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The Drydock - Episode 285
🕑 Added 2024-02-10 08:00:06 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:35 - RN sailors on US ships and vice-versa?
00:07:23 - Turret sizes vs number of guns?
00:14:40 - Do you think there are any old ships left hiding in plain sight?
00:18:34 - Utility/Value of Battlecruisers?
00:24:42 - Infaltion adjusted costs of the pre-WW1 naval arms race?
00:34:00 - US 'small battleships' of 1919?
00:39:22 - Differences in US and UK wargames in the inter-war period?
00:44:48 - What is it with competent captains and admirals time and time again driving their battleships/cruisers/carriers ashore?
00:49:24 - Paint and timber supplies aboard ship in the Age of Sail?
00:53:45 - Why did the Royal Navy choose limes rather than some other citrus fruit?
00:56:30 - Role of 'little dots' in the Atlantic?
00:59:28 - What were the different companies that developed naval guns, and was it the companies themselves or the different navies that actually drove the size of the guns and caliber?
01:06:24 - Determining when a wreck took damage?
Comments
Rob Smith
An ancient treaty, a cunning lawyer and a wartime need - the story of the Azores is more fascinating than expected. I look forward to the full version in the future.
Rob Smith
Re this year's trip to the USA in February 2024. On your website you've got the year wrong:- 2023 is (thankfully) behind us and we are now in 2024.
