________Patreon What-Ifs and Alternate History Questions________ 2:05 About HMS Polyphemus bow rudders 3:43 British Pacific Fleet with Vanguard and Lion in addition to the KGVs goes to Samar in support of Taffy 3 9:48 Kamchatka used as a fireship at Tsushima 10:57 Timetravelling idea pitching to Ian Flemming 14:45 Was Pear Harbour counter productive to the Japanese in hindsight compared to more conventional warfare? (small side-tangent to previous question at start) 18:47 USA vs the world in a Pre-Dreadnought war in 1902 23:04 What would you name the ten or eleven unnamed Constitution ships in Star Trek TNG? 28:37 At Santa Cruz the two American carriers are both damaged equally. Would the USN make a stand to save them? 31:21 Rename any ship after a song title 34:41 Without dropped nuclear bombs the US and Japan make peace and ally against the USSR. Could the Japan withstand a USSR invasion with the forces they had at their historical surrender? 37:46 Expected schedule for Destroyer and Carrier Development and Guadalcanal series 39:57 If the Pearl Harbour attack had been less successful, would that have resulted in carrier tactics being developed less? 42:50 German equivalent to the Great White Fleet at 1912 and comes back through Gibraltar on 1st August 1914 46:28 Butterfly effects if the Battle at Doggar Bank had seen the Second Pacific Squardron wiped out and thus there was no Battle of Tsushima. 50:47 The Royal Navy managed to modernize all captital ships before the outbreak of WW2 55:19 Naval Treaty negotiations break down in the 1920s and it leads to war between the UK and US. Will Japan join the war? At timeing for the breakout of war would favour each nation the most? 59:48 3 days after Coronel the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from WW2 replace their WW1 namesakes 1:03:17 Favourite Dinosaurs and the ship that reflects each of them best 1:06:35 The High Seas Fleet is not scuttled. How would they be split and what effects would this have on the recipient navies? 1:10:08 1st Jan 1912, the Royal Navy plans to "Copenhangens" the High Seas Fleet, but the Germans find out with 8 hours time to prepare. 1:12:13 US trip plans 1:14:58 Japanese Kongous joining the British Fleet at Jutland 1:18:27 Alternate fuel systems like Erikson's hot air engine 1:20:35 In the late 1800 Panama is seized by the British. Is the canal still built and what other consequences could this have? 1:24:20 In 1866 France does not give in to US threats to withdraw from Mexico. How would a war have gone? 1:28:11 If Japan had not attacked the US in WW2, could the other Allies have retaken their territory with the US's help? 1:31:15 Videos with commentations on recorded war footage 1:32:18 Something about Tirpitz potentially being sent out like Bismarck if something I can't make out happened 1:34:16 Replace one allies cruiser in WW2 with a Cold War nuclear cruiser 1:35:40 Which period would you be most confident in "Conneticet Yankee" yourself into a position of leadership? 1:39:52 Indian Ocean naval traditions and shipbuilding techniques, 14th to 18th century 1:42:22 Would a space-faring Royal Navy invest heavily in tractor beam technology? 1:43:46 At the end of '43 the US stops sending anything other than ammunition and fuel to the Pacific. Can the US still win with only the forces present? 1:46:13 China's naval expansion plans from 1913 to 1915 come through. What happens next? 1:48:14 USSR stayed neutral in WW2 and the war grinds to a standstill and cold war. What would the following 5 years look like for the US and Japanese fleets? 1:50:06 Followup on VT being available earlier: How quickly could each nation come up with ECM against VT fuses? (short fallback to previous quesiton) 1:53:18 Chances of going to Tansania for a video on SMS Graf von Goetzen 1:55:14 1939 Drach is a rear admiral for a fictional island country between Scotland and Norway. Which three ships would you get? 1:58:31 US sends two New Yorks to support Guadalcanal and they arrive after the first battle 2:00:43 A drydock version of a five minute guide on the African Queen 2:03:26 Which German Admiral is most worthy of having a ship named after him post WW2? 2:06:06 Did any US sub crews try to borrow British or Dutch torpedoes to replace the defective Mark 14s? 2:07:35 Germany is allowed to keep the Nassaus and Helgolands for not scuttling the fleet post WW1. Can they be rebuilt into fast coastal defense ships? 2:10:15 What would change about Jutland if Lion had detonated due to not flooding her magazine in time? 2:12:48 What if all-big-gun design never happened for battleships. 2:15:41 WW2 with helicoptre development advanced 10 years 2:18:29 Instead of Dreadnought, coal-fired R-Classes are launched 2:20:21 US ships of the line finished before the civil war 2:22:49 Notable failed port attacks 2:26:38 Followup on Canadian Fleet question from a previous livedrydock. How would a seperate Canadian Fleet affects WW2 2:29:33 National differences in armour steel ________Super-chat questions________ 2:34:16 Would the Kido Butai been better off with Admiral Inue in charge? 2:37:37 What were the actual limitation of early 1920s torpedo bombers (as opposed to Rule the Waves 2)? 2:40:25 How would a last stand at the Battle of the Riverplate have gone? 2:44:20 USS Texas news 2:46:06 Scharnhorst vs Alaska vs Andrea Doria vs Dunqueke vs Kongou vs Renown 1v1s 2:48:52 Dystopian Wars how to play video 2:49:42 When did casemate secondaries die out? 2:51:56 Did anybody consider ramming with submarines? 2:53:17 Were you surprised the Iowa could make 36 knots? 2:55:00 Which Sci-Fi ship(s) would you most like to see in real life? 2:56:28 How many guns are enough? 2:58:22 List of best captains? 3:01:01 Refitting HMS Captain into a useful ship 3:02:30 After skinking Hood, Bismarck goes after Prince of Wales 3:08:22 Congress premium in WoWS 3:09:02 Which minor navies had the biggest technological advancements? 3:11:10 Question about WoWS Congress (3:08:22) continued 3:11:37 How does a destroyer minesweeper work? 3:13:08 How much effect did secondary batteries have in WW2 and which nation had the best? 3:15:57 Yamato survives the war. Does the US keep her or send her to Crossroads? 3:17:28 Fletcher vs Kagero vs Tribal 3:19:34 Why did Yamato have two in-line rudders? 3:21:11 Post WW1 Germany is allowed to keep the Bayerns and Königs and is given fleet allotment the side of Japan's Navy 3:23:41 Without naval treaties and a short Anglo-American war in the Carribean, how would that change the war in Europe? 3:25:39 Difference between coast defense and regular battleships. 3:27:18 Compilation of battleships at sea 3:28:06 Naval war between pre-Taranto Raid Italia and France 3:31:14 Derfilnger is sold to the US as reparations, modernized and fights at Guadalcanal 3:33:07 In the 1700 Humanty is transformed into Corgies with opposable thumbs 3:33:41 On the way to the scrapping an angry Warspite ripps a hole in spacetime and appears at Scapa Flow 3:35:03 Taffy 3 vs fully worked up Shinano + escorts 3:36:28 How well would the Graf Zeppelin have compared to contemporaries? 3:39:26 Bismarck is replaced with Iowa and the Brits have a Queen Elizabeth with Hood 3:41:15 Best reputation Japanese officers of WW2 3:42:10 Would Iron Dukes have made decent escorts in WW2? 