The Adriatic Campaign in WW1 - Battles a Lissa bit smaller 

If they won't reactivate the Iowa's do you think that one of the allies will build a battleship because of Russia and china?

Is it possible for you to do a video analyzing the various torpedo boats from the major nations in WW2? I feel that that's a very underrated topic

Can you do a video about the battle of the masts 655 AD and how 200 Muslim ships annihilated a Byzantine fleet of 500 ships? It's very rarely talked about (at least in the west) despite how large it was and how outnumbered the Muslim fleet was

I was reading about HMS Auckland the other day and saw that she was intended for survey work around New Zealand. How exactly does one do surveying in the age of steam and steel? In modern times a lot of it is done by sonar and underwater vehicles, which I presume were unavailable at that time.

How a history of torpedo boats?

look at the Ancano Video where it gets explained ;) Somehow the Quartermaster needed to replace expended Pistol ammunition after that operation...

"here be trains!"

@@Voron_Aggrav I can suddenly imagine deck crew firing off their sidearms in the direction of the shore, shouting "I'm helping!"

Good point on transportation infrastructure of the time...

@@tanall5959 I mean,it was the time when sidearms were usually pistols with 1000m sights,chances are they might have tried to shoot at anything moving on the shores

"I am sinking" "Shut up Kamchatka, so are we"

Kamchaka: " _I knew it_ !!!!"

Kamchatka: YAY! Svent Istvan: FUCK!

Kamchatka: "I see no torpedo boats!" while looking out at a full armada of torpedo boats...

And yet it was not sunk here... it must have felt cheated... seeing as a Cruiser did for it..... earlier and half way across the world...... that’s life... .

Torpedoing a French capital ship and not hitting the wine cellar is like bombing an aircraft carrier and not damaging the flight deck.

@@CowMaster9001 I'd like to see someone bomb a CV without damage to the flight deck

@@admDanRyan Ask and ye shall receive... When bombing the Akagi at Midway, Dick Best landed the killing blow to the flight deck, but one of his wingmen missed the flight deck and landed a very near miss next to the stern. The full effects of that blast were not apparent until the burning ship was put into a hard turn when an American torpedo plane was spotted nearby and then the rudder stuck in that position and could not be budged, so the ship could only circle from then on. The shock effects also prevented operation of some valves, and a number of watertight doors could not be closed, hampering damage control efforts.

In Dakar, 1940, an english vessel shooted a shell which fell without damages on the well armoured deck of the battleship Richelieu, but nevertheless destroyed the reserve of cognac and fine alcohols of the captain ; after that, the attack was repelled, but the ship was still this way atrociously mutilated ^^

Love the reference to "The Sound of Music"

Funny stuff.

All your water tower are mine

They are absolutely punderful

Also loved the "Sound of Music" ref at 9:35

One of many reasons why I love Drach's videos. The come for the interesting bits of history, stay for the acerbic humor and exceptionally sharp wit. I think I commented in a previous video that British Humor can be used a lethal weapon in its own right.

Ist spelled "Kaiserliche and Königliche Kriegsmarine". Unlike in English, in German an E at the end of a word is never silent (pronounced like "eh"). You can call it "K.u.k. Kriegsmarine" though. :) (The "ie" represents a long "i", while the "ei" is pronounced like "aye")

There is actually an "austrian empire navy rum"

Well, they were told to blow up the Italian railroads and, with steam locomotives, the water towers were like big signs announcing "railroad station here".

Water towers can be useful, and not just for supplying railroads. They can be firefighting water resources and lookout/observation posts.

Makes me “excited” just thinking about it.

@@WalterReimer stop with the facts! Takes away from the humor!

From the sea, water towers are very conspicuous - indicating "there is stuff here". They stick up in the air, and are very eazy to aim at.

Probably creative Hungarian Accounting. Or maybe a slip of zhr tounge.

How was she laun hed before being commissioned?

​@@Pyxis10 Because that is the correct sequence. Laid down, then launched, then commissioned.

