The Drydock - Episode 284

[@AlbertD711]

Former US Shipyard worker here. The white tarp looking things are for environmental protection during sand blasting and protective coating applications.

[@MichaelOBoyle-x2p]

Navy vet. Came here for this comment. Keeps sandblasting/paint in and to a lesser extent keeps weather out.

[@MrAWG9]

Also, in port, CVN’s actually DO put up safety fencing around the flight deck (fantail round-down, angle deck forward, and the bow) but they also have “PC-Catcher” safety nets ALL the way around the flight deck, outboard of the catwalks, to hopefully catch anyone who gets blown down the deck by an aggressively taxied aircraft, especially in Fly-1 and Fly-3 and forward of the Island stbd of the Street and in the Corral.

[@roberthilton5328]

Speaking of visiting museum ships, I know that Battleship Texas has had many visitors for their drydock tours, and the cruise ships and other floating tours finding the dreadnaught a big draw as they pass nearby. But I hope the visitors and sightseers aren't forgetting the Galveston Naval Museum further down Pelican Island where submarine USS Cavalla and destroyer escort USS Stewart are great for a self-guided walkaround too. Late last year I found the two museum ships very enjoyable for a visit.

[@mark_wotney9972]

Don’t forget the Elissa!

[@johnferguson1970]

I saw USS Stewart and USS Cavalla last year, and really emjoyed it. I hope ro see USS Texas before too long.

[@donaldirons3174]

In regards, to the use of the white wrap, it has several uses. It is used to contain grinding / sanding operations. It is used to protect exposed worksites, as well as areas being painted.

[@georgehughes8698]

Also used as a wind break for welding operations

[@TheMolesRevenge]

Drach - "obviously I can't answer every single question or we'd be here til the end of time." Me - (quietly settles down to listen to the Drydock while the universe comes to its end around me) "well at least time ends on a high note!"

[@ssgtmole8610]

When I was in grade school, in the US in the 1960s, I read a book on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) and in the last chapter it mentioned that school children had sent in pennies to help with a restoration of the ship decades prior. That was possible with a wooden hull frigate. Two decades later I was in Boston for my best friend's wedding and afterwards I was looking for something to do since I had a few more days leave left afterwards. I toured the USS Constitution and purchased a piece of wood from one of the restorations and made a donation. I have since toured several Essex class carriers from WWII and the scale difference is exceptional. 2000 metric tons displacement for the USS Constitution vs 33,500 metric tons for a long Essex. Being in one of the engine rooms of the USS Hornet felt like I was indoors inside a large building instead of tied up to a dock in Alameda, California. I had a sense of Boston Harbor when I was on the blood deck of the USS Constitution.

[@mattblom3990]

Woah the Maritime Museum question to lead us off was going to be my Patreon question this month. Kudos to that viewer and glad it got asked so I can think of something new :)

[@powellmountainmike8853]

I do understand that your concentration is on MILITARY ships, but still; the next time you are in the northeastern U.S. I heartily recommend you visit Mystic Seaport Museum. I was a member there for over half a century until I moved to the mountains of Tennessee, from back when it was The Mystic Marine Historical Society's museum, and my family were members of that society. Not only do they have a number of sailing ships, including the Charles W. Morgan, the last of the wooden whalers, and a whole town demonstrating life in a 19th century coastal port village, but one of the finest libraries of material on the subject, open for use by scholars. I am sure you would find it worth your time to spend a few days there.

[@leftcoaster67]

In Vancouver we have the RCMP Schooner St. Roch. Which went west to east on the Northwest Passage. Its only 322 tons so probably not very impressive but its a part of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. It also made the return trip as well from 1940-42.

[@TheRogueWolf]

"Sad pancake of rust" made me laugh out loud.

[@myparceltape1169]

That might not be a problem to archeology. They would note the position of each grain of rust and reduce it back to steel as they laid it on a frame.

