I didn’t know about the British monitor, HMS Roberts.

Today is 1st time I heard of a monitor. In was said in the video it has 15 inch guns. Big guns for a small ship. Aren't those guns for battleships? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(warship)

I seem to recall that Churchill had a thing for monitors.

You do know there was a Monitor during the ACW.

Just now had a chance to check out this latest gem from Mark.

Band beach...

That UK monitor was one fugly ship!

You are right. Forgot.

https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.asp?ship_id=USS-Onondaga-river-monitor-1864


https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/monitors-2.htm

USS Florida (BM-9)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Florida_(BM-9)

Those ships in that multi ship image don't look they have much of a beam and keel depth. I would think heavy seas and high winds and rough waves will overwhelm them.

The USS Monadnock crossing the Pacific Ocean during the Spanish–American War

They were brave!

Not heard of this name

This is just awesome stuff I personally had no idea about...

Kinda like WWII's Gulf of Tonkin...almost.



I love the comment "until Hitler STUPIDLY declared war on the U.S.".

Unless this is all crap (doubtful), this guy Felton is the most awesome amateur historian I have ever come across.

Sadly, it would take a thousand more of him to counteract the mountains of garbage on Social Media.

Hitler did stupidly declare war on the USA.

After Pearl Harbor and the USA declared war on Japan, the USA still did not declare war on Nazi Germany..

Will the USA had later? Maybe. Maybe not. But at the time the USA main preoccupation was to stop Japan while continuing to supply England without getting directly involved in a war with Germany.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik

^ ^ ^

That many???? How many Americans were in uniform during World War 2?

Pretty big leap there from Eddie Slovak to FDR grand strategy.

Follow my lead and smoke another one whilst "LISTENING" instead of assuming...oh and...after three years of college, I am becoming a grammar nazi.

We are coming for you.

You'll never see a Hollywood movie about this for multiple reasons:

Allied invasion of Iran

In the image you are referring to you can see neither the beam nor the keel depth. You are speaking about, I think, freeboard, or the distance from the water line to the deck.

Beam is how wide the ship is, which cannot be seen in a profile, and keel depth (or draft) is how far it extends below the water line, which again, cannot be seen here.

I don't know anything about boats: I never been on one. I almost got killed by a moving boat one time many years ago when I was 9.

Freeboard, will WIKI it. thank you.