway). It just seems to waste deck space and add a hazard to people.
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  22. The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Illustrated Directory of the Specifications of All Domestic and Foreign Motor-cars and Motor Business Wagons, Gasoline, Steam and Electric, Sold in this Country, 1907, by MoToR, The National Monthly Magazine of Motoring Free ebook. Google it.
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  23. Quite a lot of English "black and white" houses were made of  recycled ship's timbers.
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  24. "Spanish"? Surely you mean "espanol".
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  25. Barrel-shaped?
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