The Drydock - Episode 213 (Live Segment) - 2nd October 2022

The very delayed stream answering Patreon Alt-History and What-if's, then general questions

[SaintlyAussie]

HMAS Supply is named after HMS Supply from the First Fleet. So we took the name from you.

[jason.larsenthedanishgreek]

I have had a rough time lately with family issues. Your hard work has kept my mind busy enough to keep me sober and as strong a man as I ever could have been. You really need to know you bring out the best in people with your hard work and genius on the range of naval topics.
You are a teacher, a scholar, and a saver of lives... and your humor (40k I heard latest) made me freak out you are amazing!

[GTgaming]

Drach is staight up the greatest content creator of all time… NINE HOURS of vids in 1 day???

[ricardokowalski]

48:25 Mrs Drach giggles in the background.
Great content.

[kooperativekrohn]

Im currently full of covid and struggle with crohns . Thanks for all this content to keep me busy when really ill drach❤ appreciate it truly

[kanrakucheese]

Aurora would be a good candidate for the video game featuring five moments in the ship’s history.
1: Fun with Kamchatka in Russo-Japanese war
2: Something WW1
3: Red October
4: WW2 Leningrad (part of her was there apparently)
5: Anything later

As for Valkyria Chronicles, 1, 3 and 4 are great. 2 is NOT. The ship in question is an interesting one to take a look at though, since it’s a battleship held by a minor power in an alternate universe World War 2 whose world has only seen human flight invented in the last two years (after the ship’s commissioning).

Also even the BEST Taco Bell is a horrible thing to judge burritos by.

[ZozoRage]

Wow you actually think about releasing videos later to most benefit the museum ships... I have been watching for i have no idea how long, but throughout my watching not many other people are committed to what they cover as much as you are. Massive respect.

[notshapedforsportivetricks]

Drach, absolutely loved your gobsmacked reaction to the naming of HMAS Supply. Definitely worth the price of admission. (I assume that someone has explained the history behind her name to you at this point?)
Incidentally, what exactly are "Luton levels of laziness"?

[Joshua-fiji]

With regards to pennant numbers, it is a little confusing when you have unnamed vessels and decommissioned/museum ships. For example, the WW1 Monitor HMS M33, is purely known by its pennant number.

However, today this refers to MCMV HMS Brocklesby (M33). Both ships are also based in Portsmouth.

In defence of the MOD/RN, I don't think HMS M33 was even planned to be turned into a museum ship when the Hunt MCMVs were built in the 1980s.

[ironteacup]

My favorite part of all this is how YouTube knows I will listen to your content all day so after every third video of something your content is next

[davidharner]

More 'standard' content, and about ! favourite alternate History scenario! During the Treaty lull, 3 New MeXicos and 2 Tennessees (& Nevadas and Pennsylvanias afterwards) have turret #3 and it's barbette removed. This is next to the machinery. Treaty forbids increasing armament, but not DEcreasing while specifically allowing speed increases. Add a buttload of new, powerful machinery, keep all your armour, add deck armour (!), build a seaplane hangar in newly opened deck space. Add transom stern and bulbous bow, using this and torpedo bulge changes to tune the trim, stability, buoyancy, &c. Keep turrets to build 'Vanguardensteins' post-Treaty. 5-7 3 rifle turrets and 2 2guns for new ships. 5-9 fast, reasonably armoured 9 14\50 BBs (because of course you are going to sneak spare 50 caliber barrels onto eldest 4 vessels while changing their triples into 3 slide setup and increasing elevation to 45°)! ~15 years to do this, concurrent with era sans new BB expenses. TL;DR, correct?

[raygunreagan]

when I was a kid I remember going on a field trip to the USS TEXAS it was such an awe inspiring sight

[kemarisite]

The biggest issue at Savo Island in August 1942 is that higher command had decided to believe the spotting report of "seaplane tenders" and ordered an air strike at their expected location but not to expect night surface action. The entrances to the waters south of Savo Island were being patrolled by two radar-equipped US destroyers, Henley (correction: Ralph Talbot) and Blue, but neither of these ships spotted Mikawa's force. If a British cruiser and destroyer force, having been briefed not to expect night surface action, was also as confident in their radar destroyers to serve as a tripwire, then they are likely to be as surprised as the US force was historically. They had better night doctrine and two years of war experience by then, so performance of individual ships would have been better, but a bunch of surprised ships reacting as diligently as Patterson did would still have suffered heavily.

[amnucc]

Loved the facepalm for HMAS Supply. 😉😇

[richardorta]

Soon joining HMAS Supply will be HMAS Cargo, right?

[annetterepka]

The idea of a Super Firing Fletcher on a Yamato amuses me also

[nickmcgookin]

Well I can disagree I think the name of the supply ship easily easily identifies what kind of ship it is you know what it is there's so many ships in the fleet sometimes you don't know which one is which

[robsmith]

Possible use for the Great Eastern: A hot-air balloon carrier

[mattdill]

Hi Drach loved the question on the three extra tigers and had this alternative what if the German fleet had the 4 mackensens and 3 erzats Yorks plus 4 bayern class at Jutland

[InLoveWithCities]

1:24:45 Habakuk but a container vessel