The Drydock - Episode 088
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2020
- 00:00:45 - Had Germany managed to put significant numbers of Type XXI U-boats into service in the beginning of 1944, do you think it could have any significant effect on the timing of D-Day or the end of the war?
00:05:41 - Improve the High Seas Fleet's outcomes
00:12:02 - Did the Royal Navy in WW2 ever have fuel issues that limited its ability to deploy warships due to the U-Boat effort in the Atlantic?
00:15:06 - For steam turbine powered warships, is there a reliable, or usually good enough, way to predict the cruising speed from the engine power and maximum speed? And what sort of different is there in fuel consumption between the two?
00:23:02 - Jutland on film?
00:26:02 - In order to ensure safe passage of submarines over the years what type of systems were employed?
00:29:31 - What are the fundamentals for a well designed ship?
00:39:56 - What if the Japanese surprise attack on pearl harbor accidentally found the American carriers on their way to attack the harbor, assume the American carriers are in the flight path due to random chance.
00:43:17 - What would the penetration values on a 16/ 56 caliber look like?
00:50:33 - In which WWI era navy was every day life best and worst for a sailor, not taking into account the chance of getting killed in action?
00:55:05 - If I were planning a trip to the UK, which are the must-see museums for militaria that one must visit?
01:00:49 - INTERLUDE
01:01:13 - What were the offshore repair capabilities of the combatants during WW II?
01:05:09 - Is there some "WWI battleship fire control system operator's manual" available online/on paper?
01:07:15 - Some time ago, you have mentioned that you are working on video on possible causes of the Hood's demise. Any progress on that?
01:09:12 - Your opinion on the movie Midway and as many of your criticisms as your blood pressure can handle.
01:10:16 - What if the purges of the French Navy in the late 1700's hadn't happened?
01:16:35 - How common and successful were land based torpedo launchers?
01:20:24 - What were IJN and USN relationships like before 1940?
01:28:11 - If the actual causes of the destruction of the battlecruisers at Jutland was better known (say Beatty / Chatfield had been courtmartialed), does Hood still explode?
01:31:27 - How useful would a modernised Vanguard be in the Falklands War?
01:39:14 - Lion vs Iowa and other questions
01:50:48 - Battleships making a comeback?
02:01:45 - INTERLUDE
02:02:34 - Mission Kill a ship or Actually Kill a ship?
02:08:23 - Alternate Kirishima Final Battle
02:13:40 - Moving wrecks / Starshells / Sirens
02:21:57 - What would be the first battleship or battlecruiser built or refitted that would be a favorite in a duel against the 1945 USS Alaska?
02:35:41 - Is the war in Europe a prerequisite for the Japanese attacking the Americans and the European powers in the Pacific?
02:41:06 - Hospital Ships
02:48:56 - What if the the Pearl Harbour fuel tanks were destroyed?
02:59:00 - Bath Built is Best? / Hawke-Olympic collision?
03:03:16 - INTERLUDE
03:03:47 - HMS Canopus and the Battle of Coronel
03:10:44 - Why did the Russians keep building the Andrei Pervozvanny-class?
03:14:57 - Breech blocks on pre-dreadnoughts
03:19:06 - What was the first true ocean going US ironclad and how did it compare with the contemporary Royal Navy designs of the same time?
03:28:51 - Fort Drum vs the IJN?
03:40:16 - Lend-Lease Deal
03:46:33 - Ice Cream Barge and Floating Kitchens?
03:49:13 - What are your thoughts on the upcoming movie “Greyhound”?
03:53:43 - Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte VS any Battleship
03:57:25 - 'Brittania's Fist' Trilogy
04:09:15 - INTERLUDE
04:09:32 - WW2 Torpedo Fire Control for Submarines?
04:18:31 - Operation Ten-Go battleship duel?
04:24:19 - Admiralk King, USN
04:34:15 - What effects would WW2-era aircraft carriers have if they were somehow present at the Battle of Jutland on either sides?
04:42:11 - Naval fiction?
04:45:54 - What's the deal with airline food?
