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The Drydock - Episode 283 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-01-27 09:00:04 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:34 - Why do USN Fleet and Light Carriers, as well as Light and Heavy cruisers, share hull number sequences, when Escort and Large cruisers have their own?
00:04:25 - How long did it take nations to catch up with other nations armour technology?
00:10:34 - Smaller ships of the South American Dreadnought race?
00:15:56 - Easily detachable armour plate?
00:20:51 - Fleets, Flotillas, and Squadrons what are the differences and how have they changed during the period the channel covers?
00:27:47 - Battleship armour resistance, ships which broke with the 'rule of thumb' of resisting their own guns?
00:33:06 - If Hood doesn't detonate, how does the rest of the battle with Bismarck play out?
00:40:23 - Do you need to change gun breechs as much as gun barrels?
00:43:50 - Gato/Balao class 'cage' refit?
00:47:45 - The Type 96 25 mm Japanese AA gun vs the German 3.7 cm SK C/30?
00:52:15 - Was Captain Barron remiss in his duty during the Chesapeake/Leopard affair?
00:58:31 - Considering how at the Battle of the Denmark Strait Prince Eugen detected the British with it's hydrophones before they came over the horizon. Was there ever any research or attempts by surface warships to search for the enemy acoustically while concealing ones own position until ready to engage the enemy?
01:00:37 - If the Royal Navy is Rome, who is their Hannibal?
01:02:54 - How portable were floating drydocks?
01:06:19 - Design/Engineering of sails?
01:14:21 - Numbers on the back of coats in the RN?
01:17:31 - How was the Mary Rose salvaged since the Protection of Wrecks Act was passed several years earlier?
01:22:13 - If there is no war with Japan or even the threat of war with Japan and the US only had to deal with war against Germany & Italy, what do you think the USN would have looked like during WW2?
01:30:34 - Was there any Marine Nationale warship of the interwar or WW2 period associated with a red fish symbol?
01:32:16 - What most likely caused the destruction of Jaime I?
01:34:33 - Lifeboat just floating off a sinking ship?
01:38:13 - When were gas ejection systems for large caliber, breech loading guns realized as necessary?
01:40:43 - Did anyone except the USN use Blimps in WW2?
01:43:19 - Realistically, could two Wickes-class destroyers really take out an Amagi-class battlecruiser?
01:47:04 - What were the benefits and drawbacks of splitting the Pacific theater into “Admiral Nimitz's fief” and “General MacArthur's fief”?
01:50:47 - Why did the Japanese change their heavy cruiser guns from 200 mm to 203 mm? And also 155 mm guns when they already had 152? Given that barrel boring and rifling was and still is the hardest part of gun manufacturing, changing the tooling like that doesn't make a lot of sense to me?
01:52:33 - Did the Royal navy and fleet air arm ever attack mainland Germany in air raids like how the US Navy attacked Japan?
01:54:42 - How do you think the 2nd London Treaty would have differed from reality if Japan had a similar willingness to negotiate compromises and sign it as they had for Washington and 1st London?
02:00:47 - Why did the Royal Navy effectively discontinue the name Victoria after the pre-dreadnought?
02:02:45 - SBD bouncing off Enterprise at Santa Cruz?
02:09:44 - Would AP shells have been better in the Iwo Jima bombardment?
02:12:01 - Were the guns from the damaged USS Oklahoma installed on USS Pennsylvania in 1945 and used to get a few shots in at Wake Island, thus having Oklahoma in the battle, in a small way?
02:13:03 - What are good books/authoritative resources on the naval history of British Malaya and Borneo in WW1 and WW2?
02:16:21 - How significant was loss of speed during combat maneuvers for steam and steel ships?
02:24:38 - How much had materials science advanced in terms of being able to make battleship armour today?
02:31:56 - Did the Great Hurricane of 1780 significantly affect the naval aspects of the American Revolutionary War?
02:35:30 - How should Beatty have acted at Jutland?
02:42:11 - Why were Italian frogmen generally more successful than their Japanese counterparts?
02:45:41 - How were B-24 and other four engine heavy bombers used to close the mid Atlantic gap?
02:50:57 - If you were asked to produce a naval 'Band of Brothers' style TV show what ship/era would you choose for the show and why?
02:59:03 - Battle of the Komandorski Islands questions?
Comments
Allen Parmet
For the Wickes class attacking an Amagi, isn't this rather what "Operation Dukedom" pulled off, with 5 British destroyers ambushing the heavy cruiser Haguro in the Malacca Strait on May 16, 1945.
My go-to on the CBI theater is Barbara Tuchman's Stillwell and the American Experience in China.
