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The Drydock - Episode 338 (Part 2)

🕑 Added 2025-02-22 10:30:02 +0000 UTC

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Allen Parmet

1:28 Non-Navy ships? How about an Air Force ship? In the 1970s and 1980s, I served with the Eastern Test Range and Space Shuttle Support (DDMS) at Canaveral Air Force Base Florida. We had the USS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg as a missile tracking ship. She was earlier under US Air Force command but transferred back to the US Navy whilst I sailed on her. We later got the USS Range Sentinel, a bit smaller and more agile. Then we had a lot of small boats, mostly in the Gulf of (pick a name) for recovery of drones.

C G Southgate

Just finished listening - 10/03/2025

Jellicoe Cats

OMG my Canadian cousins next door neighbor must have manned a Holman projector on a merchantman in WW2. I met him in the 1970’s and he described it as a steam powered Mills bomb thrower. According to him they didn’t just shoot potatoes at the enemy. The crew on other ships in the convoy who weren’t paying attention were fair game and the occasional spud fuels mock navel battle took place to relive the boredom.

Andrew Dederer

The Set for that Yamato movie (which me and my fellows sometimes call "Japanese Titanic") was a big tourist draw while it lasted, since it was the bow to about the funnels at 1-1 scale. There is a BIG model (1 to 10) now at the Yamato Museum in Kure (which dates from that movie). No holiday though. It's NOT official but SDF bands will play the theme to the "Space Battleship Yamato" anime from the mid 1970s on occasion (it's been described as the "unofficial anthem" of the SDF). US Navy bands (and possibly replenishment ships leaving harbor) also use the tune, since the English adaption (Star Blazers) used the same main theme tune (with slightly altered lyrics), and it is STILL in the cultural conscious (and it's a GOOD tune, lots of gravity).

Ted M Jones

Has anyone ever counted how many US planes are shot down in that movie about the sinking of the Yamato?

Ted M Jones

This is a it of a leap, but it's worth noting that the USS Oregon was an Indiana Class battleship and she was constructed at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco -- which is where Henry George was living when he got his ideas for "Progress and Poverty." The game Monopoly was invented to pass on the ideas from that book.