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The Drydock - Episode 295 (Part 1) 

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@heikkiremes5661
@heikkiremes5661 2 месяца назад
Hearing commentary from Little Drach makes me smile.
@jeffholloway3882
@jeffholloway3882 2 месяца назад
Me too
@shawa666
@shawa666 7 дней назад
Drachminifel
@pedenharley6266
@pedenharley6266 2 месяца назад
For the mini-series, I really think a series focused on submarines would be the best bet. Maybe follow Richard O’Kane (fulfilling a role similar to Winters in Band of Brothers) and USS Wahoo and USS Tang with some stories from other boats. Crew size is small enough that you can get to know a significant proportion of them. Much hate can be directed at the Mark 14. Convoy battles are intense. You can rescue some pilots or folks from islands, put folks ashore behind enemy lines. With O’Kane you get the POW experience. As far as production goes, there are multiple fleet boats in near WWII configuration on the Great Lakes - take them out under tow and get convincing at-sea shots. Silversides could even play herself in an episode. And I hope that would result in some needed love for those great museums.
@timschoenberger242
@timschoenberger242 2 месяца назад
I agree. They can use the books "Wake of the Wahoo" and "Clear the Bridge" as great source material to start. The only bad thing is that neither of these two subs suffered serious counterattacks by the Japanese.
@dougjb7848
@dougjb7848 2 месяца назад
“Didn’t suffer serious counter-attacks?” USS Wahoo was sunk after a day-long effort by Japanese air and surface forces. Focusing on Wahoo would require addressing the matter of whether, or not, its crew deliberately fired at and killed helpless survivors in the water. Either way these alleged incidents are portrayed, it will generate enormous controversy - “how dare you portray American sailors as merciless murderers of helpless sailors” or “how dare you ignore the clear evidence that American sailors American sailors mercilessly murdered helpless sailors.”
@poowg2657
@poowg2657 2 месяца назад
​@@dougjb7848American forces committed many war crimes that got swept under the rug. Possibly the largest was the outright shooting of most SS prisoners after the Malmady massacre. Such is war.
@coldwarrior78
@coldwarrior78 2 месяца назад
Concerning spoofing enemy comms, since it will absolutely educate the enemy that you can not only read their mail but know enough about it to fake it, the possible benefit would have to balance out the loss of this intell and the associated loss of life of your soldiers and sailors. That balance will almost never be made during war.
@coldwarrior78
@coldwarrior78 2 месяца назад
Concerning the USMC usage, I was told that there was a difference in legal standing between landing some marines versus landing the actual army. Today it would not matter but in the 1700 & 1800, apparently it did.
@glennricafrente58
@glennricafrente58 2 месяца назад
Stories are about characters. Band of Brothers, the Pacific, etc. were notable for each episode focusing not only on battles over the war but on the individuals of the unit. So my vote would be to focus on one ship but highlight different personages/perspectives from the crew. E.g., if it's the Enterprise, there would be the top view from Halsey, the deck view from the crewman who laughed at him (and then got promoted); the rotating air commanders; the officer who kept making those AA reports; the madman at the helm who slalomed the ship through air attacks; the change of the guard when a new commander came on board (shades of Captain Winter being promoted/ replaced); etc., etc. All in the context of the historical battles that the Big E got herself mixed up in.
@ph89787
@ph89787 2 месяца назад
Even if it’s from one character. The late Bill Norberg served as Captain’s Yeoman for all of Big E’s wartime career.
@hmsbelfast2019
@hmsbelfast2019 2 месяца назад
It could be cool to do a big battle such as Midway, ect. Then have the next episode focus on the medical crews and many touch into some of the search and rescue efforts.
@williestyle35
@williestyle35 2 месяца назад
​@@ph89787 This is an excellent idea for a mini series centering on the _Enterprise_ !
@ph89787
@ph89787 2 месяца назад
@@williestyle35 I’m still trying to dig through the crew role. As when Enterprise was decommissioned in 1947. She still had about 8 or so plank owners still aboard her.
@williestyle35
@williestyle35 2 месяца назад
@@ph89787 good to hear.
@johngregory4801
@johngregory4801 2 месяца назад
So at about the 2 hour 14 minute mark I started hearing a sea mine fussing, too young to be ready for deployment. Congratulations!!!
@TheDoctorMonkey
@TheDoctorMonkey 2 месяца назад
4:25 I think the Venetians, Genoese etc of the Middle Ages would challenge the assertion that a ship named after the concept of commercial enterprise is inappropriate!
@scootergsp
@scootergsp 2 месяца назад
🎉Drach, just wanted to say 🎉Congratulations! 🎉 on the new addition to the channel !👨‍🍼 May your and Mrs. Drach still get a number of nights of decent sleep, and may the dirty diapers not be too overwhelming 😁
@GrahamWKidd
@GrahamWKidd 2 месяца назад
5 Drydocks to 300! 7k to 500,000 subscribers. And also it's Saturday night!!
@PalleRasmussen
@PalleRasmussen 2 месяца назад
BB62, and that entire class, are such beautiful and elegant ships.
@hashkangaroo
@hashkangaroo 2 месяца назад
Ice cream ship miniseries when?