3:43:44 Salem's main guns dual purpose? 3:45:04 HMS Captain vs floating log 3:45:21 How are the mice 3:47:12 Since 3 decker Ships of the line were more durable than 2 deckers, does that make 4 deckers like the Santisima Trinidat even better? 3:49:08 Did the Attacker class have the same issues with shear at the hangar deck as the Bogue class? 3:51:17 What if the Tegethoffs were with the High Seas Fleet? 3:52:34 WoWS Congress continued (3:08:22) ________Live-chat questions________ 3:55:08 Did you make a video on hydrofoil ships? 3:55:35 Graf Zepplin with navalized FW190 3:55:55 Which were the two most heavily produced British attack submarines? 3:56:43 Which secondary layout for 150 mm guns is better, Yamato, Jean Bart, Bismarck or Littorio? 3:58:29 It's been said that the Prussian army was an army that had a state, so what if the Royal Navy became a navy that happened to have an empire at the start of the golden age of sails? 3:59:34 Would the H41 do better if it's hunted like Bismarck? 4:00:14 The Alsace had been a good battleship if built 4:02:10 Replacing Ironbrew with Rum 4:02:56 Background poster 4:03:48 Why did you choose civil engineering over naval architecture as a career? 4:05:47 Beard trimming 4:06:29 Why were there no King George VI? 4:07:49 Will you train as a naval architect? 4:09:12 AC130 Spooky vs Scharnhorst 4:09:40 Trip including Canada along with the US?
Three ship names: for HMS Sydney (ww 2) "Waltzing Matilda". For Warspite: "Ironman" by AC DC For Kamchatka "Evil Woman" There is a Sea Shanty called "The Dreadnought" You should do a video on sea shanties. I suspect one or more recording labels would be very happy to work with you since it should open their door to a very large audience.
On your comments concerning Lion blowing up at Jutland, you make the assumption events still follow what happened historically. There is another possibility. Looking at the ship locations at that point, it seems very likely that at least the two Derflingers would immediately concentrate on the Princess Royal and they were the German ships doing the worst killing. It is likely in the confusion following Beatty's promotion to the "here after" that the three battlecruisers would not reverse course quickly. In that scenario Princess Royal is very vulnerable to follow here sisters, . Evan -Thomas was too far back to see what was happening and probably would not order an immediate withdrawal until he grasps the disaster. Also, the official policy on minimal radio use would now create a huge problem for both Evan Thomas and Jellicoe. Only full reports by radio could clarify the disaster for both Admirals but would the surviving ships use them freely enough to give an accurate picture in time to save the survivors? I suspect that Princess Royal would be crippled and eventually sunk before command is clarified and control asserted. I also suspect we would know the true strength of the mystical powers protecting New Zealand. Hipper's ships were largely intact at that point and fully capable. New Zealand was not that fast and there is the real possibility she could not reach 5th Battle Squadron in time. In addition, more German ships would be freed of having to dodge British shells as each RN ship went down and thus their gunnery improves. Hipper will press home his attack. I think the most likely scenario is Princess Royal succomes before they can reverse course under fire from Lutzow, Derfflinger. and Seydlitz. New Zealand is hit badly in a hail of gunfire and is crippled or dies in another magazine explosion. Since Tiger hit nothing, she will continue to hit nothing but will be able to open the range and reach 5th Battle Squadron. The real question is what happens when 5th Battle Squadron appears and the disaster of the RN Battlecruisers is finally understood by Evan Thomas? Is Jellicoe forced to break radio silence and his fleet detected by the Germans? Evan Thomas will collect what is left of Beatty's command and but would he head north immediately if the scouts have still not seen the High Seas fleet approaching? And in the confusion of command breakdown, would the scout report get to Evan Thomas before he is forced to engage? I think it is possible windy corner happens as historically due to command breakdown., but would the Germans actually follow to the North? Your assumption is Scheer would pursue, but I would actually suggest he would not. First, the goal of the operation was to kill the battlecruisers and and they just did it. Hipper would have won a glorious victory, but faced with the QE's, his ships would be in trouble. And the slower High Seas dreadnoughts won't be able to catch up. Hipper would pull back out of QE gunnery range and report back to Scheer and the high command. And it is likely Jellicoe wold be forced to actively break radio silence to find out what was going on and thus be found. The cooling off would probably lead to German orders to return to base. For Hipper, it is the greatest glory to head home. For Scheer, it is vindication of his plans even though he never sees the British navy. Jellicoe would be just far enough back that he can't catch the German fleet. I suspect the Invincibles would join Tiger and 5th Battle Squadron in a pursuit and harassment attack. Given historical fact it would not surprise me to see Invincible or one of her sisters also be lost with Jellicoe then ordering the battlecruisers to disengage. And I think 5th battle squadron does inflict serious damage on the German screen, but not enough to alter the balance of numbers. I would guess the QE's take enough real damage to vindicate their armor and design. Nothing will change strategically, but it will shake things up and it will dip British moral just before the Somme. Post Jutland, the Renowns are immediately given a major rebuild to increase armor to 12" with real decks and blistering reducing speed to 29/30 knots. The Admiral class gets a high priority boost, very rapid redesign to enlarged QE's and all get built. The G3's get built as fast battleships. Tiger will get an overhaul that increases her armor to fast battleship status though she is now an odd duckling. The Invincibles and Australia are then heavily restricted in missions. And the oddest ducklings of all (Furious, Glorious and Courageous) never get turrets and head toward carriers immediately. I think you will see both IJN and USN both move toward fast battleships and drop the Amagi and Lexington concepts. And that would have interesting impacts on future carrier development, probably slowing things by 15-+ years.
Thanks, Drachinifel, for the remarkable quality and prodigious quantity of content. I've happily learned more naval history than I ever intended. Best regards from the Mississippi home of the man for whom CVN-74 is named.
A hot air engine? Oh, looking forward to hearing how one plans to pack Congress or Parliament into a warship and developing some useful power with all the hot air.
Regarding travel in the US - August is basically the hottest month, not exactly the time to be running up and down ladders in ships. Late September, early October would be much more enjoyable.
