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The Drydock - Episode 234

Drachinifel

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:43 - A full night action at Jutland?

00:07:25 - It seems like a lot of US naval vessels run aground. Did the US Navy manage to ground vessels more often in than other Navy's, if so, why?

00:14:09 - HMS Renown gunnery actions?

00:16:27 - Would you ever work as a historic advisor for a movie or TV series and if so what would be your terms to work as one?

00:18:31 - Sangamon class island placement?

00:22:28 - What sort of ships were 5.5" Guns intended to be used against? Was weight the reason Hood got 5.5" Guns?

00:29:08 - Do you think the UK's WWI/Interwar policies in regards to the Fleet Air Arm were the best for the overall performance of British aviation during WWII?

00:35:00 - Would it have been feasible to modernize the last generation of American monitors? Or were they so obsolete as a ship class that it was just impossible?

00:39:13 - Which 'never-built' ships would've been most successful?

00:45:33 - US Crown-Colony equivilant?

00:49:42 - In an earlier Drydock, you mentioned that there were no equivalents to Yamato for wooden sail ships, iron-clads, and pre-dreadnoughts. If such Yamato equivalents had been built, what would they have been in your opinion?

00:51:56 - How much discretion did an Age of Sail Captain have?

00:55:45 - Age of Sail gunboats?

00:59:31 - Opinion of Admiral Dewey?

20 Comments

@Drachinifel Creator 3 years ago Pinned

Pinned post for Q&A :)

@jf5016 3 years ago

A good example of the Atlantic coast is the fact that our Chinese balloon recovery is occurring 6 miles off shore in only 50 feet of water! And there's big time rip tides off the Carolina coast, constantly shifting the sand...

@Rita_Loy 3 years ago

Navigating in the Puget Sound into Bremerton is actually quite deep. The 100 Fathom is not that far.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 3 years ago

A Night action at Jutland? I would call that a bar room brawl that would make the Duke proud.

@silverhost9782 3 years ago

USN- Runs their ships aground constantly
RN- Runs their ships into each other constantly
IJN- Torpedoes their own ships constantly

@billbrockman779 3 years ago

Regarding working as a movie or TV history advisor. In a recent episode of “All Creatures Great and Small”, Mrs. Hall’s son meets her at the train station in summer 1939 wearing an HMS Repulse cap. He has a propeller badge on his sleeve. Only someone like me would notice the ship.

What would be the chances he’d still be on HMS Repulse in December 1941? Another background sailor had an HMS Exeter cap. Maybe the show’s advisor had a sense of naval history, using two doomed ships.

@Vyatri 3 years ago (edited)

Hello Drach. This is my first comment ever on YouTube. Thank you for the countless hours of information as well as calming voice. I listen to you while going to work as well as going to sleep at night. Question for you. Would the Titanic have been able to turn faster, and possibly have missed the iceberg if it had kept its engines on full ahead instead of stopping them and putting them into reverse. I was listening to a previous multiple previous dry docks and you mention how the propeller layout greatly affects whether it affects how much water pressure is on the rudder. You mentioned four screw ships. Since it was a three screwed ship could they have kept the middle screw in full ahead and put the two outer screws in full reverse to maximize water over the rudder? Obviously it was a split second decision and they did not have the foresight of what would happen, but if they did, the moment that they spotted the iceberg, was there a way to save the ship besides ramming it directly?

@toddwebb7521 3 years ago

Most of the southern US coast is rather shallow which is why the major ports are relatively far between compared to the northeast coast or the west coast

@notshapedforsportivetricks2912 3 years ago

Not a pre-dread per se, but the Italia class ironclads make a good case for being pre-Yamato Yamatos. In the 1870s, a 17" battery is an argument that's hard to ignore.

@jonathan_60503 3 years ago

Also, on the question of how an interwar fleet air arm might have changed things, I think it was Dr. Clarke who recently pointed out that the RAF went on a multi-engine aircraft tangent during the interwar period; leading to delays or deprioritization of new generations of engines for single-engine aircraft. An independent FAA's carrier aircraft would have to be single-engine and so it would remain focused on the development of newer generations of engines for them -- possibly leading to things like the Napier Saber, or later more powerful versions of the Merline, being debugged and into production aircraft several years earlier than historic.

@timengineman2nd714 3 years ago

@ 7:25, I believe that New York City had a ship hit an unmark rock around the 1930s, they had sounded the area several times but no one had found the rather large rock, until a (civilian?) ship's bow found it "the hard way"!
Ships had been going by the rock for centuries...... until

@Alex-cw3rz 3 years ago

As someone who has seen the modern US Navy do some very weird things when in shallow waters, I think there is a training issue in this one aspect. Although I can only say that for the modern US navy.

@stevenjennings197 3 years ago (edited)

The US Navy, leading the world in warship groundings since 1945.

@hmsverdun 3 years ago

Hears Drach has been reading about the life of Jellioce. Another video series? His life is another one of those we know as people interested in naval history but not to the general public but is again interesting.

@charleslloyd4253 3 years ago

Before my dad retired from the US Navy after 35 years in the early seventies. He worked at the pentagons media relations office. He was an advisor on a few movies. Most notably In Harms Way and Tora Tora Tora. And retired in the middle of early Midway production. He told me that credits were always given to ranking officers and those whom did the actual researching were never given credit. And he said their advice was usually ignored for the sake of drama and action. It seemed to him that Hollywood producers were board with real war, killing and dying.

@Bane_Diesel 3 years ago

Anyone here get to meet drach yesterday on board the USS NJ? I had a great time .

GO BIRDS!

@CoastGuardKid1 3 years ago

My experience on a modern US Coast Guard Cutter based out of Boston for 3 years. I made more port calls in Norfolk/Portsmouth, VA and Mayport, FL than I ever did Boston. Plus port calls in Portland, ME, Newport, RI, and Savannah, GA

@shawneldridge4781 3 years ago

What this gives you an excellent opportunity to put your take on the USS Eldridge because it had a lot of misconceptions what really happened.

@WelBike1967 3 years ago

Time stamp 23.00, Just a wee note, two of Hoods 5.5inch guns are still sited on Ascension Island

@seanmalloy7249 3 years ago

11:30 San Diego is a more engineered harbor than it appears at first glance. I found some documents with illustrations of historic charts of San Diego Bay going back to the 1890s -- I'll have them on my tablet to show you if when I find you on the Midway -- and while the channel in to the piers where the Midway is now is grossly the same as it was originally, there were some major changes -- a sandbar extending west from North Island into the channel, the whole northwest part of North Island, Dutch Flats (now Lindbergh Field and Harbor Island), and the entire channel down to the 32nd Street Naval Station and the docks there.