[@williampotts4404]

lol 10/10

[@B52Stratofortress1]

​@myparceltape1169 Be easier to raise the Graf Spee! It's not a war grave and the wreck is supposed to be in pretty good shape (for a shipwreck)

[@myparceltape1169]

@@B52Stratofortress1 Understand.

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Before it was buried, the British made off with Admiral Scheer's very fine silicon bronze propellers.

[@oregonborn9769]

Thanks for everything drach. Been watching for several years and appreciate every bit of knowledge gained.

[@jackray1337]

I listen to the Drydocks (often in a loop) while I'm doing other things like driving. I'm not sure what the difference between that and a 'podcast' is.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

I think the drydocks are just the Q&As following the pod casts.

[@craigfazekas3923]

I listen to Drach when I'm at my modelling desk while building 1:700 scale model replicas of vessels- like the Spanish Republican light cruiser, LIBERTAD (former PRINCIPÉ ALFONSO)- that I just started a few days ago. Either Drach or sometimes the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which all 1,399 episodes are here on the Tube of You.... 🚬😎👍

[@Drachinifel]

Basically by listing them as podcasts as well people can listen with audio only. :)

[@averytiredman4857]

Some smart cars disallow viewing "videos" while driving. I imagine listing it as a podcast allows it to be played while underway.

[@jackray1337]

@@averytiredman4857 Oh wow! Thank you for that info.

[@8sierra262]

The Stuff for the white wrapped carrier may be something we called "Hurc-u-lite". Basically a kind of reinforced plastic. It appears that they are using it as materiel barrier for paint chips or other debris to keep from getting into the water. More to protect the environment from the work being done then keep the people on the ship.

[@axelrajr]

29m56s: as of 2005 when I got out, while they can be used to cover sensitive things being worked on, the two big reasons for the plastic are either weather or environmental. catching old or new paint or other chemicals before it goes over the side and protecting the workers or the work from inclement weather or the cold, or to try and close off an opened-up section of the hull/superstructure. in the picture, they are probably redoing that section of non-skid on the flight deck. the plastic was put up for the removal process, and not taken down because its a good barrier around the laying of new non-skid, both to keep the wind form blowing stuff onto it, and to keep people form walking on it till its cured.. and i can sorta see the new stuff, its a very dark bluish grey when its new.

[@apparition13]

I think you meant circumvent rather than circumnavigate a problem. :) Metaphorically circumnavigating a problem would mean looking at it from 360 degrees - and winding up right back where you started. Which raises an interesting question in and of itself: can you think of any naval problems where the first proposed solution was rejected as being unsatisfactory for some reason, and after considering several alternatives the final answer was the (perhaps still unsatisfactory but still better than the alternatives) first proposed solution? Re. Sumner vs. Gearing: I think Battle(1942) vs. Battle (1943 or perhaps 1944) might be a better answer, since I think the question being asked was about how the Gearings are essentially just bigger Sumners in order to fix minor shortcomings of the initial design.

[@gerardlabelle9626]

17:16 I enjoyed the explanation of submarine compression!

[@MrMont-ue8kh]

Thanks Drach for another great episode! I recall my uncle telling a story about that rope across the width of the sub. He was on a US nuclear sub back in the 60s. Apparently they used to freak out new crew members by tying the string across the width of the sub, and then drawing attention to how much the rope sagged when the sub dove. He didn't say exactly how much it sagged, but it must have been noticeable enough to create the desired effect among the newbs.

[@notshapedforsportivetricks2912]

Always a high point in the movie "Down Periscope".