As far as replacing a cruiser from WW2 with a modern CGN, I'd be tempted to replace USS San Diego, an Atlanta class cruiser that had almost as many battle stars as Enterprise, with 18. Better AA and radar might have done quite a bit to help save Hornet, which Dan Diego was escorting at the time.
The United earth space navy: lazers missiles cannons. Royal navy star corp: **builds a magnetic drone with a large string bag, grabber arm and circular saw** your super mega star destroyer? No, my super mega star destroyer peices
While it could be a bad omen since nothing is truly this, "Indestructible" by EXILE fits well even lyrically for a ship name. (Yes, I know that's not the full title of the English version of the Street Fighter IV theme, and yes, it's cheesy pop. Still love it.) For a carrier that always arrives in time to save people, "Winged Hussars". For a ship meant to cause chaotic mass destruction: "World Eater" by Bolt Thrower. Ship's motto: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"
Did literally seconds of exhaustive research, and found a few song titles that would fit warships: "You'd Better Runaway", "Magic", "Poison", "Grenade", "Kryptonite", "Dynamite", "Maneater" and "(Let's Get) Physical".
Drach doesn't seem to realize Alaska had 9 inches of belt, same as refit Repulse, same as Dunquerque, Strasburg had a slightly thicker belt. Alaska had no TDS.
I know you mentioned it in a previous livestream but I couldn't find it. what's the name of the website where you got the Glowworm picture in the background
I would love to hear about Carteret Jersey attack .. i understand that at one point the commander of the channel islands was once the commander of Scharnhorst? Kind regards x
2:12:48 If a treaty enforced only two main gun turrets of X size, I wonder if that would lead to earlier quad turrets or Tillman style six-barrel turrets. Imagine a Pre-Dreadnought style ship with quad (or bigger) turrets fore and aft. Or maybe it would alternatively lead to Dunquerke/Richilieu style ships much sooner.
Drach, you know there was a plan to build a 1-1 Enterprise A in downtown Vegas way back when they were looking to revitalize downtown. The idea amazingly made it through all the approvals at the city level. And then got through all the approvals at Paramount. Until. Then head of the studio simply said "no".
The US taking on the world in 1902? There would have been a hilarious number of USN 8" and 12" guns blowing up, because BuOrd did not understand the dynamics of smokeless powder and did not design the chases of the guns strong enough. Iowa blew up two of it's 8" guns on the same day in target practice. A modification program to reinforce the guns was started in 1906. Then add in the many explosions in USN guns and turrets that occurred in that era due to the lack of an air purge system to blow embers out of the tube before reloading and the complete lack of flash doors in the turrets and hoists.
this is the Long version: in 1880 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote "Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. War is part of God's world-order." The US hailed him as the new messiah and a new political party based on eternal war takes hold of the us congress 1890 with the aim to turn America into a munitions factory to conquer everyone. Alfred Thayer Mahan's book (1892) on naval influence convinces the us to fully invest in naval power. Many new ports and construction yards are created/expanded to facilitate the building of a huge navy. the Spanish American war(1898) sets America's sites on all of Europe leading to the America vs the world war of 1902 lead by Eternal Warlord of the Americans, Theodore Roosevelt. Can America, defeat everyone with their all out effort? What would the battles look like in the massive fleet actions resulting from this? i was rather drunk that night =p maybe buord could be the first target of the eternal war, they deserve it and were close enough to an enemy anyway right?
Morning Drach You might be surprised but the U-Class is not the most produced British Attack Submarine its the S-class attack submarine actually with 62 actually, followed by the E-class attack submarine with 58, the Triton class or T-Class attack submarine with 53, the U-class attack submarine in 4th with 49 and 5th is the H-class attack submarine with 42 but ironically the L-class attack submarine despite having 27 built was intended to have 73 built but 56 got cancelled
The Great German Fleet if caught near the UK when the UK declare war an Germany the German Fleet best option is to empty their magazines into a British port run across the channel and scuttle in a French shipping channel.
With the North Sea Island scenario, what about 3 T class submarines? 30 torpedoes heading towards an in invasion fleet would probably cause them to have a bad day
I suspect poorly. The German 8" guns dramatically outrange the 5.25" guns and have an actual AP shell that should penetrate the Dido's armor at reasonable ranges. The 5.25" only has a semi-armor piercing (SAP) shell, which might only be able to penetrate the Hipper's armor within about 10,000 yards. The Dido would need to try to swamp the Hipper with HE to damage fire control before the Hipper starts getting hits, but again the Dido's guns are significantly outranged.
@@MrTScolaro I feel like that could use some elaboration. At night, the side with radar can (depending on the radar) have a significant advantage over one without radar, but the Hipper-class will almost certainly have radar as well. As I understand it, the advantage of centimeter-wave radar over meter or decimeter-wave radar is more a matter of fine discrimination (picking up a periscope, say, or picking a ship up against the backdrop of an island). On the open ocean in the north Atlantic or North Sea, I'm not sure the Dido's radar would be a huge advantage, as the Hipper should still detect it early enough to take advantage of its longer range. Among the islands of the Aegean or south Pacific, the opening range might be short enough for the Dido's 5.25 SAP shells to make it through the Hipper's armor protection and for torpedoes to have a reasonable chance to hit, but any 8" hits will go right through the Dido's armor and the Hipper has torpedoes too.
@@kemarisite In general I believe Axis radar was inferior. Japanese radar was next to useless (e.g. the sinking of the Kongo) and I am underwhelmed by the performance of German naval radar. For example, Scharnhorst in her last battle barely hit anything. Conversely allied fire control radar, particularly after 1942 was excellent. It is quite likely Hipper would be unable to hit Dido at night. Remember, it is not just discovering there is a target there, but it is also converting that information into an effective firing solution. The allies had superior radar but that advantage was nowhere near as great as the overwhelming advantage the allies had in director technology where radar information is converted into a firing solution. Maybe you know better than I do, but I am pretty much unaware of any German surface combatant hitting an enemy with a torpedo.
Another decent choice for a WWII German naval officers Captain Hans Langsdorff would be a decent choice to. He did very well with Graf Spee and was well respected by both sides.
Pretty sad you can't get a Martini Henry to shoot. They are so old that in the USA, they are considered antique firearms and you can get them through the mail. They are cool guns to shoot.
Given it is an item which was specifically designed to kill. I'm pretty happy that such a thing isn't easy to come by or lawful to shoot without a license here in England. We have lots of silly laws. Some which are Draconian and a fair few which skirt the wrong side of "freedom" and personal rights. But heavily controlling items that are designed to kill people. That one I can get on board with. Cool or not
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 Sorry, I meant you can buy one, with ammo in the mail and go fire it anytime you want. No license or anything else needed. Like here for example. www.ima-usa.com/collections/martini-henry-rifle I can buy it, buy some ammo, get them shipped to my house and go shoot them as I want.
