Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Another reason Derfflinger was so beloved refers to his namesake, fieldmarshal Derfflinger, who fought in the 30 years war and afterwards he organized the Brandenburgian army in a very modern shape away from mercinaries-Landsknechts .... he created the first standing army in this era with social security for the lads. The main point in his career is, he was one of rare generals in history who made it up from the ranks. So everybody could identify with him.
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  2. This is all true, but the more important aspects are always the highest ranking officers. No ship is able to counter the idiocy of the own flag-officer.
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  3. All German battle-cruisers achieved a definite higher speed than designed.
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  4. The guy who saved Seydlitz at the Doggerbank was pumpmaster Wlihelm Heidkamp. Kriegsmarine named the destroyer Z21 after him. This destroyer was sunk at Narvik.
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  5. Of course, 3 times more Frenchies were killed in allied fire than from German shooting.
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  6.  @Chino56751  this is not the right comparison. At this time Britain still ruled the evil empire and sold it for 53 destroyers to the US.
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  7. @Garret Phegley your quote only describes the sympton. The main historical factor are the rules of the British admiralty for education to train officers and crews. Unfortunately this advantage is lost. British losses against a miserable led Argentine air-forces were caused by the badly trained british crews. As Drach recommends "train your crew".
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  8. The biggest ship catastrophy ever happend, was the loss of an entire Roman fleet returning from Carthago in a storm. The Romans lost 100k men.
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  9. Speed was fine with 28,1 knots. The engineer's design foresaw 63.000 horsepowers, but the engines made nearly 90.000 horsepowers. Some sources mentiond 29,1 knots max. speed for Seydlitz. So she was one of the fastest battle-cruisers in her era. And 11 inch guns were enough to knock out one of Lion's engine rooms. Blücher caused itself the battle of the Doggerbank with her low speed. Without Blücher we would have seen no battle or only a battle of 3 BCs against 3 BCs.
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  10. Commanding officers are the decisive factor. Lord Cochrane (best seaman in human history) would have found a trick to defeat Constitution with a scooner, as he did before with a spanish frigate.
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  11. Your single point of view on Derfflinger is based on the failed interpretation of British politicians about the high seas fleet. The Germans built their 40% (of british fleets) fleet to become a valuable partner of the Brits to secure British homelands, too, when the Brits were active in overseas waters. The High-Seas-Fleet was never built to compete with the Brits, as the Brits interpreted it in arrogance. In real terms the bottled high-seas-fleet was totally useless. To compete the Brits the Germans would have needed a long-range battle-cruiser-fleet to intercept the trading routes. This fatal mistake in British politics caused the decline of Europe as a major power and the handover of the empire to the US in WWII.
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  12. The Baltic Sea is less salted in comparison to every other maritime part of the planet. Learn your lessons, midshipman. If not, you will never get a comission as a lieutenant.
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  13. This is not a miracle. The noble french captains or admirals were killed by the french revolutionary freemazons. Viceadmiral Villaret-Joyeuse was a post-captain before the war. There was no educated french officer corps, so in the total the education of french naval forces suffered, and bottled up in harbours, moral was drownded. Additionally Boney made often a bad choice appointing fleet-commanders, he appointed complete losers as Villeneuve. Additionally Boney lacked the technical understanding. So this imperial fool sent Robert Fulton away. And before the Napoleonic wars, there was no real political will to beat Britain. During the war of independence, France and Spain had the opportunity to conquer Britain. Both nation's fleets were superiour against the Royal Navy at this time.
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  14. World record in rate of fire is held by Seydlitz at the Battle of the Doggerbank. After the stern-turrets blew up Seydlitz was shooting with the remaining 3 turrets 123 11'inch-shells in 6 rounds a minute to Beatty's squadron.
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  15. The pilots obviously lived not at London's eastside.
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  16. Seydlitz is the undefeated world record holder in fast reloading of it's 11 inch guns, performed at the Doggerbank. After both stern turrets blew up (when Wilhelm Heidkamp opened the red glowing valves with his hands to save the ship, which lowered Seydlitz' stern for 1,5 meters), the captain thought after the explosion, the entire ship will be lost. So he wanted to cover the retreat of the other 2 battlecruisers and ordered "good & rapid fire" for the 3 remaining turrets. Seydlitz fired 128 shells in 6 rounds as per minute, best turret crews in history.
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  17. Similar to German Pre-Dreadnoughts under rear-admiral Mauve who protected those heavily damaged german battlecruisers in the evening of Jutland.
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  18. Wilhelm Heidkamp
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  19.  @dropdead234  no, Sir, it is a British problem waging too many wars. Britain was responsable for 2 WWs, which Europe lost against the US.
