The Drydock - Episode 356 (Part 2)

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  @MrCrowley7 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I remember one time my entire recommendation page was completely filled with episodes of Drydock after falling asleep to them a couple days in a row.

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• AL

  @alexmoskowitz811 · 1 year ago

  YouTube : try clickbait and 15 minutes max<br>Drach: how about a 6 hour q&amp;a?

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• MI

  @michaelimbesi2314 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfC2PfxUezE&amp;t=5497">1:31:37</a> Looking threatening is actually also another unwritten requirement that came up in the design of the Arleigh Burke. They literally brought in a marine artist and asked him, “What makes a ship look fierce?” They then incorporated the results into the design of the ship, which is why the Arleigh Burke class looks the way it does, with the high bow and stepped superstructure.

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• PH

  @PhilipVanEssendelft-zh7iv · 1 year ago

  In the 21st century, we have little conception about what family life was like for the working class. &nbsp;Children (if they were lucky) were apprenticed - read “sold into servitude” to learn a trade, so being a ships boy could be a good gig. &nbsp;Well into the 1910’s children routinely worked mines, mills, sold newspapers, or were maids, boot boys , and etc.. &nbsp;a closer reading of Dickens might be in order

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• DA

  @davefranklin4136 · 1 year ago

  As a WWII naval wargamer, one of the most interesting things I found in Tameichi Hara&apos;s Japanese Destroyer Captain was his discussion of the IJN having a voice radio capability similar to the US TBS...

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• AN

  @Andy_Ross1962 · 1 year ago

  Gas, Biological and Nuclear drills were a big thing when I was in the RN in the 80s. Pressurised Citadels with airlocks and decontamination stations, Spray systems for the upper decks etc. On the steam powered ships the boiler room was not part of the citadel and controlled from a remote compartment.

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• TA

  @tamsinp7711 · 1 year ago

  Regarding midshipmen in the Napoleonic era, my understanding is that the family backgrounds of Royal Navy officers were: a quarter from the nobility and landed gentry; half from the professional class (Medicine, Law, the Clergy, the Civil Service, army &amp; navy officers); and a quarter from the trading and working class (presumably a mix of bright young lads noticed by a generous captain who decided to sponsor them as midshipmen, &nbsp;and those who had worked their way up through the ranks to become Master&apos;s Mates then got promoted to Lieutenant).<br>Of course there were many examples of young lads from the upper classes being signed onto ships at a very young age as a &quot;false muster&quot; to acquire seniority in sea years but never setting foot on a ship until they were in their late teens (No, no - I&apos;m not looking at Thomas Cochrane, honestly!).

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• BL

  @bluelemming5296 · 1 year ago

  It arguably wasn&apos;t a naval engagement, since only one side had ships, but there was a rebellion at the naval island fortress of Kronstadt in 1921 in what would become the Soviet Union. &nbsp;It&apos;s now called Kotlin Island, and it&apos;s near St. Petersburg and Finland. <br><br>The island fortress was locked in ice, with two battleships (Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol) and a number of other warships present and unable to move. &nbsp;The timing of the rebellion was bad - had they waited a bit, the ice would have melted enough to make the fortress very difficult to attack. &nbsp;As it was, the ice was so thick it could be to be used as a bridge to reach the ships and the fortress.<br><br>Aircraft, artillery, and a ground assault over the ice ended the rebellion, capturing the ships. &nbsp;Some rebels escaped to Finland, things went badly for the others - and any foolish enough to return from Finland (despite promises of amnesty).

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• SM

  @SmithsMuseum · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfC2PfxUezE&amp;t=1860">31:00</a> the whole vibe of &quot;why did parents let their sons exit their domicile and not just stay home playing pokemon&quot; is a constant. Life was miserable in the past. You had to get tough fast, because hard times were coming, and there is damn all you can do about it if you can&apos;t make yourself useful. Not a &quot;cubicle at the office&quot; useful, a threshing wheat by hand level useful. <br><br>The sea was better than the mines.

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• SI

  @Sithdude78 · 1 year ago

  As another note to the personal memoirs is often people are going to be softer on friends and harsher on those they disliked. &nbsp; A friend&apos;s blunder may be called an honest mistake an enemies is an unforgivable error.

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• GA

  @garymiller7870 · 1 year ago

  As i listen to your excellent reviews of war time engagement I ponder how did these fleets find each other? How did they not run ground or impale themselves on rocks? And what navigation techniques and skills where applied to accomplish their battle objectives? In today&apos;s age of satellite navigation and thinking back at my own experience 45 years ago I am in awe as to the skills of these navigators that must be lost to the ages.

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• VI

  @vissitorsteve · 1 year ago

  I really appreciate the depth of your knowledge and presentation...Thank you!