04:47:01 - Top ships in various catagories
04:53:58 - Torpedo Rooms and securing the ship against their flooding
04:58:24 - US and RN carrier formations in WW2
05:06:47 - IJN Naval Light AA Guns
05:12:39 - Were pre-dreadnoughts still viable battle units up to and during WW1?
05:18:19 - How did postal service in WW2 for sailor's at sea work?
05:22:34 - Channel Admin
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Drachinifel Will you do videos on pre dreadnought warships like the Kotetsu for example
5 hours!? my question is, will next month's be 7?
Could you talk about the worst ship pandemics?
My Grandfather is a U.S Navy veteran who served aboard the USS Galveston (CLG 3) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He is turning 80 this year and I want to do something special for his birthday.
I know he watches your videos so could you, during a drydock episode, give a quick run through of the USS Galveston including its: specifications, history, and how it was converted into a guided missile cruiser.
(My Grandfather’s name is Al by the way.)
You have replaced jellico just as the first battlecrusers are being designed, given their weaknesses, but still needing to fill their role as designed what do you build instead? It still needs to be able to hunt cruisers, but also not be such a tempting liability in fleet a actions
I hereby christen this legendary episode "The Leviathan".
Drachen unleashed?
I was like is 5 hrs a typo?
Girthy, long, goes deep...
'We're going to need a bigger teapot.'
5hrs of drydock, I must be in heaven
5hr Drydock episodes may be the #1 reason humanity deserves to live..
If I knew all it took to get a 5h drydock was a global pandemic, I would have started one years ago.
@@LazyTestudines I am with you brother, I wish I'd thought of this weeks ago
yeah , but honestly i would reffer it in 5 one hour parts :)
You’ve actually exceeded the entirety of the length of Trafalgar!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you do it you LEGEND
It's recorded over days - the tar keeps changing its top
Or is that the mushrooms?
Well yea, I wonder if Drach would have ended up sniping himself from the Redoutable’s mizzen if he tried it in one go, but as a collective piece the dedication is seriously impressive!!
Wait, whaaat? that seems far too short. Not saying you are incorrect, just that its mindblown to realise how quickly Trafalgar ended.
Satori sama yep, just before midday to about 4:30 in the afternoon! (Excluding the time it took to actually get into range!!!!)
3:22:02 Oh no! Drach's human disguise is falling apart..
had to scroll down the comments to see if it was only me that heard this! Demon Drach has arrived! HE WILL SUMMON THE KAMCHATKA TO HAUNT US ALL!
someone needs to replace his batteries
@@teddyboragina6437 quick, call the mine and plug him in.
@@Fretti90 hide your binoculars
@@diltzm Got a case full of them, just in case ;)
Wow !!!!! What a marathon of a DryDock. Drach took the saying "England expects every man will do his duty" to the maximum extent.
Fantastic video as always Drach.
You sir are one of the best channels on RUclips.
That rear gunner bit had me in tears....that was fantastic.
I've now got the mental image of Drach blasting away at bandits with 4 .303 machine guns as the truck steers wildly across the road.
The Exocet missile of the time had a warhead of around 350lbs, Vanguard could have taken several of those to her belt and been ok. Western ASMs tend to be smaller and lighter then Soviet, Russian, Chinese examples.
And if Vanguard had made it to the Falklands war, she could have survived to the Gulf war. Now imagine that glorious sight, the 4 Iowa's and Vanguard sailing together. One last glorious ride for the battleship.
Marathon? This is to RUclips what test match Cricket is to sport.
Timestamp for that bit about the rear gunner?
@@ebbelille starting at 55:35 sir ...enjoy.....its amazing.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Western ASMs were designed to kill ships up to destroyer/light cruiser size, which were the bulk of the soviet navy and it's clients. If you want something that can hurt something like Valiant, you have to "go soviet", _their_ missiles were designed to kill carriers.
@@jlvfr Western ASMs also were designed to take advantage of generally superior NATO/Western Fire, Control systems. The later big Soviet missiles generally had some measure of self control and guidance.
