Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 248" video.

  1. 5-pound bucket of relative bearing grease. 100 feet of coiled shore line. Left-handed (also anti-clockwise) socket wrench.
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  2. I’m glad he made it home and hope the remainder of his life was peaceful and happy.
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  3. Imagine the RN admitting that mighty Hood was sunk by a lowly 8” gun cruiser. Or the German navy acknowledging that their own mighty battleship accomplished even less than her current record. Pride explains many things where logic, physics or economics fail.
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  4. The whole point of Drach’s discussion is that there is no evidence that Beatty issued orders to compromise flash protection to increase RoF, or even that his focus on higher RoF led some ships’ command and gun crews to compromise their own ship’s flash protection to meet that goal.
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