In previous discussions you’ve often pointed out that Bismarck was a significantly less efficient design than her equivalents in other navies, but have still argued that in terms of absolute capabilities she’s still roughly equivalent to the KGVs, NorCals or SoDaks. However, considering that the inherent weaknesses of the turtleback armour arguably render Bismarck worse-protected than even North Carolina, the fact that the ten 14” guns on the KGVs were probably a bit superior to eight 15” guns when it comes to the odds of landing a hit once you’ve found the range, and the fact Bismarck’s relatively minor speed advantage would have been insufficient to cancel out these disadvantages, is there a fair argument for arguing Bismarck was not only the least efficient of the “last battleships”, but also the flat-out weakest and least capable overall (if only by a narrow margin compared to the KGVs or NorCals) once you leave out the Dunkerques and Scharnhorsts?
@michaelkovacic2608
Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302 I've never really understood why people trashtalk Bismarck to such a ridiculous degree. Her deck protection wasn't that bad, it was equivalent to roughly 110mm over machinery and 130mm over magazines. That's a bit less than the KGV, which carried 127mm and 152mm respectively, but its not that much. Plus you get the possibility of the spaced decks actually detonating the shell before it reaches the main armor deck, at which point penetration is pretty much impossible. At the ranges where the historical WW2 battles between Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy BBs occurred, penetration of the German deck armor is pretty unlikely. According to the original German penetration curves, Prince of Wales was vulnerable to belt penetration for several minutes at Denmark Strait, but nobody talks about this, for example.
@bkjeong4302
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelkovacic2608 The big issue is that the armour deck is so low in a turtleback scheme, Bismarck literally could be sunk without having her citadel breached because there wasn’t enough reserve buoyancy in the citadel. No non-German WWII-generation battleship had such an extreme design flaw with their protection.
@Philip271828
Жыл бұрын
In the Typhoon Cobra video you mentioned bottom flooding fuel tanks to maintain stability. This sounds similar to the idea that caused problems with the KGVs fuel system. What measures (beyond baffling and emulsion breaker) were taken and how common was bottom flood in battleship bunkers. Was this for stability to keep the load on the hull consistent or something else?
@michaelkovacic2608
Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302 well that is true, but if you hit a BB with enough shells that literally every space outside the citadel is flooding, then the battle is very likely already lost. I think the danger of belt penetration is far greater than that of sinking through progressive flooding because your ship has been turned into Swiss cheese.
@TheDgamesD
Жыл бұрын
I don’t usually comment on videos, but your channel holds a special place in my heart. I usually use your Drydock series of videos to fall asleep to since I’ve got a Anxiety disorder that makes it difficult for me to calm down and sleep each night. And as of two days ago I’ve come down with Covid, but listening to your voice is calming and helping me through this. Thank you.
@joshuavinicombe5774
Жыл бұрын
Good on you mate! I too use the videos to calm down each night. Drachs videos have gotten me through all sorts of stressful times
@B1900pilot
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Drach would be well-suited to doing audiobooks...
@chuckmarble2365
Жыл бұрын
You are not alone. During the past two years, Drach's videos have helped calm me down before three major (life threatening) surgeries AND helped me get through the lengthy recoveries by taking my mind off of my problems ... and the pain. In fact, I usually have Drach's videos playing nearly 24 x 7 in my home. They've kinda become the soundtrack of my life.
@lourencoalmada1305
Жыл бұрын
Here I am starting this video to go to sleep and I see your comment. Now I don't feel so weird or bad for falling asleep to them. I usually play the videos the next day when I have free time so I can absorb all of Drach's knowledge.
@maynardcarmer3148
Жыл бұрын
I served on an Adams-class guided missile destroyer. We were steaming in company with the Shangri-La, CVA 38 on a dependants cruise, and had highlined several kiddies over and back. After that was done, we sent the rigging back and, to put on a show, our captain ordered ahead flank on the port screw and back full on the starboard one, with the riders over full. We quite literally turned in our own length. It was kind of bumpy, but we did it.