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 2 месяца назад
Include a ship from the British Pacific Fleet, build in some rum for ice cream swaps, some trading chicanery and ... I've just invented McHale's Navy. 😁
@prussianhill
@prussianhill 2 месяца назад
I love hearing from the new co-host! Congrats again Drach to you and the Mrs for a happy and healthy baby!
@mpersad
@mpersad 2 месяца назад
Hearing baby Drach's hiccups took me back!
@joshuavinicombe5774
@joshuavinicombe5774 2 месяца назад
When In the video do I hear them? That's kinda cute
@nathanzylla4961
@nathanzylla4961 2 месяца назад
Oh so that's what it was awwww baby drac
@nektulosnewbie
@nektulosnewbie 2 месяца назад
​@@joshuavinicombe5774 2 hours 15 minutes or so - the question about Graf Spee and New Jersey.
@Sneakymacd
@Sneakymacd 2 месяца назад
About the Hornblower question, I think the scene discussed was when Hornblower was a lieutenant on HMS Renown, a 74-gun two-decker. The ship beached itself, an anchor was rowed some distance away from the ship and a broadside of double shot was fired to rock the ship. Here's a link to the scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GrfmK6mEMaI.htmlsi=D9KevPEOijwBlhCK&t=5056 (starts at 1:24:16). There's probably a more detailed description in the book, but I can't be bothered to look it up now. Not sure if these differences change the answer to the question. Probably not too much.
@Wolfeson28
@Wolfeson28 2 месяца назад
Right, it was very similar to the hypothetical scenario Drach was describing at the end of his answer. Renown was trying to kedge off the mudbank they'd run aground on, they had the anchor cable at full strain trying to pull the ship off, and the double-shotted broadside was fired to jar the ship and break/weaken the suction between the ship and the mud just enough to allow the cable and capstan to start moving the ship. They had also started trying to move the guns (at least the ones that weren't engaged) aft to try and free the ship by shifting weight, but I gather that gradual shifting wasn't able to break the suction the way that the rapid sharp impulse of the broadside did.
@johnlowe37
@johnlowe37 2 месяца назад
Any plans to use wood from mature giant sequoias (sequoiadendron giganteum) for shipbuilding would have only lasted until they cut a few down and discovered that the wood is brittle. They actually have a tendency to shatter when felled. Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), on the other hand, is used a lot for construction (it's particularly valued for it resistance to decay). The trees are taller than giant sequoias, but less massive.
@ScrapyardApe
@ScrapyardApe 2 месяца назад
Drach, I wish I could spend just a few hours with you, sipping fine whiskey, and discussing pre-treaty battleships. 😊
@kevdupuis
@kevdupuis 2 месяца назад
I wonder if Drach would appreciate sipping a fine fifteen year old single malt aged in sherry casks.
@williestyle35
@williestyle35 2 месяца назад
6:20 for those that want to see a simulation of the 1799 _USS Enterprise_ check out the opening montage of 'Star Trek _Generations'_
@73Trident
@73Trident 2 месяца назад
Great DD Drach thanks for all your time and effort.
@tokul76
@tokul76 2 месяца назад
Colossus was deciphering Lorenz traffic. Enigma was cracked by Bombe.
@MediumRareOpinions
@MediumRareOpinions 2 месяца назад
Impressive machine too. I've been to Bletchley, had a roll of punch tape from Colossus on my shelf.
@gerardlabelle9626
@gerardlabelle9626 2 месяца назад
20:56 this dreadnought HE vs AP debate reminds me of the Age of Sail debate of targeting the hull vs the rigging. If you can wreck your enemy’s rigging, then you can leisurely outmaneuver them and rake their stern, inflicting massive damage, while they can’t use their broadside. Of course, reducing their rigging takes time, and meanwhile they can aim for your hull. Who’s gonna break first?
@willarth9186
@willarth9186 2 месяца назад
Another Drach just in time for morning coffee! Life is good!
@bull614
@bull614 2 месяца назад
I know right. I use his long videos to listen to while I work. They are very good while on a long haul.
@bluelemming5296
@bluelemming5296 2 месяца назад
@Drachinifel If memory serves, the log for Scharnhost for the engagement with Glorious (June, 1940) is reproduced in "The Battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: Volume 1-2" by Miroslaw Skwiot and Mariusz Motyka. It states that the radar was turned on as an aide to fire control, but does not provide any additional information. The fact that it was turned on does not tell us to what extent it actually ended up being used. The log also provides the sea state and wind conditions, which were excellent for long range shooting.
@patricknix5975
@patricknix5975 2 месяца назад
Give HMS Shannon's crew their due. Excellent crew and excellent captain. End of story.
@bull614
@bull614 2 месяца назад
2:16:37 right there with ya Drach. The number of books I need to stay entertained is ridiculous. I can easily read a Tom Clancy novel in a day, if left alone. The bigs ones, not the shorter ones, lol
@syfieldsjr1576
@syfieldsjr1576 2 месяца назад
Your videos and documentaries are simply amazing!
@richardmeyeroff7397
@richardmeyeroff7397 2 месяца назад
I think that your Idea for a WW2 series following a gun crew is right on the mark.
