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The Drydock - Episode 293
🕑 Added 2024-04-13 08:00:04 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:52 - Between the Matsushimas, Kitakami, Shimakaze, the Tones, the refit Fusos and the refit Ises, which was the worst of the IJN’s “what the hell” designs?
00:05:53 - Why didn't the Germans press any Soviet ships into service with the Kriegsmarine?
00:09:52 - Would 2 Shokaku's instead of the Yamato's extend the Pacific War and if so by how much?
00:19:57 - When HMS Dreadnought was launched, she famously made the pre-Dreadnoughts of the time obsolete basically overnight. But seeing as there was only one of her and it would take a while to to replace a whole fleet, were there any plans to modernise some of the pre-Dreadnoughts? And if yes, what did this pre-Dreadnought modernisation look like and how much could you squeeze out of one to make it as useful as possible in a dreadnought world?
00:25:24 - Pronunciation of names?
00:36:09 - Submarine in ANZAC convoy?
00:36:49 - Hypothetically, regardless of any casualties to the Eastern Fleet. How does the IJN go forward with the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway having only CarDivs 1 and 5 making up the Kido Butai?
00:41:35 - How deep into each of the major types of aircraft carrier would an inert 16" shell penetrate (assuming it doesn't hit anything too solid on the way down)?
00:46:28 - Do you think there are any riverine warships from which could be found away from the current path of the river they sank in?
00:49:35 - Was there any way to prevent the reset of gun size from the 413mm main battery of the Victoria class to the common pre-dreadnought and early dreadnought 305mm main batteries?
00:53:54 - An American officer wanted to be Beatty?
00:57:38 - Were any torpedoes in the interwar period designed or modified to specifically defeat any of the torpedo protection schemes being developed?
01:02:41 - Which ship or naval operation in the period covered by the channel. Looks like it was thought up, designed and built/implemented by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond?
Comments
Allen Parmet
The Steamboat Arabia museum https://www.1856.com/ is located in Kansas City, Missouri (Mi-zoo-rah for those of us south of the river, Mih-sure-ree for those on the north side). It is a unique example of commercial riverine traffic in the mid-19th century, when there were no roads in the western half of the US. With a draft of less than 3 feet, boats could steam as far north as today's Great Falls, Montana with what was basically a floating department store. The museum is at the northern end of the free trolly route and the southern end is at Union Station and the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which has a section on the war at sea featuring a Whitehead Mark 1A torpedo and a British 4.7" gun that served sequentially on a RN cruiser, British auxiliary cruiser Highland Brae, the German auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, subsequently USS Von Steuben.
W. Osterberg
For Dry Dock Q&A Waving aside treaty restrictions, if the Tiger had survived until 1936 (we will say she was kept in service while Hood was completely modernized from 1931 to 1935) could she have been rebuilt with small tube boilers, some Renown style 3 inch armor upgrades, had her secondary armament replaced with 4.5 inch dual purpose guns, and KGV style 14 inch guns (not a big increase in gun size but solving the problem of needing ammunition just for her) but keeping her twin turrets? How expensive would this have been, and how useful would she have been? Would she have been as useful as Renown, or nearly so?
