Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1. Still it means you deserve whatever position you have because, even if you're not the greatest, you're still Goodenough.
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  2.  @samarkand1585 : Maybe the Brits have very high standards so "good enough" means a lot. (Maybe it was quite appropriate that Beatty wasn't named Goodenough.)
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  3. You can't protect a globe-spanning empire with a small number of ships regardless of how good the individual ships are.
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  4. 0:26 WTF is that contraption?
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  5. Though this video still described it as a "strategic victory" for Britain. I don't know if it should be counted as a win or a loss, but it's fair to say that the Germans did not reach their goals and they didn't try to challenge the Royal Navy again like that.
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  6. As a lover of nitpicking, I have to note that "captain" is "Kapitän" in German (in the naval/nautical sense that is, whereas the army rank is "Hauptmann").
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  7. They were at least bigger tragedies because a larger portion of the crew died.
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  8.  @jameshenderson4876 : "Jellicoe, as a career sailor was likely much more conscious of "local" pronunciation." But in Danish it's called "Jylland" whereas "Jutland" is the English name and thus shouldn't be affected by local pronunciation.
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  9. The Germans lost a ship called Blücher in both wars.
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  10. Did you know that at 10 Downing Street the previous tenant, before it was made into the Prime Minister's residence, was called Mr. Chicken?
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  11. It wasn't a ship. It was Commodore William Goodenough in charge of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron.
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  12. I think in the Battle of Cape Ecnomus the casualties were more than twice as high. The winning side (the Romans) alone lost 10,000.
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  13. In fact, they put him in charge of the whole 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron!
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  14. I think WWII had many instances of action involving modern battleships (being bombed by aircraft).
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