@@MaximMachineGun Hi, no problem I understand that, I was just pointing out that you can buy and own one here easily enough, It's just that if you want to shoot it then there are a range of hoops you have to jump through.
"Pend Orielle" as in "Farragut Naval Training Station, Lake Pend Orielle, Idaho, USA, is pronounced, "Pond ohRAY" or "Pond ahRAY" (or at least something close to one of those two, I'm only an occasional visitor, so probably not perfect myself)
When you do the TF 34 alternative history, will you have the intercept at the mouth of San Bernadino coming through at night or preventing the remnants from escaping back through the straight around mid afternoon.
On the topic of the German Navy naming stuff, their base in Kiel has recently decided to rename several bits from "Tirpitz" and "Scheer" to Gorch Fock and Oskar Kusch. www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisation/marine/aktuelles/umbenennungen-marine-kiel-wik-5012342 (They don't have their news in English as well, unfortunately.) But yeah, these days our ships are named geographically (states for frigates, cities for corvettes and other stuff, major rivers for tenders, islands for tugs) or animals (older auxiliaries). Naming anything important after "great" admirals and such is way too much of a minefield considering our history.
@@Betrix5060 You're not wrong, but: it was up to the sailors stationed there, and they no longer identified with those two. And unless you're interested in military and naval history, WW1 and WW2 are starting to blur together into "not a good time", especially after our current gen neo-nazis got the Imperial war ensign banned (the Nazi war ensign already was, so they used the Imperial one as "replacement" at their marches). I'd also wager they wanted to set a sign by naming one jetty after a u-boat commander who was executed for speaking his mind too freely - which was a problem because he was against Hitler, the Nazis, and the war. The army has had problems with neo-nazis and other far-rights in their ranks ever since we dropped military service.
@@davidbrennan660 LOL. I worked as an insurance adjuster for a while - chasing hurricanes - the roofs the archies dream up might look nice. They leak and tend to trap winds and pile up water, both of which arrive in large quantities during hurricanes. Not thinking about where one is building a house, or about the possible effects of weather on said structure, seems to be the mark of a successful architect. I say this based on evidence. The older houses, when reasonably maintained, faired much better.
If Halsey had just left part of one of his TFs behind, Yamato would have gone down that day. Really didn’t need one of them to sink those undefended carriers. Not even as big as the British fleet.
Hey Drach great content as anyway I listen to you a lot when I paint it is always great. Btw I saw a Japanese movie when I was in Japan 2 years ago about the internal conflict of the IJN surrounding building Battleship Yamato maybe you should check it out. I think they have a Western release called The Great War of Archimedes.
Hate to complain Drach I love the channel but I had a hard time hearing this one? Maybe my ears are getting worse. Anyway I'm a veteran and my ears are trashed so I'm especially sensitive to slightly lower than normal volume!
Jump right into the Frank Zappa catalog for ships names.... some would be fantastic, “The Grand Wazoo” others, maybe not so, “Stink Foot” and perhaps dozens of others that would make for interesting communications, press releases, and the records of servicemen in later years! “ I served my final years aboard the HMS Crab grass Baby”. I was hoping for a transfer to the new frigate “Uncle Remus” but it did not work out. An additional thought: “USS Dogbreath” Some may not realize “Gloworm” is a song title, a fantastic Hit for the Mills Brothers. I had an original copy of it, however it disappeared from my dorm room in the 70s
________Patreon What-Ifs and Alternate History Questions________
2:05 About HMS Polyphemus bow rudders
3:43 British Pacific Fleet with Vanguard and Lion in addition to the KGVs goes to Samar in support of Taffy 3
9:48 Kamchatka used as a fireship at Tsushima
10:57 Timetravelling idea pitching to Ian Flemming
14:45 Was Pear Harbour counter productive to the Japanese in hindsight compared to more conventional warfare? (small side-tangent to previous question at start)
18:47 USA vs the world in a Pre-Dreadnought war in 1902
23:04 What would you name the ten or eleven unnamed Constitution ships in Star Trek TNG?
28:37 At Santa Cruz the two American carriers are both damaged equally. Would the USN make a stand to save them?
31:21 Rename any ship after a song title
34:41 Without dropped nuclear bombs the US and Japan make peace and ally against the USSR. Could the Japan withstand a USSR invasion with the forces they had at their historical surrender?
37:46 Expected schedule for Destroyer and Carrier Development and Guadalcanal series
39:57 If the Pearl Harbour attack had been less successful, would that have resulted in carrier tactics being developed less?
42:50 German equivalent to the Great White Fleet at 1912 and comes back through Gibraltar on 1st August 1914
46:28 Butterfly effects if the Battle at Doggar Bank had seen the Second Pacific Squardron wiped out and thus there was no Battle of Tsushima.
50:47 The Royal Navy managed to modernize all captital ships before the outbreak of WW2
55:19 Naval Treaty negotiations break down in the 1920s and it leads to war between the UK and US. Will Japan join the war? At timeing for the breakout of war would favour each nation the most?
59:48 3 days after Coronel the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from WW2 replace their WW1 namesakes
1:03:17 Favourite Dinosaurs and the ship that reflects each of them best
1:06:35 The High Seas Fleet is not scuttled. How would they be split and what effects would this have on the recipient navies?
1:10:08 1st Jan 1912, the Royal Navy plans to "Copenhangens" the High Seas Fleet, but the Germans find out with 8 hours time to prepare.
1:12:13 US trip plans
1:14:58 Japanese Kongous joining the British Fleet at Jutland
1:18:27 Alternate fuel systems like Erikson's hot air engine
1:20:35 In the late 1800 Panama is seized by the British. Is the canal still built and what other consequences could this have?
1:24:20 In 1866 France does not give in to US threats to withdraw from Mexico. How would a war have gone?
1:28:11 If Japan had not attacked the US in WW2, could the other Allies have retaken their territory with the US's help?
1:31:15 Videos with commentations on recorded war footage
1:32:18 Something about Tirpitz potentially being sent out like Bismarck if something I can't make out happened
1:34:16 Replace one allies cruiser in WW2 with a Cold War nuclear cruiser
1:35:40 Which period would you be most confident in "Conneticet Yankee" yourself into a position of leadership?
1:39:52 Indian Ocean naval traditions and shipbuilding techniques, 14th to 18th century
1:42:22 Would a space-faring Royal Navy invest heavily in tractor beam technology?
1:43:46 At the end of '43 the US stops sending anything other than ammunition and fuel to the Pacific. Can the US still win with only the forces present?
1:46:13 China's naval expansion plans from 1913 to 1915 come through. What happens next?