@jeffholloway3882
Жыл бұрын
I served on John king ddg3, they were nimble
@MrNicoJac
Жыл бұрын
How long did that turn take? Being a boring civvie, I have no idea whether that would be closer to the 1 or 10 minute mark, haha 😆
@maynardcarmer3148
Жыл бұрын
@@MrNicoJac It took maybe two minutes or so. We had been making about ten knots at the time, holding formation on the Shangri-La's starboard side. As we were making our turn, the carrier proceeded on her course. When the turn was completed, we were in position astern, still making about ten knots.
@M167A1
Жыл бұрын
My dad was on the Shangri-La in 1945. He had a Soldier and a Marine for sons and couldn't figure out where he'd gone wrong.
@hckyplyr9285
Жыл бұрын
The Adams class were good ships. I was sorry to see them go. Some of the most attractive ships built in the post-war period.
@calvingreene90
Жыл бұрын
"They didn't know what they were doing." is vastly different from "They should have known what they were doing."
@princeoftonga
Жыл бұрын
Christmas Dry-Dock? YAY! Merry Christmas Drach and Mrs Drach and to all. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
@chickenfishhybrid44
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
@samrobinson566
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Sir Drach of the Lakes (big and small) and to all of his loyal devotees as well 😊 👍🏻
@frankduff18
Жыл бұрын
And a Merry Christmas to you Sam Robinson
@thunderhead180
Жыл бұрын
53:00 Note that it is not until relatively recently that any two pots of the "same colour" paint would be remotely reliably the same colour. Sailors I know that served through the 1950s and 1960s said they had to pour any new bucket into the open one they were still using as they went along so that the colour difference wouldn't be sudden.
@spikespa5208
Жыл бұрын
The Arizona's fore mast shading (in that photo) can probably be written off as burned paint. Can the same be possibly said for the lower part of the main mast?
@dmphoenix973
Жыл бұрын
A Merry Christmas to Mr. and Mrs. Drach and viewers of the channel. May all your cruisers be large yet light... and your wine stores, torpedo-free.
@craigfazekas3923
Жыл бұрын
Off topic, but.... Santa just bestowed onto me a copy of Warships of the Soviet Fleets, '39-'45- Vol. I Major Combatants. I have only just skimmed thru & have yet to really delve into it so far. Plainly, this volume is top notch !! It's everything you'd want to know & then some.... It is profusely illustrated with photos, line drawings, graphs, ect. It plainly covers almost every angle of the Red Navy, from designs & designers, naval construction sites & yards, classes & individual ships, their commanders, history, battles, refits and on & on.... Authors Przemysław Budzbon, Jan Radziemski & Marek Twardowsi have put forth a work of wide scope; it's plain to see. Many photos have never been published before, as well. Now, if Trumpeter's 1:700 scale model of TASHKIENT would only arrive here in North America.... 🚬😎
@rayschoch5882
Жыл бұрын
For what it's worth from a rank amateur, I note that, at least in the published photos I've come across, a boiler explosion (or multiple boiler explosions) has always seemed more likely to me. In the Barham photo you used, indeed, in the entire film clip of Barham's demise, which I've seen several times over the years, there's no "flash" of exploding powder, nor do I see that in other photos of capsizing warships during WW 2, so "combustion" in the sense that we usually use the term, doesn't appear to have been a major component, at least not in those instances. I lean toward cold seawater hitting very hot metal and existing boiler fires.
@jeffholloway3882
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you and mrs.Drach, and to all aboard this day may the new years bring happiness to all.
@ross.venner
Жыл бұрын
10:10 - In my childhood, I knew an engineering officer who survived the sinking of HMS Barham. He told me that he thought the explosion of the after magazine was initiated by 4" antiaircraft ammunition stored around the main magazines.
@rackstraw
Жыл бұрын
How to "reverse" a shaft: (1) Some Steam Turbines: HMS Belfast example cited by Drach, with a clutch setup; (2) Later US Navy Steam Turbines: Astern throttle admitting steam to astern elements located at the ends of the LP turbine; requires shaft to be stopped before reversing rotation; (3) Modern Diesel and Gas Turbines: Controlled Reversible Pitch Propellers; shaft continues rotates in same direction, but propeller pitch changes to give the effect of a backing bell. Extremely quick response.
