Pinned post for Q&A :)

"Sea Slug", the name alone strikes terror in enemy pilots 🤣.

Hmmm Ppl sound like theyre complaining that 5minute guides have in general been longer than 5 minutes... I say make em as long as need be. Theyre always interesting. I like louder volume levels too sir - easier to listen in my old 4wd, with my old bluetooth speaker - the louder the recording level the easier it is to hear. Carry on part of ship!

HMS Swiftsure was Admiral Harcourt’s flagship when he took the surrender of the Japanese in Hong Kong. One of the the photos in early part of the video was HMS Swiftsure in Hong Kong

My Dad did his National Service on the Super-B in the 1950's, went to the Carribean then down around the cape and up the West coast to Vancouver. My father in-law did his in the Army and ended up picking potatoes. Hence my interest in the RN and Dad did take me to Navy Days at Chatham in the 60's or 70's. I took and passed my AIB at HMS Sultan but decided to do my degree at Southampton first and joined the SURNU on HMS Woodlark in the 80's (was on the Woodlark in Amsterdam when the Falklands kicked off). After experiencing BRNC whilst part of the URNU decided to take a civvy job with BAe but often wonder about that other road I nearly took, but doubt I would have been as lucky as Dads cruise on the Super-B

Last time I was this early there was a rum ration with breakfast! XD

You mean World of Warships isn't accurate? Surely the Russian ships are accurate though right?

Ah yes, the _His Majesty's Large Maxim Gun_ -class ship.

*ship gets shot to pieces by enemy* Captain: imma just press T on this keyboard real quick Enemy: wait wtf

My dad served on HMS Swiftsure, havjng previously served on HMS Nigeria.

Fantastic video Drach.....by and large the Royal Navy cruisers of the Second World war were very beautiful ships with elegant lines. Even the gun turrets looked great.

World of Warships tbh needs the '43 Minotaurs/Swiftsure or the Dido class. Odd that they never put in the Didos as they were anti-aircraft cruisers and World of Warships has Aircraft Carriers

My Grandfather was a CPO on HMS Swiftsure during the Pacific Campaign. He was present at the Japanese Surrender. There was a crew list documented in a book published in Australia and my Grandfather is mentioned in it and I've lots of pictures of the ship during WW2 and many showing being bombarded by Japanese Air Force.

I have an undated photo of one of the minotaurs during her Helsinki visit probably in the 1950s before the 1952 olympic games. Cold war was in full swing and Finland bordering Soviet union had most of the war-related controls lifted. Baltic countries were occupied, which had mostly stopped the overseas cooperation. Minotaur visit was certainly important geopolitically.

I've always found something a little sad about most of these mid/late-war designs. Things moved so quickly from 1940 to 1950 that most of these ships were approaching out-of-date nearly upon launch, and they led correspondingly short lives.

NEEDS MOAR DAKKA

The views to like ratio is insane. What a channel.

Thanks Drach Each one of these ships was almost a separate class of their own such was the rate of tech change.

Did it come with an OP repair party consumable?

Sometimes I feel like I am the only viewer of these vids who doesn't care about computer warship sims and just likes to study naval history.

Got to love saturday morning Drach. Thanx .

Ever since I found you through the Chieftain, my love for your intro and intro music grows.

That intro is so therapeutic

Another interesting and informative video, may thanks. Could I suggest you make a video about the Turbinia ?

Thank you

I like that intro song, it sounds like a powerful battleship engine!

Not enough Dakka!!!

Love British cruisers.

love to see a review of HMS Endymion if you haven't already done it

Ship review video suggestion: Light cruiser HMS Aurora/ROCN Chongqing

Somehow the superstructure of these Minatours resemble the King George V class battleships

I would like a video on the Manxman ship (or class, Abdiel minelayers I think?)

My grandad along with many of the crew eventually died from radiatiom sickness after the bomb was dropped as they sailed in the area immediately after the war. This was hushed up. My nan never received his pension aftee death. All his records say is served with distinction. Wonder how many others were whitewashed to keep it quiet? They did not really fully understand the nuclear penetration. Luckily though there is footage of officers in their whites, my grandad amoung them, just weeks after the bomb stook in Okinawa.

Hey drach, could you do the 1947 (WOWS) Design? I know it wasn’t made I do know it was designed! -thanks

Great upload! New to your channel. For once the A.I. algorithm got something right.⛧🤘

@Drachinifel Have you seen the new game Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnought? Any chance of a review?

At 5:25 - reminds me of "The people responsible for the sacking, have themselves been sacked - the credits have now been completed at great expense, and at the last minute...…"

Britain's fall as a great naval power is sad to me. And I'm not British.