Me: “I have stuff to do today, probably shouldn’t sit on RUclips for the whole day”
Drach: *posts 5 and a half hour long drydock*
Me: “yeah change of plans”
An idea for a ship to review: HMS Starling and her adventures in the Atlantic in WWII. Or more broadly, anti-submarine warfare and Captain Frederic John Walker: the only man to hear the phrase "U-boat menace" and interpret it as a job title.
Hey man I don't know if you've commented this as a reply in the pinned section for Q&A and I think that's where Drach checks for suggestions for dry dock and new videos! Great question I cant wait to see the video!
@@jakehopkinson2031 It would be a good one, the man was the best ASW Commander of WWII.
[HMS Starling enters the Atlantic]
U Boats: "Why do I hear Boss Music?"
@@AtholAnderson Specifically "A Hunting We Will Go."
Oh, this needs to be an episode!
04:26:01
Atlantic Conference, 1941:
"Oh no, Admiral King is transforming again!"
"KING SMASH! ME ANGRY!"
Now it all makes sense
Haven't even started listening to this, undoubtedly, impressive episode, but just wanted to thank you Drach for making isolation seem perfectly acceptable.
Ok, the nice weather over here in the Netherlands certainly does help, but still, almost 5,5 hours??? Wow!
The stories are true. 5 hours of goodness was delivered to the people this day. Thanks for all your hard work mate, much appreciated.
Queen Elizabeth - “We will all get through this is we all do our bits...”
Drach - Does 5-1/2 hour Drydock...
This is above and beyond call of duty.
Oh how I would love to see a modern film portrayal of the 2nd Pacific Squadron's voyage and Tsushima. And just for fun, Drach should make a cameo as a crew member on the Kamchatka.
Drach, before I embark on watching this Drydockathon I just want to take a moment to tell you something.
You are an absolute madman.
Thank you Drach, never change.
Actually, second thought, maybe change. Recording monsters like this can't be that fun and I'm sure none of us would blame you for filtering questions, I certainly wouldn't.
Other thing I wanted to point out was regarding Violet Jessop.
Just to add one more to her tally of misfortune, after the First World War she returned to service as a stewardess on RMS Olympic, the last surviving sister, and led a peaceful career... until she was also present in 1934 when Olympic ran down the Nantucket Lightship and cut it in half. Following the incident, Olympic was retired by the newly combined Cunard-White Star Line, and Jessop retired with her, returning to a peaceful life in the English countryside and never going to sea again.
"Jessop retired to the English country side and never went to sea again" and with that sailors around the world rejoiced and captians from all sea faring nations authorized a double ration rum for all members of the crew.
Drach in drydock episode 2: lets keep them around 40 mins.
Drach today:
5 minute guides to warships
@@seanmac1793 more or less
@@jacobwerner274 they are like minimum 7 minutes now and many of them are over 10 and sometimes we get the extended ones
@@seanmac1793 ye
@@jacobwerner274 I think you should remove the "or less" from your comment, because quite frankly it's been a good while since he's uploaded a video shorter than 6 minutes
WOW. Just when I think the isolation is starting to drag Drachinifel steps up with some educational entertainment. Thank you Drach. Good stuff!!
WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! :)
Thank you Uncle Drach, you made my day. Health to you and yours!
(And I quite enjoyed the music, though family obligations did not allow me to use them as intended breaks; I had to take breaks as and when required by the women and cats who own me.)
Non-naval military museums in the UK - consider the Royal Armouries at Leeds. From Wikipedia: "The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour. It is the United Kingdom's oldest museum, originally housed in the Tower of London from the 15th century, and one of the oldest museums in the world."
Yes Drach I made it the full 5,5 hours :P I did cook and eat and do the dishes in the mean time tho, while listening. :) The musics where good to have a nice point to hit pause. they where the right lenght for if you wanted to just let it go too.
You have to rebrand from 5 minute to 5 hour guide now :D
Thank you Drachinifel for these and thanks again to everyone for the questions.
5+ hours of Drydock and Drachs voice is not raspy nor nasal. OK, all coffee machines full espresso...
@3:21:55 he does get his George Sanders/Christopher Lee/Thanos Voice on for a bit.
I can honestly say, I Love these longer videos, today I may have watched it at home, all in one go, but they are so perfect for work. Since they are more then an entire shift ! So I just love them !
