Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "Chatham Dockyard - Half a millennium of supporting the Royal Navy" video.

  1. That was fascinating to me as I write mountain history at the other end of the world. The connection is that in remote locations, away from the main ski resorts in Australia and New Zealand, they have still have arcane ski lifts called "nutcracker tows" and these things require natural fibre rope, wire rope or even nylon rope can't be used. Anyway the clubs that run nutcracker tows often have a lot of trouble finding 500+ metre lengths of hemp rope in this modern world. So I was curious how it was made, I wonder if they get their ropes from Chatham?
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  2. HMAS Otway was one of half a dozen Australian Oberons. It is preserved at the town of Holbrook, hundreds of kilometres from the sea. It was named after a range of cold, rain sodden hills in the state of Victoria.
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  3.  @sixstringedthing  Thanks for that, I had forgotten about Vice-Admiral Otway.
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