Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "The Drydock - Episode 212" video.

  1. and to their credit, the bomb range had been blowing things up and setting off blasts like that for decades and never had any issues, this was an issue that could have happened from any sort of explosion, so the range was actually expanded a bit to fix this
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  2. I would bet that there are reasons for either a slab or stepped dry dock as well, a stepped one you could float more stuff in, manuver it close together as you bring the water level down, and like you said stepped drydocks require less excavation, but also it might be the only way to build a drydock in a given area's geology
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  3. Its kind of weird everybody seems to just assume the bismarck had the most advanced stuff out there, when in reality its the US and British that had the most advanced systems on their ships, and ships plural, the germans only had a small surface fleet and the 1 Bismarck
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  4. Slight problem with the Stonewall, both sides' ironclads were notoriously terrible at manuvering, especially in the riverine combat they tended to be deployed in, maybe being built in france it wasn't CSS Virginia levels of poor handling but I can't imagine them being able to get into ramming position against a monitor either
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