While I greatly appreciate the history and factual version of the HMS Minotaur, I'm relieved that the post-WW2 Minotaur in WoWs is what it is now... DAKKA IZ LOVE! DAKKA IZ LIFE! MOAR DAKKA IZ MOAR OV BOF OV EM! ^_^

Finally an actual 5 min guide

Re: Hanger turned into "two floor" structure: Is "floor" an official RN description? [These aren't French "floating hotel" battleships. ;)]. I'm thinking the USN would say something like "two decks.". Otherwise, as always, most excellent. :)

3:59 in Vancouver

One of these Wouldn’t be bad as a T6 or T7 Premium

MORE DAKKA!!!!!!

Hello admiral. Which ones were better, the octuple pom pom or the quad Bofor ?

Will you do the Minotaur design from WOWS?

You know, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the name of the music used in the intro.

These goddamn Meme-o-taurs

what's up with sound in today videos? intro/outro are loud as hell, while the actual content is silent... I up the volume and get blasted by outro I down the volume on intro and can't hear anything...

@Drachinifel at 4:17 in the video, is that the Vancouver harbour?

Your link for the music has been dead for a while, I'd love to know what the intro is.

Question - about the Tiger class? After the refit to a helicopter carrier, does anyone know how the 4 helos were stored? Were they squished onto the main deck hangar (it looks too small for four helos)? Or were two of them lowered to a lower deck? Just curious?

show the Dartmouth trainers h.m.s Acute and Achilese

*sad world of warship noises*

Could you do the original Daring class please?

Small guns for a big ship.

Like to see uss Henrico apc

still sucks that the secondaries in wows don't work...

I googled the Minotaur class and got 3 different entries from wikipedia, all for cruser classes of the Royal Navy (1906, 1943, 1947). Why did they keep using the same name for different classes?

Annoying in WOWs. Get close but out of torp range. Can't hurt a BB then. Easy to delete if not behind an island

Out of curiosity?? Is the Monitor that's in W.o.Ws an actual design/drawn out or was it a fake ship??

Question: Was there ever a 8.00" gunner British (RN) cruiser?

Real world didn't need WWII style cruisers much after WWII. As much fun as you all are having with gaming ship on ship with the various classes... The ships weren't really good for much anymore except target practice by the various air arms. Guided anti ship missiles didn't improve that.

Gday Drach Tiger class cruisers please

So maybe they build what they really wanted when they were instead getting the little Arethusa boats?

What? I thought those are belfasts?

These ships should be in World of Warships though...

How many war ships does the UK have now in total ???? After all the UK owned the seas...............

I´ve been saying for two years now that it´s MINNO-taur and not MAYNO-taur. flambass, flamu and other CCs pls take notes!

Why is the World of Warships version so different?

Well that was an uneventful class of ship...

You spelled "Meme-O-Taur" wrong

Generally seen as very much an incremental improvement in the 1943 completed 3 Ceylon class Improved Colony class, the Minotaur/ Tiger 8 ordered cruisers were in some less than obvious ways quite significantly redesigned for late Pacific war use but the much greater internal subdivision, protection, pumps and electrical capacity, development of first real modern operation room and combination of power operated turrets with the guns training automatically in line with local and follow surface and air (poor UK version of 275- variant US Mk 37) from 1945 Minotaur/ Superb and about 1950 on Swiftsure by which time the fit of the 3, particularly the Swiftsure and Superb which with Kenya and the two reconstructed and much widened late Towns Liverpool (1942-45)/and Belfast (1940) are definitely the most capable and refitted cruisers 1948-50. But those changes which meant the 3 Minotaurs and 3 largely hull and internal constructed Tigers by 1944 only had space for 3/centerline main turrets and even a Mk 23/24 Turret with 3 inch armour, 170 ton were far too expensive in weight, space, Manning for these improved 8000 ton Fijis. The reason Superb was not reconstructed post war is that Belfast and Sheffield were larger more comfortable gin palaces, and while far too old for the major rebuild they received from 1956 with minimal return in operational service and by 1957 Superb while 12 rather than 20 years old, was already too old, in general terms and specifically as a late war built Colony/Tiger with a max planned life of 20 years in hard Nato North Atlantic use

Penultimate Cruisers? How about Bristol type 82 - is borderline Cruiser, or even the Invincible Class Carriers they were through-deck-cruisers ;) - All the politics of calling things cruisers or destroyers and being disingenious.

WoWs is a historically accurate game regarding modeling ships...questionable...

A five minute guide that's close to 5 minutes. I've seen it all.

Yes the Russian Navy supreme as to loosing 2 cleats to the poor Japanese!

God daam, this ship look so baaad

yeah after ww2 the RN went it nerf mode both lack of funds and a government that was run from Moscow was the issue here

100th! (Is that a thing?)

Minotaur is pronounced mine-o-taur, not Minnotaur.

Actually around five minutes for once

Why on Earth would you built a cruiser with 6 inch guns - that are not dual purpose - in 1941? Why not either build more Dido's (that have DP guns) or 8 inch cruisers? 🤔

OK, we pronounce Minotaur like the yanks do now, that's interesting. I thought they might be "both valid", but increasingly not, it seems. English spoken by the English is not anymore; we need to speak like foreigners do now, because they're not both valid, cultural imperialism by foreigners is.