[@zoranocokoljic8927]

HMS Endeavour was relativelly small (360 tons), flat-bottom (i.e. slow) ship, but with big storage capacity, allowing Cook to take enough provisions for a long trip. It was the first time lemmons were introduced as a part of ration. I've read Cook's report of the voyage to Royal Society in which he stated that he've lost but three mene - two to accidents and one to a disease not related to scurvy. For this Society awarded him a gold medal. (OTOH, Joseph Banks, future president of said Society, who was part of second Cook's expedition to Tahiti, had an onset of scurvy, which he successfuly treated with 'Dr Hume's mixture', which shows that lemmons were not adopted everywhere imediately.) Questions: 1) Were there any Dutch ships in Pacific in 1945, maybe together with British? 2) 'Royal Navy' used to indicate that ships belong to the king. Is it still so, at least in theory, and if not when did the change occur?

[@teddrewflack400]

I’ve walked around on the replica endeavour , for a converted coal ship , it is pretty roomy below deck . The James Craig, which is berthed a short walking distance away is a stark reminder just how small the endeavour is though , kind of crazy how these sailors travelled around the world on these things .

[@williestyle35]

2) HMS indicates that a ship "belongs" to the monarch (currently King Charles III). Royal Navy indicates about the same thing, and also that a ship "belongs" to the Kingdom of Great Britain (as opposed to the general term of British Army, that lost "Royal" when they sided with Parliament during the English Civil War). fun fact, Cook taking lemons was a then recently... innovative idea to prevent scurvy. This would change to limes, because they keep "fresh" for longer (and grow in more parts of the Overseas Empire). It is why British sailors (and eventually British people in general) became known as "limeys". 😊

[@myarchus1]

Regarding submarine hull deformation, Destin from the youtube channel Smarter Everyday, has a series of videos where he goes aboard a US submarine and in one of them, some of the crew set up a string attached to either side of a compartment to demonstrate how much the hull deforms as it dives. (He also crawls into a torpedo tube and signs the interior of the exterior hatch!!)😳

[@Sundancer268]

You will enjoy the Mariner's Museum, My wife and I have spent several visits there from my time in the Navy stationed at NOB Norfolk in the 70's to our most recent visit in 2021. We normally spend a full day there starting shortly after they open to closing time. There are so many museums in the tidewater area, you could spend months just trying to see them all.

[@Cbabilon675]

Working at The Grooming shipyards I found out that a lot of that had to do with keeping in the sandblasting material that they were using when sandblasting off paint and redoing the job. I hope that helps😊

[@SuperchargedSupercharged]

Thank you for the congratulations, hope you have the time of your life when you come back over here.

[@mikesummers-smith4091]

A possibility for the first of the month after next - Nautilus. No, not that battery-powered 1950s thing, but the grand original from _20,000 Leagues Under The Sea_ (aka _Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Out The Other Side, And Into Orbit_ ) 50 knots submerged isn't to be sneezed at, nor is the serrated ram (I used to have the clockwork bathtoy). I can't locate the reference, but remember once reading that after Captain Nemo's staterooms and his other necessities have been allowed for, there's about 5% (if that) of the hull volume left over for such trivialities as crew, machinery, fuel, and air supply.

[@myparceltape1169]

When the crew went out on the seabed and stunned some fish with missiles of some kind I went around asking how to make a small missile that would generate a sharp electric shock on contact.

[@jackray1337]

5:21 When I hear HMS Unicorn, I reflexively think "honestly not an aircraft carrier." No thanks to Dr. Alexander Clarke for that.

[@wierdalien1]

100% Alex's fault

[@brucefelger4015]

Took a c;lass at Bremerton NSY where one of the classmates worked at the yard. Brought in two pieces of steel, one from a scrapped Permit class, which was at least 8 cm thick, the other from an LA class which was only perhaps less than 2 cm. Amazing the changes in metallurgy

[@johnclark7910]

Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola is excellent, really hope you're able to work it out with them. Depending on how much time you've got on the Gulf Coast, the WW2 Museum and New Orleans and Ft Morgan/ Ft Gaines on Mobile Bay are also worth seeing.

