Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Drydock - Episode 007" video.

  1. Like the question about the washing. You can just imagine on the bridge of a warship. "Captain sir. A signal from the flagship." "What does it read," says the captain. "England expects every man to do his laundry."
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  2. The incident with the Colombian destroyer reminded me of the last broadside fired by a Royal Navy ship. The ship, sorry I have forgotten its name, was due to come out of service, and being the last ship capable of firing a broadside she sailed out into the English Channel to do just that. So there she is out in the English Channel and just as she fired her last broadside a Russian warship sailed out of a nearby fogbank. The Russian captain must have wondered what was going on, serves them right for skulking about in fogbanks, but obviously realising it was not a good place to start an incident and decided discretion was the better part of valour and left the British to their own devises. One for the Q&A. Did the navy use super heated steam like they did on locomotives. Super heated steam, for those who have not heard of it, is where the steam is heated up by sending it through pipes back through the boiler to increase its temperature and therefore its power.
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