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Captain Walker was, at the time, the latest in a very long and magnificent line of Royal Navy sailors protecting British interests, British traditions and British democracy. He deserved many more medals than he was ever awarded, and sadly died too early in the service of his country.

Great Content yet again !!! Very appreciated. Watching Drach' videos is always a "Sanity break" in this crazed world. Best Regards from Alaska!

glowworm looked a lot like Yubari class light cruiser, except Yubari was on steroids.

Drach during the channels time coverage how big of a ship could they raise off the bottom intact( in a condition that would possibly allow it to return to service!) and how deep could it have been?

Japan: Hey, These Gojira thing is attacking us. We need help US: Can’t Godzilla is not a communist. Japan: Then How about give us IJN Warships Back British: It will be costly tho Japan: We’ll pay. British: Fine. Japan: Bad News this creature can Regen. US: I don’t care. These things are NOT COMMIE Japan: Do you want to have Fallout Series so badly? US: It would be cool, someone will definitely make a Video Games out of that.

Yama toe or Ya ma toe. British phonetics.

Great story told by a great storyteller. Waiting for Ep3.

Great video Drach. How about the LST?

Why did you choose HMS Splendid to be the ship of the sailor in the channel art? To which vessel bearing that name does he belong?

A few years ago, a guy brought his WW-II LVT-4 to an equipment show, and was giving rides in a large lake at the bottom of a hill. I was on top of the hill, about 1/4 mile away, and was disturbed to realize how easily I could keep my telephoto trained on the LVT, even after I zoomed in tight. Sitting ducks.

36:21 - five hundred thousand yards of melee distance, those damn bronze cannons could be installed on carriers instead of airplanes :D I know, I know, but got me by surprise :D

According to the US Navy the Iowa was a battleship. So thats all I need to know. You Brits can call the Hood whatever you want. I call the Hood a tragic loss.

Regarding "Sold for Scrap." The reason why they need to be turned into scrap is the explicit understanding that anything nasty aboard, like asbestos, leaded paint, PCBs, etc., would have to be mitigated and properly disposed of during the scrapping process. Yes, buying a ship that's listed for scrap for conversion into some other use does sound nice; however, the cost of remediation, which numerous local, national, and international treaties cover, would make the process very very very expensive. Hence, the price paid for scrapping also bundles the cost of the remediation. Granted if I wanted to score a warship or auxiliary craft for personal use, I would follow client states who purchased vessels from the US, England, or Russia that hit their end of life limit. If I recall, several landing ships of WWII vintage were purchased from these client states for conversion into museums.

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And people wonder why the T.V license is dead when we have quality like this

I can't speak to the quality of modern RN fire control but the US Navy found that the Iowas WWII fire control was more accurate than the then current digital systems so it is quite possible Belgrano's fire control was more accurate as long as her as ain radar was intact.

I miss seeing the Missouri on a regular basis in Bremerton. The tour was disappointing.

3:08:00 Got through this video quite late - but while the Vampire you mentioned as making the first jet aircraft carrier landing in Dec '45, there was the weird hybrid jet/piston Ryan FR Fireball operating off carriers earlier. If wiki can be trusted it began carrier suitability tests aboard USS Charger (CVE-30) in Jan '45, and the first squadron started getting planes in March. However even the Fireball never saw combat (and FWIW it's landing were apparently normally done only using its piston engine - so, while it might have been an earlier aircraft with a jet to operate off a carrier, the Vampire would still own the first jet powered carrier landing)

"They found an unexploded depth charge sitting on the deck." I beg your f&cking pardon?

Drach, during one of your visits to the Philadelphia area, maybe you could shoot some video and do a series on the campaign to seize Philadelphia and secure control of the river during the American War for Independence? The Royal Navy vs. The Pennsylvania Navy and the system of forts and barriers.

Thank you, keep working.

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

At 9:45, the equipment is called an engine order telegraph. It was a mechanical two-way communication system. The brass arrow indicator you (and many others before you) pulled on thinking it should agree with the main lever was not supposed to tell you what speed you had ordered up from engineering - that was indicated by the black bit attached to the handle you were moving. The brass arrow indicated the speed engineering was currently providing and it would be moved by someone down in engineering using the opposite engine order telegraph once the required controls on the boilers had been adjusted to give the speed now requested. Don't worry, we have a few newer ships available and probably wont need Olympia to defend our shores anytime soon! I couldn't believe it when you did it again at 36:10. I was screaming "NO!" because you were forcing linkages in a museum piece in directions contrary to their design. The brass arrow you struggled with was the indicator that the levers topside would move to tell the engineers what speed to set (notice how close it was to the steam throttles). Then the engineer would grab the brass wheel to move the small brass indicators topside to let the bridge know they'd answered the new speed request.