@MrNicoJac
Жыл бұрын
That's cool info, especially the link to modern-day tech! Thanks ^^
@WildBillCox13
Жыл бұрын
If you haven't hand turned a shaft with a spanner or chipped paint topside, while underway, you're only a "special guest" in any "age of steel" navy. Snipes and Deck Apes forever. Yeah, yeah, we'll keep a seat in hell warm for our gunners' mate friends, too.
@markdurre2667
Жыл бұрын
Reminded of the Douglas Adams quote in "The Restaurent at the End of the Universe" - "looks like a fish, moves ike a fish, steers like a cow"
@Cdodders27
Жыл бұрын
There are now ships with electric motors driving the shaft, they need to 'dump' the energy in the coils to a form of Dynamic Braking Resistor, once done, the coil rotation cycle can be reversed, reversing the direction of spin
@rogerhinman5427
Жыл бұрын
At this time, the US Coast Guard falls under the Department of Homeland Security and performs the maritime law enforcement role, in addition to lifesaving and commerce security duties. Before that it was part of the Department of Treasury and then the Department of Transportation. Either the President or Congress can transfer the USCG, partially or entirely, to the US Navy during wartime. President Roosevelt had already done that transfer prior to the US entry into WW2.
@rogersmith7396
Жыл бұрын
I think it started as the Revenue Cutter Service. Its job was to collect import Duties as the only source of Federal revenue. I am thinking the light houses were theirs too.
@rogerhinman5427
Жыл бұрын
@@rogersmith7396 You are correct and the lighthouses were the last to be merged in.
@keithmoore5306
Жыл бұрын
it started out as treasury the DOT part was from they took over lighthouses and navigation aid maintenance duties and were put under the DOT at that point and it was the secretary of transportation that transferred it to DOD before DHS came along that transfer provision in it's forming charter!!
@SynchroScore
Жыл бұрын
Coast Guard cutters also performed shore bombardment and small-boat sweeps during the Vietnam War.
@richardcutts196
Жыл бұрын
00:10:40 The current theory on Kirishima's magazine explosion (as far as I know) is that the forward secondary magazine had a stock of HE shells that exploded when the magazine suddenly decompressed after she reached the bottom. "Within her secondary shell magazine are literally thousands of 6-inch and 5-inch common projectiles filled with an explosive filler Shimose or picric acid. This explosive filler is very sensitive to shock and if this compartment suffered a sudden decompression it would only take one shell to start the chain reaction among thousands. I suspect roughly 40 minutes after she sank one of her secondary shell magazines explodes due to a sudden decompression of the compartment." Kirishima Damage Analysis By Robert Lundgren Page 26
@johngregory4801
Жыл бұрын
And with a smidge over 10 minutes left of Christmas on America's Left Coast... Thanks, Drach, for my Christmas infotainment! I hope you and Mrs. Drach enjoyed your holiday and have a SPECTACULAR new year!!!
@bigsarge2085
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas, and thank you!
@michaelkovacic2608
Жыл бұрын
Regarding Shokaku, I think her damage control units were very experienced, and they put up a hell of a fight to save the ship after the fatal torpedo attack at Philippine Sea. Does anyone know if Shokaku largely kept her damage control crew throughout the war?
@MrArtbv
Жыл бұрын
IJN crews, especially PO's n Ratings.. Pretty much were til death do we part as I understand it. So, yeah good point..
@bkjeong4302
Жыл бұрын
Shokaku is actually up there with some of the better-known “refused to sink” Allied carriers (Enterprise, Yorktown, Bunker Hill…) in terms of how much damage she managed to survive on several occasions.
@MrArtbv
Жыл бұрын
Ref: Magazine explosions on sinking ships.. It's the compression of the Oxygen w no place to go that causes the detonation/flash over.. and THEN the magazine detonates. Compressed O2 is EXTREMELT VOLITILE...Another GREAT Drydock.. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
@glenchapman3899
Жыл бұрын
I recall a US Navy submariner saying that if you are in a sub that implodes, a micro second before you are obliterated by the water pressure, you would actually explode into flames from the air compression. Fortunately it would all happen so fast you would not know much about it.
@wardaddyindustries4348
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drac! Wouldn't been up set if you took this one off.
@bjturon
Жыл бұрын
Ah, something for me to listen to at work this Christmas Day 🙂🎄☃️
@Rammstein0963.