Even if the Germans had managed to build more Type XXI boats even a year earlier, they would have been descended on hordes of allied escorts and destroyers. Even worse, part of the horde would have been an increasing number of _Saipan_ class light carriers with 35 aircraft armed with depth charges, and Mark 24 "Fido" and Mark 27 homing torpedoes. Sonars on the escorts were constantly improving, as was airborne search and attack radar. There would have been enough aircraft available to fly the equivalent of a combat air patrol over any convoy. The better that the Mark XXI would have performed, the more it would demanded a huge response from the allies. If anything, the German Navy would have lost even more boats because of the umbrella formed looking for what still would have been a relatively small number of Type XXI boats. No matter how it worked out, it would have been a slight setback to the allies followed by a much, much larger setback to the remnants of the German Navy.
In other words.... better mouse 🐀 does not defeat smarter cats 😼with airpower.
Indeed. And the sonobuoy and magnetic air detector would only have been pressed into service quicker because of a needs must scenario. These would surely have been vital tools for our defence.
In any case, French Atlantic ports were becoming increasingly unsuitable for the boats to be based thanks to the RAF and Barnes Wallis' 'tallboys', able to penetrate the thickest u-boat pens. Then there was the fuel situation. I know the Germans were specialising in synthetic oil as they had anticipated fuel shortages, but the allies were according these refineries a greater priority in the bombing offensive, at one point second to only pre-fabricated u-boat producion itself.
Probably would made a mark 27 that could launched from destroyer tubes
@@seanmac1793 Probably not. The reason why the Mark 27 and FIDO were air dropped was the Navy hadn't figured out a reliable method of having the acoustic torpedo not circle round when it picked up the noise of the launching vessel. In post war testing, a sub was able to decoy the torpedo back to the launching vessel by just running at top speed toward it after they detected the torpedo launch. One of the DE's involved in the tests was almost sunk when the practice torpedo followed the sub back to the DE. The unarmed but still fast traveling 1500 pound torpedo hit it and holed it below the waterline. It took the Navy until 1950 to come up with a new acoustic system where the active scanning phase was able to differentiate cavitation noise of a surface ship compared to a submarine. It was an amazing small (for the days of tubes and point to point wiring) little computer, called a logic circuit back then. Amazing how it always takes war to make rapid progress in electronic.
@@sarjim4381 unless I am going crazy the mark 27 was version of Fido that was designed to work in sub tubes.
Although you are correct the passive Sonar is major issue. But then again they would probably equipped ships with the decoys they designed for the German torpedoes.
Well I've been for a run thus exhausting my daily exercise schedule and I've already binged out on Netflix and was bored, when I get the notification of a 5hr Drydock, Drach has rescued my Sunday afternoon 😊
Finally had time to sit down and deal with this (was busy and tired sunday, had to deal with everything else I missed on monday, and now it's tuesday). The musical interludes helped a lot, allowing for breaks in listening (while doing modelling), so as far as I care, do insert them next time a drydock runs long
(Also, I think you meant "longest video YET" ;) ) Keep it up, mate.
A word of genuine appreciation. A few of us out here are working from home, so this will be wonderful company on Mon. Thanks for what must've been a lot of work on your end. All the best.
Thank you Darch, it took me 1 go. i was listening it like podcast while i work. 10/10
Holy cow! This one is long enough to overhaul a small warship!
Not a Clemson
The Fleet Air Arm museum in Yeovil is excellent!! Also has views over RNAS Yeovilton (working naval air base), and a full mockup of the flight deck and tower of HMS Ark Royal (R09). I was very surprised you didn't mention this - assuming you've been, otherwise definitely go once this virus thing is done with...
when you click on a new drydock episode and saw 5hr+ length, you knew you're in for a treat
I listened to this drydock over a few days while driving my truck (lorry driver for you British folks). So it kept me entertained ^^
A 5 hour drydock, better tell the family I'm self isolating for a while
Well this is just amazing. Might take a day or two to watch this behemoth, but hey, right now I've got all the time in the world. Thanks Drach!
An almost 5.5 hour drydock?
There goes any hope of a productive day.
