Drachism of the day: "They also wanted to get in on the action of making their national anthem the final boss music for many less developed nations."
kolorado
Canada: Famously Polite.
HMCS Oakville: Run them down with your ship, pelt them with soda bottles, and then swim over and try to beat the survivors with a chain, while naked.
Was there a hockey match on that U boat or something?
aidanfarnan
Canadians are great. I'm from rural Kentucky in the states with accompanying accent. I married a girl from New Brunswick. No one in our neighborhood in Colorado understands us.
danschneider
“Niobe, who had been allowed to deteriorate, ”
Ah, the origins of a great Canadian Naval tradition.
MaxwellAerialPhotography
The adventures of HMCS Oakville's boarding crew was a wild ride from start to finish holy hell
Big_E_Soul_Fragment
Canadians politely liberated the city my father was surviving in when he was a teenager and I will always be thankful to that generation for it.
OneofInfinity.
As a Canadian, I'm amused that we're still considered polite. Imagine if the Germans had the puck....
tbwpiper
Few outsiders bother to tell this story or when they do, they get everything wrong. Will not surprise subscribers to this channel to learn that Drach does his homework and gets everything right.
Marshal_Dunnik
Imagine you're in a German cargo vessel when a Canadian light cruiser opens up and sinks you
And on your lifeboat you hear two puffs of the light cruiser's horn
*_SOOOO_*
kurumi
My uncle was a very young radio operator on HMCS New Glasgow when it sank U-1003 in 1945. According to him, they were coasting along north of Ireland on a foggy day when the lookouts reported hearing engine noises. They initially thought it was an aircraft, then realized it was a U-boat on snorkel. In quick succession, the following happened: general quarters was sounded; the cursing captain arrived on the bridge in his bathrobe; the captain ordered a sharp turn; the stern of the boat swung into the path of the U-boat; the two ships collided, destroying the U-boat's snorkel and damaging the New Glasgow. The New Glasgow made it back to port for repairs, and the U-boat spent a couple of days on the bottom trying to make repairs before being scuttled. It was the last U-boat sunk by the RCN. RIP Uncle Jack. You were a great story teller.
rayopeongo
Royal Canadian navy sinks ships so politely that is almost offensive.
dominikhalovanic
Canadians in the tropics are a bit like Superman on earth: exposure to the energy of actual sunshine gives them super powers.
briancox
Canadian Navy: *Sails up to enemy fleet* "Hello, could you please scuttle your fleet and go to your lifeboats. We will gladly accept you as prisoners of war."
Enemy fleet: *Visible confusion then scuttles the fleet* "Yes, thank you have a good day. Your terms are fair."
AndrewHesterLaugh
As I have been learning more and more about history in the past years, one of my biggest takeaways are how hard the UK's colonies fought, particular note to Australia, India, New Zealand, and the Canadians.
Corn-yu
Earning her the dubious distinction of the first Royal Canadian ship to engage an enemy with Coke bottles in anger and coming out with the victory
mmallasch
When the wind is just right, you sometimes hear a faint "soorey" being shouted across the sea between salvos.
thatsquidwardfeel
I always love your delivery of the outlandish stories. Dry humor, deadpan delivery, and that extra bit of incredulous that helps to illustrate how insane war can be on the man-to-man level of the battles.
chrismaverick
I've never understood where the Canadians picked up this stigma of being polite, gentle people always saying "sorry".
I've lived with them and served with them. They friggin love fighting and they ain't so polite when somebody pisses them off. I've had a coke bottle thrown at me by a Canadian...and it I still think he was trying to kill me with it.
After this story, I think I know where that unique skill came from.
firefightergoggie
As a Canadian:
- Excellent video as always
- Halifax Explosion please!
- Tribals & The Haida(!!) please!
