Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "HMS Hood - Origins of a Legend" video.

  1. And yet strangely failed to hit a single target afterwards inspite of thousands of shells expended !!!!
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  2. Don't forget, it was responsible for the JFK assasination as well !!!
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  3. You're aptly nicknamed.
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  4. A manual antiquated aiming disk? I think you mean the dumaresque wheel which was a PART of the Mk 5 Dreyer table fire control system as fitted to HMS Hood. Hood fired SEVEN salvoes at Prinz Eugen TWO of which straddled the cruiser. Your strategic analysis of the engagement is flawed by your error with important details regarding the situation.
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  5. WW1 ending before Hood could take part was the "waste of money" but no-one was complaining. She then spent the naxt 20 years portraying the image of the largest most capable warship on the planet, shoring up the British Empire even as its sun was already setting.
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  6. Please tell me all of her bad points please... I'm eager to learn.
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  7.  @pauljaworski9386  Seems you've never worked in naval architechture. Do you think any design is perfect? ALL naval vessels are a compromise of various compelling aspects. For instance do you believe Bismarck was a fantastic design? Or would you like me to point out the plethora of poor design choices made during her construction?
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  8.  @pauljaworski9386  ???
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  9. Hahahaha, a nice little vignette you've penned there, doubtless reproduced in navies across the world, even today !!!
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  10. No thanks, I've more sense than money.
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  11. An obscure "Achilles' heel" in her vertical armour scheme. https://youtu.be/CLPeC7LRqIY
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  12. ​ @tyesalhus5604 As well as being the largest ship in the world for nearly 20 years, when HMS Hood was completed, she fielded battleship firepower protected by battleship armour and could manage 32 knots when the rest of the world's battleships struggled to make 23 knots. If you'd like an individual example of the esteem with which HMS Hood was held by other nations, look no further than the account of Baron Burkhard von Mullenheim-Rechberg, the senior ranking survivor of Bismarck, and her 4th gunnery officer, here's an excerpt of his account of the start of the battle of Denmark Strait. "The British ships were turning slightly to port, the lead ship showing an extremely long forecastle and two heavy twin turrets. On the telephone I heard Albrecht (Bismarck's chief gunnery officer) shout, "The HOOD...... it's the HOOD!" (his capitalisation), It was an unforgettable moment. There she was, the famous warship, once the largest in the world, that had been the "terror" of so many of our war games." Later he made these remarks following Hood's demise.... "At first the Hood was nowhere to be seen: in her place was a colossal pillar of black smoke reaching into the sky. Gradually at the foot of the pillar, I made out the bow of the battle cruiser projecting upwards at an angle, a sure sign that she had broken in two. Then I saw something I could hardly believe: A flash of orange coming from her forward guns! Although her fighting days had ended, the Hood was firing a last salvo. I felt a great respect for those men over there" Sounds as if the Kriegsmarine and her gunnery experts were more impressed by HMS Hood than you appear to be.
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  13.  @tyesalhus5604  P.S To answer the statement you made in your first post "the mighty Hood against Bismarck gets blown in half with one shell".... Bismarck's shell did not blow HMS Hood in half, is simply caused an unforeseeable domino effect of events that culminated with over 100 tons of cordite in Hood's aft magazine "rapidly deflagrating", and THAT is what blew HMS Hood in half.
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  14.  @tyesalhus5604  Where do you get the idea that "any" ship's shell would do the same thing? And what part of Hood being the world's largest and fastest capital ship for nearly 20 years do you not understand? If you're aware of what blew up Hood, why assert she was "blown up by a single shell"? She wasn't, she was blown up by 100 tons of cordite. If you want to examine how ships can be destroyed by fluke events, you could also examine how USS Arizona was "torn apart by a single Japanese SAP bomb". The RN never officially referred to HMS Hood as "The mighty Hood", because as with many major warships it was a nickname thought up by national newspapers, and was created at a time when the British empire was tottering after WW1, so it could be seen as an attempt by the British press to shore up British morale & self esteem, and it worked big time as the name and image was seized upon by the general public not just in Britain, but across the British empire and beyond as the German testimony I gave above demonstrates, you have only to look at the viewing figures and the "pull factor" of HMS Hood when she undertook her "Empire cruise" during the 1920s, which in itself shored up the image of the British Empire throughout the interbellum. Her catastrophic destruction was totally unexpected hence the national shock and horror it caused. I think you seem to not understand the relevance of your own adjective "unforeseen". I'll stick with the verdict of 20 years of world opinion rather than some whiny YT commenter who has no real point to make.
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  15.  @tyesalhus5604  In simple answer to the question where did "Mighty Hood" come from, the answer is the British press, though it's attribution from within "the fourth estate" has been lost to time. Guess what? Mass media around the world habitually talks in hyperbole..... sometimes it falls flat, sometimes it captures the imagination of the general public. I'm surprised you cannot understand the concept of "pull factor". It's quite simple really, for example try making a blockbuster film with "Fred Smith" in the starring role and watch as the film "bombs", you should do some reading about the "Empire cruise" and the huge crowds it and HMS Hood attracted around the world. Please do point out where I "don't understand what is going on"? Your problem is you're talking with someone who understands the subject better than you yourself appear to. If I seem "insulted" its because older wiser members of the British public are becoming sick and tired of the ongoing globalist programmed anti-Brit sentiment aired within mass media on a daily basis.
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