Comments by "GWTPict GWTPict" (@gwtpictgwtpict4214) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @mattwoodard2535  Yes to the cat noises, I ended up checking the house to ensure our cat hadn't got himself stuck somewhere.
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  2.  @mattwoodard2535  Yeah, many years ago I was heading for the loo in the middle of the night. Hadn't put the light on because I knew the way. You really don't want to stand on a small, cold, dead wet rodent in your bare feet. I think the crunching noise as its rib cage gave in just put the icing on the cake.
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  3. I think you'll find a fair number of u-boats succumbed to RN ramming attacks in both WWI and WWII.
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  4.  @mitchm4992  In terms of turbulence I think nothing, but from reading about this in the past memory says pilots, generally right handed, in an emergency want to push the stick across the body, hence plane goes left, rather than pulling to go right. So put the island on the right and give them the space to recover the aircraft / embarrass themselves in front of everyone watching.
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  6. If you can find an old school librarian, cherish them. They will hunt stuff down, it's their thing.
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  7.  @philvanderlaan5942  No, it's not going to work, you need to get your water up to a nice rolling boil, then add to the teapot, stir and allow to brew to your preference. There's a reason the British Army's armoured vehicles are equipped with a BV (Boiling Vessel).
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  8. Interesting point, as a 60 year old Brit I can remember my Mum dosing us up with it for a dicky tummy. A quick Google suggests it's still available.
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  9. Did you actually watch the video? As Drach clearly explains 15lb was a full powder charge for the 11" Dalgren at the time of the Battle of Hampton Roads, it was only later after development and further proof testing that the Dalgren was rated for 30lb of powder as a full charge.
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  10. I'd say good, tells a different story to most of the earlier books but does a good job of justifying its interpretation.
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  11. The torpedoes that hit the Belgrano were old contact fused types. The RN did have a modern torpedo at the time, the Tigerfish, but it was regarded as unreliable and also had a smaller warhead, the Belgrano, as a WWII cruiser had a chunky main armour belt, 5.5 inches thick. Modern warships don't have that. Basically the RN used a WWII era torpedo design to sink a WWII era cruiser.
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  12.  @WALTERBROADDUS  A sizeable chunk of the Royal is rocking up in full on "Kill, Maim, Disfigure" mode. I think the Prinz Eugen would have been sunk too, if she's towing a crippled Bismarck she's slow and unmaneouverable. Game over.
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  13. As you said, he is British. Therefore his English is not strange, it is correct. Just saying 🙂
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  14.  @michaelblaszkiewicz7283  It had a lot of success, Swordfish flying from Malta were credited with around 500,000 tons of Axis merchant shipping sunk. Yes it was an old and slow design but it was very effective.
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  15.  @admiraltiberius1989  Most kind of you sir :-)
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  16.  @muttman325  Probably the most highly polished bit of brass you will ever see.
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  17. Even so, if your 6" magazine cooks off you've lost either the bow or stern of your ship. Potentially survivable but you are best out of the fight, at worst sinking.
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  18.  @bengrogan9710  I had a big black cat called Wolfgang. He absolutely loved pigeons.
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  19.  @bholdr----0  A torpedo boat destroyer was indeed originally intended to destroy torpedo boats. As they got larger over time it became possible to equip them with torpedoes as well as guns so they essentially became dual purpose, the torpedo boat destroyer could also act as a torpedo boat, resulting over time in the name being shortened to destroyer.
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  20. A wise decision.
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  21. What do you mean lost? They both survived WWII and were scrapped shortly afterwards.
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  22.  @Wtdtd  A scummy Digital Rights Management company putting in copyright claims despite Drach having the right to use the music. Sometimes it's easier to just walk away rather than get bogged down in endless bickering.
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  23. First read about this as a lad, must be well over forty years ago now, thanks for the reminder :-)
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  24. The LST's were not intended to be used during the 'contested' period of a landing rather they were for landing armour and vehicles once the initial beachhead had been established. While the fight was going on the infantry's armoured support came from DD tanks or LCT's, Landing Craft Tank, plug LCT 7074 into Google for more information. LCT's were much smaller than LST's. LCT 7074 is preserved as a museum ship at Portsmouth's The D-Day Story museum on the south coast of England and put nine tanks ashore on Gold beach on D-Day.
