What happens if Admiral Cochrane gets to have his nephew Thomas as his flag captain in the 1812 war as was planned. Do we see explosion and stink vessels,commando style raids and general carnage of the type he created on the Spanish coast all over the US coast
Would it have been better to build the Dare flinger class with just Centerline firing turrets? Or would that have made it to week? Apologies for the wrong spelling, autocorrect is messing with me.
In the "Worlds Worst Warships" walktrough you mentioned the Bismarck had various significant design flaws - do you plan to go trough them in detail in a future video?
00:10:09 Pretty sure the brits get this one, honestly, if only for HMS Dreadnought. There's a reason it's a generic word for "big warship" the world over, and it's not because it caused a revolution in battleship design. If the ship had been named something else like King George The Numpeenth we wouldn't be using "Pre-George" and "Post-George" to define every other battleship that ever existed. We'd call them 'Modern' and 'Pre-Modern' or something. But the ship was named "IT FEARS NOTHING" and the entire world went "That is the most appropriate name for a ship ever" and now most people have no idea that the word "dreadnought" was originally the name of a specific ship, they just know it as a word that means "big warship".
I never knew that I had any real interest in naval history till this channel was recommended. Now I am among those who look forward to the next video with great anticipation. Well done sir.
Same. This channel and the research about my grandpa who was in the Kriegsmarine got me super interested in naval history, an aspect of history that I never really looked into
@@darrellsmith4204 I beg to differ. They are useful as a perfect case study in "How NOT to Do Military Procurement". Sadly, it's an expensive lesson that no one will likely learn.
Drach I love your videos Especially when you mention The U.S.S Texas seeing that I have visited it several times and live within 20 minutes of it haha! And also that my Great Grand father Served on her! Much love keep it up. But don’t stress your self out dude with these 5 hour long Drydocks
@@77thTrombone it probably cut off a little time haha but it’s not to far away. And yes it’s surrounded by Oil refineries and other industries as well as being in the marshlands but it’s not as bad as you might think haha.
@@kpdubbs7117 Haven't watched SciFi since the lady who hated science fiction took over, took the sci fi off the channel, and replaced it with professional wrestling.
@57:30 Nationalities of the naval troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance during the Boxer Rebellion featured in this photo are from left to right: Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan. Missing is Russia.
A friend of mine happens to be retired career Canadian military; first as infantry in the Princess Pats, then air crew in 443 Squadron. He is also critical of the Clemson gift, but I remind him that the USN still had a lot of them in commission too, and they saw a lot of front line action, because that is what we had.
I'm sure that the Canadian Capt would feel much better being given something new and shiny......but the Clemson is what we had, both in reserve and active duty. The question really is why hadn't Canada built their own fleet of destroyers rather than have their Sovereign go begging to the US when the long brewing war broke out. The depression, which is the all too often heard excuse, didn't exactly have the US sitting on top of the world either. Given the speed of the convoys and that of submerged subs, the Clemson class was more than adequate for the job.
@@Halinspark I dunno I think Mogami wins the title of most unfriendly 'friendly' ship. She rammed two other Japanese cruisers plus an oiler, and (depending on which source you believe) sank 5 Japanese landing ships with a torpedo spread. Kamchatka's got nothing on that.
Thank you for drawing attention to the situation The Sullivans is in. I live not too far from Buffalo, so the ship is often in the news. There has been quite an outpouring of support, but there's still a long ways to go.
@@gregr5 Not a boomer, a Seawolf. With the special spy on things attachments. Technically it can take you to the cleaners though, so maybe laundry is on point.
When it comes to ship names "Sharnhorst and Gneisenau" have become two of my favorite. Given them being outnumbered or outgunned almost all the time and the names being used often as a set there's personality there, and tragedy given how things go for them.
I want to speak to the Manager, I have a complaint. All that Irn Bru sipping, I checked Amazon to see if it ships in the States. I split one with my 16 year old son and now he's gone and spirited away half of it. He wasn't a criminal before I started watching this channel.
I , myself have been to Buffalo, NY. It's a good city to visit. I seen the USS the Sullivans. It is a great ship. Definitely help the Sullivans and the naval park in any way you can.
I grew up there and have seen the ship many times if she goes over she very well could hit the Little Rock and damage the last Cleveland class hull in existence
Whoever From(??) was, and his contributions, Hedy Lamar would have been a much more attractive picture. Granted that her contributions were more of the sinky kind than architecture kind but still.
Yeah, I thought of her as well for that question; radar was a pretty sizeable technological jump in naval thinking, so she might not top the list, but should definitely be like Top 3 at least.