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  20. Battle of Svensksund in 1790 would be worth a video. It was the biggest sea-battle ever in the Baltics. The most talented englishman at sea in the Nelson era, Sidney Smith, was an adviser to the Swedish king and was knighted by him. This caused him a lot of trouble, because many british officers on half pay served in the Russian navy, which was heavily superiour in comparison to the Swedes. On the Russian side 6 British officers were killed in action. This shows effectively the ability of Sidney Smith, who commanded the Swedish light division, to win a battle against a clear superiourity with many British officers on the opponents side. This is performance and was not Nelson's shooting against French clay pigeons.
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  21. I am German and i do not want to miss Drachifinel's comments on this vid combined with the german accent in english spoken comments. Reminds me to the fine yorkshire pronouncing of Sean Bean. Humor is emerging by an overblown reality. So it is difficult to laugh about lies. Test it, can you laugh about the german evil empire? No? You see.
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  22. Since admiral Byng was shot, court-marshalled, on his quarterdeck no British officer dared not to attack. This motivates more than prize-money.
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  23.  @thecatalyst6212  People describe the fact how long such a burden as war lasted. If do you read Forester or other writers with their fictional British sea-heroes or more adjusted to the truth, talented pirates, like, in reality, Sidney-Smith or Cochrane (both were the best military seamen in history), you'll read, that all those heroes whether died or were fatigue about war, especially the Napoleonic Wars lasted more than 20 years. Think about, one of my grandfathers served in 2 WWs, after it, he was a broken man. Living in times of war was never funny. There is always war, but most times, as in our case, not in the own backyard.
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  24.  @laisphinto6372  255 before 0, Sicily Strait at Kamarina, 384 ships (a hundred prizes), loss of around 100k men. There is no comparable catasprophe except the Mongolian Invasionfleet for Japan, the same fate, the Japanese called it Kamikaze, divine storm, around 70k men lost.
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  25. Drachinfinel's en passant-analysis is correct. The strategic mistake of the German high command was not to use the ships for the purpose they were built for. Better to sink in battle than by a bomber raid.
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  26. With Sauerkraut Captain Cook saved his crews on his exaggerated journeys.
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  27. Now Australia is owned by China without one shot.
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  28.  me hee  we should notice that the Brits wiped the Tasmanians out between 1803 and 1865. And it was John Company who motivated the Brits to attack China in 2 Opium wars, the first from 1839 to 1842 and the 2nd from 1856 to 1860, a measure which made half of the chinese population to junkies with around 20 Mio. victims. Insofar the Opium wars were a consequense of the prevention of the slave trade, when Bristish merchants were searching for a new business model. Here is the picture of the last 4 Tasmanians https://natgeo.imgix.net/factsheets/thumbnails/Indigenous.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1024&h=560&fit=crop
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  29. Which server please?
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  30.  @RCAvhstape  much faster than all merchantmen at this age....passenger liners like the Titanic achieved 24 knots max speed.
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  31.  @davidcolin6519  Even 16 inch shells of Rodney could not sink the sitting duck Bismarck. To destroy the superstructure of a ship there is no need for 16 inch shells, 8 inch are enough. At Denmark strait the Brits were from the beginning in advantage. 10 big guns against 8. The Germans were forced to offer their broadsides, not a favourable angle receiving hits, as we had seen with the PoW-hit in Bismarcks bow-section. And additionally the Germans suffered under a stupid admiral, who gave no order to open fire, so the Germans started 2 minutes after the Brits with firing, an infinity during a sea-battle.
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  32. Scharnhorst or Gneisenau hit Renown's galley btw. They had compassion with Renown's lads suffering under the miserable english cuisine.
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  33.  Just Hans  ask Drachinifel how many seconds Bismarck's shell needed to reach the target. I think the shells needed more than 20 seconds. So there is no self-destruction-mode in battleship's shells. And Brits never hesitated to shoot against a sinking ship, have a look to the Dresden and Emden case already in WW1.
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  34.  @klade5031  One of the fastest windjammers is the "Mir", with 19,4 knots top-speed at good winds...
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  35. Of course not, if you remark that the RN terrorized the 7 seas for 350 years .... :-)
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  36. A question of taste. But unfortunately we are all too poor to establish an international Drach's fleet of BBs.
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  37.  @johnperez6069  you know, promoting the idiots and sending home the braves usually is German behaviour. That the Japanese made as the same efforts as the Germans was indeed something new to me, happy now to know more. But that Beatty replaced Jellicoe was really the most famous ill promotion in sea-warfare, White Hall must have been drunken. But the action of this funny admiral Wright was more a Lütjens - or Kummetz-action. As a German Wright would have received the Knight's cross for his success. Hail & mercy for the idiots on ships.