@troopieeeeee
@troopieeeeee 2 месяца назад
great and informative as always!
@kirgan1000
@kirgan1000 2 месяца назад
You learn something new every day, did always think of the US carrier Enterprise name as in "company business" or "making trades"
@myparceltape1169
@myparceltape1169 2 месяца назад
Good to be corrected. I thought of it as innovation in trade. A bit like The Queen's Award to Industry.
@micnorton9487
@micnorton9487 2 месяца назад
DANG Drach is the hardest working RU-vid creator I know, barring marketing scammers and hardcore gamers lol💯...
@pyronuke4768
@pyronuke4768 2 месяца назад
1:37:00 Applying my knowledge of small arms, polygonal rifling works well enough when you're using black powder, but not so much when you're using smokeless. Black powder releases all of its energy pretty quickly, whereas smokeless powder releases its energy slower (relatively speaking); this slower release allows more pressure to build up. Think of it like the difference between a sharp jab and a hard shove. Now, the building heat and pressure causes the bullet to expand, biting into the grooves and imparting a spin on the bullet. But with polygonal rifling there's nowhere really left for the bullet to expand to, and with the higher building pressures of smokeless powder you could potentially clog the barrel, effectively turning your gun into a pipe bomb. The other side of the equation is matinance. Black powder doesn't burn nearly as cleanly, resulting in residue buildup where you have to stop and give your barrel a quick swab every few dozen shots. Polygonal rifling is pretty easy to swab out compared to regular rifling, but with the advent of smokeless powder you could shoot literally hundreds of bullets before fouling even starts to become a problem. Now there's more nuance to this question, and when it comes to larger artillery the scaling of stuff up causes these things to increase exponentially so it's not a perfect 1:1 comparison, but this is the rough gist of what's going on inside the barrel.
@88porpoise
@88porpoise 2 месяца назад
Polygonal rifling works fine with smokeless powder. The specific combination of powder, rifling, and the cartridge in the Lee-Metford wasn't considered acceptable as it wore took quickly by British military standards (for modern civilian standards it would probably not be considered an issue), but many firearms have successfully have had polygonal rifling since then including (but not limited to) Arisakas, MG-42 (both traditional and polygonal were used interchangeably), G3, Glocks, and the PSG1.
@nathangillispie51
@nathangillispie51 2 месяца назад
You even pronounced my name right! Best youtuber ever!
@tomdolan9761
@tomdolan9761 2 месяца назад
In the USN you have a watch schedule and a work schedule. You’re always on duty at sea
@edwardscott3262
@edwardscott3262 2 месяца назад
Throughout the ages they have found tired sailors are compliant sailors. A fun fact about the HMS Bounty. The Captain switched to a different watch schedule so his sailors could get enough sleep and rest. It didn't exactly help him in the long run. History doesn't exactly remember Captain Bligh as the nice Captain who cared about how long his sailors slept. Instead he got turned into a virtual cliche.
@tomdolan9761
@tomdolan9761 2 месяца назад
I wonder if Captain Bligh had mellowed by the time he commanded HMS Agamemnon at the Battle of Copenhagen
@PaulfromChicago
@PaulfromChicago 2 месяца назад
I always took Enterprise to mean being mission-focused, innovative, hard-working, and clever. Like an officer who shows great enterprise and pluck.
@oppio_fiorato
@oppio_fiorato 2 месяца назад
4:20 as an Italian, I approve of the translation, we'll need to work on the pronunciation
@fien111
@fien111 2 месяца назад
I don't know, I don't think I'd want to be on the receiving end of a ship named "The Business"
@poowg2657
@poowg2657 2 месяца назад
I tell people I'm working dogwatch at the papermill where I am employed and they look at me like I'm nuts. You're one of the few people I've heard use the term. I have a question about galvanic corrosion on ships' hull, and the sacrificial anodes used to help abate this effect. When did ships' maintainers and engineers discover this and how did they come up with the solution? Thanks much!
@jonathansmith6050
@jonathansmith6050 2 месяца назад
1:52:13 - Water generation on lifeboats. - The book Wheezers and Dodgers, chapter 14, discusses some work done towards that during WWII, leading to developing a still that "was only the size of a jerry-can, but it could produce twelve gallons of fresh water for every gallon of fuel"" Also mentioning that they'd looked and found "in the First world War no fewer than 980 patents had been taken out for small-boat still in America alone". But I guess none of them ended up widely deployed in lifeboats; for the reasons you stated.
@hughgordon6435
@hughgordon6435 2 месяца назад
Drach, sir, youve gone into fine detail about battleship main gun dispertion? was dispesion for cruisers and destroyer in a similar range? or did the smaller guns have "better " dispersion?
@sven-erikviira1872
@sven-erikviira1872 2 месяца назад
2:09:46 - working alone in workshop, volume quite high to hear over sanding noises. After a minute or two - I thing my heartrate is now slowing down a litte.
@andrewszigeti2174
@andrewszigeti2174 2 месяца назад
Sounds like Baby Drach is getting her introduction to the family business....
