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The Drydock - Episode 312 (Part 2)

🕑 Added 2024-08-24 10:00:05 +0000 UTC

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Ulf Axelsson

Re: The YT algorithm change Modern History TV (aka Jason Kingsley) reports a recent big influx of subscribers and community members. And personally my recommendations are now filled with videos I have watched before with Drach being a visible exception. (I am still months behind in catching up on channel content so...)

Tataro

Drydock question: How would a wealthy battleship collector be handled under Naval treaties? Many a ship enthusiast often laments the fact that many of the great and famous battleships of the 20th century such as Dreadnought itself, Nelson, Jean Bart, Haruna, King George V, Gneisenau and others ended up in a scrapyard broken up for metal. If there had been a wealthy man or family who had the money to buy said ships after they are decommissioned in order to create a battleship museum would they be allowed to do so? What requirements would be placed on them, such as maybe pouring cement into the gun barrels or removing some critical components would be asked for by the governments selling them the ships? How would they be handled under the naval treaties and would the naval treaties mean the end of battleship museum and breaking up of ships or could it survive? Are there any reasons why a government would prefer to break up a ship rather than sell it to a private collector?

Capitano Lorenzo

Patreon upgrade. Drach - I have been at your highest level Patreon member for some years now With the difficulties that creators are suffering now, I reiterate that you form a new Patreon level, perhaps call it "Admiral" level and charge accordingly for membership. At least have a pol to guage interest. This would be in addition to your preexisting Patreon levevel.

BEAUSABRE23

The most important product from Chile in 1917 were nitrates for use in explosives and as fertilizer. For many years - and maybe still today - the principal supplier of beef to the UK was Argentina - absolutely vital in war time. Don't forget all those gauchos riding the pampas!.

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2-41 the Radars are CXAM long range air search (bed spring at the fore top, the first USN radar set) and Mark 4 5 inch fire control on the front of the Mark 33 director aboard CV4 USS Ranger early WW2

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All the German 15cm guns were actually 14.94 cm

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Drach ignores the primary route to becoming a ship's carpenter. Completing an apprenticeship in a Royal Dockyard and applying for a warrant from the Navy Board. "Although it was possible to serve an apprenticeship afloat as Carpenter's Crew and Carpenter's Mate, the majority qualified as shipwrights in the dockyards before going to sea, and some of the Master Shipwrights and their Assistants were former Carpenters who had returned to the yards."

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Don't forget the Cinque Ports - "By 1135, the term Cinque Ports had come into use; and in 1155 a royal charter established the ports to maintain ships ready for the Crown in case of need. "

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Strangest of all, the U.S. Navy also flew Spitfires during World War II. The U.S. Navy deployed numerous cruisers and battleships to provide naval gunfire support for the D-Day landings in Normandy. Bristling with enormous guns ranging from five inches to 14 inches in caliber, the cruisers would mostly train their devastating firepower at enemies miles inland, well beyond line of sight. They therefore required spotter planes to swoop over German troops, acquire targets, direct naval batteries to blow them up and correct the inevitably inaccurate ranging shots. At the time, Navy capital ships typically carried one or two SOC Seagull or OS2U Kingfisher float planes that launched by catapult from ship decks, then recovered by

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US war plans War Plan Black[9] A plan for war with Germany. The best-known version of Black was conceived as a contingency plan during World War I in case France fell and the Germans attempted to seize French possessions in the Caribbean Sea or launch an attack on the eastern seaboard. War Plan Gray[10] There were two War Plans named Gray. The first dealt with Central America[10] and the Caribbean, and the second dealt with invading the Portuguese Azores.[11] War Plan Brown[12] Dealt with an uprising in the Philippines. War Plan Tan[13] Intervention in Cuba. War Plan Red[14] Plan for Great Britain (with sub variants Crimson, Scarlet, Ruby, Garnet, and Emerald for British dominions) War Plan Orange[15] Plan for Japan. War Plan Red-Orange[16] Considered a two-front war with the United States (Blue) opposing Japan (Orange) and the British Empire (Red) simultaneously. Ultimately this analysis led to the understanding that the United States didn't have the resources to fight a two front war, and it would make sense to focus on one front, probably in the Atlantic. Ultimately this was the decision made in the Plan Dog memo. War Plan Yellow[17] Dealt with war in China - specifically, the defense of Beijing and relief of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. War Plan Gold[citation needed] Involved war with France, and/or France's Caribbean colonies. War Plan Green[18] Involved war with Mexico or what was known as "Mexican Domestic Intervention" in order to defeat rebel forces and establish a pro-American government. War Plan Green was officially canceled in 1946. War Plan Indigo[19] Involved an occupation of Iceland. In 1941, while Denmark was under German occupation, the US actually did occupy Iceland, relieving British units during the Battle of the Atlantic. War Plan Purple[20] Dealt with invading a South American republic. War Plan Violet[21] Covered Latin America. War Plan White[22] Dealt with a domestic uprising in the US, and later evolved to Operation Garden Plot, the general US military plan for civil disturbances and peaceful protests. Parts of War Plan White were used to deal with the Bonus Expeditionary Force in 1932. Communist insurgents were considered the most likely threat by the authors of War Plan White. War Plan Blue[23] Covered defensive plans and preparations that the United States should take in times of peace.

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Dubuque, Iowa is pronounced Dew-Bewk.

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1) In 1941, the North Carolina's crew would have been mainly regulars and long service reservists - men with experience - few would have been conscripts as the first inductees weren't drafted until November 1940. So they may well have been farther along in learning their new ship than the totally green crews later in the war.

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CV7 USS Wasp carried 100 aircraft and was commissioned in April 1940. By May 1941, she would had over a year in service - longer than Bismarck - and would have been well worked up. Even if she didn't carry any TBD's , she could have carried two squadrons of fighters (40 aircraft) and three of dive bombers (60) and along with CV4 Ranger's single fighter squadron and three dive bomber squadrons, giving the USN Atlantic Fleet 120 strike aircraft against two ships (Prinz Eugen being the other KM vessel). The planes would have been a mixture of monoplane SB2U's and biplane SBC's - both carrying 1,000 pound AP or HE bombs. US doctrine called for the deck load strike - hurling all your aircraft in one mighty blow against the enemy. So the Bismarck could face up to 60 attackers at one time - 120 if the two US carriers managed to coordinate (doctrine said US carriers should operate in separate task forces) The bridge and fire control systems of both ships would almost assuredly be damaged or destroyed under that sort of attack, leaving them vulnerable to the North Carolina and any or all of the CA31 USS Augusta, CA37 USS Tuscaloosa and CA45 USS Wichita.