The Drydock - Episode 200 (Part 1)
Added 2022-06-03 21:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I'm sure Drach left it out because of the time constraints of the channel -- but I have no doubt CVN-65 would have had zero problems besting just about anything in her time for speed+distance runs.
SDF-7
2022-06-06 18:47:58 +0000 UTCWhen I was in school, I read a memoir by an American USN officer who ran a repair dock in Eritrea shortly after US entry into WWII. Apparently they serviced several RN light cruisers.I don't remember many of the details, but I recall the book claiming that the RN was camouflaging cruisers to convince the Italians that they had BBs in areas where they didn't, and for a while had no capital ships in the Mediterranean at all. Does this ring a bell? Is any of it true? Any thoughts what that book might have been?
David Pierce
2022-06-04 19:28:33 +0000 UTCBesides the Iowas, the USS Indianapolis set a speed record from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor. Not quite as far as a transatlantic crossing, but close.
David Pierce
2022-06-04 19:24:57 +0000 UTCWorking armory security back in the USMC, I became PARTICULARLY annoying and got on a few officers nerves for not letting people in without clearance or an escort (was always funny to watch some green Lieutenant getting upset at a lowly enlisted man basically saying with their actions “Sorry but no, sir, you’re not getting in I don’t care”)
The Rogue Chief
2022-06-04 11:34:40 +0000 UTCPericombobulations upon your most compunctuous naval history interludicle. I find your extramuralisation pendigestatory and your interfrastically frasmotic publication of 200 Dry Docks anaspeptic!! 😁 Congratulations Drach!!
Graham William Kidd
2022-06-04 02:26:18 +0000 UTCI like have the Patron Dry Dock in one week and divided into two sections.
john c driscoll
2022-06-03 23:16:02 +0000 UTCCongratulations on 200. Great to meet you in Norfolk. Looking forward to 200 more!
2022-06-03 21:12:01 +0000 UTCCongrats on episode 200! I still remember when I found this odd channel with a British robo-voice back in the day, digging deep into YouTube rage-searching being sick of clips from overproduced cable channel warship history shows and knowing better *had* to be out there!
Matt Blom
2022-06-03 21:08:55 +0000 UTC
