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The Drydock - Episode 367
🕑 Added 2025-09-13 08:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:35 - What if Glowworm got off a report that the enemy ships had troops aboard?
00:03:47 - The British letter class destroyers often get such interesting and/or odd names. What's your favorite names from these ships?
00:06:05 - Why didn't Britain build up more substantial naval yards and other facilities in Canada?
00:10:36 - When are you going to Chatham Docks next?
00:11:09 - Would Glowworm have been better off shadowing the German destroyers rather than attacking them?
00:14:18 - Does the letter Heye wrote to the Royal Navy still exist?
00:15:10 - Can damage impair gunnery?
00:19:49 - What does an Aircraft carrier need to be able to support jet aircraft?
00:22:04 - Would Bismarck have been in a better position if Lutjens went after Norfolk and Suffolk?
00:26:35 - Why did the US Navy decide to not continue development of the 13” naval gun from some of there pre Dreadnaughts?
00:29:31 - With many AA or dual-purpose guns (40 mm bofors, US 3", Japanese 25 mm and etc.) gun laying is split between one person who does the horizontal training and another who controls vertical aiming. How did they coordinate between each other?
00:33:08 - Is there a Naval history film that should be made, that you would love to direct?
00:38:41 - Why don't many American museum ships whose period of interpretation is strictly WW2 or earlier fly Era appropriate flags?
00:43:20 - Royal Navy ship naming conventions?
00:51:12 - Besides the Deutschlands, what other plans for ships did the Reichsmarine have?
00:53:05 - "Whale-back" versus "Atlantic" versus ???, what are the differences (visual), and the pros and cons of the various types?
00:57:44 - How did Nagato ended up so much better than the design of Ersatz Yorck despite being similar in size and design date?
01:01:47 - US Float plane launchers?
Comments
Nick Brodar
I believe former US Navy museum ships are required to fly the current National Ensign under US Navy Regulations Article 1259. Paraphrased from Article 1259, table 8 of the 1990 US Navy Regulations: Out of Commission and Out of Service vessels, shall display the National Ensign if necessary to indicate the national character of the ship.
The Rogue Chief
I’ve actually given a lot of thought to a Battle of Samar or Battle of Jutland movie story myself… My own approach to Samar would be to emphasize one emotion: mad desperation (with the emotion on the Japanese side being the held up struggle to just punch through) For Jutland, I’ve basically been thinking of something like “Sink the Bismarck” but on a grander scale and focusing a lot more on the sea side rather than the Admiralty building. It would actually open with the Battle of Dogger Bank and look at very human anecdotes like the German officer who burned himself to keep the magazine blowing up, the German helmsman on charges of drunkenness terrified & almost possessed as he clutches the helm with a death grip trying not to die, and the British destroyer (HMS Spitfire, wasn’t it?) that had its bridge blown apart by a close salvo where you have the men aboard poking their heads up over the wreckage immediately afterward looking around with an expression of “Are we still alive?!” The emotional focus will also be desperation but at the more immediate level of each sailor sweating, covered in grime, exhausted, and scared with eyes screaming “Don’t die! Don’t die! Don’t die!” (I really do like your 300-style Lepanto idea though! I can just picture the Knights of Malta as a bunch of body builder berserkers! Haha)
