Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "HMS Devastation - Guide 221" video.

  1. I see that Drach has her predecessor, the Cerberus scheduled in a couple of months. That monitor was a year or two older but lasted even longer until about 1920 as a store ship.
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  2.  @RCAvhstape  Yep, if you want to create a feeling of contempt rather than respect, name a ship after a politician. But I guess the British have already used most of the cool names and the Americans don't want to name their ships after British ones.
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  3. Drach has a cut of date of 1949. He says that is because more recent ships are beyond his area of expertise, but I think he also wants to avoid the nationalist politics of the last 75 years.
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  4. That is a great theory, I had never realized that before, but your 40-ish year rule seems to apply to many (perhaps most?) new technologies.
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