Ditto
The fuck is a productive day anyways
Expecting an advert for the local Indian restaurant during the Intermission music, may have missed a trick there mate.
Only 100 yards from this cinema
Thank you so much for saving my sunday! Your channel is amazing!
Now THIS is a Corona Virus Drydock!
On museums I would highly recommend the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton. The "Carrier Experience" is excellent and the static aircraft displays are superb!
Or Hendon when it reopens.
Definitely Yeovilton says this local boy.
@@Matt_The_Hugenot grew up close to Culdrose, no real museum but the Airdays were a good excuse to have a gander in the Hangars, Finally a chance to admit it was me who clambered into one of the huge Fire tenders and pulled every Yellow and black striped lever. Promptly flooding the Hangar with foam. Ooops. 1980,?' Airday, HMS Seahawk I apologise.
@@pdunderhill 😂
I'd love to see it all.👍
Made it in 4 tries. The interludes probably helped to compartmentalize the beast. Good Work!
So i understand the question was just about taking Fort Drum and not manila bay itself, but it is important to remember that, just like any given ship, its 1 piece of larger picture: Fort drum is not in isolation, there's Corregidor island to deal with just north of it, which was full of all sorts of interesting variations of 12 inch guns, at least of 2 of which had a range of " 29,000 yards" (Corregidor wiki), those will have to be dealt with first, and that's not even mentioning if any other assets are still around, like the Subs stationed in Manila bay or if any P-40s are still flying. Oh ya, and i almost forgot the mines, don't forget those when you roll up into close range with a battleship.
Five and a half hours!!!
Now THAT'S soldiering.
Now this is a big one. Well done. Thank you for the time and effort.
Sundays viewing/listening pleasure has arrived, thanks be to Drach.
I can safely say that that is the longest video I have ever watched on YT!!
I am stunned at the effort you have put into that 👏👏👏👏
I'm just imagining a parody of Mad Max: Fury road, where instead of trading fuel and water, they're transporting/fighting over bog rolls.
That 18inch 45 is still sitting like that.
At the gun range, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia.
5 hours of drydock. Amazing this should fill out my entire day of truck driving quite nicely. Thankyou Drach and everyone who asked questions.
As a thought, I think we should be awarded a medal for surviving Drydock 088. And in the tradition of such things we should all be given survivors leave.
1:00:50
"The Drydock will be back after this short break"
2:02:11
"We'll be back shortly"
3:03:31
"Intermission"
4:09:33
You have just missed the fourth interlude
4:58:23
Phantom interlude
5 hours...
*5* hours...
5 _hours_ ?!
Dear gods of the naval world, be kind to this Great Scholar!
What else did we have to do today?
@@andythompson6287 I'm gamming online while listening to this.
@@jlvfr I am old and can't multitask as well as I used to :)
@@andythompson6287 What else do we have to do this *week* ? Stretching it out over days.
Perfect compliment to hand planning my new workbench top. Needed to take 1/4 inch off a maple slab 13x40x5, this might just be long enough. The joys of doing wood work with only hand powered tools.
Now that's a video worthy of a gold medal for 'going the distance'. You must have had extra fuel tanks installed to do this as it took me four goes to listen to all of it. And lots of coffee.
I don't even want to contemplate you trying to break this record.
Holy Crap! Five hours this time? We need to have Drach and all of us quarantined more frequently. :-)
Wow 5 hours. I love it. The voice change at around the 3 1/2 hour mark through me off.
Always happens when you record Voiceovers on different days or resume after a meal. Old job at the BBC we would make sure that a meal break coincided with a long break in the commentary.
Peter Underhill you hear it a lot too in long audiobooks.
@@AnvilAirsoftTV You can compensate to an extent but Audiobooks have the challenge of continuity and few breaks, you also find Directors going into ever decreasing circles trying to match pre and post 'Lunch' voices and replacing perfectly good V/Os from earlier. in a Session. Musical segues, as Drach has done are a good way to reset the ear as is simple preparation. Script pages set out and organised, pronunciation pre planned, when recording to video or cue points then visual idents on the screen and above all work the script to fit the picture, usually about three words per second.
