Comments by "Warren Cash" (@mandowarrior123) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Captain: All down full! Boatswain: I think you mean ahead, sir. Captain: Don't question me!
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  2.  @markrobinson9956  in that case demonstrating it was possible is a bad idea to some degree. Should've got them to plant some more trees
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  3. They're fortunate they rigorously tested it, you can imagine the disaster of if we adopted it too early for our cold water navy. Also, 'iron' comes as both elemental iron and 'cast iron' cast iron has a huge quantity of carbon. My assumption was they were using cast iron, extremely high carbon 'steel' that is very brittle. Was that incorrect? Do you know the carbon content of the iron? Both kinds of iron were a relatively new product, steels were the result of 'iron age' manufacture. Similarly poorly named is the 'bronze age' which should be called the copper age, or very least brass age. I loved your video on the later adoption, too- and your videos on the later forging techniques for differentially tempered steel hulls. Have you considered combing these into a comprehensive, full length documentary? Or perhaps a book? It's an interesting topic in my view. And while there are few naval architects in the world, i don't think there is quite a resource like it. Delving into titanium, aluminium and composite is certainly a possibility from here, though i'm not sure how much experimentation is on public record.
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  4. ​ @TheSrSunday  it is more difficult to say that, the Yamato was avoided on a strategic level where possible, so it had a strong force projection even seeing little combat. That's partly why Japan struggled to commit it. Some weapons avert the battle. Its like the Maginot line. It did its job as a barrier and disincentive to the Germans perfectly. The Yamato and sister seemed decent, capable vessels and were absolutely threatening.
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  5. ​ @bkjeong4302  i don't agree, it was strategically obsolete quickly but its potential and threat to project force inland was huge, big battleships wouldn't really become obsolete until the cruise missile and submarine took precedence, and the range of quickfire guns increased. I'd argue we still use battleships, that simply the world war style ones suffered from gigantism. Talking about mass of shot on target modern ships exceed ships of the line. Yamato was a fine ship and well engineered. It was very much a win more vessel it wasn't its fault its remembered for when Japan had no fuel and was struggling defensively. The Iowa was a comparative vessel and strategically useful long after the Yamato and Musashi.
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  6. The British thought that from silhouette at first, but if you look at the front face of them you'll see just how vastly different they are. The Gloster aircraft had flat wings. Also the Gloster had a front-facing rudder, which was its unique design element. When designing a short carrier fighter with access to a decent radial engine the proportional similarity becomes simply convergent evolution. The ratios or some of the shape may have inspired elements but it's vastly different on an engineering level. Once you examine the ki-61/p-51/spitfire all those have closer similarity and it's simply engineering. Once you see the front view you'll get it.
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  7. Pretty much wherever eagles and turtles intersect. Can be a hazard as they drop them from high up to smash them. Famous greek was killed by one hitting them on the head IIRC.
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  8. Not quite HI Sutton's work (Sutton does it all on paint, the madman) but it is certainly illustrative.
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  9. Your hull videos have become reasonably comprehensive at this point. Is a compilation or documentary on the table? Would you consider covering aluminium, titanium and composite experiments? Is enough publicly available to support that? I suppose for completeness, were ancient fabric hulled craft used in war to our knowledge? I suppose I ought not forget pycrete, too.
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  10. 12 pound long guns were small bore but had much higher comparative powder loads and were far longer range, more accurate than the bigger guns, could operate quickly with 3 crew. (Many times faster reload rate) They had much higher muzzle velocity, they actually could punch through battleships, albeit fist sized holes. Bear in mind also in medium and higher sea states the lowest gun deck was unusable. 12 pounders were the mainstay in any fleet, and very effective at most jobs. They're somewhat lighter than the larger bore guns too. They were fantastic, really.
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  11. The organization and poundage probably changed, gun types etc.
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  12. Timber backing is convenient for damage control, and just fixing to it generally in addition. Thank you for the demonstration.
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  13. ​ @splicetape9435 nah, they wanted their slave imports back at the time.
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  14. Nono, they knew how to ballast properly and did a decent job on her all things considered.
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  15. Forecastle - fo'c'stle - "foeksl". Boatswain - bo's'n - "bosun" lots of long words on a ship, see.
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  16. The last 20 years were the 21st century. No, the experiments i believe he refers are the royal navy experiments covered on this channel before in the development of dreadnaughts and steel ships. If only I had Drac's memory- a new steel process (rather several) were developed that allowed them to develop steel with the preferred ductility. Certainly by ww2 these issues were 'ironed out' hur hur.
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  17. So, the hood travelled too fast for her own good? Exposing her undergarments? Too keen?
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  18. Not as much as you'd think. The Royal Navy really did have it much their own way, so to focus on the defeats wouldn't give you much general perspective. The battles focused on are not just victories but crucial battles that changed the course of history. Naval battles at the time were very much a snowball, too, as you captured and used the ships you defeated, and the losing nation had to build new. Bear in mind you are probably only considering anglophone sources, perhaps you should listen to spanish and french sources. You seem to want balance, but it wasn't balanced. The Royal Navy did come to dominate the seas.
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