[@bacongod4967]

While not navy ships, there are a couple old cargo ships in Superior, Wisconsin, including SS Meteor, the last whale-back, which has been under restoration. Apparently whale-backs were considered for navy use but were deemed, understandably, unseaworthy.

[@timwilliamanderson]

18:29 some people I know are on modern submarines, and they described tying a rope tightly across a compartment on the surface, and then when they dived the rope being noticeably slacked

[@SamAlley-l9j]

Thanks Drach.

[@yenerhd]

If anyone is interested the couple marine museums that I have been to and that I can recommend are the U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer in Bremerhaven, Germany; the Museu Marítim de Barcelona in Spain; and the Maritime Museum in Dubrovnik, Kroatia

[@ablindman0]

On the question of steel hull shrinkage under pressure, smarter every day did an excellent video with the US navy that talked about that exact thing, even did the string test you mentioned around the 21 minute mark

[@davidvik1451]

FYI: Cook Inlet is in Alaska around another 2000 miles farther north from Puget Sound in Washington State making the range of Cooks travels even greater..

[@Cbabilon675]

Would you ever consider in the future putting together some kind of giveaway where a group of small winners can join you on a tour of multiple Museum ships to be honest I would absolutely pay to enjoy your insights and Company doing this😊😊

[@myparceltape1169]

You might need to hire an airliner and several coaches.

[@MrVern814]

I don't recall the book I read this in, but in a British sub in WW2, the crew ran a tight string the length of the sub just to see how much it would sag at depth. If I recall correctly it was a couple inches

[@chippercorgi2247]

I wasn't expecting to hear my username in a video... thanks kindly for answering my question! 🙂

[@conservativemike3768]

Drach / I drop-boxed you an abbreviated presentation of the Rekishi Shashin collection. I should make a hundred videos about that stuff one day. Now I'll go dig up the Yamamoto biography.

[@kemarisite]

For the white wrap question, I remember seeing something similar, and for the same reason, on the Carl Vinson at North Island in 2012.

[@F-Man]

Drach, just so you know - this episode is showing between parts 1 and 2 of episode 304 in the playlist!

[@robertslugg8361]

J.E.Gordon in "The New Science of Strong Materials" does a great job of explaining the molecular basis of work hardening. It is one of those books that makes one look at the world entirely differently.

[@paul-we2gf]

In Canada visit HMCS Sackville on Halifax NS smdHMCS Haids st Hamilton On They're the last of their classed, Flowrr class corvette and Tribal destroyer sole survivors of their classes.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

I believe Drach did months ago?

[@mflashhist500]

For consideration in the list of Officers transferred away from action command… Captain Gib Hoover USS Helena, following the 1st Naval Battle of Guadalcanal made a difficult decision to abandon USS Juneau survivors and was removed from active command by Admiral Halsey, ( no doubt influenced by the media latching on to the tragedy of the loss of the Sullivan Brothers amongst the terrible loss of life). Thus the USN was denied the services of an aggressive combat commander who was one of the few leaders at that time who understood the advantages of radar in night combat. What might have been if he had continued in command of the famous “machine gun cruiser” !!

[@bluelemming5296]