Drachnifel, I would actually say Isambad Kingdom Brunel for all of his work on advancing the understanding of metal properties and engineering large ships decades before anyone else.
If I may, I will add some historical background to the jack of the Russian Navy. It is a combination of a dark blue St. Andrew`s cross on a white background and a regular white cross on a red background. The dark blue cross dates back to Peter the Great who invented the first award ever in his country on November 30th 1698, named after the apostle and patron saint of Russia, and designed the first maritime flag as well, which was inspired by the Scottish variant (a white St. Andrew`s cross on a blue background). Tsar Paul I. from 1797 onwards often flew the white cross on the red background as a reference to the Knights of Malta, because the Russian Emperor held the title of Grand Master of this association. His successor, Alexander I., combined those layouts in 1801.
Best name? Warspite. I win as does the glorious and invincible force that agrees:-) Mind you, Invincible isn't too bad and one can find space for Derflinger and Enterprise in one's heart.
The question about ship names and Drach's response about Netherlands ship names, got me thinking about Denmark's ship names. Being a monarchy we know that naming ships after various kings and queens is popular. My thought about Denmark was how confusing it could be if all your ships are named King Christian (insert Roman numeral here) .
The X1 was a good commerce raiding submarine - for any one else than for the RN. The RN being the one party which did not have much use for them. In one of the book/booklet i have read discussing (at very surface level - "The Century of Submarines") the submarines all the way to the end of the WW II it is mentioned that the RN essentially tried to remove any notion of it ever existing so that no one else would try to replicate it.
Forgive me if has been covered before... But just WHY did Scheer turn back around when he got away the first time? What could he have been hoping to achieve?
wrt the New Yorks using VTE power, the Wiki entry gives a somewhat different answer to that question. The Floridas and Wyomings used Parsons turbines, from the UK. When the New Yorks were ordered, there was apparently pressure to "buy American", but the US turbine manufacturers could not meet the Navy's performance specifications, so the Navy reverted to VTE. Of the next class, Oklahoma still had VTE power, while Nevada used Curtis turbines, then the Pennsylvanias were a head to head comparison of Curtis and Parsons turbines. It is entirely possible that Parsons understood something about turbine efficiency that Curtis did not. There had been earlier head to head comparisons, where the USN would build one BB with VTE power, and it's sister with Curtis turbines and the Curtis powered ships were horribly inefficient. The range and coal capacity for the two classes is incomplete in the 1919 edition of Jane's and somewhat divergent in the Wiki entries, but there is some indication that the Parsons turbines were quite competitive with VTE. The 1919 edition of Jane's also reports an inability/unwillingness of US turbine manufacturers to meet USN specifications motivating the reversion to VTE.
@@mattosborne2935 It would be interesting to know if Drach has given any thought to the naval history (if any) of the Hunnic peoples who settled in Hungary in the 3rd century C.E.
One note about russian flags: There is some overlap between the "union jack-ish" jack of imperial russian navy and actual union jack in terms of origins. Namely, St. Andrew, is both the patron saint of Scotland and of Russia, so St. Andrew's cross appear prominently in both Scottish(and by extent British) and Russian symbolism. In fact the current main Russian naval ensign is an exact color reversal of the Scottish flag (blue st' Andrew's cross on white, instead of white on blue).
25:35 Wow! Thanks for answering my question. I would have guessed the pre WW1 years as higher than 1937, but 1908/09 as the runner up makes sense. Thanks for trying to look into the deep history when the numbers are not as solid. I do wonder how much the Elizabethans spent on the Royal Navy as a percent of GDP, but much like wondering how much the Athenians spent on fielding their navy at Salamis, that type of information is lost to history, if it was even known at all.
The idea of the cruiser submarine is fascinating to me. I know the Germans had about six of them in the first war. The former Deutschland being pretty successful.
A bit more about Norwegian ship names: Frigates (the ones we have now) are named for arctic explorers (scientifically cool) Coastal corvettes have fitting names for a >60 knot warship: Shield, Storm, Shot, Steep, Flash, Spark (cool) Mine sweepers are named for norwegian rivers, mine hunters are named for norwegian islands (not very cool) Submarines: Three of them are called the same as the first three norwegian submarines (british V-class), plus three more in the same convention (historical cool) Source: Dude, trust me (a.k.a. wikipedia)
Drachinifel, I have a question for the Drydock - - Q: You mentioned that Admiral Jackie Fisher took note of the danger of the Jeune Ecole' approach, and it inspired him to develop battle cruisers to counter the tactic, but "Did the Jeune Ecole' movement directly - - OR INDIRECTLY (?) - - inspire these naval developments in the 20th century: (a) aggressive destroyer actions (Bismarck, Samar), (b) submarine warfare, (c) s-boat, e-boat, PT boat, keitans, mini-sub attacks, etc., or was the Jeune Ecole' movement largely forgotten by WWI and only rediscovered accidentally many years later?
