The Drydock - Episode 139

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:30 - Best and worst Axis admirals?

00:08:25 - HMS Caroline. Now that she is a museum ship, what are future plans to restore her to WW1 configuration, if any?

00:10:25 - Longest time at sea in WW2?

00:12:50 - AA paddle steamers?

00:18:37 - The Psilander Affair

00:26:37 - Which crucial historical naval battle was the closest to being Wellington’s “Nearest run thing?”

00:33:18 - Italian operations at Gibralter

00:35:30 - Last stands that ended exactly as you would expect

00:37:53 - Ram bows effect on naval architechture

00:43:11 - Pirate ship Roebuck

00:46:45 - Excluding the British Commonwealth, has there ever been a warship operated by a crew drawn from multiple navies/nationalities? E.g. a mixed Royal Navy/U.S. Navy crew, or a Kreigsmarine/Regia Marina crew?

00:50:01 - Has a ship sunk or damaged more ships in one battle than the USS Massachusetts at the naval battle of Casablanca?

00:52:11 - What were some bits of tech various navies had that other navies really wanted?

00:54:50 - Japanese coastal defence guns

00:58:33 - How do rudders move?

00:59:08 - Destroyer main gun comparison?

01:00:50 - VTE use in high speed merchant ships and liners?

01:06:23 - Concrete vs HE and AP shells

01:11:04 - German split secondaries

01:18:39 - Steam vs Diesel

01:22:31 - Long serving warships

01:28:09 - How much 'passive radar' (or just detection of enemy radar) was used in WW2 at sea?

01:31:58 - Oddly specific ships?

01:35:45 - Did knights ever become pirates during the Middle Ages?

01:38:51 - Operation of island-less carriers?

01:41:01 - 'Why England Slept'

01:44:35 - What could Jellicoe see at Jutland?

01:46:11 - How much shorter would have WW II been in the Pacific if the Mark 6 exploder problems would have been resolved before Pearl Harbor?

01:48:30 - How effective were blockade runners in actually keeping a blockaded country in the fight?

01:54:38 - Why did composite/compound armour cease use?

01:57:57 - Naval formations and maneuvres

02:06:02 - What nation has the first navy in the sense of a standing force it used to protect its interests?

02:09:10 - Why centrally located turrets?

02:15:19 - Can you turn a ships funnel smoke on and off?

02:18:30 - Logitudinal vs Transverse Framing

02:22:02 - Long range submarines in WW2?

02:25:21 - Which capital ship in the era of steam and steel took the most devastating alpha strike of naval gunfire in a single salvo or multiple salvos received very closely together?

02:27:35 - Losing speed in bad weather

02:37:01 - Are you ever going to write a book?

02:40:34 - Salvage of HMS L55

02:46:33 - All forward armament ships?

02:49:45 - The Dover Barrage

02:53:01 - Were the Arethusa's of the 1930's a waste of money?

02:56:10 - USS Maine souvenir frenzy

02:58:33 - If there was a naval unknown/mystery you could obtain perfect knowledge of what would it be and why.

03:00:20 - Did the British blockade Russia in WW2?

03:02:56 - 1870's USN with Civil War era budgets?

03:12:57 - USS Maury

03:16:19 - Best shipboard accomodations?

03:20:01 - Alternative methods to re-float sunken ships in shallow water

03:26:48 - What importance (logistically or strategically) did Ireland hold for the Royal Navy, during the early/classical age of sail?

03:31:00 - What is an 'East Indiaman'?

03:35:05 - How did the galley (kitchen) change when navies started building iron/steel ships compared to age of sail ships?

03:37:37 - Is there any known connection between Nelson and Edward Pellew?

03:40:11 - How much down time is there in between ship launching and the keel laying of a new ship in the same slipway/drydock?

03:42:23 - Why did Britain (or anyone else for that matter) not build bigger cruisers in WWI?

03:45:56 - Max aircraft carrier capacity

03:52:15 - How different are shells for guns with the same diameter but different calibers?

03:55:10 - Why could the Iowa's main guns depress -5 degrees?

03:58:41 - Why don't sub crews being depth charged suffer similar injuries to people near artillery strikes?
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