I think Hoover's decision was completely wrong. Good naval traditions take centuries to build and can be lost in an afternoon: building and maintaining these traditions require people that are willing to take risks. It's called Leadership. Not leaving people behind is an important tradition, critical to building and maintaining long term morale and a sense of professionalism in a military organization. It's not always possible, but you do what you can - and you have to be seen doing it, and going out of your way to do it, even accepting some risk. On that basis alone Hoover's decision was wrong - and did enormous long term harm to the US Navy. Compare Hoover's failure to even look for survivors to the Royal Navy's action in 1940 in the Norwegian Campaign, where HMS Glowworm was detached to look for a man overboard even though the odds of survival were poor. The Royal Navy understood the importance of good naval traditions in a way some in the US Navy - such as Hoover - did not. This understanding and application of good naval traditions is in large part responsible for the success of the Royal Navy versus their German and Italian opponents during WW2 despite often being at a disadvantage 'on paper'. In the Solomon Islands case, there were other assets in the area that could have helped pick up survivors. Had Hoover let Fletcher investigate the explosion, they would have known there were survivors - and even if he needed to immediately recall Fletcher (after spotting the survivors and before picking up any survivors) for some reason, other assets could have been contacted via radio and deployed to pick up survivors. The real problem here was the really bad assumption of no survivors, which meant nobody would be searching in the right area and the survivors would only (eventually) be found by accident (after most had died). Yes, the US Navy was still a peacetime navy at that point in many ways, but they still could have and should have learned a critical lesson from history. The US Civil War demonstrated that even enormous explosions can have a surprising number of survivors. In more recent history, the explosion of HMS Hood earlier in WW2 also produced a surprising number of survivors (probably more than were picked up, given the cold waters - a situation that did not apply in the Solomons where the water temperatures were a lot warmer). Probably all manner of similar examples exist out there for people to learn from ... A competent commander - which means somebody who recognizes that his job requires a good knowledge of relevant history - should have understood these considerations. If you're going to use weapons that produce explosions, you need to understand what happens - and what might not happen - during an explosion. People using weapons need to understand those weapons. Finally, from a tactical perspective, you probably want to have a destroyer close the location of known submarine threats to keep them down so they can't radio ahead - and to keep them from following immediately in the event your ships are moving slowly as a result of battle damage. This is especially important if your ships are moving really slowly from battle damage, because torpedoes can move a whole lot faster, opening up the possibility that the sub could launch additional salvos if you gave it time to reload. Sure, there could have been other threats in the vicinity - but who prioritizes a possible threat that might not actually exist over a known threat that's already proven it's ability to sink one of your ships? So the decision not to even look for survivors seems like poor judgement on a number of levels - I wouldn't trust Hoover in any other role given these considerations. Halsey was right to remove him from command.

[@dave8599]

00:32. The white tarp may well be to prevent sandblasted debris from drifting over the side into the water. An anti pollution measure perhap?

[@urishima]

Regarding the question of submarine hulls getting compressed underwater, @smartereveryday did a video series aboard the Los Angeles class USS Toledo about the various (unclassified) things SSNs do. Part of that involved spanning a bit of string between two sides of the boat in the torpedo room to illustrate just how much the boat gets compressed as it dives.

[@totkampf8427]

Have you ever been to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago? The U-505 submarine is displayed completely intact there in its own exhibit. I highly recommend visiting it and touring the interior if you ever find yourself in Chicago.

[@Trek001]

30:39 - It took me a long time to realise you meant the Queen Elizabeth _Carriers_ and not the _Battleships_

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

one big challenge with the preservation of large ships is that we do not have the infrastructure to produce a lot of the materials used in their construction... whilst wooden shipwrightng is something of a lost art, it is something for which you do not need to build a great factory or dig a mine... no one makes Krup Steel these days, so you simply cannot replace cracked or rusted armor plates the way you could with a wooden hull.... nor can you as easily maintain the structure, every part needs to be sourced from some limited source... no way to really reproduce it in an environment where such materials will necessarily die out.

[@colinhunt4057]

I can think of one steam and steel age ship as memorable as HMS Victory which should have been preserved and was not. It was arguably the "fightingest" ship in the RN in both world wars - HMS Warspite. It fought in pretty much all the big naval battles in both wars. it was perhaps the only battleship ever tasked with a combat mission in severely restricted waters - Narvik. It fired its main armament effectively many times against opponents and was essential to winning all the battles in which it was engaged. It was scrapped in 1947 because of the niggardliness of the Clement Atlee government. In all honesty, the Atlee government was dealing with a post-war Britain that was bankrupt. But if there had been a will, a way could have been found.