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  38. Oh, Hitler could not believe that someone is stupid and able to do the same existential mistake a second time.
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  39. The Caracciolo looked like a modern battleship, as Vanguard or as Bismarck, a kind of prototype.
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  40. Scuttled or sunk makes no difference.
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  41.  @bernhardlangers778  WWII Scharnhorst-class-ships sailed with a flat silhouette. So, they were wet ships. You are right, but flat silhuettes cause sea-damages and turret-failures.
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  42. The death of Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz in 02/1588 was really a game-changer. The english wikipedia says that the health of Santa Cruz suffered under the accusations by the king for the chaos & desaster in 1587. To give the followers of Drach an impression for warfare at sea in this era, Santa Cruz defeated a French-Portuguese fleet at the Battle of Ponta Delgada (Azores) in 1582. This sea-battle was the first one in history which was led only by artillery far away from home-waters in the Atlantic. For the English another fact was important. They standardised the gun calibre, which allowed more rapid firing of broadsides. And they abondoned the breech-loaders which were used on the Mary Rose.
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  43. 11 inch-guns would have done the job for everyone, if they hit decisive and earlier than the enemy. With holes in your hull, your ship is gonna sink. This is the major intention to shoot holes in a hull. The Ricesteamers missed and the cowboys hit. Historically this was caused by the Japanese night actions due to the US air superiority at daylight.
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  44. Lindemann demanded the pursue of PoW, which would have been the right decision. And later on the detachment of PE was against all squadron-rules in naval history, an additional failure of Lütjens.
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  45.  @taggartlawfirm  Jackass-frigate Jack is a clever swashbuckler .... Hornblower is a cultivated thinker. Both have nothing to do with Nelson, the profit-taker of Duncan, more with Cochrane and Sidney Smith.
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  46.  @dropdead234  the Frenchies replaced the Dutch, a quote by Frederik the Great, "the french sloop, towed by the RN".
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  47.  @rambysophistry1220  this is what they tell us in school or at the university. Wilson admitted in 1919 that the founding of the FED as it happened during Christmas holidays, was his main failure, because the FED is not federal, the ownership consists of US private banks, funny isn't it? During the Weimar Republic the Germans debated, too, the question of a private National-Bank or a public one. The Bank of England was a private bank, too, till 1948, after Bretton Woods there was no use of it anymore. The founders of the Bank of England in 1694 are still blacked. The II. Reich could refinance the war alone with war-bonds. Britain could not. JPMorgan gave big loans to Britain. In 1916, after Galipoli Britain loses the war, what meant, the JPs loans to Britain were going into default. Let die some unexperienced GIs to save those loans. Maybe you should hear the famous Freedman-speech (1961), available on YT. About Russia is to say that at the beginning of the Russian Civil war, the Entente Powers supported the White Guardists against the Red Army. The Red Army was in a bad state until Trotzki came back from his Canadian exile with a lot of money loaned from US bankers (mainly Jacob Schiff). With this money Trotzki managed the re-organisation of the Red Army, (the Entente Powers stopped the support for the Whites), won the Civil War, fought back the aggressive Poles who invaded Russia (Polish army stood beyond Kiev) during the Polish-Sovjet-War, lost only the last battle of Warsaw, what definded the ridicoulous border the Poles still demand. About WWII read Churchill-quotes. Churchill did not care about Hitler or any other Reichs-Government. Churchill aimed the destruction of Germany and the genocide of German people. After the war, he admitted, "we slaughtered the wrong pig". Churchill was the worst European politician in human history. He destroyed the biggest empire that the planet had ever seen, and additionally the continent of Europe in a lifetime.
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  48.  @riebenzahl-524  As Drach said the commanding officer decides the training-standards. Beatty was not the cream of British seamanship. A ship's commander who feels a pressure to impress his admiral with quick reloads, used in the RN for centuries, ambitioned to cheat with disregardings of the rules, has the wrong admiral.
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  49.  @Dilophi  against Drachinifel's preference to the Scharnhorst-class with 2 forward turrets and one astern, this makes not a big difference to the Bismarck/Hipper-class design. Beside their combat-abilities German warships were the most beautiful. The superstructure of Bismarck and Scharnhorst is not so different. As usual in design questions the Italians had ovbiously an advantage, too. The main aspect is the hull's shape. German warship hulls are more comparable to pretty-female-shaped yacht hulls. British hulls look like the interesting taste of British cuisine.
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  50.  @ManiusCuriusDenatus  i would have to check my library or gugel. The difference between Rome and Carthargo was the Roman selfestimation as a territorial power. Carthago was a centre of merchants like Venice or the Hanse. Without territorial background there is no chance to survive.
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