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The Drydock - Episode 328
🕑 Added 2024-12-14 09:00:08 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - In hindsight were the modernised/rebuilt ironclads (Vasco da Gama, Numancia and Vitoria, IJN Fuso, and the Mesudiye etc.) ever a decent idea or should the money spent on them have been used on other smaller yet more modern ships?
00:06:16 - How long were 19th century fortress guns effective for?
00:13:26 - Why was grapeshot not used earlier?
00:19:26 - Wood framing and planking on a pre-dreadnought?
00:22:20 - Why does the French pre-dreadnought at 24:43 have Cookie monster eyes?
00:23:33 - Were French battleships of the era designed to charge the enemy?
00:28:29 - Just how frequently were charts updated in the Royal Navy during the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the beginning of World War One?
00:32:46 - What is the closest that Britain has ever gotten (during the time period this channel covers) to loosing it's status as a great naval power? How did they bounce back?
00:38:17 - If you were to construct a ship of the line, but you could source wood of every tree species from the world, which woods would you use and why?
00:42:40 - What would have been the most likely redesign to U.S. cruisers to have accommodated torpedo tubes, either in a pre-WW2 paper design or in a mid-war moment of clarity? Would it have just involved sacrificing a 5”/38 turret amidships?
00:45:39 - At what point did the UK become relatively secure against invasion by sea?
00:51:07 - How common were “procurement disasters” during the period the channel covers and did the rate change between age of Sail and age of steam and steel?
00:58:05 - How effective and widespread was the use of Greek fire at different points throughout the byzantine empire?
01:01:01 - Late 19th century innovations that didn't work out in use?
Comments
James Hain
A very merry Christmas and New Year to you and Mrs DRACH and Baby DRACH from down under
BEAUSABRE23
Waste of effort = Rams
BEAUSABRE23
Royal vs Private dockyards = see the RN's "Forty Thieves" class of ships of the line - all built privately
Robert Henry Illston
Q & A: You talked about "adding" torpedoes to US cruisers, could they have been aimed and fired with radar, and was radar ever used for torpedo fire control?
Scott
Thank you for taking my question about retrofitting torpedo tubes onto American cruisers. I still scratch my head when I consider why it is that the United States, of all of the major naval powers, was the only one who seemed to think that torpedoes were not a proper part of the armament of the cruiser. Was this institutional hubris (“well, OUR cruisers don’t need them), a more limited view of the potential role of the cruiser, or perhaps the assumption that there would always be battleships around if the cruisers ran into one of the enemy’s capital ships? Thanks again, and best to your good Lady and the little Princess.
chris hodgson
Hi D, Thanks for the content again - Just considering the new Blakes 7 blu ray after a lifetime of (subsequent) naval history knowledge The Liberator really is the greatest sci-fi depiction of a battlecruiser isn’t it? Fast, hits hard but needs to withdraw under sustained attack and ultimately vulnerable Sniff I still miss her