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach, thanks for the Christmas upload and another year of quality content. Hope you are having a wonderful day with your family and we look forward to another year going forward. Sincerely. - Your KZitem community.
@kemarisite
Жыл бұрын
The impression that I've developed over the years is that if you lived near the coast in England then you were vulnerable to press ganging because you, a) were conveniently located, and b) presumably had some skill or like livelihood relevant to naval service. If you lived inland, then the Navy wouldn't want you because you wouldn't have those skills and experience, but the Army recruiters would be happy to meet you (if there was a war on, so particularly around 1800). It is infinitely easier to train someone who was just impressed to march in line and load/fire a musket than it is to teach them to tie knots and secure sails.
@michaelimbesi2314
Жыл бұрын
If I had to guess, the explosions of ships’ magazines is likely the result of the shells or the tanks that hold the charges falling against the steel of the hull and sparking, igniting the explosives or propellant bags and causing a fire. I doubt that any of the battleships mentioned would have experienced a boiler explosion anywhere near strong enough to set off the magazines. Water-tube boilers are effectively explosion-proof because they contain much less water than a fire-tube boiler of the same output and so they have much less stored energy. Additionally, having many individual tubes instead of one large element means that a single, catastrophic rupture that instantly releases all of the boiler’s water is effectively impossible. And when a tube does burst, the effect is more like a broken steam pipe inside the boiler and the released steam is generally contained within the casing of the boiler and directed up the stack.
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
Me and the ferrets wish one and all, the best of the season, and hope the next time period is sooo much better than the last! Stay safe all
@WALTERBROADDUS
Жыл бұрын
🙆🏽♂️😽😽😽 seasons greetings from the cat family.
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
@@WALTERBROADDUS is you conflicting cats as ferrets?
@nikbear
Жыл бұрын
A very Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones and beloved ferrets 🥳🎅🎉👋😃
@scottgiles7546
Жыл бұрын
"USS Iowa vs Lexington drag race?" Now why did this (Winner) question never occur to me?
@richardschaffer5588
Жыл бұрын
At Narvik RN destroyers put both screws into reverse to avoid collisions! I assume this in the don’t try this at home category,
@larscelander5696
Жыл бұрын
Might add that turning radius is basically a tradeoff between maneuverability and straight line speed/efficiency. A big honking rudder will make the ship turn faster but is also more draggy. Take your pick. As the saying goes, different boats for different folks. Ships slow down in a tight turn. Slow means less maneuverable. Not good. This why warships while doing evasive maneuvers tend to avoid very sharp turns, if they can, given the torpedo traffic in the area, to be in better shape for the next maneuver. The same thinking as fighters preserving their energy in a dogfight by unloading g's. Destroyers are less averse to tight turns, as by having so much excess horsepower, they can quickly regain that speed. So in actual combat, destroyers don't really need that tight turning ability so much, they're good anyway. They do need efficient hulls to be able to keep up with the biggies.
@caminojohn3240
Жыл бұрын
Magazine explosions under water, you are missing the obvious. In a given magazine, there would be some sort of redundant lighting / power source in case you loose main power and need to see what you are doing. If the ship is turning upside down or moving in unexpected directions, these lights, batteries, etc. are punctured or shorting out. Any stray powder in the area would be ignited and boom.
@Thecrowdedmast
Жыл бұрын
I have some info on the whitehead torpedoes. Drach is correct by saying it`s almost a mk.5, but not exactly. The torpedoes used was bulit in Rijeka, Croatia, and thus is marked different, and has some diffrences, but i can state the specifications for it. Use by Oscarborg: 1901-1940 Length: 5m Diameter: 45cm Top speed: 31 knots Explosive: guncotton, updated in the 30s to trynol Explosive carge: 100kg, updated in the 30s to 120kg Propelent: compressed air
@darrellsmith4204
Жыл бұрын
A Merry Christmas to all Drachinophiles. May the new year bring you fresh air topside rather than salt water below deck..
@johnferguson1970
Жыл бұрын
I love the term. It's official: All subscribers to this channel will be referred to as Drachinophiles.