Drach is a little faster but helps with clear diction and a subtle use of rare sound FX, few distraction from the spoken word.
Even at the end of a continuous 5 hour recording resist the temptation to go back to the top just to check, even without a meal your voice will have changed. Basic singing and voice exercises can help any narrator get over the first few minutes of 'croak'.
Peter Underhill that’s really interesting and useful knowledge thankyou.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did make it in one single go and even re listened to a couple portions for clarity as I missed a bit cooking.
Couple of thoughts on museums:
- National Museum of Flight (just outside Edinburgh)
- Cold War Jet Museum at RAF Cosford
Not museums per se, but if you enjoy boat trips:
- Belfast dockyards, inc. Titanic dock and HMS Caroline
If you're into modern stuff, try and time your visit with one of the biannual Joint Warrior NATO exercises - most participants tend to dock in the KGV dock in Glasgow just before the exercises start, and on Sunday morning sail down the Clyde. Plenty of places along the waterfront to view/photograph from.
The RAF museum at Cosford in the West Midlands home to the national cold war museum it has the greatest collection of historic experimental aircraft early jets and missiles a great free day out.
Depending on specific interests, my additional recommendations for museums are:
Age of sail frigates HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool and/or HMS Unicorn in Dundee are worth a visit, especially if you have already visited or intend to visit USS Constitution in Boston Mass. If you’re in the north-east to see HMS Trincomalee, you might pop in to the Discovery Museum in Newcastle to see the Turbinia, which, while not a naval ship, was highly influential.
If you’re interested in aviation, the Shuttleworth collection near Biggleswade is fairly small but has some unique aircraft (including very early examples) and I thoroughly enjoyed my visit a couple of years ago. If travelling by car this could be combined with a trip to Duxford on consecutive days. It doesn’t need a full day, unless they are flying.
The Yorkshire Air Museum near York is worth a visit if you’re in the area. They have a good collection.
Bletchley Park is very interesting if you’re interested in military encryption and codebreaking.
5 hours + links to a specific questions it the description.
You are pride of the navy!
You need a good strong drink after this, also thank you for answering my question drach !
1:38:00 Vanguard's presence might even prevent the war alltogether, since the Argentine gamble was that the British wouldn't rise to the challenge due to their navy being not that well equipped to fight so far from home in the south atlantic during this era, which would be entirely different if Vanguard was around.
2:50:22 "Unless, of course, a bomb takes out the berm." That sounded really funny in my head when I read it in Inspector Clouseau's voice.
Thank You for the interludes. Glad that it appears that you are doing well.
i never thought i would look forward to sitting through a 5 hour youtube video. but here i am, and it is good.
"Food's not awful."
... that's not something you hear about British cuisine very often.
bificommander Scran, all SCRAN, All the Time.
Isn't the most popular dish, Curry?
Not great, not terrible.
"and on the seventh day, Drach released nearly 5.5 hours of content"
Done in one! Listened to it all in one sitting. Granted, through various delays and distractions I started at around 2pm and it's now gone 9:30. In that time, I also designed a semi-successful commerce raider in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, opened a new wing to my gallery in Occupy White Walls, cleared up most of my update backlog in DeviantART, and more.
Btw, a couple additions I'd like to throw out there, as if all this awesomeness wasn't enough:
Regarding naval and maritime museums in the UK, there's also the SS Great Britain in Bristol. Not a warship per say, but she is a historically important steamship, one of Brunel's finest works, first transatlantic steamer with an iron hull and a propeller. And technically she did serve as a troop transport during the Crimean War. Also, for more general great British museums, I can personally recommend:
(National) Railway Museum, York. Britain's leading railway museum with a massive collection of historic locomotives, rolling stock, and other relics of the UK's industrial arteries. Not military related as such, though the railways played important roles in wartime as well as peace, which are commemorated at the NRM. Plus it's free admission and an easy walk over a footbridge direct from York Station, so why not?
