#drachinifel

[weergang]

SMS Seeadler - Guide 373

NICE! one of my favourite youtubers did a video on one of my favourite war ships/ stories.  It’s also this ship/story that partly sparked my writing of a pirate story.

[necarion]

The absolute clusterfuck journey of the Russian Baltic Fleet around the world to fight in the Russo-Japanese War, culminating in them being sunk at the Tsushima Straights before even reaching Port Arthur. It's a tragedy, but also really funny how dismal the performance was.

The ship was infamous for its actions during the voyage of the Second Pacific Squadron, where it precipitated the Dogger Bank incident.[1] It also was involved in numerous other incidents including misidentifications of neutral vessels as Japanese torpedo boats and mistakenly firing at [and hitting] the Russian cruiser Aurora [killing one Russian sailor and an Orthodox priest]. While stopping in Madagascar several ships in the fleet acquired several local predatory animals, Kamchatka being no exception. The ship was lost with all hands when it was sunk in 1905 during the Battle of Tsushima to Japanese shell fire.

The Dogger Bank incident:

The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats[1] and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.[2] Two British fishermen died, six more were injured, one fishing vessel was sunk, and five more boats were damaged.[3] On the Russian side, one sailor and a Russian Orthodox priest aboard the cruiser Aurora caught in the crossfire were killed.[3]

Short video with more random "comedy" bits:

Long video by Drachinifel, which goes into more detail about the many, many clusterfucks (disproportionately caused by the Kamchatka). Watchable at least 1.5x (he speaks slowly) and still okay at 2x.

[kinsey3furry300]

[manganozukei]

Hace ya algunos meses, terminé un dibujo para Drachinifel, un historiador naval inglés que tiene un canal en YouTube. Le ofrecí este dibujo como regalo en agradecimiento por su canal, ya que me ha enseñado una tremenda cantidad de cosas sobre una de mis pasiones: la arquitectura naval. Luego de casi un año de trabajo agotador, este fue el resultado. Lamentablemente, a esta resolución, no se ven los detalles que hicieron que tardara tantos meses de trabajo. La perspectiva y cada detalle fueron difíciles de hacer, pero fue el mar lo que me hizo perder más tiempo (comparativamente hablando). Luego de varios intentos, este resultado fue el que me dejó más satisfecho.

Este es el link al canal de Drachinifel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw

___________________________________________________________ Some months ago, I finished a drawing for Drachinifel, a naval histriographer that haves his own YouTube channel. I offer him it as a gift, as a “thank you” for his work. His videos have taught me a lot about one of my passions: naval architecture. After almost a year of work, this is the result. Sadly, at this resolution many of the details that took so much time are losted. The perspective and details took a lot, but the sea was the part that took me the most in comparison. After many trials, this is the result that let me satisfied.

This is the link to the channel of Drachinifel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw

[kr4ftw3rk]

Drachinifels 'five' minute guide to warships -Tashkent

...if feature creep were a warship.

[draconic-neko]

The Russian Second Pacific Squadron.

When I first started watching this video, “The Voyage of the Damned”, I was... honestly expecting something more along the lines of the second part of the video series. Names, dates, a naval defeat for the Russian Empire. (Which is mostly what the second video covers.)

I was not expecting this:

“The fleet had gone from a mad collection of questionable warships, to a floating diplomatic disaster, to a set of mobile fuel air bombs, and was now taking a turn at being the world’s largest sea borne zoo.”

It’s a long story, but if you like naval history, and history that is absolutely BATSHIT hilarious, give this a shot.

For example, the sea borne zoo bit is when, to fix the sailors’ flagging morale, they bring exotic pets acquired from shore leave aboard. Including a crocodile, a venomous snake, (that wraps itself around the main guns and then bits the commanding officer of that ship when he tries to remove said snake) several chameleons that regularly escaped and proved hard to locate when they did so, and a parrot who learned the admiral’s vast and effusive vocabulary of Russian curses and insults for captains and ships that annoyed him.

And that’s arguably not the most interesting thing that happens to this squadron.

*That* title probably goes to the Kamchatka. An absolute fucking troll of a ship.

Like the time before they set sail when someone working on one of the new battleship and, “seemingly forgets that battleships need their hulls intact to be able to float, so removes some sheathing and goes home for the day. Leaving the battleship to sink while at anchor in Kamchatka Harbour and needing to be refloated and repaired before setting sail.”

At just over 40 minutes, I understand it’s a very heavy investment, but I just want to say one final thing, and it’s the introduction to the second part of the series about this squadron.

“The Admiral and the Second Pacific Squadron had faced, and dealt with, numerous threats over the past few months. Imaginary Japanese torpedo boats, *Real* English fishing boats, the Kamchatka, almost starting a war with a global superpower, (The British Empire) accidentally shooting up their own vessels (including once during a funeral service)... 

“...The Kamchatka, disease, mountainous seas, the Kamchatka, venomous snakes, prophets of the End Times, the Kamchatka, high-born officers running rat hunts through the fleet, being saddled with a bunch of obsolete floating targets that only served to slow them down...

“... And of course, The Kamchatka.”

And all of that is in the fucking first part.

And I wondered if Drachinifel was exaggerating about the squadron being as close to deserving of the title, “Voyage of the Damned” as anyone was ever likely to find.

As it turns out, they were not.

(And remarkably, I’ve not spoiled the video. I could never spoil the depths of fuckery the Kamchatka specifically or the Squadron generally gets up to.)

[manganozukei]

Finalmente terminé este video donde muestro el proceso de este dibujo que me encargó el youtuber Drachinifel. _______________________________________________________________

I finally finished this video where I show the process for this drawing I made for the youtuber Drachinifel.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

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