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

  1.  @markkringle9144  My maths teacher in the late seventies, your calculator is no use if you fat finger your inputs. You should always have a rough idea of what the answer should be, an example, 27.2 x 8.7 is roughly 30 x 9 or 25 x 8, Take your pick or do both. So your answer should be between 200 and 270. Oh look, it's 236.64. Thanks Mrs Patterson, your advice has served me well for nigh on fifty years. Also, what happens if you forgot to charge your phone?
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  2. She was never on the winning side in a battle though, was she?
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  3.  @bertbaker7067  You'd have to hope your opponent didn't have ASDIC/Sonar because you'd be a sitting duck for depth charge attacks.
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  4. You're on the internet, it really isn't that difficult to have a tab open that will let you do the conversions quickly and simply. Also as this is a historical channel it makes sense to use the measurements of the time.
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  5. Canadian shipyards probably could have built them, but how many corvettes could you build for the cost of one Abdiel class? Early in the war there was a desperate need for convoy escorts and corvettes were the answer, quick and cheap to build. Remember, killing a U-boat was a bonus, driving it off was your actual mission, if you achieved that you'd done your job. Later in the war when the shortage of escorts had been overcome you would see the emergence of hunter killer groups with bigger faster ships. They didn't escort convoys, that was the job of the close escort, but they were available so if a convoy came under attack the close escort would defend while loudly shouting 'U-boats! we're being attacked!' and the hunter killer group would sweep in to well, hunt and kill the U-boats. While that's going on the convoy buggers off into the distance.
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  6.  @leftcoaster67  Indeed, but a luxury I think.
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  7. Well he also wants the Baltic states and various other places "back". He's not getting them either.
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  8. Very high quality optics, specially selected and trained lookouts, up against early and primitive radar. Six months prior to this Pearl Harbour had an early experimental radar. All it could say was "there's something out there, roughly in that direction". Radar operators passed this on and it was decided it was an expected flight of incoming B17s, even though the direction was wrong. Whoops.
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  9.  @VieneLea  He did.
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  10. Depends where you live, I'm in Manchester and this winter we've had an inch or so of snow maybe three times? It was never around long enough to actually freeze. That said rock salt is easily available if you want it and in the areas where snow freezing is more common you'll often find council maintained rock salt bins at the side of the road.
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  11. Theatre, The-a-tre. Three syllables. Mind you I do find the way he stresses the 'a' a bit weird.
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  12.  @maggnus87  There were dozens of ramming incidents over the course of the Cod Wars, who rammed who is still disputed. As a ball park figure Royal Naval frigates of the time would have been 2,500 - 3,000 tons displacement so generally a lot bigger then the Icelandic coastguard vessels.
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  13.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  There are plenty of examples of battles with more than one name in use, look at the American Civil War for example. The battle of Jutland is often referred to as the battle of Skagerrak. Calm down and stop getting your knickers in a twist. Who gets to decide what's the correct name anyway? I'm not aware of any organisation officially tasked with this.
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  14. Fair point, but then modern submarines, even diesel electric boats, don't spend much time on the surface.
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  15.  @personthing88  A special case indeed, but fair point, well made!
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  16. Known to some English types too. We do tend to quite like insulting names applied by old foes, they rather confirm that we've pissed them off. Kitchener's 'Old Contemptibles' being another favourite.
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  17.  @kemarisite  Yes, I've heard that too. Wherever it came from it was in common use though.
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  18. I'd be careful about the pilots (officers) and crews (enlisted) distinction, at least in the RAF you could have a bomber crew with a sergeant pilot and a commissioned flight engineer, navigator etc. In the air the sergeant pilot was in command even if on the ground military regulations required he deferred to his flight engineer, navigator.
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  19. The picture you use to illustrate the Kreigsmarine shore bombardment question at https://youtu.be/NXK-SBgcOvc?t=8813 appears to have no guns in what I think the Germans referred to as Anton turret, do you know why that is he case?
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  20. The guy from Military History Visualised is Austrian, the guy from Military Aviation History is German, don't know about the others.
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  21.  @Drachinifel  Oh dear, yes...
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  22.  @whydoyougottahavthis  Timing, Guadalcanal was over by the beginning of February 1943, USS Alaska wasn't commissioned until June 1944.
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  23.  @lonjohnson5161  A Midshipman is/was basically an officer in training. Pass your exams and you would become a lieutenant and your Naval career was up and running. That's the case for the Royal Navy of Nelson's time anyway, other Navies and times the definition may vary.
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  24. Right, I'm happy but confused, it is Thursday isn't it?
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  25. Possibly you're a bit dim?