STEAM Museum, Swindon. Another fantastic railway museum (can you tell I have a bit of a thing about trains? Ah well, so does Drach). This one focuses specifically on the history of the Great Western Railway, one of Britain's oldest and once biggest railway companies, and is in fact located in part of the former Swindon Locomotive Works where most of their engines were maintained and built. While perhaps not as extensive in its collection as the NRM, in my opinion STEAM is an overall better experience, particularly with their exhibits laid out in a more comprehensive way, one topic leading smoothly into the other. They also have a bit more of a direct wartime exhibit, particularly the role women played in keeping the trains running while the men went off to war. And if you're a fellow Millennial socialist fed up with the rat race of Late Stage Capitalism, seeing how the GWR treated their workers will be a real eye-opener, demonstrating how you can have a world-beating corporation that treats its employees with respect and care, not as disposable commodities.
Finally, the entire Isle of Man. While not a museum as such, this little island between England and Ireland is like a living time capsule, holding elements from almost every era of British history, from Castle Rushen, Europe's best preserved Medieval castle, to the Nautical Museum, located in a Napoleonic Era smuggler's den (though they'll point out that George Quayle, the former owner, wasn't a smuggler; he was a British spy) that also has the Peggy, believed to be the world's first sailing yacht and the only Napoleonic vessel to survive intact without any maintenance or conservation (until recently, when she had to be removed from her nearly 200-year hiding place in the basement due to record high tides threatening to crush her against the roof). There's also the Manx Electric Railway, the world's oldest electric tramway and one of no less than six railways on the island, and the Great Laxey Wheel, the largest and oldest operating water wheel in the world.
This was a KING SIZED episode of the Drydock Drachinfel
HMS Trincomalee in hartlepool is a great visit, has a lot of interesting information and obviously it's just such a cool ship and less busy than most others.
We say no to pay to win
HMS Unicorn in Dundee is also worth a visit, especially if you want to see Captain Scott’s first polar ship Discovery in the same trip. Unicorn is unique in never having left the reserve “in ordinary” status.
Agree with this. Hartlepool is a good visit for a very relaxed atmosphere.
The turninia in Newcastle is also excellent as a visit from a general point of view.
Add to that beamish open air museum and the national railway museum in York and you have some amazing places to visit if your a history buff.
Eden camp is dam good too.
Cosford RAF Museum Royal Armouries Leeds both worth a look - also
HMS Belfast
@@jerry2357 A slight detour to Leith will add the Royal Yacht Britannia.
5 hours + time for this one. Tiny Gods, I may have to split my viewing up for this one. Hopefully, the enforced time off will allow you to catch up? Thanks Drach, hope all are well today.
Great work on this. Listened to it on and off over a week. Interludes were fine!
If Drach gets enough Patreons, he will break the 24-hour mark for a single dry dock eventually. I want this.
Regarding Arthur John Priest- His story inspired a young screenwriter to create a TV series. The writer was Rod Serling and the show was, 'The Twilight Zone'.
Good news. I still have use of my legs. Though other parts of me, that bit I sit upon, have gone numb.
I may be mistaken but I seem to remember Drach being concerned because he original planned these to be only 30 minutes and they had climbed up to 40 minutes. Little did we know at the time that this was just training for the endurance we would face in the months to come.
If you visit Portsmouth, visit Porcester Castle - starts out as a Roman "Saxon Shore" Fort, gets a Saxon Church, a Norman tower, Medieval buildings and ends up as a POW camp for the 2nd Hundred Years War (1688-1815). Not far from Fort Nelson, a "Palmerston Folly"
Sunday is my "Do As Little As Possible Day" so almost 5.5 hours of Drach is perfectly fine. The interludes are a great idea.
In terms of museums, I'd like to recommend the Fleet Air Arm museum.
For naval movies, I think Mers El Kebir is something that could make an amazing movie if it's done right. A bilingual film from a French and British team, much in the style of Tora Tora Tora.
For further reading on US Navy Fleet Refueling in the Pacific may I suggest obtaining the book "Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil" by Worrell R. Carter. He was the Commanding Admiral of the Logistic Squadron responsible for keeping Task Force 38/58 resupplied during the later years of WW2. I found 8 copies available on the ABEbooks website.
