Pre Dreadnoughts had Tsushima, Dreadnoughts had Jutland, in your opinion, what would be the most era defining battleship on battleship engagement of the WW2 era?

What would be result of an engagement between larger ship of one era (say top predreadnought battleship) and smaller, but more advanced ship of later era (say treaty cruiser)?

I know the British the French and the Spanish build several large 100+ gunned ships of the line did any other countries build similar large ships?

@@henriquekonradt541 Not a battleship vs. battleship engagement, but Force Z, because WWII was defined by battleships being proven to be strategically obsolete and no longer viable in their intended role of fighting other battleships outside of niche scenarios (and too expensive to be built just for the roles that they tended to be forced into in WWII), and Force Z was what really made that clear. You can’t really have a battleship vs. Battleship action that defines a generation of battleships that categorically failed to do their job of fighting each other.

@@brendonbewersdorf986 The Americans did, with USS Pennsylvania.

Please elaborate, what did the Lieutenant do about it?

Yeah, I hate cliffhangers!

Im sure the Lieutenant was quite bemused if not somewhat perplexed as to mollifying this old grievance.

You can always trust Jack to have a drip

I hope the Lietenant at least passed out a tot of Rum to all :)

Anemometer

Argh, thanks!

"What is the wind speed?" "About the speed our anemometer is moving towards the horizon."

That’s why the record for the fastest measured wind speed has an asterisk next to it. That’s the wind speed the anemometer was reading when it was destroyed. It was probably faster.

This is why we do love Drach s videos 😁

Drops dripping icecream cone on Uncle Drach's rug & begines to cry..😉🍦

That is the whole problem with servce life if ou are married, lack of married accommodation, lack of rental homes when transferred, change of schools for the children etc

Very good point! I was on the British Merchant Navy in 1960/70s and we would leave home, travel to join a ship and after your duty time return home The problem in my time was you often had very little contact with you family for say a 6 month voyage. You wrote lots of letters and if the ship came int the UK you found a pay phone and called home. You either accepted this or found another job. Money came into this It was a standing joke that every ship had Scots & Gordies on board as those were areas of high unemployment at that time

Maybe it would have been a good idea in the treaty of Verrtsailles to place Helgoland under Danish control.

@@neilbuckley1613 They could have done it the same way Southern Jutland/Northern Schleswig were returned to Denmark in 1920 with a vote.

It is hard to imagine German authorities being stupid, rude, cruel and foolish….and failing to plan for the welfare of people in their charge.

@@assessor1276 Compared to other countries of the time, the German Empire was almost a welfare state, but on the other hand it was also very militaristic. The military enjoyed numerous privileges and possessed both legal and informal power - civilian authorities were quite helpless in the face of the often arbitrary and reckless decisions of the military. In addition, there was an enormous amount of "Prussian" authoritarism and upper class arrogance in the Imperial Germans army and navy officer corps. In the empire of Kaiser Wilhelm II it was said: "Man only begins with the reserve lieutenant." Civil interests were subordinate to those of the military. Without the helpfulness of the Hamburg shipowners and later ordinary citizens, who took in the evacuees or arranged apartments, the poor Heligolanders would have literally ended up on the streets. Incidentally, Helgoland was not evacuated during World War II. The Nazis were even more ruthless than the militarists of the German Empire, but they did not repeat the mistake of making enemies by taking action against the residents of a popular holiday island. Apart from that, the strategic importance of Heligoland as a naval base in World War II was significantly lower than in World War I.

Sinking a putt from 15,000 yards

I have had many Navel victories and have harvested much lint! 😜

@@mbryson2899 ,😂

How come?

@@stephenchappell7512 When Warspite was damaged in the Mediterranean in May of 1941 - it was arranged for her to be repaired in the Naval Shipyard here in Bremerton, where she arrived in August of 1941, after passing through the Suez Canal, as well as the Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Apparently (sources are inconsistent) some of her dead were recovered from spaces that had remained flooded until she was in drydock. We have 3 graves designated as Warspite crew in the old cemetery on Naval Avenue. Warspite departed Bremerton in late December 1941. To the best of my knowledge, the last time any of Warspite's crew made an official visit to Bremerton was in the 1990's

@@theblackbear211 Yes that makes sense Incidentally there remain fragments of Warspite visible at low tide in Mount's Bay Cornwall where she foundered enroute to the scrap yard She was gradually scrapped where she lay in a process that took up to a decade

@@stephenchappell7512 A sad fate, she deserved better.

@@stephenchappell7512 If you are interested I think that I can still find some of the links to the local newspaper articles on her visit - which were problematical for the government- since the US was still officially a "Neutral Country" until December of '41.

You might find him mentioned when I get to Part 3 :D

@@Drachinifel Drach, we are all really looking forward to parst 3, 4, 5, ......

I sincerely hope your surname isn't Pike

And maybe a biscuit. Rich tea or digestive to go with WW2.

@@jonjames7328 Has to be Rich Tea!

Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is an American twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a displacement of 2,800 cu in (46 L). When the R-2800 was introduced in 1939, it was capable of producing 2,000 hp. They built 125,000 of these engines, which powered the late war fighters F6F Hellcat, P-47 Thunderbolt, and many other aircraft. Mass production of this quality on such a large scale meant the result of a war against the United States was a foregone conclusion in 1939.

@@BishopStars That engine was pretty new when WW II started. So he isnt wrong. Many aircrafts at the start of WW II had less powerfull engines. But of course, rapid production of new engines and aircraft designs went on as soon as the war started. And sure, the industrial might of the US had won the war.

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With despatch.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . more than a LITTLE reminiscent of "The Four Yorkshiremen"!

@@richardcleveland8549 I think that line's from Sgt. Johnson in Halo.

Yes, it does! Bonus points for the Animaniacs reference but an equal penalty for making me search for the song just so I can hear it again. 😂

Back when cartoons were educational. Helooooooooooooo nurse!

And enjoyable at the same time

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...and Scotty was a Forward Observer ashore.

It is not everyone who speaks clearly and smoothly with a measured intonation suitable for the topic of the moment.

admiral Cunningham is my Great Uncle

uh maybe Scharnhorst might be better assosciated with either Adm. Marschall (Op Juno) or Ciliax (Cerberus}

Spruance would certainly be Indianapolis but his favorite battleship was New Mexico

Jellicoe - Iron Duke

John Paul Jones-Bonhomme Richard and Serapis

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Done :)

We had a teacher named Cunningham. He got "Sly Bacon". But only by the girls.

In the 1960's there was a chart showing the names of more admirals than ships.

Dude, it has been turkiye in Turkish for over a century... It is just that English is so brainamputated and disrespectful, that they translate proper names.

​@@Neithan02and it was constantinople for 1700 years. Whats yr point?

@@sugarnads and it was Byzantium before that. You do get the point of rulership deciding names, right? Or do you wanna take the stance that new York should actually be called niuw Amsterdam? And did the ottoman empire really call it Constantinople? I think I made my points very clear but please if you require any clearing up, ask and I will answer.

Eventually they got fed up with the bird.

I love that film about the guy imprisoned there. Is Turkiye really just like that. How exciting.

Curiously the Arch Bishop of Canterbury is also known as ABC!

@@pdunderhill He is known as a few other things as well.

@@pdunderhill another ABC was a novelist, so ABC presented one of the books to friends as his own, The Killer Follows The Man hunt.