Hey, Drach. Awesome video as always. Dry dock question for you: How would USS Midway have faired had she been ready for war in June 1944 assuming she’s outfitted as she was in September 1945?
There's a pinned post for those questions, makes it easier for him to find it. I'd suggest putting your question there for a higher chance of it getting featured
What warship or warship class had the most radical refits without really changing what the ship was. So not counting carrier conversions, or to some sort of auxiliary ship.
I wonder what forms the defences the germans built to keep the royal navy way from supporting ground forces on the western front in the first world war. I hadn't thought much about that till this video.
It's too bad we don't have more records or examples of Veneti ship design. They seem like they were doing something very different compared to what the mediterranean world was up to and it would be neat to know more about the capabilities of the ship's, how they were used, and what their design lineage was like.
00:10:09 Norse mythology is pretty popular and well known in Japan, even amongst the elderly You have to remember the army was trained and based on the German army, a lot of the industry here was set up my Germans, look at how the Germans inturned in WW1 were treated, they formed a band and toured Japan! Imagine that in ww2 with an enemy nations sailors & soldiers.... So old German mythology is well known, there by Norse also. So Odin would sound cool and have that idolised culture extra points
I live in NJ, yea I really like the BB-62, always have. However I’m a huge fan of the Indefatigable, Indomitable, warrior, revenge names of my Island living brothers. I wasn’t aware of the Norse mythology names of the Scandinavians, they’re cool too. I don’t think any navy has a monopoly on cool names. They all have some cool names, and some not as cool.
What year, outside of during a major war, did the British spend the most as a percent of GDP on the Royal Navy? I would have thought the battleship race pre WWI, certainly it created a huge boom in armament production particularly in Scotland. But if you include things like the cost of the Singapore naval base maybe you are right about the pre WWII period.
I know you don't like Beatty but I feel it unfair blaming him for getting the range wrong at Jutland. He wasn't personally in the spotting top taking range readings, he probably ordered fire to be opened at a range the Germans couldn't respond to and his subordinates got it wrong. Nor did he personally hoist diganl flags, your video on Jutland shows it was Tiger's job to pass along signals to 5thBS and she didn't. As for the distance between 5thBS and the BCF, weren't both forces zigzagging as was standard practice in wartime? Both forces were moving away from each other at jsut the wrong time. A case of massive luck for the Germans, maybe 10 minutes later they would have been converging. I also feel you give Hipper and Scheer far too much praise. They both made massive blunders at Jutland, once Beatty drew out of range, WHY did they chase him??? The HSF couldn't catch him and Hipper didn't want the fast BB's of 1stSG tangling with the proper BB of 5thBS. And why did neither of these supposed genius' wonder why Beatty was heading North towards Norway and not NW toward Scapa?? The HSF ultimate escape was down to two (lucky for them) factors. The earlier mistake of the officer in getting information from Room40 and a very lucky catch of the GF's recognition signal. I feel both get far too much praise when a lot of their successes come down to both some skill and huge good luck. Good luck denied Beatty. But as someone once said, "We praise the losers so much because if they were supposed to be this good and we still beat them, we must be far better"
The problem with cruisers is that in WW2 outside of the USN no one built many during the war and even the US had only 85 total commissioned at some point during WW2 with most nations having far less Japan for example having just 40, which while more than Germany, Italy or France is far short of the US let alone how many carriers or destroyers. Compare that to WW1 where the RN had over double the amount of cruisers that the USN had in WW2.
The patron Saint of Russia is St Andrew, he was crucified on an X shaped cross hence the similarity of the X with the Scots Flag in the Union Flag alos for St Andrew.
Reeman..I mean Alexander Kent...wrote First to Land...about the Royal Marines in the Boxer Rebellion. Not sure how historically accurate but a good book. But in the next book the protagonist died at the hands of U-9.
How do you mean we Dutch named everything De Ruyter? I could only find like 6 ships named like that on Wikipedia. (Yeah the Dutch navy is small, we rarely go long without a De Ruyter, it is nice to remember when we were relevant)
On the subject of Ship Names, no offense to the British, but Royal Navy names are pretty lame for the most part. And I'm from a country where we use geography and people as a naming scheme.
