{"id":65852,"date":"2021-08-27T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65852"},"modified":"2021-08-26T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:15:47","slug":"the-raid-on-the-medway-grand-theft-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/the-raid-on-the-medway-grand-theft-warship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raid on the Medway &#8211; Grand Theft Warship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pxisLEDiFQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drachinifel<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 24 Apr 2019<\/p>\n<p>Today we look at the Dutch raid on the Medway in the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War and its after-effects.<\/p>\n<p>Want to support the channel? &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Drachinifel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Drachinifel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to talk about ships? <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/TYu88mt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/TYu88mt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRQWZJil48E&#038;t=0s\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRQWZ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to get some books? &#8211; www.amazon.co.uk\/shop\/drachinifel<\/p>\n<p>Drydock Episodes in podcast format &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-21912004\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-21912004<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>lordmuntague<\/strong><br \/>\n2 years ago<br \/>\n&#8220;On 14 December 1941 a Dutch minelayer named after Jan van Brakel, which was serving as a convoy escort on the UK eastern coast, accidentally hit the anchor buoy of one of the gate vessels which were protecting the entrance to the Medway during World War II. The commander reported this incident to the port authorities, signalling: &#8220;Van Brakel damaged boom defence Medway&#8221;. The instant reply was: &#8220;What, again?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the RNSA Website. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-08-14-38-The-Raid-on-the-Medway-\u2013-Grand-Theft-Warship-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drachinifel Published 24 Apr 2019 Today we look at the Dutch raid on the Medway in the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War and its after-effects. Want to support the channel? &#8211; https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Drachinifel Want to talk about ships? https:\/\/discord.gg\/TYu88mt Music &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRQWZ&#8230; Want to get some books? &#8211; www.amazon.co.uk\/shop\/drachinifel Drydock Episodes in podcast format &#8211; https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-21912004 From the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,7,5],"tags":[1419,570,30,222,851],"class_list":["post-65852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-drachinifel","tag-england","tag-navy","tag-netherlands","tag-tallships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-h88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67940,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65852\/revisions\/67940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}