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The Drydock - Episode 330 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-12-28 08:30:01 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:40 - What is the difference between an "iron hulled" ship and an "ironclad" one?
00:05:23 - Concerning the Lexingtons, if the navy hadn’t been so determined on turbo electric and gone with steam turbines instead, what could they have done with the design in both their battlecruiser and carrier configurations? Could they at least have foregone the treaty cheating?
00:11:16 - Why all the effort to re-float the USS Oklahoma?
00:15:22 - Historical naval tabletop wargames?
00:20:09 - Why weren't the radio aerials strung from fore to aft on the big capital ships damaged during combat?
00:23:37 - Why were navies so not-secretive about their best technology back in the 19th century?
00:30:00 - How do you structure your time – both before and after your child's birth – in order to keep up your rate of production, especially at such quality, and still have a life outside of the channel?
00:44:28 - Were the number of surface ship vs surface ships battles involving ships over about 500 tons more typical of the general period the channel covers in WW1 or WW2? How about all combats involving warships of any size?
00:49:48 - Could you please discuss how anti-submarine strategy developed in WWI and WWII respectively?
00:57:12 - What do you think of 'reaction videos' to your content?
01:08:32 - Was most naval guns being in whole/half inches or close to because of British domination of naval technology, or some other reason?
01:16:41 - Amusing documentation?
01:21:24 - Why are there so many Iowa vs discussions?
01:26:24 - What is your view on the ability of privateers as a response to blockade actions?
01:33:18 - If the Queen Elizabeths had been completed with small tube boilers and were capable of 26-27kts, does this change what the treaties would agree to or allow?
01:38:56 - Did improved fire control or the requirement for improved lethality drive the increase in AAA caliber for the USN during the Pacific War?
01:44:06 - If a Dreadnought is a warship with roughly the best armor and powerplant available to a navy and roughly the biggest guns available in an all-centerline-turret configuration, with limited secondary battery, then doesn't that technically make Monitor the first Dreadnought?
01:48:19 - At the turn of the 20th century, could you rank the biggest drivers that vastly increased gunnery range - tactical doctrine, weapons technology, optics, mechanical calculators or something else?
01:52:42 - Liberty ship hull issues?
01:58:31 - Was the French "Jeune Ecole" reacting to not only the advantages of Steam power (much easier to run down ships), but also the increased "detection radius" of a steam-powered merchant vessel?
02:05:01 - U-190 and salvaged parts?
02:10:01 - Were the WW2 positions such as CnC Royal Dockyards considered promotions or otherwise for the likes of Henry Pridham-Wippel (formerly HMS Barham)?
02:15:13 - Could you prove a ship was overweight just by looking at it?
02:20:20 - What are the ugliest non-French warships in your opinion?
02:22:24 - Did you ever correspond or converse with James Hornfischer before his untimely passing?
02:23:22 - Why the instantly recognizable, distinct hullforms for each major navy?
02:27:05 - Why did they think about modernising Nelson post-WW2 but wanted to scrap Rodney?
02:30:38 - What was a “Fire Pike?”
02:34:40 - Times Radio History / History Undone Collaborations?
02:39:38 - How did navies in the age of sail handle duels of honor in terms of rules and practice?
02:43:37 - During the WWI Battle of the Falklands, had Von Spee pressed his attack before the British were able to raise steam, could he have defeated them in detail?
02:46:15 - WW2 Hunt class destroyer - how did they manage to get it (initially) so wrong?
02:50:54 - Is Flank a real naval term?
02:53:42 - Domes erected on a ship?
02:54:58 - Shoutout to Vintage Car History!
02:55:58 - Why did Halsey believe Centre Force had been wiped out or forced to retreat at Sibuyan Sea?
Comments
Ted M Jones
I have to give my favorite looking ships of WW2: USS South Dakota (class) and Takao (class)
Ted M Jones
When you finally do the episode on Bismarck don't forget to describe their scuttling drill.
Michael Andrej Molnár
When will the althistory stuff come?
W. Osterberg
Dang I am the first to wake up to Drach. Awesome way to start the weekend.
