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The Drydock - Episode 360 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2025-07-26 08:00:08 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:30 - At what scale ratio do models start to give usable data in testing?
00:04:59 - Would a better funded USN in the post-ACW era with armoured frigates affect European naval development?
00:11:28 - What could be gained if the Nelson class was built without torpedo tubes?
00:15:03 - RN and IJN night-fighting training in the inter-war period?
00:25:11 - What is the optimal size for a seamine?
00:29:38 - When a nation sells a warship regardless of type to another nation what normally is done during the refit period to make that ship ready for its new owners?
00:33:44 - What measures are in place to prevent the splinters, caused by a turbine stripping its blades, from travelling further downstream in the propulsion system?
00:37:32 - Could you please give us a quick rundown of naval scout plane communications?
00:44:02 - Escorts carried both depth charge racks AND depth charge mortars. Were the charges different for each system, or was it the same charge, just used differently?
00:47:26 - Drop keels on submarines?
00:52:04 - Cable over HMS Agincourt?
00:57:19 - Varying speeds in the Kido Butai?
01:01:23 - Did Bismarck almost experience a Hood-like explosion at Denmark Strait?
01:08:29 - Could the IJN have mounted an effective carrier campaign during 1943 and early 1944, to slow the USN's progress?
01:14:21 - Using Ultimate Admiral Dreadnought - build HMS Agincourt and then improve her
01:17:18 - Who is the greatest First Lord of the Admiralty and why is it George Anson?
01:21:16 - 'Overdrive mode' on US DE's?
01:28:08 - Zuiho, IJN CVL's and aircrew numbers?
01:31:33 - How different were the night fighting technology and tactics of the RN and KM at the time of the battle of Jutland?
01:37:57 - For the 18th and early 19th centuries, how much influence did Parliament have in the appointing of RN commanders of squadrons/fleets/task forces?
01:43:19 - Would you agree that, inferior numbers aside, the Imperial German Navy lost any chance of achieving a decisive victory at Jutland when it failed to build super-dreadnoughts before the Bayern class?
01:48:59 - Just why was Prinz Eugen equipped with hydrophones?
01:55:19 - County class refit timeline?
02:01:13 - What experience had the Royal Navy in dealing and working with Darlan and Gensoul, in alliance prior to the setting up of Vichy France and Mers El Kébir?
02:07:31 - Why didnt the Red Airforce do to the Kriegsmarine what the Luftwaffe did to the Red Navy during Barbarossa and destroy the forces taking part in Unternehmen Hannibal?
02:10:10 - Coffee in the Age of Sail?
02:14:25 - When did the worlds major navies start to think of the USN as more of a threat than an annoyance?
02:18:35 - U-Boats and returning convoys?
02:23:01 - Airships moored to battleships?
02:25:44 - Fishers Baltic Project?
02:32:42 - When it came to AA weapons, who actually picked the targets and gave the order to open fire?
02:37:37 - How have your answers to us changed since you started the Drydock?
02:44:55 - What happened to the specialist gear of the Great Lakes warships after the War of 1812?
02:47:11 - Had Admiral Tryon survived, do you believe he would have been successful in his attempts to make the Royal Navy more free-thinking and less rigid?
02:52:58 - How many Deutschland class heavy cruisers (aka "Pocket battleships") would need to be operating in a single formation for a contemporary battlecruiser to be dissuaded from engaging?
02:59:01 - Did the British government allow the 15/42in guns to be sold to foreign countries?
03:02:06 - What were the origins of the "We love to hate you" relationship between the Japanese Army & the Japanese Navy?
03:08:36 - Were the US heavy frigates the first time the battlecruiser strategy was employed, or did it arise in past navies?
Comments
Ted M Jones
At 2:26 I think you miss-speak twice. Everyone does this, but to get the wrong WW twice like that is a rarity.
Ted M Jones
Night fighting training: Even with their training IJNs cruisers ran into each other at least twice during battle situations. Another reason for U-boats to not attack west bound convoys was the ships could be carrying POWs on the way to Canada or the USA.
