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The Drydock - Episode 287 - (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-02-24 10:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - Why 283mm instead of 280mm/11" for Swedish guns?
00:04:46 - Which nations built navies, actual salt water navies, that wound up being more liability than asset?
00:09:48 - What was the deal with Kamchatka’s captain?
00:12:14 - Which WWII battleship fired the most main battery rounds at the enemy?
00:15:23 - How important was the "We want eight!" Campaign in readying the Royal Navy for the First World War?
00:21:01 - If Joseph Chamberlain and the imperialist faction had gotten their way and created a unified British Empire would it have had any effects on Britain's ability to build more ships in the lead up to the world wars
00:27:44 - Non German nations with sonar countermeasures in WW2?
00:30:48 - Would the US have entered the war if Pearl Harbor etc were not attacked?
00:33:52 - In the age of sail, what were sails made from and how much did it matter?
00:37:42 - IJN procedures for abandoning ship?
00:43:24 - What happened to Japanese troops on bases that were bypassed?
00:46:30 - What were the advantages and disadvantages for those ships that had more than two turrets in the front of the ship?
00:49:34 - Ships built for speed and firepower only?
00:53:04 - Did the Kriegsmarine have workable plans to refit the Scharnhorsts with a 38cm main battery?
00:55:47 - Changes to re-armament and WW2 British building policies?
01:02:47 - Why only one British battleship at North Cape?
01:08:11 - Smaller gun calibre limit at Washington better for cruisers?
01:14:23 - When did the USN and IJN hit parity of expertise?
01:20:11 - Amagi more vulnerable to shock than Shokaku?
01:26:44 - Hornet's 5" guns disabled by driving them into the stops?
01:33:00 - 'Run out the guns' on a Dreadnought?
01:35:59 - Captains cannot enter the wardroom?
01:38:27 - What is your best example in naval history of a Phyrric victory? Also what your best example of a battle where 'task failed successfully"?
01:41:13 - By mid-1915, would a Dutch ship sailing from Rotterdam be able to traverse the English Channel to enter the Atlantic, or would it be required to use the North Sea and circle around the British Isles instead?
01:43:25 - If the French sailor who killed Nelson survived the battle what would happen if he was ID by British sailors post battle would he be in any danger of life and limb?
01:45:58 - Turkey getting involved in WW2?
01:48:45 - On a tight budget, how many and what kind of ships would Norway require to make Germany think twice about invading in 1939/40?
01:53:16 - What options might Jellicoe have had if Beatty had done his job properly?
01:59:53 - What did the allies find after the war about Japanese aircraft search radar?
02:02:55 - What did the Royal Navy do to secure the best materials?
02:05:39 - Just how good were the various optical rangefinders at being optical devices?
02:08:06 - How were depth settings changed on depth charges after takeoff while carried by aircraft, or could it be done while airborne?
02:16:13 - Why the shorter gun on British light cruisers with triple turrets?
02:18:37 - Despite Germany and the Brits being at war with each other how did the two lifeboat institutions get along with each other?
02:21:41 - Classified volumes of the Jellico 1919 naval expedition?
02:24:05 - US Light Fleet Carrier?
02:26:01 - What do you think of the US Congress' insistence for naval gunfire support after WW2?
02:29:41 - Would the (30s) Deutchlands have been better off with only four 11" gun and the weight spent on more armor, speed, range, & secondary battery?
02:32:12 - Where did Jane's Fighting Ships get their early information?
02:36:01 - Internal security spies in the USN?
02:39:03 - What kind of visibility conditions would need to be in place for U-203 to misidentify Texas as a British battleship and how plausible would those conditions be?
02:42:17 - Hood refitted in the 1930's?
02:46:47 - Why didn't Californian come to help Titanic?
02:49:47 - Boiler explosions on warships?
02:55:25 - Flintlick pistols as clubs in boarding actions?
02:58:39 - Notable encounters with waterspouts?
Comments
Tankaxe
If the Italians went through with their planned sortie against the Salerno landings what would you think be the outcome? My research has indicated that the balance of forces were much more balanced than expected so I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it.