1:48:14 USSR stayed neutral in WW2 and the war grinds to a standstill and cold war. What would the following 5 years look like for the US and Japanese fleets?
1:50:06 Followup on VT being available earlier: How quickly could each nation come up with ECM against VT fuses? (short fallback to previous quesiton)
1:53:18 Chances of going to Tansania for a video on SMS Graf von Goetzen
1:55:14 1939 Drach is a rear admiral for a fictional island country between Scotland and Norway. Which three ships would you get?
1:58:31 US sends two New Yorks to support Guadalcanal and they arrive after the first battle
2:00:43 A drydock version of a five minute guide on the African Queen
2:03:26 Which German Admiral is most worthy of having a ship named after him post WW2?
2:06:06 Did any US sub crews try to borrow British or Dutch torpedoes to replace the defective Mark 14s?
2:07:35 Germany is allowed to keep the Nassaus and Helgolands for not scuttling the fleet post WW1. Can they be rebuilt into fast coastal defense ships?
2:10:15 What would change about Jutland if Lion had detonated due to not flooding her magazine in time?
2:12:48 What if all-big-gun design never happened for battleships.
2:15:41 WW2 with helicoptre development advanced 10 years
2:18:29 Instead of Dreadnought, coal-fired R-Classes are launched
2:20:21 US ships of the line finished before the civil war
2:22:49 Notable failed port attacks
2:26:38 Followup on Canadian Fleet question from a previous livedrydock. How would a seperate Canadian Fleet affects WW2
2:29:33 National differences in armour steel
________Super-chat questions________
2:34:16 Would the Kido Butai been better off with Admiral Inue in charge?
2:37:37 What were the actual limitation of early 1920s torpedo bombers (as opposed to Rule the Waves 2)?
2:40:25 How would a last stand at the Battle of the Riverplate have gone?
2:44:20 USS Texas news
2:46:06 Scharnhorst vs Alaska vs Andrea Doria vs Dunqueke vs Kongou vs Renown 1v1s
2:48:52 Dystopian Wars how to play video
2:49:42 When did casemate secondaries die out?
2:51:56 Did anybody consider ramming with submarines?
2:53:17 Were you surprised the Iowa could make 36 knots?
2:55:00 Which Sci-Fi ship(s) would you most like to see in real life?
2:56:28 How many guns are enough?
2:58:22 List of best captains?
3:01:01 Refitting HMS Captain into a useful ship
3:02:30 After skinking Hood, Bismarck goes after Prince of Wales
3:08:22 Congress premium in WoWS
3:09:02 Which minor navies had the biggest technological advancements?
3:11:10 Question about WoWS Congress (3:08:22) continued
3:11:37 How does a destroyer minesweeper work?
3:13:08 How much effect did secondary batteries have in WW2 and which nation had the best?
3:15:57 Yamato survives the war. Does the US keep her or send her to Crossroads?
3:17:28 Fletcher vs Kagero vs Tribal
3:19:34 Why did Yamato have two in-line rudders?
3:21:11 Post WW1 Germany is allowed to keep the Bayerns and Königs and is given fleet allotment the side of Japan's Navy
3:23:41 Without naval treaties and a short Anglo-American war in the Carribean, how would that change the war in Europe?
3:25:39 Difference between coast defense and regular battleships.
3:27:18 Compilation of battleships at sea
3:28:06 Naval war between pre-Taranto Raid Italia and France
3:31:14 Derfilnger is sold to the US as reparations, modernized and fights at Guadalcanal
3:33:07 In the 1700 Humanty is transformed into Corgies with opposable thumbs
3:33:41 On the way to the scrapping an angry Warspite ripps a hole in spacetime and appears at Scapa Flow
3:35:03 Taffy 3 vs fully worked up Shinano + escorts
3:36:28 How well would the Graf Zeppelin have compared to contemporaries?
3:39:26 Bismarck is replaced with Iowa and the Brits have a Queen Elizabeth with Hood
3:41:15 Best reputation Japanese officers of WW2
3:42:10 Would Iron Dukes have made decent escorts in WW2?
3:43:44 Salem's main guns dual purpose?
3:45:04 HMS Captain vs floating log
3:45:21 How are the mice
3:47:12 Since 3 decker Ships of the line were more durable than 2 deckers, does that make 4 deckers like the Santisima Trinidat even better?
3:49:08 Did the Attacker class have the same issues with shear at the hangar deck as the Bogue class?
3:51:17 What if the Tegethoffs were with the High Seas Fleet?
3:52:34 WoWS Congress continued (3:08:22)
________Live-chat questions________
3:55:08 Did you make a video on hydrofoil ships?
3:55:35 Graf Zepplin with navalized FW190
3:55:55 Which were the two most heavily produced British attack submarines?
3:56:43 Which secondary layout for 150 mm guns is better, Yamato, Jean Bart, Bismarck or Littorio?
3:58:29 It's been said that the Prussian army was an army that had a state, so what if the Royal Navy became a navy that happened to have an empire at the start of the golden age of sails?
3:59:34 Would the H41 do better if it's hunted like Bismarck?
4:00:14 The Alsace had been a good battleship if built
4:02:10 Replacing Ironbrew with Rum
4:02:56 Background poster
4:03:48 Why did you choose civil engineering over naval architecture as a career?
4:05:47 Beard trimming
4:06:29 Why were there no King George VI?
4:07:49 Will you train as a naval architect?
4:09:12 AC130 Spooky vs Scharnhorst
4:09:40 Trip including Canada along with the US?
What was the speed and capacity of the US Navys support ships in 1939?
Three ship names:
for HMS Sydney (ww 2) "Waltzing Matilda".
For Warspite: "Ironman" by AC DC
For Kamchatka "Evil Woman"
There is a Sea Shanty called "The Dreadnought"
You should do a video on sea shanties. I suspect one or more recording labels would be very happy to work with you since it should open their door to a very large audience.
On your comments concerning Lion blowing up at Jutland, you make the assumption events still follow what happened historically. There is another possibility. Looking at the ship locations at that point, it seems very likely that at least the two Derflingers would immediately concentrate on the Princess Royal and they were the German ships doing the worst killing. It is likely in the confusion following Beatty's promotion to the "here after" that the three battlecruisers would not reverse course quickly. In that scenario Princess Royal is very vulnerable to follow here sisters, . Evan -Thomas was too far back to see what was happening and probably would not order an immediate withdrawal until he grasps the disaster. Also, the official policy on minimal radio use would now create a huge problem for both Evan Thomas and Jellicoe. Only full reports by radio could clarify the disaster for both Admirals but would the surviving ships use them freely enough to give an accurate picture in time to save the survivors? I suspect that Princess Royal would be crippled and eventually sunk before command is clarified and control asserted. I also suspect we would know the true strength of the mystical powers protecting New Zealand. Hipper's ships were largely intact at that point and fully capable. New Zealand was not that fast and there is the real possibility she could not reach 5th Battle Squadron in time. In addition, more German ships would be freed of having to dodge British shells as each RN ship went down and thus their gunnery improves. Hipper will press home his attack.