There is a fairly convincing argument to be made that the "corvus" as a kind of "bridge" never existed, due to the fact that a) The romans were not very good at innovating such a thing since their seapower largely depended on the know-how of greek allies from southern Italy (who did not use such a thing), b) the weight would make a ship very top heavy and unwieldy, reducing overall effectiveness, and c) Our prime source for this is Polybious, who writes a considerable time after the first Punic wars were fought, so it is unlikely that he would have seen any actual roman warship of that era - and who was no sailor. Also, the Corvus apparently went out of use after the punic wars, and it seems unlikely that the Roman Navy should have dropped such an advantageous device if it really existed and was practical at all.
Pinned post for Q&A :)
Is there a difference between naval jack and ensign? I believe they are broadly classified under Insignia.
What happens if Admiral Cochrane gets to have his nephew Thomas as his flag captain in the 1812 war as was planned. Do we see explosion and stink vessels,commando style raids and general carnage of the type he created on the Spanish coast all over the US coast
Would it have been better to build the Dare flinger class with just Centerline firing turrets? Or would that have made it to week? Apologies for the wrong spelling, autocorrect is messing with me.
Why Nassau class couldn’t have turrets in the centreline but South Carolina class could, even though they both used a triple expansion engine?
In the "Worlds Worst Warships" walktrough you mentioned the Bismarck had various significant design flaws - do you plan to go trough them in detail in a future video?
00:10:09 Pretty sure the brits get this one, honestly, if only for HMS Dreadnought. There's a reason it's a generic word for "big warship" the world over, and it's not because it caused a revolution in battleship design. If the ship had been named something else like King George The Numpeenth we wouldn't be using "Pre-George" and "Post-George" to define every other battleship that ever existed. We'd call them 'Modern' and 'Pre-Modern' or something. But the ship was named "IT FEARS NOTHING" and the entire world went "That is the most appropriate name for a ship ever" and now most people have no idea that the word "dreadnought" was originally the name of a specific ship, they just know it as a word that means "big warship".
I never knew that I had any real interest in naval history till this channel was recommended. Now I am among those who look forward to the next video with great anticipation. Well done sir.
Same
Same. This channel and the research about my grandpa who was in the Kriegsmarine got me super interested in naval history, an aspect of history that I never really looked into
I was just looking for something relatively long to listen to while I work...
Drach, you should write a book about productivity!
“The Drach swarm”.
He can't hes too busy grinding out S tier videos for us lol
Ironically, he can't find time
I always wanted ships named Insipid, Innate, and Inconsequential- all of the Irrelevant Class destroyers.
Plus HMS Illegitimate & Irreverent.
A sub class that will be canceled
So...you want the Zumwalts renamed?
Don’t forget the Innocuous.
@@jamesstemba5075 The most useless ships ever..
@@darrellsmith4204 I beg to differ. They are useful as a perfect case study in "How NOT to Do Military Procurement". Sadly, it's an expensive lesson that no one will likely learn.
There should be a 2 hour documentary on William Froude, his work, and it's effects.
Back when I used my patreon priviliges to suggest topics I did regularly put his name up. Alas not popular enough.
Drach I love your videos Especially when you mention The U.S.S Texas seeing that I have visited it several times and live within 20 minutes of it haha! And also that my Great Grand father Served on her! Much love keep it up. But don’t stress your self out dude with these 5 hour long Drydocks
I got the impression that _Texas_ was berthed so far out in the marshlands that only shorebirds and mollusks lived within 20 minutes of it.
@@77thTrombone it probably cut off a little time haha but it’s not to far away. And yes it’s surrounded by Oil refineries and other industries as well as being in the marshlands but it’s not as bad as you might think haha.
Ten hours plus of Drach this week. I love it!
The first week of the month is Drach week from now on!
Careful what you say or SYFY is going to counter with Drachnado.
@@kpdubbs7117 Haven't watched SciFi since the lady who hated science fiction took over, took the sci fi off the channel, and replaced it with professional wrestling.
@57:30
Nationalities of the naval troops from the Eight-Nation Alliance during the Boxer Rebellion featured in this photo are from left to right:
Britain, United States, Australia, India,
Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.
Missing is Russia.
I love how the british soldier is standing closer to the camera and wearing a pith helmet to appear taller
Yay wednesday special on cruiser submarines joyful surcouf noises...
A Royal Canadian Navy Captain said" The Clemson Class were the most dubious present since the Wooden Horse of Troy.
A friend of mine happens to be retired career Canadian military; first as infantry in the Princess Pats, then air crew in 443 Squadron. He is also critical of the Clemson gift, but I remind him that the USN still had a lot of them in commission too, and they saw a lot of front line action, because that is what we had.