@LeCharles07
Жыл бұрын
I like Drach very much but not like that. 😉
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
I believe I and every other drach fan (the draconians) wish our beloved narrator all the best in the next solar time period and on this very special day , his familiar group, all the best wishes from all?
@scottgiles7546
Жыл бұрын
And why didn't he - insert cuss word here - take the day off to be with his family? (canned post by Drach?)
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
@@scottgiles7546 our Lord and cheif posts his opus beforehand sooo this may not be posted on the holy dates that we receive it it? So has posted on a different date and as such we can not hold drach to this date?
@nk_3332
Жыл бұрын
Drachonians, but otherwise completely agree.
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
@@nk_3332 dod not know 8f it was drach or drac so thanks for the reply and the actual correct definitions?
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
@@nk_3332 I have on numerous occasions tried the drachonian title?and had no contradiction? Soo had to refer this day to a draconian AND instantly got a different res0onse??? Jusy how?.?
@Axel0204
Жыл бұрын
With regards to reversing a shaft, depending in the machinery setup, it is possible to be as simple as shutting the ahead throttle and opening the astern throttle, without having to take any other action or slow the shaft in question 1st. This is referred to as a "crash back".
@WildBillCox13
Жыл бұрын
Love the content, Drach. A Wild Bill opinion piece. "Press gangs, press gangs, Stuff you in the mess gangs, Press gangs, press gangs, Beat you up, yum!" Thing is . . . a man could pull his pistol or sword and do his drunken best to kill you dead if you assaulted him. Why drunken? That's how press gangs-and voting-worked in those days. A captain would enfranchise a press gang with enough money to get a half dozen men passed out drunk. The press gang'd buy the first round and then select potential sailors and buy them drinks until they passed out. The potential inductee's new "friends" would offer to carry him/them home . . . to the ship, where a thumbprint signature (or rudely drawn "x") would enlist him/them. The rum/grog ration was exactly like today's methadone program. A serious addict would stay in service as long as he was nominally functional.
@anselmdanker9519
Жыл бұрын
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year
@johncashwell1024
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas/ Happy Christmas (that's the English to English translation) Drachinifel and all you other lovers of maritime history, well, maritime anything!
@EdAtoZ
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
@jaydee3993
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach and family!
@eplekake3870
Жыл бұрын
I am quite confident that Oskarsborg used Mark V torpedoes. The first torpedo launch tests took place by autumn 1901.
@WildBillCox13
Жыл бұрын
Oberst (Colonel) Birger Eriksen: best damn call back to arms ever.
@badbug72
Жыл бұрын
@@WildBillCox13 I think every veteran imagines coming back to save the day like that. However he actually got to do it!
@lukerickert5203
Жыл бұрын
Yes, a mod V d to be exact. Updated on 1930. 120kg of explosive and compressed air power.
@a6mzeke1
Жыл бұрын
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone.
@richmcgee434
Жыл бұрын
Huh. Wasn't really expecting a Drach vid today, but I'll take my Christmas gifts where I can get them. :)
@pourlemerite
Жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas Drac and All !!!
@leftcoaster67
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach!
@bradleyfitkin4141
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@Exkhaniber
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas, Drach!
@admanpaulandrew
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach, and thank you for another year of infotainment. Could you tell me the names of the vessesls in the post war photo used from 26:48 please? Naturally I recognise the battleship but not the others for some reason. Happy New Year as well.
@Drachinifel
Жыл бұрын
Suffren, Montcalm and De Grasse(?)
@admanpaulandrew
Жыл бұрын
@@Drachinifel Many thanks my friend. If I can do any research in Australia for you, just ask. I have studied military history and historiography at University level for many years, specialising in WW 11
@loganjay7819
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload
@johnshepherd9676
Жыл бұрын
I doubt very much the Wasp task force was authorized to attack the Bismarck. However, I could believe if Bismarck were within range of the Wasp's air group they would have been searching for her and then reporting on her position as aircraft shadowed her.
@agesflow6815
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Drachinifel.
@derekhieb7458
Жыл бұрын
The USCG until 9-11 was part of the department of transportation except in time of war at which time they revert to the DOD and navy. Nowadays the USCG is part of the department of Homeland security.
