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Post by garrisonchisholm on Dec 5, 2019 18:29:32 GMT -6
This is fairly interesting, so having stumbled upon it I thought I'd pass it along. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3KNEuSxh0First you are shown a spotter plane using carrier pigeons to get their reports back to their ship, and it is followed by a video of coaling at sea, which I didn't even know was done. Mind, it looks like it is Very inefficient passing across - what - 400 pounds at a time, but I guess if it really needed to be done it could be done.
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Post by alkiap on Dec 6, 2019 5:08:50 GMT -6
The US Navy did trial underway coaling (hard to find, but The Coaling of the U.S.S. Massachusetts at Sea by Spencer Miller details some of the tests it), but as far as I know it was never done in wartime. Could not have worked in any sort of rough sea, and considering the amount of coal burned by larger ships, one has to wonder how much time it would require to restock bunkers
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Post by rimbecano on Dec 6, 2019 15:41:59 GMT -6
Anybody know what the text is to the lyrics beginning at ~11:15? The audio quality leaves something to be desired, and while my German is decent, it's not my first language, and the accent and diction aren't quite what I'm used to either (listen to any century-old English-language recording: the "proper" dialects in both the US and Britain have changed significantly), so I can't make very much of it out.
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Post by tordenskjold on Dec 6, 2019 18:18:30 GMT -6
Anybody know what the text is to the lyrics beginning at ~11:15? The audio quality leaves something to be desired, and while my German is decent, it's not my first language, and the accent and diction aren't quite what I'm used to either (listen to any century-old English-language recording: the "proper" dialects in both the US and Britain have changed significantly), so I can't make very much of it out. Well, even as a native speaker I have to admit that it's very hard to understand due to the audio quality. But I could look up the phrase "...steht auf der Wacht" which I was able to identify, and this led to a contemporary song named "Argonnerwaldlied". Apparently, it's at least famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article.
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Post by rimbecano on Dec 6, 2019 23:22:31 GMT -6
About the only word I could recognize was "unserem". Most of the other words I thought I was hearing turned out to be something else in the actual text.
EDIT: But after one read-through, I could understand about half of it without needing to check the text again, even without remembering the exact lyrics. Just having a keyword or two your brain can synchronize on makes a huge difference. Without knowing where words begin and end, it can be difficult to make sense of even your own language.
Thanks for the link.
EDIT 2: It doesn't help that the lyrics begin with "Argonnerwald": The Argonne is not a typical topic of conversation in 2019 for people that don't live there.
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