@baxter9725
@baxter9725 2 месяца назад
hey could you do a video on what would happen if the Bismarck made it out into the Atlantic OR if the Bismarck made it back to breast
@bernhardlangers778
@bernhardlangers778 2 месяца назад
RAF schedule intensifies. See Tirpitz
@Sakai070
@Sakai070 2 месяца назад
I think for a mini series.I would focus on several small groups of men aboard a destroyer starting at Guadalcanal and going through till the end of the war.
@seetengtan6746
@seetengtan6746 2 месяца назад
02:09:32 Regarding ship-borne launched seaplanes providing targeting information (spotting) for over-the-horizon main battery fire. I don't know about the other navies, but for the US Navy shore bombardments the best results were obtained with their own seaplanes (or specially trained naval pilots) doing the spotting. I once read a long magazine article about naval bombardments during WW2 (from Europe to the Pacific theaters) that spotting by Army (or even US Marine) personnel on the ground or from US Army liaison aircraft gave very indifferent or inaccurate data due to their inability to provide proper shot fall observations in relation to the ship etc. Said army trained observers were trained to provide spotting data to fixed position ground based artillery units NOT moving ships etc. An anecdotal story mentioned (though it's outside the era this channel covers), during the Vietnam War, USS New Jersey who at that time given up her seaplanes during a shore bombardment operation had to rely on spotting data from US Army Bird Dog liaison aircraft. The land based spotting aircraft and US Army observers kept saying that the battleship's main gun fire was totally on target. It was only after the mission and the New Jersey got back to port that the after battle reconnaissance showed that the New Jersey was actually off the target by several hundred yards and the whole day's worth of bombardment was wasted blasting the surrounding jungle!
@johnshepherd9676
@johnshepherd9676 2 месяца назад
You could do Tin Can Titans which covers the war from Guadalcanal through the end of the war.
@maynardcarmer3148
@maynardcarmer3148 2 месяца назад
Yep, that is a good book.
@gerennichols6075
@gerennichols6075 2 месяца назад
With regard to recoil rolling the 'Indefatigable'. a 32 shot with 12 pounds of powder as the shot clears the muzzle the muzzle there is plenty of energy left in the barrel to continue accelerating the powder and it now has only 12 instead of 48# to accelerate. The recoil contributed by the powder as opposed to the shot is not inconsiderable. Once the shot clears the muzzle the powder will accelerate to a much greater degree and recoil is mass x velocity. While the powder ight be a fourth of the weight of the shot its final velocity is likely to be twice thus the recoil effect would be half not a fourth. As a rough guide a muzzle brake to reduce recoil should have zero effect on the projectile. and its entire effect in decreasing recoil occurs by venting maybe half the powder to the side (in a fashion that balances out and is not added to recoil). So muzzle brakes are regarded as useful even though they should have zero effect on the projectile and maybe half reduction in the recoil by the powder.
@davidbrennan660
@davidbrennan660 2 месяца назад
Hail Drach and a perfect Sunday.
@princeoftonga
@princeoftonga 2 месяца назад
Here we go it’s a big one! Time to settle in for a while.
@vincentlavallee2779
@vincentlavallee2779 2 месяца назад
Hello again I have not been here in a while. But I would like to add a bit more insight to the question asked at 20:26 about the difference between HE vs AP rounds when fired upon a heavily armored ship like a battleship. So, the answer given is reasonable, but not complete. It is probably based on the European battleships (English, French, German, and Italian) all had HE equivalent in weight to the AP round, and thus having the same kinetic energy, with the only real difference being the steel punching capability. But with the American and Japanese battleship rounds, this was not the case, and there was a big difference between the weight of HE vs. AP rounds. The Japanese AP rounds were 10% larger than their HE rounds (2,000 lbs. vs. 2,200 lbs for the Nagato 16"), but the US AP rounds were 50% larger (1,900 lbs. vs. 2,700 lbs.), and thus made a HUGE difference in power and penetration capability as well. In all cases, the bursting charge in the HE rounds was always significantly larger than the AP rounds, resulting in a bigger bang. But when firing at a battleship, that is heavily armored, the penetration issue is far more important. I have all this data in my ballistics file, which I have attempted to send to Drach, although it does not appear that he ever received it or ever looked at it if he had received it. When I sent this file to Ryan of the New Jersey BBS, his one and only comment to me was that he was very surprised to see the huge difference in weight between the HE and AP rounds for the US battleships.
@ernestcline2868
@ernestcline2868 2 месяца назад
While false signals to the U-boats would be problematic for the reasons you gave, did the Allies ever contemplate jamming the frequencies U-boats used or were there too many options available in the frequencies assigned by the Kreigsmarine to U-boats for jamming to be viable?
@hughgordon6435
@hughgordon6435 2 месяца назад
is young mss Drach gonna be a Drachinifelle ,or Drachette?
@88porpoise
@88porpoise 2 месяца назад
On the Giant Sequoias, they would also have been terrible for ship building. As far as i am aware, the wood could never be used for anythign structural. The things we see made out of redwoods are from coastal Sequoias which were much better suited than the inland giant sequoias.
@duwop544
@duwop544 2 месяца назад
Yep, they're (all varieties) very fast growing which makes for a poor building source. Very resistant to rot and bugs which is why we see so many outdoor uses.