I'm sure that the Canadian Capt would feel much better being given something new and shiny......but the Clemson is what we had, both in reserve and active duty. The question really is why hadn't Canada built their own fleet of destroyers rather than have their Sovereign go begging to the US when the long brewing war broke out. The depression, which is the all too often heard excuse, didn't exactly have the US sitting on top of the world either. Given the speed of the convoys and that of submerged subs, the Clemson class was more than adequate for the job.
"War Stories with Mark Felton" has a great series on the Boxer Rebellion (and the opium wars.
Who cares about a ship named "Thor", "Tiger" or "Odin"?
The most terrifying name of them all is "Penguin".
Unless it's on your side. Then it's "Kamchatka".
@@Halinspark I dunno I think Mogami wins the title of most unfriendly 'friendly' ship. She rammed two other Japanese cruisers plus an oiler, and (depending on which source you believe) sank 5 Japanese landing ships with a torpedo spread. Kamchatka's got nothing on that.
@@insignificantgnat9334 That's even worse than almost torpedoing your own president!
Thank you for drawing attention to the situation The Sullivans is in. I live not too far from Buffalo, so the ship is often in the news. There has been quite an outpouring of support, but there's still a long ways to go.
As always, I'm in awe of your work. You are an inspiration!
Wow a Drydock UNDER 2 hours
Under 2 hours, these are the times that try men's souls.
2-4 hour drydock it feels like my birthday, 4+hours feels like Christmas morning. 🎅
Ship names??
Pilot: “We’re heading to the USS Jimmy Carter.”
Homer: “Is that an aircraft carrier?”
Pilot: “No sir, it’s a laundry vessel!”
It's actually a nuclear submarine. I think it's a boomer. You probably don't want to piss that one off.
@@gregr5 Not a boomer, a Seawolf. With the special spy on things attachments. Technically it can take you to the cleaners though, so maybe laundry is on point.
The ship in that joke was the Walter F. Mondale.
A great kipper-smoking design, HMS Colossus!
With lookouts filling in for the kippers when up on the mast.
Always a great sight to see early in the morning
When it comes to ship names "Sharnhorst and Gneisenau" have become two of my favorite.
Given them being outnumbered or outgunned almost all the time and the names being used often as a set there's personality there, and tragedy given how things go for them.
The Icelandic coast guard aslo uses the names of gods from scandinavian mythology. Týr, Ægir, Þór og Óðinn.
dont forget the ICGV Baldur
I want to speak to the Manager, I have a complaint. All that Irn Bru sipping, I checked Amazon to see if it ships in the States. I split one with my 16 year old son and now he's gone and spirited away half of it. He wasn't a criminal before I started watching this channel.
Interaction for the 1’s and 0’s calculations machine
Thank you, Drachinifel.
I , myself have been to Buffalo, NY. It's a good city to visit. I seen the USS the Sullivans. It is a great ship. Definitely help the Sullivans and the naval park in any way you can.
I grew up there and have seen the ship many times if she goes over she very well could hit the Little Rock and damage the last Cleveland class hull in existence
Finally caught up, i was in US Navy boot camp for 2 1/2 months and its 3 weeks into a school before i caught up on the dry dock
Last time I was this early, she was yelling from the bedroom to 'get back and finish what I'd started'.
More than one dry dock that day.
Whoever From(??) was, and his contributions, Hedy Lamar would have been a much more attractive picture. Granted that her contributions were more of the sinky kind than architecture kind but still.
Yeah, I thought of her as well for that question; radar was a pretty sizeable technological jump in naval thinking, so she might not top the list, but should definitely be like Top 3 at least.
Drachnifel, I would actually say Isambad Kingdom Brunel for all of his work on advancing the understanding of metal properties and engineering large ships decades before anyone else.
1:00 Naval infantry, Marines etc. are troops its easiest for Navies to get hold of, since they are already aboard ships.
Thunderbolts and Lightning very very frightening
If I may, I will add some historical background to the jack of the Russian Navy. It is a combination of a dark blue St. Andrew`s cross on a white background and a regular white cross on a red background.
The dark blue cross dates back to Peter the Great who invented the first award ever in his country on November 30th 1698, named after the apostle and patron saint of Russia, and designed the first maritime flag as well, which was inspired by the Scottish variant (a white St. Andrew`s cross on a blue background).
Tsar Paul I. from 1797 onwards often flew the white cross on the red background as a reference to the Knights of Malta, because the Russian Emperor held the title of Grand Master of this association. His successor, Alexander I., combined those layouts in 1801.
