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The Drydock - Episode 248
🕑 Added 2023-05-20 09:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:40 - Which aircraft sank HMS Spartan?
00:01:58 - The frying pan mounts on the QE's and Illustrious, what are their official names?
00:04:25 - Various Questions about the IJN
00:10:48 - How effective would something along the lines of the Disney bomb have been as a dive-bomber-borne anti-warship weapon?
00:13:58 - Using coal as armour?
00:16:43 - British ships and flash protection in WW1?
00:22:36 - Is there any data available on the differences in loadout - specifically, how many rounds of ammunition and charges would be on board a given ship (both in peacetime and war) when they were a) in dock and b) cruising / showing the flag, etc.? And how might the different load conditions, temperatures, etc. affect the formation of crystal dust?
00:28:44 - Nitroglycerin dust in the turret - if that was the case would not firing your guns from that turret be sufficient to set off the dust?
00:30:36 - In the historical strategy-computer game Shogun 2 Total War, set in the 16th century Japan, so early age of sail, the player can buy European Ships (Presumably Portuguese carracks), Is that realistic for the time period ? Did European powers during the age of sail sell warships to non European powers?
00:32:23 - How does Yamato’s “poor quality of steel” actually effect Yamato’s armor?
00:38:58 - Was Hood sunk by Prinz Eugen?
00:48:03 - What exactly was the differences between the Dunkerque and Strasbourg armor schemes?
00:50:02 - How were the countless sea mines placed during the world wars removed?
00:55:37 - When was the first smoke-screen?
00:59:16 - During both world wars how often did U-boats sink neutral ship and what would happen to the crew if it was found out that they sunk a neutral ship?
01:01:47 - Pranks in the Royal Navy played on new crew?
01:04:38 - What was the idea behind the wide variety of guns on pre-Dreadnought battleships? Put another way, why didn't an "all big gun" ship get built sooner?
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Drachinifel
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