[@sundiver137]

We yanks think the same about CV-6, USS Enterprise

[@colinhunt4057]

@@sundiver137 And I would agree with that.Canada preserved its most historic WW2 fighting ship - HMCS Haida - for much the same reasons I stated here. And that was regardless of a Canadian Prime Minister at the time who hated all things military.William Lyon McKenzie King was almost as despicable as Justin Trudeau is today. Plus King was insane and held seances with his dead mother.

[@88porpoise]

The Haida survived because the Canadian Tribals stayed in service until the 1960s. If she had been part of the post-WW2 drawdown she would almost certainly have been scrapped. And Sackville was in use by the government as a research vessel into the 1980s, when it was decided to preserve a Flower class corvette (and the intended corvette to be preserved was sunk by a hurricane). The CV-6 seems to have been a big mess of a debacle in the efforts to preserve her.

[@boutaric01]

Another officer who was unfortunately reassigned was rear admiral Raizo Tanaka. He used his fast destroyers to resupply at night japanese forces at Guadalcanal, The Tokyo Express. He was also in command of the Japanese ships at the battle of Tassafaronga. After falling out or favor with the IJN High command he was transferred to Singapore at the end of 1942 and then to shore duty in Burma in 1943.

[@tfelker4843]

The Mariners Museum is located in Newport News, Va. I hope to see you there when you visit the Monitor exhibit and turret!

[@SCjunk]

49:40 "limbered up means a cannon / gun is under tow not prepared for firing. As an example a 15cm K16 and 17cm K18 would have its barrel removed and on a dedicated barrel limber if "Limbered up".

[@myparceltape1169]

It did sound as if the barrel was being mounted and made ready for travel. I thought the travel would be caused by recoil.

[@SCjunk]

@@myparceltape1169 Yes I understood it as that but "limbering up" is a technical term and Drach being an engineer not a hoi poloi needs to avoid using term in-appropriately.

[@myparceltape1169]

@@SCjunk I am glad you have told him.

[@timwilliamanderson]

30:26 painting generally when they wrap the ship they’ll paint big portions of it

[@josephenders1893]

I would have loved to have met you at the Kidd, but I can't make that day. I hope you enjoy Baton Rouge.

[@alanzelanski7288]

I've seen ships just about completly covered in white tarps. I was told that was when they were painting the ship so the wind could not blow the paint onto buildings in the area.

[@dave8599]

Come visit the USN Hornet Essex Class Carrier and Museum. This is the Carrier that picked up the Apollo 11 first Moon landing capsule.

[@milleniumsword1558]

WE GOTTA DIG UP SCHEER

[@magnemoe1]

32:00 seen carriers even back in WW 2 has some sort of catch net outside the edge who should catch you while not cause problem for planes

[@jamescocking7061]

When it comes down to Hull crushing there's a scene in a movie called down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer. Were they doing a test drive and the guy puts a string from one side of the hall to the other on the inside

[@craigfazekas3923]

I just copped Flyhawk Model's 1:700 scale HMS AGINCOURT yesterday..... WOOO HOOO ❣❣❣❣ 🚬😎👍

[@onenote6619]

How about a 1:200 Yamato and Hood? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6mkiJmgereWY68

[@onenote6619]

How about a 1:35 U-boat (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYClk3dsrbN2kLs)

[@TomFynn]

Fun fact about submarines hulls: The artist Richard Serra who uses huge steel sheets has these formed into shape by a demilitarized machine that once made French nuclear submarines.