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 2 месяца назад
Interesting. What makes fast-growing trees unsuitable for construction?
@88porpoise
@88porpoise 2 месяца назад
@@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 As I recall Sequoias, especially giant Sequoias, are quite brittle and Giant Sequoias had a tendency to shatter into smaller pieces when the tunk hit the ground. Coastal Sequoias have a similar issue but to a much smaller degree. I would guess the cause is: because of the speed and size they grow to, they basically need to prioritize the key strengths that hold the tree up which means weakening other aspects. In a more modern parlance: Giant Sequoias are probably the min-maxers of the tree world.
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912
@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 2 месяца назад
@@88porpoise very informative. Thanks!
@DingyHarry59
@DingyHarry59 2 месяца назад
Sorry, Sequoias were a terrible disappointment as lumber. As noted by 99porpoise (below) the wood was too brittle for structural work. The wood was used for grape stakes and wine vats (not barrels). One notable exception; the wood was soft and easily machined and was widely used making "gingerbread", complex decorative attachments used on the "Victorian " houses that were so popular in turn-of-the-century west coast.
@michaelimbesi2314
@michaelimbesi2314 2 месяца назад
2:57:37 That’s quite high praise!
@lewiswestfall2687
@lewiswestfall2687 2 месяца назад
Thanks Drach
@Doiteify
@Doiteify 2 месяца назад
I like how you can tell when floppy shows up lol
@OtakuLoki
@OtakuLoki 2 месяца назад
With the merchant crew question, a lot is also going to depend upon the type of merchant ship/cruise involved, too. While it is a special case, Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast is about US trade with the California coast before the Gold Rush. The reason it was two years is that it was a single cruise that the author took for his health. Because the ships he was on were gone for such a long time, they did careen one of the ships he was on (I can't remember off the top of my head whether it was Alert or Pilgrim) and did a lot of other maintenance while on the cruise. But this was, as I said, a special case where the ships involved were part of a consortium, going up and down the California coast buying up hides and selling mostly manufactured goods brought in from other ships to allow for absolutely PACKING the ship that eventually went back to Boston with so many hides the hull was nearly hydrostatically strained by the silly things. But at one point, Dana makes a point that it was during the long journey from Cape Horn to Boston that they did much of the deferred maintenance and painting of the ship, and that the ship had been looking most ship-shape just before returning to Boston than it had at any time since the trip down from Boston when they had done similar maintenance work.
@longrider188
@longrider188 2 месяца назад
The Yamato nailed the Johnston, a destroyer, with both 18 inch and 6 inch rounds during the Battle off Samar from about 20 miles away. That was an incredible feat, considering they were using optical rang finding during very smoky conditions.
@johnshepherd9676
@johnshepherd9676 2 месяца назад
I don't think so particular since 6" rounds don't go that far. Is more like 20kyds.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 9 дней назад
That wasn’t at 20 miles, it was actually a bit less than 20k yards. Yamato did fire quite accurately at much longer ranges at the start of the battle but those shots resulted in straddles and near misses (which are far more likely at those ranges even if your aim is completely accurate).
@Alsadius
@Alsadius 2 месяца назад
For the question about firing a broadside to un-stick the ship, why were you using energy and not momentum to calculate the ship's new speed? If you do that, you get (assuming my math is right) about 0.07 m/s, not 2.8, so about 40x lower.
@henrikoldcorn
@henrikoldcorn 2 месяца назад
Yeah, I heard “energy” and went “oh no”.
@jame3shook
@jame3shook 2 месяца назад
@44:55 I recall that episode [Mutiny (2001) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_(2001_film) ] where Hornblower is the third lieutenant the Renown [74 gun ship of the line] in Santa Domingo. Also, the ship boats were moving the anchor to kedge to the rear. The broadside in conjunction with the kedging frees the Renown.
@Trek001
@Trek001 2 месяца назад
Drach, the question timecodes need a little bit of work as you ask multiple questions but the tag stays as the one about the QE's for well over an hour Edit: 29:19... HMS Baby Drach makes first sound "appearance" on a Drydock if you listen with headphones on and later on in other parts Edit 2: Regarding the question on Hornblower, there are a few errors I feel I should point out. 1st, the ship was not the _Indefatigable_ but the 74-gun ship of the line _Renown_ which was in Series 2. 2nd, the ship was not being tugged by rowboats but the boats were carrying an anchor to winch itself off - the error might be confusion that Series 2 episode with the Series 1 episode "The Frogs And The Lobsters" where _Indefatigable_ is being warped along by her boats because there is no wind... With a great moment where Captain Pellew says he will get the ship to its destination if he has to row himself and which he does a few minutes later
@Drachinifel
@Drachinifel 2 месяца назад
The timecode issue should be fixed
@Ebolson1019
@Ebolson1019 2 месяца назад
For the mini series you could put them Laffe around the time of her kamakazi hit
@Wee_Langside
@Wee_Langside 2 месяца назад
For cold starting diesels I've often wondered what the start up procedure for ship's diesels was in the early days. I remember early diesels in tractors and cars were difficult to start, Glowplugs etc. Just how did they start those big engines?
