Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Battle of the Falkland Islands - Von Spee's Last Stand" video.

Who'd have thought that there would be another significant naval battle fought there near the end of the 20th century. It's stranger than fiction.
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BTW, The Franklin Expedition (cannibalism and all) .... our newest Arctic ice breaking warship just sailed right through the strait where Franklin came acropper about a month ago.
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@richardmalcolm1457 The "Healy"? That's a Yank Coast Guard ship that sails in Canadian waters with the permission of the Canadians.The Canadian Coast Guard sails those straits every year (has had to rescue Healy at least once)but for the the first time since the 1950s, the Royal Canadian Navy has returned to those waters with a fleet of six 5000 ton dedicated armed ice breaking ships that will guard sovereign Canadian waters from unauthorized intrusions by vessels such as Healy. I was referring to the HMCS Harry deWolf which is currently circumnavigating North America.
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@thekinginyellow1744 Located at the tip of South America which was a really big strategic deal before the completion of the Panama Canal. Diego Garcia (British at the time) was part of my father's Coastal Command patrol area during WWII It was a backwater because the Japanese were not successful in the Indian Ocean. It could have had major importance back then.
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@johnjephcote7636 Better include all theat Parks Canada archaeology of human remains that had clearly been cooked and eaten. They have hand, finger bones that had been chewed by human teeth. Think about it. You are really at the end when you can eat a human hand.
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@richardmalcolm1457 At this point, their ice breaker capability will not be significant for a long time and America also operates in the Antarctic (where Canadians don't need to go) Their "International Waterway" schtick about the Northwest Passage needs to change and fast before Kim Jung Un floats a bunch of hastily constructed ice breaking missile launchers into the Staits. (The Americans said it was okay!)
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@richardmalcolm1457 I think that it would be a good idea for the United States to rescind their counterclaim that the Northwest Passage is an international waterway and trust their oldest ally/biggest trading partner/ next door neighbour to be the lawful gatekeepers of the Straits (as we always were before) to keep out random fleets of undesirable ships. The capability at the end of the 2020s will not be a significant one. The US Navy needs to have a hell of a pile of ships built over the next decade and icebreaker procurement will be at the end of the list after coal lighters and seaplane tenders.
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