Best name? Warspite.
I win as does the glorious and invincible force that agrees:-)
Mind you, Invincible isn't too bad and one can find space for Derflinger and Enterprise in one's heart.
HMS Speedy...read her history.
Agamemnon tooo
You have to love Derfflinger's nickname: "The Iron Dog."
15:30 The Russian Naval ensign has distinct differences at the intersection of the crosses. Almost as if the wrong cross is on top.
Can you please do a five minute video on the sub M1, the 12 inch gun one? I've always been interested in it
The question about ship names and Drach's response about Netherlands ship names, got me thinking about Denmark's ship names. Being a monarchy we know that naming ships after various kings and queens is popular. My thought about Denmark was how confusing it could be if all your ships are named King Christian (insert Roman numeral here) .
The X1 was a good commerce raiding submarine - for any one else than for the RN. The RN being the one party which did not have much use for them. In one of the book/booklet i have read discussing (at very surface level - "The Century of Submarines") the submarines all the way to the end of the WW II it is mentioned that the RN essentially tried to remove any notion of it ever existing so that no one else would try to replicate it.
Forgive me if has been covered before...
But just WHY did Scheer turn back around when he got away the first time?
What could he have been hoping to achieve?
Was discussed in the Jutland videos. Multiple explanations over the years
@@hughfisher9820 ah I never saw that he made Hutland videos. I’ll check them out, thanks
wrt the New Yorks using VTE power, the Wiki entry gives a somewhat different answer to that question. The Floridas and Wyomings used Parsons turbines, from the UK. When the New Yorks were ordered, there was apparently pressure to "buy American", but the US turbine manufacturers could not meet the Navy's performance specifications, so the Navy reverted to VTE. Of the next class, Oklahoma still had VTE power, while Nevada used Curtis turbines, then the Pennsylvanias were a head to head comparison of Curtis and Parsons turbines. It is entirely possible that Parsons understood something about turbine efficiency that Curtis did not. There had been earlier head to head comparisons, where the USN would build one BB with VTE power, and it's sister with Curtis turbines and the Curtis powered ships were horribly inefficient. The range and coal capacity for the two classes is incomplete in the 1919 edition of Jane's and somewhat divergent in the Wiki entries, but there is some indication that the Parsons turbines were quite competitive with VTE. The 1919 edition of Jane's also reports an inability/unwillingness of US turbine manufacturers to meet USN specifications motivating the reversion to VTE.
RE: ship names, Szent Istvan was the best ship name in the history of the Hungarian navy
You just want to make Drac try to say that, don't you? :D
@@antonymitchell3385 maybe he'll just give up and call it "the Austro-Hingarian battleship Saint Stephen".
@@antonymitchell3385 I was just cracking wise that Hungary had a navy LOL
@@mattosborne2935 Where were they based? Trieste?
@@mattosborne2935 It would be interesting to know if Drach has given any thought to the naval history (if any) of the Hunnic peoples who settled in Hungary in the 3rd century C.E.
One note about russian flags: There is some overlap between the "union jack-ish" jack of imperial russian navy and actual union jack in terms of origins. Namely, St. Andrew, is both the patron saint of Scotland and of Russia, so St. Andrew's cross appear prominently in both Scottish(and by extent British) and Russian symbolism. In fact the current main Russian naval ensign is an exact color reversal of the Scottish flag (blue st' Andrew's cross on white, instead of white on blue).
25:35 Wow! Thanks for answering my question. I would have guessed the pre WW1 years as higher than 1937, but 1908/09 as the runner up makes sense.
Thanks for trying to look into the deep history when the numbers are not as solid. I do wonder how much the Elizabethans spent on the Royal Navy as a percent of GDP, but much like wondering how much the Athenians spent on fielding their navy at Salamis, that type of information is lost to history, if it was even known at all.
Another consideration for the Austro-Hungarian navy would surely be sea time and crew readiness?
Isn't there the case too the wing turrets become too difficult to support weight wise once you get past 12 inch guns?
The idea of the cruiser submarine is fascinating to me. I know the Germans had about six of them in the first war. The former Deutschland being pretty successful.