@Omnivorous1One
@Omnivorous1One 2 месяца назад
Do you have a video that describes the differences between the types of ships? Such as Frigate vs Destroyer vs Battleship vs Cruiser vs etc… Or do you have one to recommend?
@USAACbrat
@USAACbrat 2 месяца назад
do you feel too much attention is given to ships, when it is fleets that fight the battles and the interactions of fleet members that make history. It seems that great deal of semi-important minutia obscures the effective tactical study of the engagement.
@brianbalster3521
@brianbalster3521 2 месяца назад
during the period you cover, did carriers (or other ships) do "steel beach" parties?
@laminat0996
@laminat0996 2 месяца назад
45:45 the 250mph velocity figure seems a bit low, in most places online it's stated to be 300-450m/s, which is ~4 times faster, perhaps a unit conversion error?
@B1900pilot
@B1900pilot 2 месяца назад
We didn’t stand watches in the classic sense in a squadron. Our world revolved around the flight schedule. The maintenance and admin department had a day/night check: 12 on 12 off. We had a squadron duty officer in the ready room with an asst. Ashore, when not flying I worked 0730-1630, and maintenance worked 2-shifts of 8-hours. We generally had a Duty officer, asst duty officer, duty driver and a fire watch on the flight line. Weekends were usually off ashore. Squadron life was much different than ship’s company.
@napalmholocaust9093
@napalmholocaust9093 2 месяца назад
A very modern non-naval "de-fanging" example, is that Bradley that wiped the optics off a T-72 and made it combat ineffective (soft 💀). Like crawling through the giant's eye 😉 to continue.
@Depipro
@Depipro 2 месяца назад
On a sidenote: Welcome to this Strange Planet, Splendid Little Drachling!
@dougjb7848
@dougjb7848 2 месяца назад
41:30 From what I’ve read, most intelligence available to the Admiralty at the time was that _Tirpitz_ had not sailed, but Pound chose to believe a few contradictory inputs and decided _ Tirpitz_ *had* sailed.
@connorjohnson7834
@connorjohnson7834 2 месяца назад
I remember coming across a Quora section on Dreadnought vs South Carolina and some guy wrote because Dreadnought may only be able to fire one turret at a target directly astern, he'd give the odds of a battle 60-40 in South Carolina's favour.
@peters620
@peters620 2 месяца назад
Missed the boat on the big trees. Ship size was limited by the strength of wood as a material, not the ability to fasten pieces together. A giant Sequoia doesn't have wood that is stronger than other trees, so you couldn't make a bigger boat, even if you had bigger planks or timbers.
@andersed1
@andersed1 2 месяца назад
You need to add the weight of the powder to the weight of the shot when doing recoil calculations to get a better rough estimate. I say rough, because the velocity of the gasses from the burned powder is much higher after the shot leaves the barrel.
@blue387
@blue387 2 месяца назад
I can imagine a series following a sailor from enlistment to his first posting aboard a destroyer escort like the USS Slater up in Albany, being moved over to filming scenes aboard USS Iowa which is in California, or Alabama or Massachusetts which are still in their WW2 configuration. I would probably avoid Intrepid in New York unless you're filming some interior shots or bridge shots since it has been fully converted to a museum.
@AndrewPalmerMTL
@AndrewPalmerMTL 2 месяца назад
At approx 1:02 when converting the fuel oil quantities, you say that "because this is the US we'll keep this in Imperial" and proceed to use 2240lbs per ton. But isn't that the British measure and the Americans would be using a 'short' ton of only 2000lbs? Recognizing that for an order-of-magnitude type calc where the density is a guess anyway, the exact number isn't going to be correct either way, of course.
@sabreson2551
@sabreson2551 2 месяца назад
As for the lake Bajkal battle - if you get some Czech sources, I will be happy to translate them to English for you, Drach.
@firestorm165
@firestorm165 Месяц назад
If half of what I've heard about that battle turns out to be legit we are in for a wild ride. As a matter of fact I'll be in the Prague area in a few weeks, I'll stop by the Czechoslovak legion museum and see what I can turn up. If I'm really lucky I might even convince them to consider a collaboration
@antoninuspius1747
@antoninuspius1747 2 месяца назад
Regarding "sequoias", there's actually two species. Neither are suitable in structural applications. The pics are of the giants. The big ones, although strong, almost as strong as oak, are very brittle and not suitable for load bearing applications do to the potantial for catastrophic failure. The smaller variety, also know as the coastal redwood, or simply redwood, are the worlds tallest trees, so on the surface they would seem to make great masts. The problem with the smaller ones are that they're weak, even weaker than white pine so only used for decorative purposes like decking. Redwood was used after the San Fransico earthquake in structural applications due to the tremendous need for building materials, and a few are still around today, I think...kept around for historical purposes.
@kkupsky6321
@kkupsky6321 2 месяца назад
No way that’s the first time drach thought of how to make a great naval historiographer televisions series. I’d watch it.
@stephenchapman4440
@stephenchapman4440 2 месяца назад
I can hear a baby being held and fed.... Congratulations?
