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The Drydock - Episode 233
🕑 Added 2023-02-04 09:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:54 - How would you go about modernizing a ironclad?
00:06:24 - Was there any advantage of the paddlewheel compared to screw propulsion?
00:09:00 - More modern warships are nearly devoid of portholes. What triggered this change in design?
00:12:12 - Assume for a moment that either the 40mm Bofors, or the 20mm Oerlikon failed as an AA gun, what would be used as a replacement for it?
00:15:49 - Battleships with landing guns?
00:18:20 - Do you think it's more cost-effective to scrap old ships, or turn them into reefs? And what are the pros and cons?
00:22:15 - Just how is a ship's speed measured?
00:26:39 - In his autobiographical history of WW2, Churchill insists that he would have canceled the mission if he had known there was no carrier going along with the two battleships. Is this post-facto political backside covering, or was Winston just caught offguard by the actual deployments made by his actual fleet?
00:30:56 - Italian vs Allied fleet battle in 1943?
00:35:24 - What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Whaleback design?
00:39:45 - Any thoughts on the addition of combined arms and the practicality of combining multiple table top games as stated “[Combined Arms] is intended to allow players to incorporate Bolt Action, Blood Red Skies, Cruel Seas, or Victory at Sea for an epic continent-spanning wargaming campaign.”?
00:42:42 - Ships that were a self-fulfilling prophecy?
00:47:17 - Was the British Siege of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 and the subsequent plan for the invasion of Baltimore good a idea?
00:54:16 - Biggest peacetime naval disaster?
00:57:11 - How did the USN decide the names on first ships of their class?
01:00:28 - If the American Carriers were moored in Pearl Harbor during the attack on December 7th, how vulnerable would they have been? Would the Japanese pilots have prioritized sinking them over the battleships?
Comments
Tom Briggman
Since WW 2 the US Navy uses a system named The Underwater Log. Extending down from the close to the keel is a sword like device approx 10 inches wide, 2 inches thick and it extends down about 48 inches. The tip is a fiberglass boot that contains two buttons (one either side). There is a very small voltage that is induced through the water, this voltage is measured originally via a mechanical integrator, later with electronics. The system is very accurate and includes a provision for raising the (Rodmeter) when import and manually inputing teh speed via a panel mounted dial,
The Rogue Chief
I am fully in the camp that the British WOULD have kept New Orleans had they won in 1815 in spite of the war-ending treaty having already been signed. Remember they were already in the process of yoinking Cape Colony from the Dutch because of its strategic significance to British trade— and the Dutch were their allies! There’s little reason to presume that they wouldn’t keep such a strategic city as New Orleans for themselves, peace treaty be d**ned, and out of a rival’s possession. Reasons could be anywhere from offering better security with the Mississippi River and it’s access to the British corporate holdings in Hudson Bay country, to simply denying the city and its river access to the US, therefore severely hindering the latter’s access to the western lands as well as the Mexican-Caribbean trade.
Lew is British for John.
Pacific General (1997) has naval, air, and land combat.
Paul Goyne
As far as the naming of U.S. ship classes, I'm not certain this is true, but I read somewhere that in this period Congress authorized major warships by name, and the class name was taken from whichever ship of the class was mentioned first in the act authorizing their construction.
Ted Jones
The British coastal strategy in the War of 1812 was the Union strategy during the Civil War.
F-19A Ghostrider
Your comments on Scrapping vs Scuttling old ships are incidentally relevant due to the Brazilians having just scuttled the carrier Sao Paulo out in the Atlantic, due to large amounts of Asbestos making it undesirable for scrappers. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-sinks-rusting-old-aircraft-carrier-atlantic-2023-02-04/
Graham William Kidd
Brilliant. You two are a great duo.
TheFreaker86
Adding the questions and timestamps into the patreon posts here is brilliant! 👍🏻
Morning Drach hope all is well with you? Quick question if I may, what is the Warship that appears in Chitty chitty bang bang? Looks like a very late 19th century or early 20th pre dreadnought. Obviously an imaginary design but curious if it has any real life inspiration.