@davidpnewton
Жыл бұрын
Nope. In 2001 it was part of the DoT. However that was NOT always true. It was part of the US Treasury for a very long time prior to that.
@johnjackson4322
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@clffliese26
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas, Drach.
@AsbestosMuffins
Жыл бұрын
powder explosions might be possible but what you don't really appreciate is the pressure of all that water being compressed can also cause explosions as the compartments fill, then the nearly 100k lbs of steel dragging it to the bottom of the ocean causes it to get compressed until it bursts the compartments in a way thats like an explosion
@Alex-cw3rz
Жыл бұрын
1:05:40 just to add to the part of desertion from impressed individuals, black slaves (slaves couldn't take the offer if they wanted but could be pressed) who were pressed would be much less likely to desert than other people espcially in the Americas, because if they got caught there was a much higher chance of being lynched for seeming to be an escaped slave. This meant that black people were beginning to be seen by the royal navy as hard working and loyal. This was honoured on Nelsons Column as the sailor who points out the sniper is a black sailor. After the Nepoleonic wars ended, impressment ended, the navy was scaled down and in this case unfortunately meant racist attitudes towards black people became more common again.
@sharlin648
Жыл бұрын
So basically the Lexington had Launch Control for its engines :D
@johnlansing2902
Жыл бұрын
About the ships exploding ….. could those explosions be related to grain silo explosions ? As with the silos the powder is very sensitive and only needs the smallest spark …. Could the bags breaking during the roll over cause a Air Fuel Explosion situation ?
@bkjeong4302
Жыл бұрын
Holy shit, good suggestion.
@LeCharles07
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach.
@davidvik1451
Жыл бұрын
Drag race: The Iowas boilers operated at ~600psi. Whether stopped or flat our 600psi. As the load increased more boilers would be required, If the Iowa had all the boilers online there would be no pressure lag, more burners would be cut in as required to maintain steam pressure. The boiler pressure dose not change with the speed if it did it would really mess with the turbo generators, feed pumps and forced draft blower that all run of off 600psi steam. The speed of the turbines is controlled by the throttle valves not the by varying the boiler pressure. As to who would win the race I have no idea.
@spudskie3907
Жыл бұрын
According to the book "Mr. Roosevelt's Navy: The Private War of the US Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942", a few PBY's from the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5) did fly in search of the battleship. Of course, they did not find her. A funny anecdote from the book, FDR asked his advisers if the Bismarck appeared in the Caribbean, and the President ordered a few submarines to sink her, would he be impeached. Someone answered, "Only if the Navy misses." Of course, we all know the state of the Mark 14 torpedo at the time... Merry Christmas to all!
@WALTERBROADDUS
Жыл бұрын
It's still kind of a leap to go from carrying on a neutrality patrol to start engaging in combat with a nation not at War?
@riverraven7359
Жыл бұрын
Living in the middle of Yorkshire is not as cast iron a defence as you may think, since most of the county drains into the Humber and the Admiralty has maintained at least a token navy presence up to the cold war. The bigger rivers are navigable for a surprising distance to small boats so being press-ganged, while unlikely, wasn't impossible.
@robertmills8640
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas 🎄☃️🍻
@keithmoore5306
Жыл бұрын
Drach one thing on capsizing magazine explosions you left out as possible causes was electrical shorts!! and the US coast guard always became part of the navy at least from before WW1! i think it's in it's charter.
@scotthill8787
Жыл бұрын
If I recall my history correctly, British ships pressing American sailors into Royal Navy service was on of the causes of the War of 1812.
@josephsteven1600
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach
@calebfogler2145
Жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas!
@victorcastanet8923
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the Christmas gift!
@nmccw3245
Жыл бұрын
A Merry / Happy Christmas to all and best wishes for the new year.
@VintageCarHistory
Жыл бұрын
A most merry Christmas to you, Lord Drach!
@AlisonFort
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas 🎄
@sugarnads
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Admiral Drach
@garyjordan3914
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Mr.&Mrs. Drach , hate to say it boss but you really need to read up on the Coast Guard . The Coast Guard becomes part of the Navy at the direction of the president in time of war . At the time of Pearl Harbor the Coast Guard had been transferred to the Navy.
