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The Drydock - Episode 222

The Drydock - Episode 222

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Flag Officer Seymour to ask "Why did you screw up so badly?"

Yokosuka Girls Marine High School Training Vessel Harekaze

Q&A: If you could go back in time and do a 1 hour video interview of any naval related personality which you could bring back and show us, whom would you go back and interview?

Capitano Lorenzo

The referral a few weeks ago to the Honor Harrington series by David Weber might be expanded to include the Daniel Leary series by David Drake. If Harrington is based on Nelson (one eye lost, etc.) then Leary is a good match for Thomas Cochrane. In Leary’s series, the ships literally sail between the stars, and there is a Chief of Sail to keep the masts and sails in order. Both series have a few flaws, especially in the later books, but are well worth reading. The naval fan will note that in many science fiction series, a copy of “Warships of the 20th Century” has somehow become the source of many ship names in the future timeline, so we again see names like “Scheer”, “Derfflinger”, “Warrior”, and – my favorites – “Furious”, “Glorious”, and “Courageous” which have appeared as triplets in stories by both authors.


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