To clarify for everyone, the Kaiman was laid down in November 1904, not 1905, then launched in June 1905, and commissioned in September 1905. This was a slip of narration and editing by Drach. Sometimes it happens.

"How do you solve a problem like Marina? How do you find a sub and put it down?"

Problem and Italian can’t be used in the same sentence!

I do not get them….

Something to do with Russia getting waxed by Japan?

@@tonyromano6220 See Drachinifeld "2nd Pacific Squadron" videos and the ship guide Kamchatka. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DCrAQFBUFlU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Mdi_Fh9_Ag.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BXpj6nK5ylo.html

I'm still waiting for World of Warships to add Kamchatka as an April Fools joke

@Brady that would need a sense of humour. WG would only do that if they could get money out of it.

I just happened to stumble upon those gems over the summer. Darkly humorous, historically educational, and full of swash buckling period technical andventure. Cannot recommend enough

And all events which happened with Ottokár Prohaska actually happened, albeit with different, real people.

National Coffee day 😉☕

4.30am and a while day ahead of you. Have a good one from Aus!

@@WALTERBROADDUS They've obviously not told you. Everyday is National Coffee Day ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

Was it a good day?

@@bigblue6917 Actually, places like Starbucks have free coffee deals today.

They did briedly take monfalcone, though that disnt last. Frankly, if the western front didnt collapse, Italy might have within a short time.

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 They kinda did collapse (looks at Battle of Caporetto)

Yeah, in July 1921.

That's pretty much exactly what they did, as I recall. They failed to hit a single Japanese torpedo boat in the English Channel.

That should be considered a war crime, at the very least.

Morale would be terminal by the end of the second supper without it, I'm sure!

Just like our Alpini stormed Austrian forts in the Alps by throwing a shitload of grenades ^^

And for decades one had to buy Whitehead - because there were no other manufacturers. And as the German cruiser Blücher found out in Drobak Sound, they worked well even for decades, with proper maintenance.

and commissioned in September ;)

Time magic

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey…

Financial year?

I wondered about that too!

Have you thought of subscribing to one of the WW1 aviation journals, like Cross & Cockade International (UK), '14-'18 Journal (Australia), Over the Front (USA). The first two in particular have had articles on the use of airships and dirigibles in the nautical environment recently.

I hadent heard of any of them, but Ill be sure to take a glance at them, thanks fer the tip!

Every time Drach says "Graf Zeppelin" my first thoughts are of the dirigible and not the partially completed aircraft carrier.

(IIRC) the maritime aviation at the Battle of Jutland consisted of a number of Zeppelin's out looking for the British Fleet and a British Float Plane Carrier out looking for the Germans. They found each other. So - (myself not recalling where the carriers float planes were) - the Zeppelin which found the Float Plane Carrier proceeded to try and bomb it - but wasn't having much luck hitting the moving ship. The Zeppelins crew was however bemused by the fact that the British had a lot of Riflemen out on deck shooting at them. This was funny until the Zeppelin began to lose altitude due to all the bullet holes put in it's gas bags. At that point - it was time to leave. .

there is a nice novel about early british blimbs by Andrew Wareham, "the Baloonauts" or so

Well it is the lesser of two weevils.

You say pick a pocket like it's a _bad_ thing. 😁

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That can travel at 3,000 knots and have an 20,000k operational range

Burning coal or rice for fuel?

Same here! Although Drach has to work harder on the “g” in “Regia Marina”.

@@lmorandini I'm not an Italian speaker, so should it sound like the "g"s in "giggle"? 🤔🙂

@@samrobinson566 “g” as in “gin”, but Drach’s “g” is a tad too long, like he were saying “Reja” (there’s no “j” in Italian). Italian pronunciation follow rules: if you see “gh” is a sound like “giggle”, if the “g” is not followed by an “h” is “gin”, if “ch” it is “kernel”, if “c” is not followed by “h” it is “chin”, and so on. Very different from English, where the same letter groups may sound different in different words (“wild” and “wilderness”, “triple” and “triangle”), to the utter bewilderment of Italian speakers.

