Comments by "Be Kind To Birds" (@BeKindToBirds) on "Drachinifel" channel.

It is a turret, it looks like it has a (270) degree arc of fire in pictures with the turret traversed. It is a fantastic beast.
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To be fair, you can build a tank from scratch faster than a ship and for a lot cheaper. Not that the Army didn't learn the lesson or that it wasn't a mistake but at least it wasn't the Air Force or Navy.
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@demonprinces17 Iran Contra and ruining our middle class isn't great.
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@floydvaughn836 Not really actually. Not only because of different local food sources and national interests but also different colonial food sources, preservation methods, and voyage lengths. Salt meat and hard tack is a bit of the common denominator, true. But when you are a swedish or russian sailor you have cold to preserve things yeah? And then there are different methods of getting the nutrition themselves. Russian sailors working in california were said to eat mainly beef tallow for example. Something that the american and british sailors seemed to think was pure lunacy. Scandinavian sailors had more fish, sailors of south america had a lot more fruit and a lot less beef as well. It's actually something that is a bit difficult to research in English but you can find some information in other languages. Irish sailors adopted use of the potato long before the english thought it worthy of a ships company, wine was a staple on french ships and extremely unlikely on a British ship. Rice was an absolute luxury reserved for captains in american sailing ships but it was the common food in chinese ships. And many nations didn't have nearly the need for long voyage as england did and so their rations didn't need to be preserved the same way. Or they did, like the french, but used different methods. The french used vinegar and boiling to keep water but the british didn't seem to adopt this as regularly. Ships beer was a better option for british sailors but for the french it would be wine. For English sailors fresh beef was a luxury but for american sailors in california it was so common it was nearly all they ate for months at a time, the flour for ships bread being the extreme luxury at times. So there is actually a very great deal of variety and difference in diet among the different nations and their ships throughout history as well as variety based on where the ship was going and for how long.
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@stephenmcdonagh2795 that is not true
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Then you lack faith! BLAM
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@demonprinces17 whataboutism
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TOO LONG NOT ENOUGH DAKKA
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@RagingDong why do agenda driven idiots like you show up every single place. Go away
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FYI if you want more like this the battleship New Jersey museum channel has roughly a hundred interviews of people who served on Iowa class battleships. (Mostly on big J herself obviously)
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What a disturbing comment chain. Thank God it's mostly new pysops accounts.
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The previous Levadia was a beautiful ship, shame about her wrecking in the black sea.
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@kevinbendall9119 the horizon leaves a lot of open sky
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@kevinbendall9119 .The people telling you that all the fancy shit protecting you from aircraft and else is working and not to worry do so because thats the equipment you've bloody got mate. And I'm sorry to be the one to tell you thus but death comes from above these days more often than all the other kinds of ways combined. The horizon is a lot of open sky. Every single thing a ship on the open sea is known, that's why they invented submarines after all yeah? You can't dismiss the battlefield with just a few assurances. You got told what you were told because it has its pros and cons. It is NOT infallible and you are a sucker and a romantic if you truly think the old ways are anything except not yet obsolete But your a damn fool if you think for a second that everything above your chain of command wasn't focused highly on everything above you and deadly afraid of what could pop up over the horizon.
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@hubertwalters4300 no bots
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I have read many contemporary accounts of them smashing it with something to turn it into crumbs before eating.
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@hubertwalters4300 Please continue.
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@bkjeong4302 Well they were hugely useful as shore bombardment platforms all the way to the gulf war but of course they mostly weren't under threat from sea during their service as bombardment ships.
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Counterintuitively, you have to learn to use umm. If you never pick up the habit then it doesn't get put into your vocal process. Doesn't mean it's easy at all but maybe it can help you reduce your own waffling in conversation to realize it's a habit, not a necessity. I've been trying for years so hope you have better luck than me.
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Plenty of great grog recipes out there from history. A few history food channels have done grog and other rations. Townsend and sons is a great channel focusing on the food of the colonial period for a start. There is also a channel I think called mre tasting that has an absolutely insane amount of info on every kind of military ration
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What is the image at 15:20? It is absolutely gorgeous.
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I do see why you used a summary system to organize this presentation but I do wish you hadn't chosen to only share those values and not the actual values associated with the guns. While this does provide some context that others can find difficult to get out of raw numbers I do really wish I could hear the actual range and kg weight or m/s values. While it's useful for you to organize the video game style numbers really just are not useful information.
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In "two years before the mast" of american sailing merchant fame the writer mentions that cows are eaten before pigs because "pigs are sailors." He goes on to mention that a sow had made two trips around the cape of good hope and had made a trip around cape horn. Is this something that is widely observed or held as true in the Royal Navy as well or is it an isolated observation of the man and the crews working the california trade at the time? We're pigs commonly held to be better able to survive the conditions at sea?
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Anime is for losers
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@hubertwalters4300 I don't talk to people like you when it's daylight in St Petersburg my friend, long rule. )))
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@memeboy8207 It's very simple, it means role or job. Video game generation it's hard to understand I guess but it's like going to a construction site and expecting all the painters to look the same because if he's a big guy how can he not be part of the framing team.
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Why exactly isn't the Gloire the first ironclad? This seems like the British stretch again.... Like that documentary about the warrior where an interview subject goes on and on about how the warrior was the first ironclad even though it was quickly made obsolete... While ignoring completely that it was the Gloire first clad in iron. Not that it's the first time you've been puffing up the royal navy and smudging over other nations naval accomplishments tbh mate but it's just silly when it's so obvious as to completely omit the actual ship that changed things because of an arbitrary attribute you have arbitrarily decided disqualifies the previous. Or is this really about iron-frames and not iron cladding lol. I mean really you should be back in korean turtle ship if this is about historical accuracy and not just the same as many other historians through history: summerizing well documented facts about their own nation, adding only the nationalist slant of diminishing foreign accomplishments. Makes you popular at the time mate but eventually history judges the non-impartial. First "true" what a crock. How about first ever not first true smh... This is worse than when you had to talk about the american frigates! It's almost as bad as the bloody wikipedia article talking about "the french invented it, narrowly pre-empting the british" Bloody narrowly pre-empting? Why is it that when I start working on something only after someone else has finished do I get called second but british say "narrowly pre-empted" I guess the british ethnocentric mindset to history that set our understanding back about the ancient world centuries didn't die easily whatsoever. I suppose it is entirely based on how you are educated. Patriotically I assume. Because Americans aren't taught about our age of sail, clippers and windjammers, and schooners, and super frigates and all of it. But we are taught equally patriotically to our cousins across the pond about ww2 and just look what such patriotic education has done for the understanding of ww2. Anyway there's my rant. Shouldn't be looking gift horses in the mouth and all but mate your british bias is even worse than usual when it comes to specific blind spots.
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