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The Drydock - Episode 361
🕑 Added 2025-08-02 08:00:00 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:38 - Was there ever any concern about the security of steel mills when making armour?
00:06:09 - How would small navies choose what ship to buy/build?
00:12:10 - Were 'intermediate' heavy/super cruiser guns a good idea?
00:17:37 - Late WW1 German destroyer designs?
00:23:24 - How useful would Cork/Cobh be to the UK in WW2?
00:29:53 - In your opinion, how much did the success of Q ships influence the Germans decision to go to unrestricted submarine warfare?
00:33:26 - How/why do ships of the same class end up with such variations in size and displacement?
00:40:34 - Could you please explain the Japanese doctrine for deploying carrier air wings?
00:44:08 - Thinking of the recent tragedy in NY with the Mexican tall ship training vessel backing into a bridge. In the age of sail, how did sailing vessels get into a wharf and back out safely?
00:47:29 - Does Task Group 38.4 (Franklin, Enterprise and friends)’s attack on the IJN’s Southern Force count as part of the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea?
00:48:58 - Indian/Pacific Ocean U-Boats?
00:53:56 - How does naval gunnery advance without silk bags?
00:57:35 - What would you do to fix the vibration problems on the North Carolina class battleships?
01:01:14 - Nelson class battleship stability?
Comments
Ted M Jones
They wouldn't have had enough oiler capacity to include a USS North Carolina on the early 1942 raids.
Glenn Ricafrente
Ha! The helmsman of NCC-1701 was related to the Sulu Sea. Roddenberry named him after the sea.
HARK!
One way to make a propellant bag made from nitrocellulose less sensitive is to do what the USSR did to produce the propellant bags for the T-72. One makes a blend of regular cellulose fiber and nitrocellulose. This sort of paper or carton like martial is then formed into the shape of the propellant bag, or better, the self-combusting cartridge, as it will be rather stiff. Then it is dipped into a bath of molten TNT. The TNT will actually make this safer, as it doesn't explode as easily as nitrocellulose. But it also helps to make the cartridge less permeable to moisture.
Yokosuka Girls Marine High School Training Vessel Harekaze
Last time a Drydock video was this early, Kamchatka had not yet sighted her first torpedo boat
Jeff s holloway
Well, it made my day, thank you admiral.
Waldo739
I don't think anyone will complain.
Drachinifel
Well, looks like I selected the wrong release date, oh well, this week you get things 4 days early!