@gregoblv5561
Жыл бұрын
CinCpac had issued the order to repaint on Dec 1-ish and Arizona was a work in progress on Dec 7th. But the reports of some survisors were not involved in the painting or their area had not been started or had been finished. The main source for the research that I read had been centered around one man that had not changed his story in 30 something years when most of the others stories changed quite a bit in just months. Also his crew were told to paint the Port side first as that was to the harbor and the captain wanted the ship to look it best to ships moving in the harbor. Other areas may not have followed that guildline or had not started yet. Also if you look at the pictures of the fleet after the 7th, and some before, they show up in sea blue with a very light grey tops of both masts and that was as they were all to be painted per NavSea orders of Nov 41.
@Writingman4126
Жыл бұрын
You make me study on Christmas Day? Geesh Drach, you are mean !!! LOL !!!
@chuckmarble2365
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to my favorite KZitemr Drachinifel, and to Mrs. Drach as well. And a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to ALL the Drachinfel fans throughout the world. It's 4 am here in California and my family is still asleep, so this is definitely the first Christmas present I'm unwrapping this year! Oh boy, can't wait ... so here goes!
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
Are the Drach fans you refer to , Drachonians?
@chuckmarble2365
Жыл бұрын
@@hughgordon6435 Works for me!
@animal16365
Жыл бұрын
Here's a question for you Drach. Keel hauling was used to clean the hull of a ship via rope or chain. But it was also used as a form of punishment. Admit very rarely. Which country used this form of punishment more often?
@Trek001
Жыл бұрын
Could the best pictures of _Arizona_ not be taken and placed in image software that can detect the levels of light and dark and assign a colour to it?
@paulthewall4764
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Drach and Family, as Wei as all of us on this “quest”
@Tundraviper41
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas, everyone. Here's to another year of warship trivia.
@leogazebo5290
Жыл бұрын
You may not be Santa but you still gave us a Xmas present
@geoguy001
Жыл бұрын
One of my professors said that one of the NC class was working up at the time and also had orders to engage Bismarck although it probably would have been a bad idea if true.
@Rammstein0963.
Жыл бұрын
Bad for Bismarck TBH, and that was NC herself as far as I know.
@bkjeong4302
Жыл бұрын
North Carolina has a significant firepower advantage over Bismarck: the issue was catching her in the first place, especially since this was back when the NorCals were restricted to 22-23kts (even after fixes they only really got up to 26kts before vibration issues started happening again, though not to the point they couldn’t hit 28kt without putting the ship in significant danger).
@TraditionalAnglican
Жыл бұрын
Bismarck could do 30 Knots, her gunnery was quite accurate (Ask the HMS Hood & Prince of Wales), and her 38 cm could fire every 20 seconds in a melee or close in engagement…
@bkjeong4302
Жыл бұрын
@@TraditionalAnglican Bismarck did have speed and accuracy, but she’s undergunned and underarmored against North Carolina, whose own accuracy wouldn’t have been any worse either.
@silverhost9782
Жыл бұрын
@@bkjeong4302 NC is also underarmoured against Bismarck though. I wouldn't want to take that fight as a 24kt capped North Carolina at all. Yes I can damage Bismarck but it can damage me back just fine and it's significantly faster
@redtob2119
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas everyone!
@craigfazekas3923
Жыл бұрын
And may you be blessed with a Very Merry too !!! 🚬😎
@denniswhite166
Жыл бұрын
🌲🌲🌲 Merry Christmas and a Healthy & Happy New Year 🌲🌲🌲
@hmsverdun
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@hmsverdun
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for all your hard work this year and a Merry Christmas Drach, a contribution towards the grog and or brew ration.
@model-man7802
Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
@geoguy001
Жыл бұрын
I had never heard of HMS Vindictive (carrier conversion)!
@timengineman2nd714
Жыл бұрын
USCG Cutter Modoc was giving weather reports and the RN knew that she was close to KMS Bismark, giving them a reasonable radius of where to look for the Bismark. This lasted until KMS Bismark went to Full Speed Ahead and left the Modoc in her wake.
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
OK sir why wasv/ where US Head quarters in the Pacific out of Australia whilst UK were not?