Here is the link to the book www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&kn=&an=&tn=Beans%2C+Bullets%2C+and+Black+Oil&isbn=
John Beaulieu - It’s also available on line for free -
www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/beans-bullets-black-oil.html
i usally listen to this as I cook and I absolutely love the channel
Started late last night with some Drach before bed, then I had some Drach with Breakfast, some Drach with Lunch and rounded it off with some Drach for dinner.
The battle of the Falklands 1914 would make a great film stating just after the reporting of Cradock squadron
Thanks Drach, diverted my attention from a bit of sunbathing in the park for the Afternoon!
I would recommend visiting RAF Cosford. Well worth the effort.
The USS Wisconsin, my Pop Pop's ship, is now the largest battleship afloat... Because she hit a destroyer. Took a big nasty chunk out of her bow, so she went into drydock, and was fixed up with parts from an uncompleted ship, if I remember correctly. By the end of it, she was 10 feet longer than the other Iowas.
There's a picture out there somewhere of the damage. Bow peeled back like a tin can. And that was just a head on impact with a destroyer.
Scrapping Vanguard was a disgrace.
I would happily be in a Renown vs Alaska - especially given Renown's famous gunnery abilities.
You mean it's renowned gunnery?
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Renowns gunnery would have to be very good indeed.
The Drydock will continue until morale improves!
In the mid-1980’s, I was on the Missouri overnight, and they tested the 16” guns, each shooting 10 rounds each. On an island off S. California, all but two landed within a 100 yard round circle with a golf flagstick in the middle. It was a giant crater, filling with seawater. Range? 20 miles.
As far as I know, the only person Admiral King had to keep happy in order to not get fired was FDR.
i think FDR realised that successfully conducting a war was not a popular thing but required efficiency, and that was what King was great at.
@@philipjooste9075 I mean King was difficult person to work with in general but he was really good at what he did. so was Patton and Monty
Admiral King. His performance in the second German “ happy time” on the US Eastern seaboard, was somewhat lacklustre. His Anglophobia was fine, the vital lynch pin was FDR, one of, If not the greatest American presidents.
@Jurassic Aviator Had to be unpleasant to have King come a calling with a beef.
@Jurassic Aviator Got any handy links to online accounts of that story?
There is a second RAF Muesum at RAF Cosford, which the general public can access. Has a lot of the bigget aircraft that Hendon can handle.
Has some really rare postwar jets and prototypes
Outstanding post I can’t believe the work you put in
that was a beast. and awesome!!!! thank you Drach for all your hard work!!!
I think the question on the war in Europe being a prerequisite is very interesting. A key aspect that eventually tanked negations between the two in mid-late 41’ was the tripartite agreement. Assuming that Germany either never made this or that they were defeated, and thus the treaty made null, I think the war mongers in the Japanese government and especially the military would’ve had a harder time justifying expanding Japans enemies instead of finding a solution to the China war (which they were very close to doing in the late summer and early fall of 41), as another major influencer on the Japanese decision was the massive German gains early in their Russia campaign. So taking two quite important issues: justification for going to war due to Germany’s successes, and in general the dismantling (or possible nonexistentince) of the tripartite agreement out of the equation, Is something that should be quite heavily pondered.
Though as with all alt-history, without an *exact* definition of how things came to be and why, one can not make any truly insightful assessments.
I think concentration on type XXIII construction and operation would have been more useful defensively during the D-Day Invasion. Being designed for coastal operations they had speed and maneuverability. They were also extremely hard to detect.
Just finished!! Whew! Love your dedication to this, it had to have been a huge time consuming endeavor. Thank you! As far as the interlude music, some old naval anthems might be entertaining!
Hey Drach i agree with your opinion about the imperial war museum London i went a many years again and it was amazing like you said it was crammed full of great stuff you would be falling over stuff haha but i went last year and was so disappointed so much wasted space and emptiness now :(
The Science Museum died the same way
Whatever will I do with my day?
Oh look I found the answer: another Drydock
3:21:55 After a short gap of silence, your voice gets a lot deeper -- and possibly slower.
3:23:40 And now your voice is back to normal. Very very strange!.
3:22:27 He's going through some *CONNVERSIONNS, shall we say.*
I love these marathons!