I think the most likely scenario is Princess Royal succomes before they can reverse course under fire from Lutzow, Derfflinger. and Seydlitz. New Zealand is hit badly in a hail of gunfire and is crippled or dies in another magazine explosion. Since Tiger hit nothing, she will continue to hit nothing but will be able to open the range and reach 5th Battle Squadron. The real question is what happens when 5th Battle Squadron appears and the disaster of the RN Battlecruisers is finally understood by Evan Thomas? Is Jellicoe forced to break radio silence and his fleet detected by the Germans? Evan Thomas will collect what is left of Beatty's command and but would he head north immediately if the scouts have still not seen the High Seas fleet approaching? And in the confusion of command breakdown, would the scout report get to Evan Thomas before he is forced to engage? I think it is possible windy corner happens as historically due to command breakdown., but would the Germans actually follow to the North? Your assumption is Scheer would pursue, but I would actually suggest he would not. First, the goal of the operation was to kill the battlecruisers and and they just did it. Hipper would have won a glorious victory, but faced with the QE's, his ships would be in trouble. And the slower High Seas dreadnoughts won't be able to catch up. Hipper would pull back out of QE gunnery range and report back to Scheer and the high command. And it is likely Jellicoe wold be forced to actively break radio silence to find out what was going on and thus be found. The cooling off would probably lead to German orders to return to base. For Hipper, it is the greatest glory to head home. For Scheer, it is vindication of his plans even though he never sees the British navy. Jellicoe would be just far enough back that he can't catch the German fleet. I suspect the Invincibles would join Tiger and 5th Battle Squadron in a pursuit and harassment attack. Given historical fact it would not surprise me to see Invincible or one of her sisters also be lost with Jellicoe then ordering the battlecruisers to disengage. And I think 5th battle squadron does inflict serious damage on the German screen, but not enough to alter the balance of numbers. I would guess the QE's take enough real damage to vindicate their armor and design. Nothing will change strategically, but it will shake things up and it will dip British moral just before the Somme.
Post Jutland, the Renowns are immediately given a major rebuild to increase armor to 12" with real decks and blistering reducing speed to 29/30 knots. The Admiral class gets a high priority boost, very rapid redesign to enlarged QE's and all get built. The G3's get built as fast battleships. Tiger will get an overhaul that increases her armor to fast battleship status though she is now an odd duckling. The Invincibles and Australia are then heavily restricted in missions. And the oddest ducklings of all (Furious, Glorious and Courageous) never get turrets and head toward carriers immediately.
I think you will see both IJN and USN both move toward fast battleships and drop the Amagi and Lexington concepts. And that would have interesting impacts on future carrier development, probably slowing things by 15-+ years.
not all heroes wear capes!
@@jamesb4789 very interesting analysis, I must say.
Can't get enough of your videos they are absolutely amazing. Hands down the best channel on UA-cam regarding naval history! 👏👏
Thanks, Drachinifel, for the remarkable quality and prodigious quantity of content. I've happily learned more naval history than I ever intended. Best regards from the Mississippi home of the man for whom CVN-74 is named.
I think the "warship that swallows other ships" Bond idea is just Tomorrow Never Dies
A hot air engine? Oh, looking forward to hearing how one plans to pack Congress or Parliament into a warship and developing some useful power with all the hot air.
Lol
I did the same joke for 'where is a good spot to install wind turbines.'
A port's defenses work every time the enemy decides not to attack it.
Always love these videos! Great job and answered so many of my questions I've had for years with no one to ask.👍♥️
Regarding travel in the US - August is basically the hottest month, not exactly the time to be running up and down ladders in ships. Late September, early October would be much more enjoyable.
October would be much better than August to visit since most of the USA is bloody hot and/or humid in August.
As far as replacing a cruiser from WW2 with a modern CGN, I'd be tempted to replace USS San Diego, an Atlanta class cruiser that had almost as many battle stars as Enterprise, with 18. Better AA and radar might have done quite a bit to help save Hornet, which Dan Diego was escorting at the time.
"Thunderstruck" would be a great name for a warship. (Responded as soon as I heard the question. It seems that this was a popular idea!)
As for Ships with song names, there was a 1st rate called HMS Waterloo launched in 1833
It sunk the Spanish ship Fernando at the Battle of Trafalgar
We are NOT namimg ships after ABBA songs. Pretty sure that was declared in the Washington Naval Treaty 😂
@@crazylegssw HMS Dancing Queen would be a great name for a destroyer or a very fast light cruiser.
@@stanleyrogouski "Super Trooper" is also a great name for some LHD.
I vote for an Italian ship named named Mama Mia
The United earth space navy: lazers missiles cannons.
Royal navy star corp: **builds a magnetic drone with a large string bag, grabber arm and circular saw** your super mega star destroyer? No, my super mega star destroyer peices
While it could be a bad omen since nothing is truly this, "Indestructible" by EXILE fits well even lyrically for a ship name. (Yes, I know that's not the full title of the English version of the Street Fighter IV theme, and yes, it's cheesy pop. Still love it.) For a carrier that always arrives in time to save people, "Winged Hussars".
For a ship meant to cause chaotic mass destruction: "World Eater" by Bolt Thrower. Ship's motto: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"
I mean, HMS Indestructible, tempting fate aside, definitely fits the Royal Navy naming scheme (Inflexible, Indomitable, Irresistible, etc.)
For naming a ship after a song, it's got to be a battleship named "Thunderstruck".
Polish Destroyer taking on Bismarck......"Crazy Train"
Did literally seconds of exhaustive research, and found a few song titles that would fit warships: "You'd Better Runaway", "Magic", "Poison", "Grenade", "Kryptonite", "Dynamite", "Maneater" and "(Let's Get) Physical".
Song name for ship: Lexington -> I get knocked down, but I get back up again
I think this song would go better with the Saratoga
Drach doesn't seem to realize Alaska had 9 inches of belt, same as refit Repulse, same as Dunquerque, Strasburg had a slightly thicker belt. Alaska had no TDS.
Catching up with this. First thing that sprang to mind for a ship that embodies a stegosaurus was actually a Korean turtle ship.
