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

  1.  @BHuang92  You'll not get an answer on this channel, basically nothing post 1950. However should you check out the The Bilge Pumps podcasts you may gain some enlightenment.
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  2.  @The_Real_Quantum  Basically a dedicated stove/oven with a chimney where all hot food was prepared. The fire in it would be doused before going into battle or in bad weather, fire being a big fear on a wooden warship.
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  3. Design convergence, you're trying to solve the same problem at the same time with similar technology, it's not surprising if you come up with a similar solution.
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  4. Make your own, it'll be cheaper and taste better.
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  5. Room 40's job wasn't to blast out signals willy nilly shouting 'U Boats!!!', even assuming it had that capability. It's job was to decode German signals and pass that information up the chain of command. it was someone else's decision to choose what was done with it. There is a reason they're called conspiracy theories, and a large part of that is that they bear no relation to reality.
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  6.  @brucewilliams1892  Fairly sure it was somewhere for the Captain and other senior officers on board to chill out with a large pink gin.
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  7. I think you're conflicting the pronunciations of Worcester, "Wuster" the town, with Worcestershire, "Wustershire", the county in which it sits.
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  8.  @bkjeong4302  The battleships, like the cruisers, destroyers etc where there to provide fire support to the landings. USS Texas was available so she provided the required fire support. Sniper gone. On top of that can you imagine the morale effect on any other defenders in the vicinity, assuming they weren't taken out by the overkill? Something along the lines of "F*ck this for a game of soldiers, I'm out of here."
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  9.  @thehandoftheking3314  Depends on what you're trying to launch. A swordfish's take off speed was sufficiently low that on occasion, when pointing into the wind, they were launched from stationary carriers.
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  10.  @stunleyandwin3649  As a flagship you're commanding the fleet / squadron so basically an Admiral and his attendant staff for planning, communications etc. The Captain of the ship is already busy captaining the ship.
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  11.  @Aelxi  Think that designates a unit, not the ship, 21st Flotilla maybe?
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  12. You're going to have to make a big enough hole in the ship to get the old machinery out and the new machinery in. I'm thinking you'd have to remove the superstructure above the machinery spaces to do that, and then replace it afterwards, so a major rebuild.
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  13. Behind? It depends on what you're designing your carriers for. British carriers were designed for survival and operation in the North Sea, North Atlantic and Mediterranean. I agree that similar sized American and Japanese carriers carried larger air groups than RN carriers, but they were a lot more fragile. As to operations, the USN learnt a lot about fighter control from the RN when they borrowed HMS Victorious in 1943.
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  14.  @johnsmith-kd8br  Yup, once they'd worked the kinks out of the design they built ships that lasted a lot longer than their intended design life.
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  15.  @PeteCourtier  No hate man, today I've learned a bit more about the history of Palmerston's Follies :-)
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  16. To some extent the British continued using weight right through the Second World War, the 2 pounder, 6 pownder and 17 pounder anti tank guns and the 25 pounder artillery piece.
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  17.  @cogidubnus1953  Probably, cats can really shift when they have to. This is normally followed by a nonchalant groom at a safe distance from whatever spooked them. Me? Running away? I think you are mistaken.
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  18.  @Ugly_German_Truths  It wasn't an entirely serious comment. Sorry about that.
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  19.  @Ugly_German_Truths  No, but I am having to explain to Catboy that your last comment was a joke. His limited feline intelligence is seriously pissed off.
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  20.  @x42brown  Fair point and well made.
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  21. Flak. FLiegerAbwehrKanone. So yes the Japanese had flak, it's any gun intended for defending against air attack.
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  22. My better half's sister served in the Royal Navy in the eighties as what was known as a "crusher", ie Naval police. Officially She was a Regulating Petty Officer Wren, Regulating being her branch, Petty Officer her rank and Wren indicating she was of the female persuasion.
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  23.  @chocolatecatdad  There is also no continuity between the men of the 57th who fought at Albuera, the men of the Middlesex regiment who fought in WWI and WWII or Pte Johnson Beharry who fought with the PWRR in Afghanistan in 2004. Decades, if not centuries apart. I don't believe your point stands. To repeat what I said earlier, it's the history in the name that matters, that's the standard the modern descendants are aiming to uphold. It seems to work for the British. Full disclosure, I am British, though my military experience is limited to UOTC at university. You got paid, got to play with guns and the mess bar was cheap :-)
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  24.  @iansadler4309  Possible I suppose but I'm not convinced, the idea that the Royal Navy would avoid a ship name because the Indian Navy had one named the same just doesn't ring true. interesting idea though, do you have any sources?
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  25. Lots of practice, and as was pointed out in the video, no modern H&S requirements. Obvious example, the powder charge would have been waiting basically next to the gun so no wandering off for several seconds to collect it. If you don't know the term look up 'powder monkey' often a boy seaman, so rough age 12 - 14? His job was to ferry powder charges from the magazine to the gun in action. Point was to always ensure the gun had a charge available, but not to build up an excess of charges on the gun deck because of the obvious hazard that entailed in a battle.