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  25. He does have a very relaxing voice. I sometimes struggle between wanting to listen to the content while trying not to drop off.
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  26. I think it's more of a compass than a ruler, if your central fire control is down, but lets say 'A' turret is landing rounds in the right area, then you can at least read the bearing off and point your other turrets guns in the right direction.
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  27.  @gordm3527  Armoured flight deck and good damage control?
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  28. Dumbest internet comment of the day I think. Anyone else have any contenders?
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  29.  @jonathanwhite5132  Drach has covered older stuff, you'll need to dig through the back catalogue.
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  30.  @ДжонПартлов  Your name doesn't look to be, but are you by any chance Australian?
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  31. Let there be sounds, let there be guitar! Sorry, having a bit of an AC / DC moment there.
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  32.  @georgekraft8605  Because the Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory, ie we are responsible for their defence. South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910, Rhodesia in 1965, having been self governing since 1923. So basically, we may have been friendly to those nations but not our problem.
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  33.  @c0dy85  No, HMS New Zealand is correct as, though funded by New Zealand, she was part of the Royal Navy. HMNZS did not come into use until the 1st October 1941 when the New Zealand Navy was recognised as an independent force, separate from the Royal Navy.
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  34.  @johnivkovich8655  Another Englishman commenting on spelling, it's Worcestershire :-)
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  35.  @lloydknighten5071  I believe the relevant quote from Nelson is something along the lines of, "No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Horatio Nelson ". So yeah, he'd have approved :-)
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  36.  @michaelkovacic2608  I would argue that yesterday's video did provide strong evidence that a number of people have misrepresented the Cameron report to further their own ends. Worth it for that alone. As for the Narviks, yes, powerful warships on paper or a millpond. The North Sea is not often a millpond.
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  37. Nearly, they are booms that could be deployed to hang torpedo nets from.
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  38. From memory Nelson originally wanted "England confides that every man will do his duty" to be flown by HMS Victory at Trafalger, but agreed to his flag lieutenants suggestion of substituting "expects" for "confides" as expects existed in the code book whereas confides would have to have been spelled out letter by letter.
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  39. I will disagree that the point of a capital ship 'was to deal with other capital ships'. I would say its primary purpose was power projection. HMS Warspite, being a good example, of her service life only around 25% was spent at war, in peace time her duties were mostly showing the flag, ie 'look at the might of the Royal Navy' , often in the Mediterranean which was vital to Britain's maritime interests. Look at HMS Hood and the state she was in at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, why hadn't she had her much needed refit? Because she'd spent most of her life showing the flag, projecting British maritime power.
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  40. But if there's no breech then does it count as a gun?
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  41. (Human Voice) indicates that the video was originally released using the robot voice, and the audio has now been redone with his own voice. So no, not pointless.
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  42. On a warship? Clean or a very shouty CPO is going to want to know why not. Good hygiene is vital, you can't fight the ship if everyone is down with the shits.
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  43.  @CharitonIosifides  My mental arithmetic is fairly good, but I was always in awe of my Dad. The man could multiply and divide fractions in his head.
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  44. Samuel Thompson raised the same issue 45 minutes ago, Drach replied 35 minutes ago, and I quote, "Indeed, I covered that more extensively in the third part of my video series on the Battle of Jutland :)". So 10 minutes before you accused him of 'pussyfooting around it".
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  45.  @dougfoust117  They didn't, I think WALTERBROADDUS is referring to salvage methods.
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  46. The Naval term is straddling.
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  47. Where would you put them all and who's paying for their upkeep?
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  48.  @wierdalien1  Known as temperance bars in the North West of England. Fitzpatricks in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, opened in 1890 and I believe is still in business, at least up until Covid struck, anyway.
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  49.  @istvansipos9940  Bow or stern chasers were common in ships of the age of sail, but from memory they were standard guns, so a frigate might carry a couple of 12 pounders mounted to fire forward and aft, a ship of the line might carry 24 or 32 pounders in the same role.
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  50. If a ship was retired from service, or went into dock for major overhaul, modification, repair etc the crew would be 'paid off' ie given any owed back pay and released for service on another ship.
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