I know you mentioned it in a previous livestream but I couldn't find it. what's the name of the website where you got the Glowworm picture in the background
Check out Spacepickshovel on twitter or teespring
Also, Akizuki ( Autumn Moon) is pretty close to Neil Young's song Harvest Moon
Just need one called Old Man and Damage Done lol
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I would love to hear about Carteret Jersey attack .. i understand that at one point the commander of the channel islands was once the commander of Scharnhorst? Kind regards x
USS Derfflinger. Love it. Modernized of course.
According to Guinness World Records in 1968 Iowa with a light load hit 35.2 knots and sustained that speed for 6 hours.
Excellent channel. Very much enjoy your stories.
2:12:48 If a treaty enforced only two main gun turrets of X size, I wonder if that would lead to earlier quad turrets or Tillman style six-barrel turrets. Imagine a Pre-Dreadnought style ship with quad (or bigger) turrets fore and aft. Or maybe it would alternatively lead to Dunquerke/Richilieu style ships much sooner.
@32:00 I'd rename Dreadnaught "hysteria" (by muse). Given the result of her launching.
I fully and happily agree with this 🙂
Timestamp friends, where art thou? 😁
Time does not exist for the Drach
@@Blackjack701AD it is a concept only for mortals such as us.
Would you do a video on HMS Venerable/HrMs Karel Doorman?
I know it’s not exclusively WW2 but it had a long interesting career
Drach, you know there was a plan to build a 1-1 Enterprise A in downtown Vegas way back when they were looking to revitalize downtown. The idea amazingly made it through all the approvals at the city level. And then got through all the approvals at Paramount. Until. Then head of the studio simply said "no".
When will we see "I survived a Drach live stream" T-shirts. As always, the best use of 4 hours, eleven minutes and 40 seconds I had since a week ago.
Ship names based on songs: HMS Pinfaore.
The US taking on the world in 1902? There would have been a hilarious number of USN 8" and 12" guns blowing up, because BuOrd did not understand the dynamics of smokeless powder and did not design the chases of the guns strong enough. Iowa blew up two of it's 8" guns on the same day in target practice. A modification program to reinforce the guns was started in 1906. Then add in the many explosions in USN guns and turrets that occurred in that era due to the lack of an air purge system to blow embers out of the tube before reloading and the complete lack of flash doors in the turrets and hoists.
this is the Long version: in 1880 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote "Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. War is part of God's world-order." The US hailed him as the new messiah and a new political party based on eternal war takes hold of the us congress 1890 with the aim to turn America into a munitions factory to conquer everyone. Alfred Thayer Mahan's book (1892) on naval influence convinces the us to fully invest in naval power. Many new ports and construction yards are created/expanded to facilitate the building of a huge navy. the Spanish American war(1898) sets America's sites on all of Europe leading to the America vs the world war of 1902 lead by Eternal Warlord of the Americans, Theodore Roosevelt. Can America, defeat everyone with their all out effort? What would the battles look like in the massive fleet actions resulting from this?
i was rather drunk that night =p maybe buord could be the first target of the eternal war, they deserve it and were close enough to an enemy anyway right?
Dang it....I can't believe I missed another live segment...
3:03:27 except Norfolk and Suffolk were north of Bismarck, while Prince of Wales was south of it. Guess which ships they have to go thru to link up?
Bismarck held its fire initially, PoW had free firing for awhile. Why are you such a fanboy?
These comments are very confusing
@@AdamMGTF listen to what he says
Do you think WoWs did KGV injustice by placing it at tier 7 with heavily nerfed armor, and do you think it is worthy to be placed at tier 8?
Morning Drach
You might be surprised but the U-Class is not the most produced British Attack Submarine
its the S-class attack submarine actually with 62 actually, followed by the E-class attack submarine with 58, the Triton class or T-Class attack submarine with 53, the U-class attack submarine in 4th with 49 and 5th is the H-class attack submarine with 42 but ironically the
L-class attack submarine despite having 27 built was intended to have 73 built but 56 got cancelled
The Great German Fleet if caught near the UK when the UK declare war an Germany the German Fleet best option is to empty their magazines into a British port run across the channel and scuttle in a French shipping channel.
videos like this make great background for doing chores
Song titles as ship names George V to ' sink the Bismarck'. We don’t mind a bit of trolling do we?
Is gloworms last stand available for purchase as a poster
its a poster over at spacepickshovel's store teespring.com/stores/spacepickshovel
@@kazeshi2 thank you. I look forward to hanging it on my wall.
I want to serve on board HMS Baryonyx!
With the North Sea Island scenario, what about 3 T class submarines? 30 torpedoes heading towards an in invasion fleet would probably cause them to have a bad day
Have you a story about HMCS Canada?
Naming ships after song titles? Perhaps one of the Tegethoffs could be called SMS _Bohemian Rhapsody_
How would a Dido class cruiser do versus a Hipper class? It was a possible scenario in the Alistair McLean story "HMS Ulysses."
I suspect poorly. The German 8" guns dramatically outrange the 5.25" guns and have an actual AP shell that should penetrate the Dido's armor at reasonable ranges. The 5.25" only has a semi-armor piercing (SAP) shell, which might only be able to penetrate the Hipper's armor within about 10,000 yards. The Dido would need to try to swamp the Hipper with HE to damage fire control before the Hipper starts getting hits, but again the Dido's guns are significantly outranged.
@@kemarisite yeah not well but german ap shells had serious issues with their fuses working I think
At night, a Dido would likely do very well against Hipper class.
@@MrTScolaro I feel like that could use some elaboration. At night, the side with radar can (depending on the radar) have a significant advantage over one without radar, but the Hipper-class will almost certainly have radar as well. As I understand it, the advantage of centimeter-wave radar over meter or decimeter-wave radar is more a matter of fine discrimination (picking up a periscope, say, or picking a ship up against the backdrop of an island). On the open ocean in the north Atlantic or North Sea, I'm not sure the Dido's radar would be a huge advantage, as the Hipper should still detect it early enough to take advantage of its longer range. Among the islands of the Aegean or south Pacific, the opening range might be short enough for the Dido's 5.25 SAP shells to make it through the Hipper's armor protection and for torpedoes to have a reasonable chance to hit, but any 8" hits will go right through the Dido's armor and the Hipper has torpedoes too.
@@kemarisite In general I believe Axis radar was inferior. Japanese radar was next to useless (e.g. the sinking of the Kongo) and I am underwhelmed by the performance of German naval radar. For example, Scharnhorst in her last battle barely hit anything. Conversely allied fire control radar, particularly after 1942 was excellent. It is quite likely Hipper would be unable to hit Dido at night. Remember, it is not just discovering there is a target there, but it is also converting that information into an effective firing solution. The allies had superior radar but that advantage was nowhere near as great as the overwhelming advantage the allies had in director technology where radar information is converted into a firing solution.
Maybe you know better than I do, but I am pretty much unaware of any German surface combatant hitting an enemy with a torpedo.