@mykolatkachuk7770
@mykolatkachuk7770 Месяц назад
Band of brothers and The Pacific were based on memoirs . So for a naval series one should probably look at availabnle memoirs suitable for filming
@amc8039
@amc8039 2 месяца назад
For the final show have them broken up some on the Bship and others get to fight the battle of Samar - also a great example of HE vs Yamamoto At 02:09:43 I hear a weird sound.
@skeltonpg
@skeltonpg 2 месяца назад
German radar 1940 - Seekat had range resolution around 50 m which is very good for range-finding. I wasn't aware that it had lobe-switching which was necessary to differentiate shell splashes from targets. Have you reference which discusses this?
@Drachinifel
@Drachinifel 2 месяца назад
For Graf Spee I believe they had to still spot the splashes but the ranging resolution was fine to aim in the first place.
@skeltonpg
@skeltonpg 2 месяца назад
@@Drachinifel (If my dementia has not progressed too far) In 1937 the German navy made the war-losing decision to get their radar into production and idiotically cancelled the current work on lobe-switching. Their radar was the best from then until sometime in '42. This allowed their naval surface raiders pretty much free access to the Atlantic until '41 when the RN started installing reasonably good sets onto its cruisers. I suspect, but do not know for sure that B & PE lacked true blind-fire capability because there were times it could have served them well but they did not really try it.
@robertmills8640
@robertmills8640 2 месяца назад
How about a series based on fictional retelling of Capt Hughes. He commanded a old DD at the beginning with ABDA command and again with USS Johnston at Letye Gulf. The in-between time could be fictionalized.
@thomaslinton5765
@thomaslinton5765 2 месяца назад
One of the most accurate and widely used snipe rifles produced in the last century was the Austrian Steyr SSG-69. Think .5 minute at100 yards. Hammer forged polygonal barrel.
@MGBait
@MGBait 2 месяца назад
I kept hearing some odd noises and was wondering if I had another vid playing in the background and then realized it was little Drach :]
@seanmccann8368
@seanmccann8368 2 месяца назад
Congratulations on the new crew member Drach. Hope all goes well.
@johnshepherd9676
@johnshepherd9676 2 месяца назад
Drach said that US Submarine skippers preferred docking using the electric motors instead of the diesels because of the difficulty in reversing the diesel drive. That is largely incorrect in WWII. Starting with the last four Sargos, and excepting the two off Marlin Claas, all US fleet boats were diesel-electric drive. The earlier Porpose class were the first full diesel-electric US submarines. The Salmon class had mixed propulsion. If they were using battery to dock it was because thatt was the standard procedure from pre-fleet boat days.
@Drachinifel
@Drachinifel 2 месяца назад
I was quoting from a postwar USN report comparing the two sub types. :)
@johnshepherd9676
@johnshepherd9676 2 месяца назад
@@Drachinifel OK, The answer sounded as if you t was standard procedure for all submarines. Side question. Aren't electric motors more responsive and be better suited for more precise maneuvers?
@Drachinifel
@Drachinifel 2 месяца назад
@@johnshepherd9676 the report seemed to suggest an advantage for low speed evolutions where switching back and forth from reversing to forward constantly was needed.
@Yandarval
@Yandarval 2 месяца назад
Polygonal rifling: I would imagine that making the ammunition is much more difficult. As opposed to the "simple" cylinder tapering to a smaller "point". The polygonal projectile will need a lot more milling and precision measuring. Every angle has to be just right. The twisting faces to mate with the barrel must be kept constant around the projectile. To me, it seems like the much more complicated and time consuming to manufacture, outweighs any possible accuracy benefit.
@Revolutionarythought
@Revolutionarythought 2 месяца назад
How to you account for Yamato's performance at the Philippine Sea? She fired a dozen salvos and very close range and *maybe* scored a single pass through hit on a destroyer?
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 9 дней назад
Yamato never fired on any ships at Philippine Sea. She only ever fired on enemy ships at Leyte Gulf (the earlier stages of Samar specifically), at extremely long (resulting in straddles and very near misses on CVEs) to fairly long (resulting in pass-through hits on Johnston, all from the same salvo) ranges. After that she had to turn away to evade Heermann’s torpedoes, and once she’d turned back to reengage she was at the back of the formation so was out of position.
@kevdupuis
@kevdupuis 2 месяца назад
All hands to cleaning stations.
@bkjeong4302
@bkjeong4302 2 месяца назад
Remember when USS Borie got into a literal melee fight against a U-boat, won but also sank?
@JamesKintner
@JamesKintner 2 месяца назад
1:20:46 As a former logistics troop in the military, I can 100% guarantee there was an accounting of everything bought, sold, supplied, and payed for. There are (and always have been) contract writers and clerks counting every bit of those resources. However... who knows how long, who signed, and who paid some of those bills. I'm almost certain there is a bonfire at the pentagon where lawyers and accountants have ceremonial pagan rites to the Fed and the Whitehouse budget committee. But I am certain it was all signed for and counted. This is a fundamental force in all militaries. All the way back to salt = soldiers in Rome. Don't take my word for it, ask SPC Johnson, he signed my hand receipt.
@thomasbernecky2078
@thomasbernecky2078 2 месяца назад
A question about your Hornblower experiment: Why just fire half the guns? Why not move the other guns?