TechMology. Is it good or is it whack?

Why did the Higgs-Boson join the Navy? He wanted to pilot a Higgins boat, where generating mass makes waves!

Regarding Ft Drum, Japanese Vals were unable to carry the modified 800-kg shells as you posit. They simply cannot lift them.

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

The second USS LANGLEY was commissioned in 1943, my father served on her till war’s end.

Imagine Voltaire getting a battleship named after him. It would be like christening a new Zumwalt the USS Hunter S. Thompson

Did the Titanic watertight compartments not have watertight tops?

I couldn't help but laugh as I heard your voice through that dogwater mic compared to the one you have now.

Regarding creating a ship simply for delivering ordinance: the US Navy publically indicates that conventional 16 inch shells weighed between 1900 and 2700 pounds for an IOWA class like USS NEW JERSEY. And that’s a good starting point- when i talk to guests (and as a restoration volunteer, not a tour guide) the mission of the ship is to 1) have large caliber guns for a fight 2) provide armor to protect these high value targets and 3) engineering support to get the guns to the fight. I like to say that crew accommodation comes at a much lower priority…like 10th or 12th. But when one adds all the responsibilities and requirements you’re not taking a 50k+ ton IOWA and there’s not magic to shrink down and create a 20-25k ton guns only ship.

57:00 I posit that another contributing factor is that USN ships tended to have more electronic sensors than other navies - multiple radio systems, air / surface / fire control radars for main and secondary guns, radars for AA directors - some ships had a radar for _every_ fire control director on the ship). The RN may have been a close second, but no other WW2 navy had such a wealth of sensors. Each of these sensors needs its own crew, and the aggregate demand on ship power requires a greater generating capacity, which requires its own crew …

I'm really enjoying this series! Most excellent! Thank you very much!

Got a tour of bethlehem steel in the 70s ,was amazed at the huge lath the length of the building, I suspect was involved in gunsmithing

The only addition I would have to Drax modifications would be adding an additional screw

54:00 Callaghan received his MoH because he was the commanding admiral during a battle in which the USN, against *_steep_* odds, stopped the IJN mission against Henderson and crippled an enemy capital warship. Regardless whether his presence, actions and orders led directly to the result, *not* awarding him the MoH would have been as significant a signal of “yes they commanded during a great and historic thing but …” as not elevating Beatty to command of the Grand Fleet succeeding Jellicoe.

This was good! Thank you very much!

I love this series. Can’t wait for the next episode. Always a treat to find characters that helped shaped the course of history.

Pretty boats , .....im thinking of buying a sail boat , and putting a small engine on it....what is the most efficient ship. -0- $ail ?

This video is very interesting and informative. It held my attention for the whole video. This man’s relative kept excellent journals. He wrote important history of the pre war, WW2 pertaining to the USA’s Military. These documents are a national treasure that should be copied and stored in the USA national archives. It is a shame that most people aren’t interested in the History of the USA. This is how History repeats itself. P.S. my wife’s father’s Ship was supposed to be in dry dock when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The ship that was where my wife’s father’s ship was supposed to be. Almost every sailor was killed or injured. My wife’s father was on the opposite side of Oahu. When Pearl Harbor was attacked. His ship only found out what happened. Later in the day on December 7,1941

Halsey had quite the talent for fucking things up royally while just barely skirting catastrophe. I’m still not convinced he wasn’t an IJN plant

Always amazed their design plan for a troop landing ship was : - no armor against machineguns - sides not high enough to provide any protection against getting fired at from tall bunkers - door opens to the front so enemy machineguns/mountain guns/etc have an easier time getting combo kills - 12 knot speed for maximum exposure time to danger

Between the extra big guns, the speed advantage, and the thick and more modern armor, it seems like they were trying to build the protected cruiser version of USS Constitution and her sisters.

Did any of the Ord Board personnel get reprimanded or demoted or court martialed for THEIR incompetence? I suppose they got promotions instead.

Interesting link with details to USS Salem Main guns. ua-cam.com/video/d6a-2P1fvMQ/v-deo.htmlsi=BM3tk5gKVQfZKAGn

1:59 its great to see the soldier on the right going into battle carrying a lightsaber 😁

You have a great narrative talent and I look forward to the next Johnnie Walker episode. Many thanks for your work on this.

It has been suggested that Titanic also grounded on the iceberg and as a result the double bottom was damaged.

Great video. I was shocked how much I was moved by the end ceremony.