Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Who else thinks that the 21" Mark VIII Torpedo of the Royal Navy deserves her own 5min' guide? :) .
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  2. Returning to port arse first... such are the oddities of war.
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  3. For those confused by the EIC's name choice for this ship: Nemesis is the name of the ancient Greek goddess of Vengence (or Retribution; same thing really); specifically toward the sin of Hubris; arrogance before the gods. She's also perhaps the most well known of the many Oceanids , and is typically associated with the sea & rivers. Royal Navy ships called Revenge & Vengence have been a classic staple (alongwith Terror , Terrible , Furious & many others), as was Erebus , the Greek god of darkness (and Nemesis's father). At least two of the other Oceanids have had actual RN Warships named after them; HMS Calypso & HMS Acaste . Really; it's an historical oddity that Nemesis hasn't been the name of a Royal Navy ship (yet).
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  4. I second this notion :-) .
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  5. Praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition.
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  6.  @christopherconard2831  Or the 'USS You might as well just surrender' XD.
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  7. Aye, or if the US had taken one home as a war trophy (pretty hard to top that for size of visible achievement).
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  8. + When not of a mood to leave port, "bump" the nearest jetty or the harbour floor wherever possible ;-) .
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  9.  @lycossurfer8851  Aye ;) . >Warship... Reversing. Warship... Reversing.<
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  10. Fair fights are for sport, not war. "Don't worry I promise a fair fight... and by that I mean one totally stacked in my favour!" - The Joker
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  11. Aye, or at least substituted Queen Elizabeth when Warspite's hull condition became known.
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  12. In a better worldline, the One-Off option was taken, and we likely would have been making HMS Hood comparisons in various other ways 🤔👌
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  13. Incidentally: Pansy was the name briefly consider for a Flower class Corvette, but never actually used. (the RN quite rightly concluding that the men would not respond well to being on a ship who's cap badge stated "Pansy")
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  14. In the Maine's case though; it was in part due to having to pack in a lot of stuff on a relatively small hull, shile still wanting fore & aft firing arcs. The munitions stowage though... yeah~ that was definitely a costly mistake.
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  15. Germany: We have a Navy! Great Britain: We have Warspite.
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  16. Poundland doesn't do Cruisers... but if we did...
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  17. Naval humour at it's best.
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  18. ...and by the uselessness of politicians in general 😅
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  19.  @adrianjorgensen3750  Various Whales in 1982: same 😅 (seriously; quite a few got torpedoed by both sides)
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  20. Theoretically. What the USN would have done with an intact Yamato class is anyone's guess, as unlike Nagato she wasn't a WWI era ship.
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  21.  @TacticalShinebox  Ah yes Ovaltine, or "Teenoval" as one of my family calls it XD.
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  22. the British government* 😅
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  23. Meanwhile in Britain: gigantic mobile ice island for landbased bombers 😆 Warship Hypertrophy is not a new thing. Spain's El Ponderosso for example 😉 .
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  24. The ship after her stint in the Red Navy: "Kill me, please!"
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  25.  @benlaskowski357  Quite the opposite. The MK.VIII was the Torpedo the RN always went to when others weren't working. Designed in the aftermath of WWI, she was also the only Torpedo to be fired in anger by the RN during the Cold War, rather paradoxically at a former USN Light Cruiser from the same interwar period as the Torpedoes ;) .
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  26.  @bigblue6917  ...alongwith a few others I'd bet ;)
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  27. That's now the canonical persona of said ship, should one ever appear in an Anime' as a recurring character XD. "Get off me; Hilfe-chan!!"
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  28. One detail of E-Boats I recall is that they were lousy AAA platforms, which made running into RAF or USAAF aircraft rather one sided.
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  29. As a Brit'... familiar... with how many American tourists get confused by British place-name pronunciation, I'm impressed by this stateside example 😌👌 .
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  30.  @John.0z  Technically the USN retained a large Battleship force postwar anyway, and didn't say goodbye to their last until 2011; though it's certainly the case that greater emphasis would have been given.
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  31. Ironic to think that the cause of death for the Implaccable twins was their smaller but elder half-sister Victorious gobbling up all the money 😅 . Makes one wonder how things would've gone had the twins bee prioritized, and the Illustrious class written off as too old & small. (I don't dislike Victorious though; she had quite the interesting life, albeit cut short by an onboard fire in the '60's, which given the amount spent on her was cruelly ironic)
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  32. Takao was also the largest IJN warship to be assailed by Royal Navy X Craft minisubs' whilst in port, which didn't do her prospects of ever returning to sea any good. Maya has the unusual distinction of being the only real life IJN ship to be mentioned by name* in a Studio Ghibli film, and one of only a few shown in one too. *As the ship the protagonists father is serving on.
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  33. The RN was also happy to torpedo argie ships that were once ours, and did destroy a french sub too, so sinking the belgrano was not an intended jibe at anybody in the USA. (after all the latter sold us Sidewinder AAM's, and debated offering us a spare Carrier for a while) I'm sure a USN Sub' would've done the same to the Belgrano, had they been ordered to.
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  34. @WALTERBROADDUS  I was paraphrasing an old Osprey Guide to them, but the point was that they were poor AA gun platforms re' stability, which by late war when the allies had increasingly more numerous, fast, long ranging and heavily armed aircraft... the E Boats had better odds of surrviving from manoeuvring & trying to throw off the pilot's aim, than they had of downing the attacker. Similar situation with Submarines, except that the Germans had always known that crash diving was the best option.
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  35. TF-34, short for Tank, Floating - 1934 XD .
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  36. Apart from when on a Side-Slope... or crabbing during a hill climb or having being designed by the french; this is true.
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  37. Quad's are love; Quad's are life :D . Besides the never built Sextuple Turrets of the Tillmanns', nothing does the 'Angrily waving ones guns around maneuver' quite as well ;-) .
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  38. Coincidentally the reason I was intrieged by this class from the first time I heard of Takao, was how large and heavily armed they were.
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  39. Kind of. PoW didn't make the same error. Worth noting too that just one 15"/42 or 14"/45 round on target, would've made Prinz Eugen's career dramatically shorter. (see HMS Defence & the Regia Marina's Frume & Zara for why Cruisers were typically kept away from hostile Capital Ships where possible)
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  40. Amen. A very notable ship, with quite the coincidental connection to HMS Warspite.
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  41. ... yet irony of ironies wasn't gobbled up by them ;)
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  42. Well; it pays to know one's [traditional] enemies as well as one's friends ;-) .
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  43.  @niclasjohansson4333  Aye. The RAF don't believe in half measures ;-) .
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  44. If there was any justice in the world, every navy would have such a museum fleet, to educate the populace on the given service's illustrious history, as well as that of the nation as a whole. (as a warship often reflects the nation that built her, in many ways)
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  45. In fairness... who wouldn't?
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  46. "It is in the history, and greatest traditions of the Royal Navy, to engage the enemy, wherever there is water, to float a ship." 😌👌🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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  47. A most thought provoking concept; her full shape amusingly has airs of Iowa and Yamato class, especially around the "hips" 😂
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  48. In the case of Capital ships: mostly by torpedoes and gunfire.
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  49. The root cause of all these issues?... yes it's our age old friend (sarcasm), The Politician . Or in the US's case specifically: Congress , Noun , the opposite of Progress.
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  50. Weirdly enough, a class of ships named HMS Ampersand , Apostrophe , Bracket , Comma , Degree , Hyphen , Interrabang , Percent , Quotation , Slash , Squiggle , Star & Thorn ... don't sound bad at all ^_^ .
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