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  26.    Why? Different people will see different ads, that's how YouTube works.
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  27.  @danlee5138  The Royal Navy razeed several 64 gun third rates as they were considered too small to continue fighting in the line of battle. They were classified as 44 gun frigates so yes, their role changed. They were also heavily armed for frigates, they generally retained their original main gun armament, so you've got a frigate mounting 24 pounder guns in it's broadside.
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  28.  @bkjeong4302  On the plus side you've always got your AA weapons, fighter cover depends on someone else.
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  29. A thought, faster response to course changes coming from the flag ship? HMS Hood orders the turn to port and Prince of Wales follows, If Prince of Wales is leading Hood has to wait for her to acknowledge and start the turn before she can then follow. Think Drach said in the video that it could take 10 seconds before a ship of that size started responding to the rudder, so Hood probably put the rudder over as the order was given, a few seconds for the order to be passed, a few more seconds for the flags to be raised so Hood could have been beginning her turn as Prince of Wales saw the signal at which point all she has to do is follow.
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  30.  @hughgordon6435  Purely from memory, but in the RN at the outbreak of WWII I think there was a definite degree of regular RN officers looking down on the RNVR, the Wavy Navy, as being below them. I think that changed considerably over the course of the war and that change started early on, the Dunkirk evacuation being a start. Don't have a problem with being corrected on this, as I said, I'm going on memory from many years of reading military history.
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  31.  @suzylstanton  I'm English so Beatty gets it. Curious as to why you included Nelson?
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  32. Can't see you having much chance of hitting the legs on a tripod with a torpedo.
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  33. If you're talking about the WWII Tribal class they were designed and built for the Royal Navy, some were also built for the Canadian and Australian Navies. An early war example of an RN Tribal class in action would be HMS Cossack boarding the German supply ship Altmark in February 1940 releasing around 300 merchant navy prisoners captured by the Admiral Graf Spee. Technically rather naughty as this was done in Norwegian waters when Norway was still working hard on being neutral.
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  34. HMS Penelope, a RN light cruiser that served in the Mediterranean in WWII was nicknamed HMS Pepperpot due to the huge number of bomb shrapnel holes in her after a series of air raids while she was docked in Malta.
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  35. Well that was a teaser finish 🙂
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  36. Basically yes, if you're manhandling and firing guns that recoil violently and weigh in the tons range you want good grip under your feet.
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  37.  @scottgiles7546  I'm the Royal Navy would have loved them to try :-)
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  38. Regarding the MK 14 in 1942, sometimes, if you got lucky.
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  39. Today Manchester is not doing rain, it's doing fog. Quite well actually.
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  40. Regarding the accuracy of the Tallboys dropped on the Tirpitz, I would add that 617 and 9 squadrons were elite units, not just anyone got to drop Tallboys.
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  41.  @agnostic47  He may not be a cricket fan.
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  42. A submerged U-Boat was slow and only had limited battery life. They spent most of their time at sea on the surface. It was only later in the war that the Germans built snorkel fitted boats that didn't have to actually surface to recharge their batteries.
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  43.  @SennaAugustus  Ah, the Fairey Swordfish, or Stringbag, as she was commonly known. HMS Warspite launched her float equipped one at Narvik for reconnaissance and spotting purposes. Not wishing to be left out of the general mayhem the Royal Navy was dishing out she dive bombed and sank U-64 before getting on with her assigned job. An open cockpit, bi-plane, sea-plane, dive bombing in WWII. Don't mess with the Fleet Air Arm, they will use what they've got to ruin your day.
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  44.  @firstnamegklsodascb4277  Make it hollow, metal may be heavier that water but air is lighter.
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  45. Excellent.
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  46.  @eshafto  Fair enough if that's your experience of the video. For me there were some minor glitches, but nothing that stopped me understanding what was said. I do wonder if people forget that it's not just the quality of the source or the kit you're listening / watching on, the route across the internet also plays a part.
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  47.  @chemputer  I can absolutely tell the difference between him and Dr Clarke and my PC setup is adequate, hence the fact I can follow the content without whining that 'it's barely watchable because...'. I'm in my fifth decade so fairly confident I have grown up. I have my doubts about you on that score.
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  48.  @chemputer Any particular reason you felt the need to get abusive? Sounds like you have major issues with people disagreeing with you. That's a bit sad.
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  49.  @micnorton9487  No intention to start an argument here, just trying to expand on the question. Obviously introducing electricity to a ship introduces it's own issues, but as @michaelimbesi2314 states above it also introduces massive benefits. So, as I said, swings and roundabouts.
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  50.  @insignificantgnat9334  Google does tailor search results so your search history, location etc will affect what is returned.
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