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  26.  @joshthomas-moore2656  Able Seaman William Savage, a pom-pom gunner on MGB 314 is your man.
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  27.  @hattrick8684  It tells you the barrel length, for a 16”/50cal gun multiply 16 by 50 to get 800"
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  28. Sorry to hear about the job situation Drach, I'm in a similar if less immediate situation. My employer, Manchester City Council, has told me that as I'm over 55 I'm in scope for Voluntary Efficiency Retirement. Basically bugger off, and you can have what your pension would be worth at normal retirement age now. I'm still doing the sums, it's a bit of a mind f*ck. Best of luck.
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  29. He was a big fan of 'lucky' generals too.
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  30. Revenge and Glorioso sit down for a drink. Every other ship in the bar edges nervously away...
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  31. It makes nice dumplings, so yes, it is food.
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  32.  @mpetersen6  Can't give you a source for it but I do have memory of reading of destroyers etc dumping their depth charges over the side before going into a surface action. Take that for what it's worth, a memory from some random on the internet :-)
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  33.  @brendonbewersdorf986  I'd guess not by now, water is actually fairly good at absorbing Gamma radiation so I suspect you could get pretty close to the wrecks safely. But then my Physics education stopped at A level so take my advice with a pinch of salt :-)
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  34. War + spite as in this video.
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  35.  @davidharner5865  Definitely a tree in the UK, grows to about 60 ft tall, it's what medieval long bows were made from.
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  36. At this point US forces were green and large scale naval assaults were basically untried. So your plan would involve, at the same time, making landings on an enemy countries homeland and against a bunch of battle hardened veterans on the other side of the Med. Yeah.
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  37. From a gunnery perspective, if the rounds aren't on target that's bad. If they still had a beneficial effect, that's a bonus but you still have to fix the accuracy problem.
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  38. There's also Fort Fareham, Fort Wallington, Fort Nelson, Fort Southwick, Fort Widley and Fort Purbrook built along the ridge of Portsdown hill to the north of Portsmouth. They actually face inland as they were intended to defend against any French attempt to flank Porstmouth, take the ridge and shell the dockyards from there.
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  39. It doesn't, unless you're a Wehraboo.
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  40.  @davidlavigne207  When HMS Victorious was loaned to the Americans in early 1943 the assessment of the US Admiral that commanded the carrier division was that we did fighter control better, but performed less well with the Avengers because they were bigger and heavier than the aircraft types we were used to. Basically both sides learned from the other.
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  41. Ok, got ridiculously drunk last night, woke up, found this, brilliant, feel the need to drink more. Bye bye.
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  42. At around 24 minutes, bkjeong4302 is going to seriously disagree with you.
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  43. I don't know how the Americans did it but the first case I'm aware of was HMS Zubian in WWI. She was built from the front end of HMS Zulu and the back end of HMS Nubian, tribal class destoyers that had been heavily damaged in 1916. So Zulu + Nubian gave us Zubian. She was credited with sinking the mine-laying U-boat UC-50 in early 1918.
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  44.  @nopenope8418  I think, and I'm happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable, that they enabled you to reef the sail, ie reduce the area exposed to the wind by basically folding part of it up so making it smaller and allowing you to control your speed. Should you wish to go faster again, just take the reefs out and you're back to full sail.
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  45.  @kemarisite  Was just about about to comment the same, but scrolled down first to check if anyone else had. I've decided to use the time you saved me for another glass of claret :-)
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  46. If your masts were shot away you raised your ensign on the tallest bit left standing or jury rigged something instead. Ensign up, I'm in the fight, ensign struck game over.
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  47. 'No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.' Good words for any Navy.
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  48.  @longlakeshore  Depends where you hit, the heavy armour was put around the engine rooms, magazines etc. Think Drach has mentioned this in a number of videos. Put simply why armour an unimportant part of the ship so it detonates an SAP (Semi-Armour Piercing) shell when you could just let it go through leaving a couple of holes?
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  49.  @WALTERBROADDUS  I see where you're coming from, but I still think the end result would have been the loss of the Prinz Eugen. If the RN have lost contact then you want to get out of there fast, which you can't do towing a crippled battleship. Remember, anything flying the White Ensign with even a faint hope of getting there in time is heading your way, the RN wanted the Bismark badly. Yes you've more AAA to throw at the stringbags but again, you're slow and hampered by towing Bismark. One decent torpedo hit on the Prinz Eugen and the Kriegsmarine is looking at losing two major units instead of one.
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  50.  @TheEDFLegacy  Basically a wall that runs across the ship. Generally fitted with watertight doors to enable ease of movement.
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