[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

Submarine hulls crushing: in the modern US navy it’s a fairly common practice to run a string from one end of the pressure hull to another and pull it taught, and you at great depth can actually see it begin to sag significantly

[@kennethdeanmiller7324]

WOW. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA???? You know you could have picked a better time of year to go to Pensacola and allowed yourself some leisure time to go to the beach there! Of all the beaches I've been on it was the best. Beautiful white sand beach. Back in 2007 my father was living there and having health problems and I went down there to help out my Step-mom & because of that I had a job with a local welding co that was doing an addition to Austal shipyard in Mobile, AL. Atm they were building what appeared to be a couple of Navy Cruisers or Destroyers inside. And during my commute I got to ride past the USS Alabama everyday. Also, as a child my Grandparents use to take me on to the base to buy groceries. And go to the beach. One year they were having a shark rodeo & I got to see a couple of 6' hammerhead sharks that were caught off of the pier. Got to eat some shark steaks which were OK. But we would also go camping & crabbing south of there in Destin. Which imho the area was completely destroyed by beach hotels now. But as a kid when I was there it was a wooded area and we would boil crabs over a fire in the mid to late 70's. Yeah, speaking of the Sullivan's and the ships in Buffalo, that could be included into someone going to see Niagara Falls. I had the joy of seeing Niagara Falls after seeing the Grateful Dead play at Rich Stadium in Buffalo back in the 90's. Our cash had been running short at that part of the Dead tour so I made & sold grill cheese sandwiches in the lot all day to be able to afford to go see the Falls. It was time we'll spent.

[@keithmoore5306]

Drach with oil fired railroad steam engines, they add sand to the fire box to scour out deposits in the boilers tubes how do they handle deposits on ships?

[@DonSaucier]

Just curious, how have you not done at least a 5 min guide on Shigure? Only survived of a couple big battles. Help us out.

[@AndrewPalmerMTL]

Regarding preserving iron/steel ships: perhaps Mikasa is the best example of an iron/steel ship having a claim to historical preservation. She may well outlive all the other metal ships, IMHO.

[@kanrakucheese]

I'm actually surprised the Drach didn't mention a ram is a siege weapon.

[@garywatson1012]

speaking of museums, big shout ot to the EXCELLENT Artic Convoys Museum in Poolewe, Scotland also the Finnish maritime museum in Turku

[@geoguy001]

Ive seen pictures of battleships with large canvas? shades covering their forward and aft decks when they are in tropical regions ...have carriers ever done this?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

They have hangar space available for activities. so, nope.

[@jame3shook]

~@1:08:40 The Mariner's Museum is in Newport News Va - not Norfolk Va.

[@kidmohair8151]

I would posit that any museum is worth visiting, even if it is not the best run, maintained or funded. I have never gone into one and walked without having learned something.

[@russellnixon9981]

Could you do a history of the Destroyer HMS Wilton as she had a interesting career during ww2.I would be very interested in her part during Operation Pedestal. Thanks.

[@frankbarnwell____]

In February when you're in Louisiana, and American south. Try crayfish, Drachinifel. Or Crawfish; however these people say it. It's not green or veggie, unless you get coleslaw.

[@StevenPalmer-cs5ix]

Have a great trip to the US Gulf and East coasts.

[@jimmyhartman4596]

The navel air museum is awesome we might see you there .

[@RoastedOpinions]

Is it more important for ship types to be defined by their roles or to adhere to a roughly graduated system based on displacement?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

I'm not sure I understand the question ❓

[@RoastedOpinions]

@@WALTERBROADDUS The USN has the Arleigh Burke destroyer which displaces about 500 tons more than the Ticonderoga cruiser. 50 years ago that wasn't the case; cruisers were much bigger than destroyers. Which makes more sense: ships being typed by mission roles or ships being typed by size?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

@@RoastedOpinions who is classifying by tonnage? Function has always been more important.

[@jagsdomain203]

The narwhal class also had two guns how did that stack up against some of the

[@guygareau2028]

Of course you had a friendly staff. Your reputation preceeds you so the museums would be well advised to extend full support to your visit. Some amount of money is involved after all

[@kkupsky6321]

I never thought of that. I listen on my phone. I do use my jailbroke fire stick to watch KZbin on tv but that’s still KZbin. If I was in a car I’d plug the phone in and put KZbin on and ask what were the drums on Mary rose for? Were they signals and were xthere drummers on galleys and Greek and Roman ships for rowing pace?