A bit more about Norwegian ship names:
Frigates (the ones we have now) are named for arctic explorers (scientifically cool)
Coastal corvettes have fitting names for a >60 knot warship: Shield, Storm, Shot, Steep, Flash, Spark (cool)
Mine sweepers are named for norwegian rivers, mine hunters are named for norwegian islands (not very cool)
Submarines: Three of them are called the same as the first three norwegian submarines (british V-class), plus three more in the same convention (historical cool)
Source: Dude, trust me (a.k.a. wikipedia)
Only an hour long? What am I suppose to just play it on repeat? 😄
Drachinifel, I have a question for the Drydock - - Q: You mentioned that Admiral Jackie Fisher took note of the danger of the Jeune Ecole' approach, and it inspired him to develop battle cruisers to counter the tactic, but "Did the Jeune Ecole' movement directly - - OR INDIRECTLY (?) - - inspire these naval developments in the 20th century: (a) aggressive destroyer actions (Bismarck, Samar), (b) submarine warfare, (c) s-boat, e-boat, PT boat, keitans, mini-sub attacks, etc., or was the Jeune Ecole' movement largely forgotten by WWI and only rediscovered accidentally many years later?
p.s. Your saga of the 2nd Pacific Squadron has become a hit in the unlikeliest of brainiac circles!
43:29 - Don';t forget the minefields
What’s the song at the beginning? Is there a full version?
Hey, Drach. Awesome video as always. Dry dock question for you: How would USS Midway have faired had she been ready for war in June 1944 assuming she’s outfitted as she was in September 1945?
There's a pinned post for those questions, makes it easier for him to find it. I'd suggest putting your question there for a higher chance of it getting featured
What warship or warship class had the most radical refits without really changing what the ship was. So not counting carrier conversions, or to some sort of auxiliary ship.
I wonder what forms the defences the germans built to keep the royal navy way from supporting ground forces on the western front in the first world war. I hadn't thought much about that till this video.
Why is it in both black and white and coloured pictures/videos smoke from coal/oil fired ships isnt always shown when at a decent speed or momentum?
i agree with the Polish and Norwegian ship naming convention as being best
Thank you.
just watching as i have a cup of tea
Can you do a vid on how minesweepers worked in WWI and WWII?
Thx
It's too bad we don't have more records or examples of Veneti ship design. They seem like they were doing something very different compared to what the mediterranean world was up to and it would be neat to know more about the capabilities of the ship's, how they were used, and what their design lineage was like.
Why did the Chicago Piano become obsolete?
@57:13 Can anyone help identify from left to right the nations these soldiers represent?
PS great by the way.
00:10:09 Norse mythology is pretty popular and well known in Japan, even amongst the elderly
You have to remember the army was trained and based on the German army, a lot of the industry here was set up my Germans, look at how the Germans inturned in WW1 were treated, they formed a band and toured Japan! Imagine that in ww2 with an enemy nations sailors & soldiers....
So old German mythology is well known, there by Norse also.
So Odin would sound cool and have that idolised culture extra points
Yikes, already over 200k subs, congrats
Please tell us what the intro music is?
Hurrah for Sunday!
If I remember aright, the Australian Tribal was "Aranda" - same tribe, but the P C transliteration changed - the ANZAC frigate is Arunta
I live in NJ, yea I really like the BB-62, always have. However I’m a huge fan of the Indefatigable, Indomitable, warrior, revenge names of my Island living brothers. I wasn’t aware of the Norse mythology names of the Scandinavians, they’re cool too. I don’t think any navy has a monopoly on cool names. They all have some cool names, and some not as cool.
And then we (the Germans) call one of our ships Pinguin... 🤣
@@adenkyramud5005 no one expects a ship named Pinguin to attack them!
@@adenkyramud5005 Noot noot?
Simply put, the Poles named their ships as if they were heavy metal albums instead.
What year, outside of during a major war, did the British spend the most as a percent of GDP on the Royal Navy?
I would have thought the battleship race pre WWI, certainly it created a huge boom in armament production particularly in Scotland. But if you include things like the cost of the Singapore naval base maybe you are right about the pre WWII period.
0-Dark-30. Boil the breakfast! Coffee's on!
As far as DD names go Poland has Grom and Blyskawica and Japanese have Ikazuichi and Inazuma so i guess they should also get a praise for that
Yes, given the photo Drach used too ilustrate this particular question I would say he agrees with you :D
I know you don't like Beatty but I feel it unfair blaming him for getting the range wrong at Jutland. He wasn't personally in the spotting top taking range readings, he probably ordered fire to be opened at a range the Germans couldn't respond to and his subordinates got it wrong. Nor did he personally hoist diganl flags, your video on Jutland shows it was Tiger's job to pass along signals to 5thBS and she didn't. As for the distance between 5thBS and the BCF, weren't both forces zigzagging as was standard practice in wartime? Both forces were moving away from each other at jsut the wrong time. A case of massive luck for the Germans, maybe 10 minutes later they would have been converging.