@Dave_Sisson
Жыл бұрын
It seems that after the fall of Singapore, the British navy *mostly* took care of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the intensive combat in the Mediterranean Sea, while the US Navy *mostly* took care of the Pacific, with help from smaller navies like the Australians. Royal Navy headquarters in the Indian Ocean were at Columbo in Sri Lanka which in many ways was closer to the action than Australian cities like Brisbane that the Americans used as bases.
@timengineman2nd714
Жыл бұрын
US Destroyers and Cruisers during the "tween war & war years had only a single rudder. This is why the Alaska Class had very large turning radius. Battleships and most fleet carriers had 2 rudders, hence better turning radius if hard over.
@kenterikklaunes8724
Жыл бұрын
Regarding Oscarsborg fortress. They used the Whitehead type V, and the first was test fired on the 26th of October 1901.
@gerardmdelaney
Жыл бұрын
They kept recovering and refurbish t the torpedo after each test firing. The ones fired against Blucher were the ones they first received in 1901 or their abouts.
@scottgiles7546
Жыл бұрын
Wonder when Drach will review the IJN MUTO. (Might have gotten into the Christmas Eggnog while typing this...)
@scottgiles7546
Жыл бұрын
Everyone know MUTO is "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism" of Gojira fame, right?
@TheWareek
Жыл бұрын
If the entire French fleet had gone over to the free French, could one option be that the British move them all to the med and effectively sweep the seas free of the Italian navy, that would have made any German effort in north Africa very difficult to supply from a much earlier date.
@jonsouth1545
Жыл бұрын
x-mas day and we get a Drach episode he spoils us, he's far too nice and giving hihihi
@evafan002
Жыл бұрын
merry christmas drach
@APL314159265
Жыл бұрын
Very large container ships have bow thrusters for maneuvering, why is this method never used in large warships?
@TraditionalAnglican
Жыл бұрын
The thrusters would be a point of vulnerability
@davidmcintyre8145
Жыл бұрын
It is a known fact that among the most often pressed men as compared to population were men from Orkney,Shetland,the Hebrides and coastal Western highlands; these being generally fishermen so well used to the sea. However many of these men would speak only Gaelic or Shetlandic(a version of old Norse)thus making the pressing even more cruel than that of those from the parts of the UK that spoke English
@denniswhite166
Жыл бұрын
🌲🌲🌲 Merry Christmas and a Healthy & Happy New Year 🌲🌲🌲
@dziugasluscinskas5742
Жыл бұрын
Where should I look for detailed plans of WWI warships?
@christopherconard2831
Жыл бұрын
Good morning from a slightly frozen corner of Florida. Hope you are enjoying a merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Festivus/Boxing Day depending on the day you check the comments.
@jackaubrey3322
Жыл бұрын
The US Coast Guard was transferred from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department on 1 November 1941 for the duration of World War II. Late in January 1941, the Secretary of the Navy requested an opinion from the Attorney General as to the legality of such a step. On 31 January 1941, the Attorney General rendered the opinion, "... the President is authorized to direct the Coast Guard to operate as part of the Navy in time of peace whenever in his judgment the exigencies require such action." this opinion was based upon the wording of Public Law 239, An Act to Create the Coast Guard, which states that the Coast Guard will "operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy in time of war or when the President shall so direct."
@alexkarman4679
Жыл бұрын
If you have to power down a screw before you can power it in reverse, it does not seem as if that could ever be a faster way to turn out of (or into) harm's way, rather than by throwing full rudder at full forward power. It sounds more like a publicity stunt or friendly competition.
@richardschaffer5588
Жыл бұрын
Ships with turbo electric drive could and did throw screws into full reverse with their main electrical switch gear. This was actualdy done to avoid torpedos, collision etc. Short run ferries sometimes electric drive it’s just easier that way.
@WildBillCox13
Жыл бұрын
"I'm gonna walk inland with an oar on my shoulder until someone asks: 'what the hell is that?" -Mike Fink. How did a sailor escape the sea? He didn't. The last night on board, your mates would give you a party, drinking until dawn, until you passed out and then, when you finally dragged yourself awake, present you with your "X" signed re-enlistment contract. A quick taste of the cat to remind you of the consequences, and you were back in colors before your short timer's chain lost its last link.
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