The Drydock - Episode 214

I'd like to see more on the thought process that went to the build out on the flush decker or 4 stack DD's of WW1 and after please.

frank bodenschatz

Great video. Also the French museum submarine Argonaute which shares a name with a modern submarine rescue vessel FS Argonaute.

Andrew Waite

Drach, my question is this I have been able to track down four methods used for loading shells in main gun turrets, the British (most Pre-Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts), Germans (Bismarck and Scharnhorst), Japanese (Yamato) and American (Iowa). As far as I know, only the Iowa and Vanguard have movies showing the loading process. What about France, Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary. Were they any different than the previous four? Are there any discovered films showing these processes? I understanding that the large film cameras would just about preclude pre WW I movies.

If memory serves, Major Francis John William Harvey, VC, British Royal Marine light infantry was the commander of “Q” turret on HMS Lion before the turret was fatally hit by the battlecruiser SMS Lützow at Jutland in 1917. My question is this, Major Harvey's rank at the time of his death was a Major in the Royal Marines. How high up the Royal Marine rank structure could/can a Royal Marine be promoted while serving on a Royal Navy vessel while retaining command commensurate with his rank? Taking this to its logical end, hypothetically can a Royal Marine Officer command a Royal Navy capital ship? Has this ever occurred?

Capitano Lorenzo

Drach, glad you're feeling basically back to normal.

Robert Hilton

I had to look up "spe·cie" to reassure myself that I was pronouncing it correctly. Perhaps this is another difference with British English.

Ted Jones

Drach, thanks so much for taking the time to provide all this great content despite all your family circumstances!

The patch for USS Missouri (SSN-780) actually has the outline of the battleship behind the image of the sub. There is a new USS Wisconsin in the works, the second of the new Columbia-class SSBNs.

Texas Anla'Shok

Regarding lightning hitting masts. When I was in my mid-teens, lightning struck a huge old tree in our back yard. What had been a good 20-meter tree the day before, was at least five meters shorter after the strike. In addition, as Drach noted, the sap boiled, causing the bark on the entire remainder to be flung at least 30-40 meters in every direction. The tree remained for years as a "woodpecker hotel" before my parents finally sold the house early this century.

Brian Pickering