I also feel you give Hipper and Scheer far too much praise. They both made massive blunders at Jutland, once Beatty drew out of range, WHY did they chase him??? The HSF couldn't catch him and Hipper didn't want the fast BB's of 1stSG tangling with the proper BB of 5thBS. And why did neither of these supposed genius' wonder why Beatty was heading North towards Norway and not NW toward Scapa??
The HSF ultimate escape was down to two (lucky for them) factors. The earlier mistake of the officer in getting information from Room40 and a very lucky catch of the GF's recognition signal.
I feel both get far too much praise when a lot of their successes come down to both some skill and huge good luck. Good luck denied Beatty.
But as someone once said, "We praise the losers so much because if they were supposed to be this good and we still beat them, we must be far better"
The problem with cruisers is that in WW2 outside of the USN no one built many during the war and even the US had only 85 total commissioned at some point during WW2 with most nations having far less Japan for example having just 40, which while more than Germany, Italy or France is far short of the US let alone how many carriers or destroyers. Compare that to WW1 where the RN had over double the amount of cruisers that the USN had in WW2.
Can you do an episode on the Union Blockade of the Confederacy
You can set your watch to it...
34.17 Destroyers for Bases destroyers useful
The patron Saint of Russia is St Andrew, he was crucified on an X shaped cross hence the similarity of the X with the Scots Flag in the Union Flag alos for St Andrew.
What did you do during COVID? I became current on the Drydock
Reeman..I mean Alexander Kent...wrote First to Land...about the Royal Marines in the Boxer Rebellion. Not sure how historically accurate but a good book. But in the next book the protagonist died at the hands of U-9.
ORP grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz Would be a great ship name
Talk about the Canadian navy.
How do you mean we Dutch named everything De Ruyter? I could only find like 6 ships named like that on Wikipedia. (Yeah the Dutch navy is small, we rarely go long without a De Ruyter, it is nice to remember when we were relevant)
The way he treated the British they should name a class after him
Coolest name ever: HMS Manligheten
Translated to English: manhood/masculinity
No 5-hr marathon this week? Awwww. 😜 Good job last time!
I will name my battleships whatever I need to name them to get the Reichstag to buy them
-Tirpitz, more or less.
"Fish don't vote!" --Rickover's justification for naming submarines after cities.
I think you forgot the link to the Sullivans in the description....
Shortest drydock in a while. Hope you are able to rest your voice a bit!
Check the time stamp for the chanel admin
Oh noo episode 13 6 6k views and 6 hours too gooo!
1 good name from a country not good woth ship names: HMS Hajen - HMS Shark. It was Swedens first submarine, launched in 1904.
What you's didn't call it Carl Gustav ? Colour me shocked
@@mathewkelly9968 probably because Carl Gustaf was more land based weapons.
I just put $50 towards the USS Sullivan.
Aussie Tribals; Arunta, Warramunga, (Aboriginal tribes) & Bataan (yuk).
Australia wasn't a "free" navy
And vampire , vendetta , swan and waterhen where our best , the infamous "scrap iron flotilla"
On the subject of Ship Names, no offense to the British, but Royal Navy names are pretty lame for the most part. And I'm from a country where we use geography and people as a naming scheme.
Free Nations navies warship names. The Poles should have a ship named Winged Hussar
Why not have the poles navy be called the winged hussars entirely so they can arrive in the nick of time and save the day?
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Vien would work pretty good too.
Awesome
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AKA the "Hell on Hooves"
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Only if they have ships dressed in the appropriate armor, helms and the masts looking like wings.
I'm in the first hour Yay!!
For the algorithm
wow,, i’m so early n i don’t have a witty comment
JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS SPOTTED!
@@FortuneZer0 😉
Why you never be doing storys about the Black Africa Navys. My prof be sayin that they be the ones doing all the work for the White euro navys
Um they didn't have navies.....
14:10 - Or unless that Japanese person plays a lot of Final Fantasy. ^_^
De Ruyter pronounced "De Rowter".
There is a fairly convincing argument to be made that the "corvus" as a kind of "bridge" never existed, due to the fact that a) The romans were not very good at innovating such a thing since their seapower largely depended on the know-how of greek allies from southern Italy (who did not use such a thing), b) the weight would make a ship very top heavy and unwieldy, reducing overall effectiveness, and c) Our prime source for this is Polybious, who writes a considerable time after the first Punic wars were fought, so it is unlikely that he would have seen any actual roman warship of that era - and who was no sailor. Also, the Corvus apparently went out of use after the punic wars, and it seems unlikely that the Roman Navy should have dropped such an advantageous device if it really existed and was practical at all.
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