@henrikoldcorn
@henrikoldcorn 2 месяца назад
They’re really heavy, and where exactly do you fire them? Through the walls?
@tomdolan9761
@tomdolan9761 2 месяца назад
Actually Enterprise the rental car was named by the Vietnam vet who founded the company and was a huge Star Trek fan
@ph89787
@ph89787 2 месяца назад
No it was named by the founder Jack C Taylor. Who served as a fighter pilot on both Enterprise and Essex
@myparceltape1169
@myparceltape1169 2 месяца назад
​@@ph89787Excuse my ignorance, but could that be the same person
@ph89787
@ph89787 2 месяца назад
@@myparceltape1169no
@DamianMaisano
@DamianMaisano 2 месяца назад
Blucher (WW2 version) was essentially destroyed by high explosive shells, with the death blow being from fires started by the 11”, 6”, and 57mm detonating the magazine. The torpedo did help of course but from my understanding it wasn’t itself lethal Thus when you don’t use long range gunnery
@vvvvvvvvvwvvvvw
@vvvvvvvvvwvvvvw 2 месяца назад
1:06:00 I know what a illumiating shell as well as a white phosphorus shell is.But what is a window shell, and what is it used for?
@matthewbarratt4935
@matthewbarratt4935 29 дней назад
Window was the UK codename for chaff. I guess it would be used to blind enemy firecontrol radar
@frednone
@frednone 2 месяца назад
Admiral Yamaguchi: U.S. Grant probably said it best, "If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
@ph89787
@ph89787 2 месяца назад
That's Imperial Japanese military doctrine and chain of command to a tee. To quote the Clone Troopers. "Good Soldiers follow orders."
@frednone
@frednone 2 месяца назад
@@ph89787 While I agree with your assessment of Japanese attitudes, one of the jobs of someone who achieves task force command in the navy or division command in the army is to know when the rules can or must be broken.
@saiyanelite0979
@saiyanelite0979 2 месяца назад
“In the period the channel covers” for most interesting enterprise, does that mean you would’ve said CVN-65 if that was in the channel’s scope.
@GrocMax
@GrocMax 2 месяца назад
HUH? Barrel of petroleum, pretty much the same volume worldwide. Called 55 (US) gallons, usually only filled to 53. Density/specific gravity of .900 g/cc is around 400 lb/ 182 KG per barrel. Most gasolines are from .700-.750 g/cc, water is by definition 1.00 g/cc at 20C.
@davidvik1451
@davidvik1451 2 месяца назад
From studies of U-Boats type VII-IX, and the Gato"s and Balao's, I find that the US boats were strictly propelled by electric motors powered by batteries or four diesel engineshe. US boats had no reason to revers the diesels being only electrical connections. However the U-boats had a diesel engine, clutch , motor/generator, clutch, and then shaft. This allowed the diesel to be clutched out for submerged operation clutched in for surface running and charging, and clutching out the motor/generator from the shaft for charging only. Whether or not the diesels could be reversed I do not know, but I am of the understanding that they operated mostly on the electric motors while maneuvering to or from moorings. Large direct reversible diesels ship engines do have a problem when trying to revers at speed because of the water passing over the propeller will continue to drive the shaft while the air injection is trying to spin it in the opposite direction. This has been noted as an issue with the Baltimore Key bridge collision with the ship trying to revers at 8.5 kts. On the other hand both steam engines and steam turbines have the power to stop the shaft and get it spinning in the other direction at any operating speed. Thus part of why steam hung on for so long.
@Drachinifel
@Drachinifel 2 месяца назад
It depends on the class for US ships, they tried all sorts of propulsion combinations in the interwar period, and the USN report I cited certainly seemed to believe a reasonable number of US subs would have to use diesels in reverse for independent harbour work.
@myparceltape1169
@myparceltape1169 2 месяца назад
From the simple diagrams I saw of the Type VII boats each of the two diesels turned a shaft leading to its associated propeller. On the way the shaft ran through its motor/generator and then the thrust blocks. That leads me to think that the diesel could be decluched from the shaft at any time. I wish I had spent more time talking to the English submariner I met. He really surprised me about the shafts on the boats he was familiar with.
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS 2 месяца назад
⛵235 years ago today.... April 28, 1789.... The Mutiny on the HMS Bounty.
@Trek001
@Trek001 2 месяца назад
I'm old enough to remember that being in the papers
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS 2 месяца назад
@@Trek001 🤔You know I was just thinking? This channel has been on for like 7 years? And I don't think we've covered the story? OR are the 2000 mile Voyage of WIlliam BliGH? I have searched for video. Have we ever done a Wednesday guide?
@user-ie1tz5rm8x
@user-ie1tz5rm8x 2 месяца назад
6 subs left Manitowoc, (cobia?) (I think), 1 one came back to chicago , u505 : ...theres several good stories there - one trsnsmorgifacation- and - well , a whole damn german submarine in chicago ; ...it wants to be a epic poem ..
@johnshepherd9676
@johnshepherd9676 2 месяца назад
Ship has superstructure burned down to the deck and does not sink? USS Belknap enters the chat.
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