@@lmorandini absolutely; my German grandma would find English simultaneously baffling and fascinating.... I've also learned how to pronounce Maserati Ghibli correctly now as well, thanks to you my friend 👍🏻🙂

Wouldn't that sound like John Cage's 4' 33" of silence? IMHO it's his best sounding composition.

@@sundiver137 - John Cage was to musical composition what Cowper Coles was to seaworthiness in marine architecture.

I honestly wasn't sure if Drach was being serious, because frankly, a French warship having an entire compartment, just dedicated to storing wine sounds right

1906 involved here?

And they are easy to spot from sea I guess.

Or Sir Drachinifel made a mistake.

Commissioned a whole two months before she was laid down. Impressive work from Yarrow Shipyards.

@@jakemillar649 Working so hard it makes planet spin backwards.

Known since the Greek and Roman times with the name of Pelagusa, the islands show in their name a Greek etymology that alludes to their position in the center of the Adriatic (from the Greek "pelagos", or "sea"). Less accredited is the version of some geographers who see it as a reference to the ancient population of the Pelasgians.

Why, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet just rolls off from your tongue... :)

😂

And Samuel l Jackson as luigi

That's just everyday humdrum stuff. The Italians apparently managed to shift the city of Venice and the Gargano Peninsula to the country's west coast inside the first two minutes.

Hyphenated names are often a hint there is more to the story.

The correct diplomatic title was Austro Hungarian Monarchy. Calling it the hapsburg empjre completely mischaracterises what this political entity was, and ignores the auschliegch. Why it indeed wouldnt have existed without the habsburgs, the hungarians were also very keen on their equal status within the state, a d have fought numerous wars to achieve it.

UTMOST FISH!

he also sank a french armored cruiser or comparable heavy, "Gambeta", if i remember right

They all had gone to Venice, on the west coast.

Go and salute that legend while you still can, for me at least, if he still be alive.

It disrupts rail travel driven by steam locomotive. Classic interdiction.

1. Doctrine. The Italians wanted a major engagement, so didn't want to divide their fleet in smaller sections to defend the Adriatic coastal cities, even more so because the Austrian actions didn't make substantial damages. The Austrians instead formed raid parties for rapid actions against them, that's why they were usually in numerical superiority in those early actions. 2. Amnesia of the author. Some situation not so favourable to the Austrians had been omitted. IE: a) contemporary to the initial Austrian raid on the Adriatic coast of Maj. 24 1915, the Italian destroyer Zeffiro penetrated in "Porto Buso", destroyed the ships present, bombarded the installations and captured the Austrian garrison (11 dead, 48 captured). It probably made more damages alone than the entire Austrian expedition. b) In the morning of Dec. 29 1915 the Austrian light cruiser Helgoland and four destroyers attempted to force the port of Durazzo. Welcomed by a new coastal battery they didn't know the existence of, attempting to manuver to avoid the fire, they ended on a minefield. The destroyer Lika, struk by two mines that caused the explosion of the magazines, sunk immediately with the loss of 71 men. The destroyer Triglav, struk by a mine and crippled, was abandoned by the crew and later sunk. c) In 1916 The Regia Marina finally commissioned the kind of ship more fit to operate in the Croatian coast, the MAS. In june 1916 begun the operations of the MAS boats against the Austrian ports, with the sinking of several transport ships. etc...

@@neutronalchemist3241 Thanks for the reply. Those incidents you mentioned do indeed give the impression of a more even conflict.

@@Bird_Dog00 The raiding war was in the favour of the austdians fairly significantly, mostly thanks to dalmatias impenetrable shoreline archipelago. Italy did suffer from some doctrinal malaise as well. The kept trying to force a decisive battle to cripple the austrian battleline, and so were hesitant to commit capital units to raiding.

You should watch Neon Genesis Evangelion - the last names of the characters are mostly those of IJN warships. OK, Child No. 2 has the middle name "Langley" while her mother's middle name is "Zeppelin". USS Illinois and USS Kentucky are also completed and make an appearance.

Of course, she'd been sunk a few years before.