The Drydock - Episode 206
Added 2022-07-15 18:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Drach, I hope you're able to get away from your monitor from time to time, in the trying times you're in now. Gotta do that, take a walk: it'll all still be there when you get back.
Robert Hilton
2022-07-17 20:30:09 +0000 UTCI was recently watching a video on Soviet Aircraft. One that got my interest was the flying submarine. How effective do you think these could have been if the Soviets actually produced them?
2022-07-17 13:02:12 +0000 UTCThe War of 1812 (the conflict in which the Battle of New Orleans was fought in/after) was actually declared some weeks after one of the primary instigating grievances of the US (impressment of American sailors by the Royal Navy) was revoked by Parliament… so the War of 1812 definitely ought to go down as one of the oddest conflicts in history since both its main cause & greatest battles both took place outside of the actual conflict due to slow communications!
The Rogue Chief
2022-07-16 13:32:14 +0000 UTCMy grandfather was in the RNR before the first world war but on a ship doing survey work around Alaska and the arctic. it was not until the ship got back to British Columbia I believe that he found out the first world war had started two years previously. He then had to find his way to New York to get on a ship there.
2022-07-16 04:20:37 +0000 UTCShackleton's Endurance Expedition set out (with the admiralty's blessing) during the early days of WWI. One of his first questions upon finally reaching the station on South Georgia 20 May 1916, "When did the war end?"
Andrew Dederer
2022-07-15 20:13:00 +0000 UTCCaptured aircraft and other weapons were sometimes re marked and put to use by the capturing forces. From the pre-dread era on, did this ever happen with major naval vessels (presuming they had not been scuttled, which was the POINT of scuttling)
Sam Signorelli
2022-07-15 18:47:53 +0000 UTC
