Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 006" video.

  1. 33:33 - Of the two Ottoman battleships seized by the Royal Navy in 1914, Agincourt was an especially weird case linguistically, since it was originally built for the Brazilian Navy before they sold it to the Ottomans for want of money; as a result, it still had quite a lot of things marked in Portuguese, which, although somewhat less of a problem (in that it, like English, uses the Latin script, in contrast to the Arabic script used for Ottoman Turkish), added yet a third language to deal with (and, unlike with the fittings written on in Ottoman Turkish, they apparently decided to just leave in place many if not most of the fittings written on in Portuguese, resulting in quite a few jobs aboard what was now Agincourt requiring a British sailor to have a working knowledge of Portuguese!).
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  2. I remain disappointed that a navy that gave us HMS Invincible (and, after that one caught a terminal case of magazine explosion, had enough balls to tempt fate again by naming another ship Invincible, albeit decades later and without this one blowing up) apparently never named anything HMS Indestructible, HMS Invulnerable, or HMS Immortal.
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