[@bryanstephens4800]

I have youtube premium and long done all your stuff as podcasts

[@caryk3028]

The wrap on the aircraft carrier could be to protect the publics delicate eyeballs from the pretty lights of arc welders and lazer levels....... OASHA

[@andyg35311]

Hi drach i have a question. In the age of sail did smaller ships ever grapple onto other friendly ships to combine their crew so they were able to take out a larger ship in a boarding action?

[@papajohnloki]

Adm Raizo Tanaka

[@GrahamWKidd]

I suspect this is a re-post, from what was originally posted on Patreon. Different finish.

[@ReverendHowl]

46:40 - Strict disciplinarian? My dad told me Captain Cook had men flogged for not drinking their portion of lime juice.

[@myparceltape1169]

It was good for their health. Anyway, he wanted to keep his men fit enough to work his ship.

[@jimludovici8427]

The youtube podcasts format doesn't seem to be working for me to listen to in the car.

[@exploatores]

I am playing Rule the Waves. that made me think. In what year would you be able to build a battleship/cruiser that you will be able to modernise. with out to expensive rebuild and still keep up to date. a couple of decades later.

[@F88koff]

Drach, I need some help putting a name to a picture (actually a postcard pre 1920)......how can I contact you?

[@LowryYT]

Hey there mister drach, I was wondering if you have some info on French shipbuilding in their 2nd empire period. So many ships during the war with the British were captured and I'm baffled why that was the case. Seems like they had big money from selling ships to other nations I assume that they could just pump out ships rather than fighting the Brits :P

[@LowryYT]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas-class_frigate_(1808) The Pallas class in particular piques my interest. 57 of the same class completed! That's crazy :D

[@JDHitchman]

Naval historians these days seem to refer to all ships in history by their names. But I'm curious if back in the day the various navies knew the actual names of enemy ships they were fighting in real time. So for example, during the battle of Midway did the USN know the names of the IJN carriers they sank and conversely did the IJN know the names of the USN carriers present?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

You have publications like Jane's Defense. Ships all had books with reference silhouettes of enemy vessels.

[@bigsarge2085]

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[@FireFox_60]

The new duck duck goose. Ok Ok Ok ah theres a leak.

[@anatolib.suvarov6621]

Algorithm Engagement Comment. I have to say such things so that the algorithm will share this content with other people!

[@brucejack606]

Is it dangerous to leave ammo in guns when subs dive

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

You would not leave the ammo in the gun.

[@brucejack606]

@@WALTERBROADDUS just wondered

[@gbcb8853]

After today’s news about HMS QE’s prop shaft (like HMS PoW), a direct transfer to Museum Ship status is plausible.

[@scott2836]

This has not yet appeared on the BBC News app, so would you care to elaborate on this?

[@myparceltape1169]

A few weeks ago someone was talking about the PoW's propshaft.

[@gbcb8853]

@@scott2836 Starboard prop shaft coupling has issues apparently. Navy disclosed it as reason for not setting sail as planned today.

[@Vagabond820]

Yes, but did the native Australians have a flag when Cooke arrived?

[@davekrab3363]

+1 for the algorythms. 🦀🇦🇺✌️

[@keithrosenberg5486]

The surrender ship Missouri has non-battle history as the Japanese surrender place. Ditto USS Hornet in recovering Apollos 11 and 12.

[@jameskilpatrick7790]

"Who is this fool who does not know what a mountain is"?

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Don't matter to you perhaps.

[@Talikistan]

Could you make a video on the Kirov Class cruisers of the Second World War? Please and thank you.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

I am a comment.

[@murasame5071]

47:50 To be honest, and i dont want to belittle native civilizations , they really dont matter in the scheme of grand things. Like , proto incas where there , then they where not , and that has almost zero impact on world history.