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The Drydock - Episode 279 - Part 2
🕑 Added 2023-12-30 10:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - Airborne attack on the High Sea Fleet on 1st November 1918?
00:11:03 - Royal Navy Turret naming?
00:18:25 - How many navies observe the crossing of the equator tradition?
00:24:07 - Half Pay in the 20th century?
00:29:18 - 'Losing' a ship to get around naval treaties?
00:32:20 - What notable actions were Japanese patrol planes involved in?
00:37:03 - Wind gauge in the age of sail and the age of steam
00:44:43 - Warships entering Pearl Harbor render passing honors to the wreck of USS Arizona and those entering Sydney render passing honors to the HMAS Sydney memorial. Are there any other such traditions you are aware of?
00:46:04 - There are several tall ships such as the USCGC Eagle, NRP Sagres, Gorch Fock and the Amerigo Vespucci that are all used as both training ships and ceremonial vessels. Can you explain why navies or the coast guard continue to use rigged ships for training, and where the tradition of keeping a fully rigged ship as a sort of national ambassador comes from?
00:51:29 - During the first half of the 20th century what are the pros and cons of geared drives and electric drives relative to each other for surface ships?
01:03:44 - Jet/Rocket powered boats in WW2?
01:07:38 - Assuming you wanted to design a semi-practical cruiser/battleship-sized vessel at 40 knots (so nothing is allowed to run from it) and at least 15 inch guns, is that possible using interwar/WWII-era technology?
01:16:56 - The development and significance of water condensers for letting steam engines become useful propulsion for naval craft?
01:21:02 - Can you tell us more about this character running the HMS Canopus' engine room in the lead up to Coronel?
01:25:41 - What is the modern convention for English ships during the Interregnum, and what was used at the time?
01:28:12 - If you have a battleship under construction, how long is it on the slipway before being pushed out for final completion? How much of the ship is finished?
01:31:00 - Was there a special Christmas ration for the US or Royal Navy sailor and what did it look like in the theatres of the Atlantic, Pacifc and Indian Ocean?
01:34:12 - Any notable examples of a subordinate commander ignoring orders and "opportunistically" leading, say, a squadron under his command into a perilous situation for which the enemy promptly chastised him (or the rest of the fleet)?
01:38:18 - Why did the Royal Navy revert HMS Vindictive back into a heavy cruiser instead of doing a full conversion like HMS Furious?
01:41:59 - What could have been done to make conning towers a more popular choice to use in battles?
01:49:46 - How often were carrier pigeons used by age of sail ships for communications and considering their effectiveness later, do you think they should have been more widely used?
01:54:16 - Did battleships have hydrophones and sonar?
01:57:41 - Battleship 'live' gun tests?
02:07:42 - Could you talk a little bit about HMS Diamond Rock and it's somewhat unusual construction?
02:11:37 - How big of a gap in capability is there between the 'best' pre-dreadnought and the 'worst' Dreadnought?
02:21:01 - On the Second Northern War — in your opinion what did the Swedes do wrong in the Battle of the Sound, given their slightly larger fleet? And what did the Dutch and Danes do wrong at Ebeltoft for that matter?
02:27:06 - Has there ever been a really uneconomical 'refit' for prestige/stuborness reasons?
02:33:17 - Why didn't the British source timber from Canada?
02:37:23 - Raising and restoring a wreck?
02:46:05 - If you have seen it, what are your thoughts about the film Godzilla: Minus One, on its depiction of several different IJN Navy vessels?
02:50:39 - Given the track record of SMS Emden, was Graf Spee wrong when he tried to get his squadron back to Germany instead of dispersing it and wrecking as much havoc as possible?
02:53:52 - Why didn’t more nations (particularly the US) adopt the all-gun-forward arrangement used in the design of Richelieu and Nelson?
02:57:04 - What nation in the period the channel covers would benefit most from modern resource maps & extraction methods & for which era?
02:59:27 - Were old destroyers better or worse than AMC's for convoy escort?
03:02:12 - Was there much of a drawdown in the Allied forces in the Mediterranean after the Italian surrender?
03:05:01 - Drydock Medal and Shipshape rewards update
Comments
Ted Jones
Speaking of turbo electric drives, if someone had thought of propeller pods like on the Queen Mary 2, would this have been useful for ships between the wars being built under the treaty rules? Why not have submarine style periscopes in the conning tower for viewing and mount the whole thing lower in the ship? And would this have been a useful addition to a CIC?
C G Southgate
I have read/heard several times that the High Seas Fleet crews were housed in barracks and not on board when at home. If this is the case it would have some implications for fleet readiness in port & the 1918/19 Torpedo attack.