Another decent choice for a WWII German naval officers Captain Hans Langsdorff would be a decent choice to. He did very well with Graf Spee and was well respected by both sides.
Pretty sad you can't get a Martini Henry to shoot. They are so old that in the USA, they are considered antique firearms and you can get them through the mail. They are cool guns to shoot.
Same thing applies in the UK. You can buy one any time you wish. If you actually want to fire it then you would need to apply for a firearms licence.
Given it is an item which was specifically designed to kill. I'm pretty happy that such a thing isn't easy to come by or lawful to shoot without a license here in England.
We have lots of silly laws. Some which are Draconian and a fair few which skirt the wrong side of "freedom" and personal rights. But heavily controlling items that are designed to kill people. That one I can get on board with. Cool or not
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 Sorry, I meant you can buy one, with ammo in the mail and go fire it anytime you want. No license or anything else needed. Like here for example. www.ima-usa.com/collections/martini-henry-rifle I can buy it, buy some ammo, get them shipped to my house and go shoot them as I want.
@@MaximMachineGun Hi, no problem I understand that, I was just pointing out that you can buy and own one here easily enough, It's just that if you want to shoot it then there are a range of hoops you have to jump through.
HEy Drach, Just checking in, making sure you are alright.
"Pend Orielle" as in "Farragut Naval Training Station, Lake Pend Orielle, Idaho, USA, is pronounced, "Pond ohRAY" or "Pond ahRAY" (or at least something close to one of those two, I'm only an occasional visitor, so probably not perfect myself)
When you do the TF 34 alternative history, will you have the intercept at the mouth of San Bernadino coming through at night or preventing the remnants from escaping back through the straight around mid afternoon.
On the topic of the German Navy naming stuff, their base in Kiel has recently decided to rename several bits from "Tirpitz" and "Scheer" to Gorch Fock and Oskar Kusch.
www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisation/marine/aktuelles/umbenennungen-marine-kiel-wik-5012342 (They don't have their news in English as well, unfortunately.)
But yeah, these days our ships are named geographically (states for frigates, cities for corvettes and other stuff, major rivers for tenders, islands for tugs) or animals (older auxiliaries). Naming anything important after "great" admirals and such is way too much of a minefield considering our history.
Seriously? Tirpitz and Scheer should be far game given their accomplishments and era of service.
@@Betrix5060 You're not wrong, but:
it was up to the sailors stationed there, and they no longer identified with those two. And unless you're interested in military and naval history, WW1 and WW2 are starting to blur together into "not a good time", especially after our current gen neo-nazis got the Imperial war ensign banned (the Nazi war ensign already was, so they used the Imperial one as "replacement" at their marches).
I'd also wager they wanted to set a sign by naming one jetty after a u-boat commander who was executed for speaking his mind too freely - which was a problem because he was against Hitler, the Nazis, and the war. The army has had problems with neo-nazis and other far-rights in their ranks ever since we dropped military service.
Actually a pre-D-Day Bond could be very interesting.
I have the same reaction to the "A" word. Experience will do that.
Their “ vision “is akin to the Eldritch horror of the Cthulhu mythos at times for an Engineer .
@@davidbrennan660 LOL. I worked as an insurance adjuster for a while - chasing hurricanes - the roofs the archies dream up might look nice. They leak and tend to trap winds and pile up water, both of which arrive in large quantities during hurricanes.
Not thinking about where one is building a house, or about the possible effects of weather on said structure, seems to be the mark of a successful architect. I say this based on evidence. The older houses, when reasonably maintained, faired much better.
Dinoships sound much more fun than shipgirls ala Azure Lane and Kantai Collection if you ask me. ^^
If Halsey had just left part of one of his TFs behind, Yamato would have gone down that day. Really didn’t need one of them to sink those undefended carriers. Not even as big as the British fleet.
Hey Drach great content as anyway I listen to you a lot when I paint it is always great. Btw I saw a Japanese movie when I was in Japan 2 years ago about the internal conflict of the IJN surrounding building Battleship Yamato maybe you should check it out. I think they have a Western release called The Great War of Archimedes.
Hmm Warspite or
Rodney with HMS painkiller?
(Judas Priest)
USS Thunderchild was a beautiful ship
Its a class of Starship in Trek too. Looks fab!
HMS Warspite renamed to hello by Adele
When COVID is over, and you go and visit a ship some where. would you do a little tour party around a ship? :)
Confessor and Hells Bells for names
Dont forget Aden, Brits stole that too...LOL! ( i mean appropriated to protect trade)
Rename USS Washington to For Whom the Bell Tolls
We both did the t-rex...
The best name for a Ship is "Vessel".
Hope y'all get the SW joke
1:53:38 go on a safari while you are at it
USS Cochran
are you suprised this many ppl like ships
HSwMS Dancing Queen.
I was playing chess and I thought I may have sicked a couple of deep hackers on you
The "nudist tope"...sounds like war Ian.
By,the,way,Drach...I.ama.new.PhD.candidate.for.naval.history.at.the.University.of.Plymouth.and.just.had.my.55th.birthday...I.had.spent.my.career.in.social.services-it.is.never.too.late!
A PhD candidate and you can't write, okay, sure why not 🤣
Bro.. HMS Nelson/Rodney = Triceratops!!!!
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Uss Storm Rider
Hate to complain Drach I love the channel but I had a hard time hearing this one? Maybe my ears are getting worse. Anyway I'm a veteran and my ears are trashed so I'm especially sensitive to slightly lower than normal volume!
I'll check the microphone settings, albeit I was quite tired so I may have been speaking more softly.
Been ok for me on Android phone and pc 👍
My suggestion for a ship name from a song title, Untouchable by Girls Aloud!
That is a good one for uss enterprise
Jump right into the Frank Zappa catalog for ships names.... some would be fantastic, “The Grand Wazoo” others, maybe not so, “Stink Foot” and perhaps dozens of others that would make for interesting communications, press releases, and the records of servicemen in later years! “ I served my final years aboard the HMS Crab grass Baby”. I was hoping for a transfer to the new frigate “Uncle Remus” but it did not work out. An additional thought: “USS Dogbreath”
Some may not realize “Gloworm” is a song title, a fantastic Hit for the Mills Brothers. I had an original copy of it, however it disappeared from my dorm room in the 70s
Zappa also had the tune "Montana"
@@Zephyrmec Zappa "Montana"
Song.form.a.ship:"Baby's.on.fire.(Brian.Eno).for.USS.Franklin.
Hay
Your introduction could use some work.
Black betty
Drach getting DRUNK on UA-cam?
Pretty sure that's Irn Bru he is drinking.
Yeh it's iron bru. He says so right at the very start of the videos 🤣