Britain finally gets a dub

Reminds me of the TON class mine countermeasure vessel 🚢

What is amazing here is that the guns of the RN specifically the 24lb model and indeed the 18 lb model were so well engineered that they could be bored out to operate as lighter charge 32lb guns

Great video, would love to see a future video on the development of loading/reloading methods and mechanisms for large caliber guns used by various navies over the years

As a machinist I'm saving this 👀

Hi Drach! You say that the prisoners taken from one side, that would be actually deserters, would get executed. That is logical thing obviously, but I am curious, how could anybody tell if the prisoner is the deserter? I guess the deserters in question would be the last ones to admit that, and the any registers with photos could not be the case yet, for obvious reasons ;) Did they have any tattoos or something? Cheers :)

Metallurgy is a fascinating subject. What you make it out of has effects. How you heat treat it has effects. The order of operations, has effects. Work hardening is a thing. Humans have gotten very good at metals, because we had to. Nowadays it's all "carbon fiber" this and "carbon fiber" that. But at the end of the day, good old metals still are easier and cheaper to work with for a lot of applications. Not to mention, metals are easy to recycle. Plastics and other organic materials, not so much.

_"Is a bigger battery better?"_ Only if your batteries both hit each other.

Thank you. I didn't know about this battle or its' result. Having now done some reading I am sorry to learn that Captain Porter was such a bad looser seemingly blaming everyone else for his defeat and accusing the British of violating neutrality, conducting themselves dishonorably and inhumanely, and plundering his personal property after the engagement. None of which was true. He also stated that the loss of Essex was simply due to a series of misfortunes and blamed the 3rd Secretary of Navy for his defeat. He also felt the British should be fined and the Essex returned. Given how the British Captain praised him for his "gallantry" in battle I wonder if he would have been so kind if he knew his opponent was basically accusing him of piracy?

"Yes, please!" on more discussion of the metallurgy and manufacturing of naval weapons. Even being modestly knowledgeable on the subject due to my decades as a mechanical designer, it's always interesting to hear experts viewpoints.

My wife's grandfather re-upped right after Pearl Harbor, and spent the entire war aboard USS New Mexico. Somewhere around here we have a tea tray he made from a copy of that iconic photo of New Mexico riding at anchor off Fujiyama.

I think the HMS Cherub was there only for the fun.

*Battleship Guns: Finer Details* . . . Accelerate, Puhhh'LEASE!!! *Mucho-Rabbithole!*

My dad told me about a very lucky hit on his B-17 in world war 2. As he was getting out of his (co-pilot) seat after a mission over occupied Europe, he saw a hole in the side of his aircraft behind where his right elbow would be in flight. There was a puncture in the upholstery of his backrest cushion, and a horizontal wrinkle in the fabric leading across to the left side of the cushion. (The backrest and bottom seat cushions were made of rubberized horsehair, about two inches thick, and could stop small and low-energy shrapnel.) On the left side of the backrest cushion was a bulge in the tough fabric encasing the cushion. Dad used his pocket knife to slice the fabric, and pulled out a jagged piece of a German 100mm anti-aircraft shell. It's in my possession now, dad showed me the threads where the fuse is screwed into the nose of the shell. I think the fuse is both contact and barometric, dad told me that a German aircraft would trail the formation of bombers and radio the altitude to the anti-aircraft batteries on the ground. The fragment missed my dad by about three inches, at an airspeed of almost 200 MPH, and had enough energy to penetrate almost two feet of rubberized horsehair. If it had arrived a few milliseconds earlier it would have easily killed both dad and his pilot. Dad passed away in 2012, I am now a grandfather myself, my four siblings are all grandparents, and none of us would exist if that shell had exploded a tiny bit earlier.

On the royal tour of 1947 the crew intercepted princess Margaret's poop and bronzed it below decks, or so legend has it from my uncle who was a stoker serving on Vanguard at the time.

Please hurry up and get Part II done!!

Does anyone else play the Drach drinking game? Every time he says “the square cubed law” in a dry dock…

@44:34 I am literally wet with jealousy.

"Scarnhorse"

mmmm.....so duelly!

Admiral Summerville. I find your lack of faith in Warspite, disturbing.

Good content. Thank you.

Thanks Drach!

Mr Burns fart chamber

You can't add ship's names to the animation? Or the wind's direction? That would be very helpful. Can you also acknowledge what I think was what a battle Patrick O'Brian wrote about?

Comparing the reactional of naval command to this incident and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is very effective at demonstrating how much of a political swamp the Navy was at the time, and perhaps still is.

Wuat kind of idiot submerges a dark colored submarine in a light colored , shallow harbor and says, "that'll do..." damnnn.

The only less creative name than the ocean class would be the “ship” class

at 24:48 what ship is this ??

Thanks Drach

Fascinating industrial history!

It turns out that the left can't meme all the way back in King George's time.

I love frigate duels! Two gentlemen scrapping against each other in excessively inflated circumstances! The bar fights of the high seas.

I love your videos Drach

Great story, really good. But who're we talkin about now?

43.34 blockade runners

As i former heavy machinist, hats of.

No. But a better biggery is batter.

Then number of times the British government acted like they were allergic to spending money, so waste just as much (if not more money) trying to cheapskate their way through things... AND THEY NEVER LEARN!

God, that paint job is really sexy.

In one of those ironies of life that sometimes pop up both David Porter (of the Essex) and James Hillyar (of the Phoebe, later a admiral) would pass away in the same year, three months apart, in 1843.

There's a broad history of the war with HMS Nancy, and the Great Lakes.

The political cartoons of the era are so fantastic.

I wonder if the attempt to force Essex to violate Chilean neutrality was the inspiration for Captain Aubret's attempt to force the French to violate neutrality in the Ionian Mission.

The state of the IJN carriers at Midway? Guys near frantically arming planes expressly with ordinance going to and fro, gasoline, in hangar deck. Oh a 1,000 lb American bomb? Oh well. Not making light of it. How things happen can't be foretold, sometimes.

A quality vid & record of a great legacy left by a master mariner who gave his life in the stress of war.

There’s a Forces article entitled “From HMS Cockchafer to HMS Pansy: Why would you call a ship that?!” _For all of his accomplishments, Winston Churchill was perhaps not best known for his judgement in the naming of ships, having once been adamant that HMS Pitt would be a fitting title for a battleship._ HMS Cherub definitely makes the list.

Great job thanks

I noticed you mispronounced Majestic, Endymion, Pomone, and Tenedos as Endymion.