The Drydock - Episode 127

That's on top of the Patreon live stream on YouTube (almost four hours there)... ...hey Drach, do you need a fast IrnBru tanker sent your way? (Yikes! USD 5.00 per 500 ml bottle here, to fill my tankard would cost me...yikes! I'd be better off trying to fix the Prince of Wales' turrets, during the Battle of the Denmark Strait...from the outside of the turret...!

Theodore Kamis

Thanks for answering the question about how the message are relayed from fire control to gun crew. I realized I forgot to ask how the shot is timed, i.e because the ships are moving there must be a time frame in which the calculations apply, does the fire control station know how long it will take the crew to adjust the gun or do they just have a timeframe to aim and fire?

Bjarki Hilmarsson

The Royal Navy? Trolling? Why, they would never do such a preposterous thing!

I was thinking about HMS President and wondered which ship of the High Seas fleet would be the biggest Troll for the Royal Navy to put into service after the internment, totally ignoring any logistics and cost.

Douglas Smith

Cheers, not the world's greatest expert on Canadian waterways myself!

Drachinifel

No chance of getting beyond Montreal. The Lachine Canal provides passage past the Lachine rapids but the Canal is not a viable option for an unwelcome U boat and it was guarded by the Canadian Army during the war. The fact that Montreal was the furthest west a ship could navigate on the St. Lawrence is largely the reason it was settled by the French in the 17th c.

Orders with deeper meanings- in the US Navy- or at least when I was a part of it, a secret code for security breaches was used. Whomever was the last chief petty officer to leave the ship's crew was the code for problems. For example, if Chief Warner was no longer a member of the crew and over the 1MC we heard, "Chief Warner, Captain's Stateroom!" This actually meant that there was a security/hostage situation in said stateroom and the ships self defense force (SSDF) would take this as a covert security alert signal.

Vintage Car History

I was going to cut a video of my own tonight. Damn I’m still going to cut my own. It just might be a tiny bit shorter!

Wayne Borean

What would the affect of the British purchasing a few Essex class during the war, say three or four instead of the indomitable and the implacables?

bruj

Five hours of Drach is an auspicious start for 2021.

john c driscoll

Most sailors always felt sympathy for their sailing brethren muting their triumph with their feeling for the horrors that they were facing on a doomed ship - noticeably in the accounts of the Bismark actions from the fate of the Hood to the fate Bismark from both views.

John Hargreaves

Over 5hr of Drach! Well my New Years Day just got a lot better!

Mark Persad