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The Drydock - Epsiode 325 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-11-23 09:00:06 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:38 - Royal Marines in the Napoleonic Era?
00:08:58 - Why were Kitakami and Oi converted to fast transports so quickly?
00:12:21 - How many (percentage) sailors during the napoleonic wars were pressed into service?
00:19:03 - G3/Amagi/Lexington carriers at higher numbers?
00:23:01 - Sails on RN monitors?
00:25:23 - Which navy had the most oppressive amount of paperwork for its officers to fill out?
00:27:57 - Good political naval officers who don't have to be good at sea?
00:33:28 - What was the most successful use of a fleet of obsolete ships in war?
00:36:43 - Why French naval design?
00:40:50 - During the period the channel covers, were fleet oilers typically converted commercial vessels, or purpose-built Navy vessels?
00:45:05 - How was drydocking for a ship's major repairs or refit accomplished before the advent of steam engines to pump water into or out of a drydock?
00:47:40 - Based on what you've learned, which military leaders in the period the channel covers are you significantly more impressed with and which are you significantly less impressed with?
00:52:26 - What was the reasoning behind Operation Deadlight?
00:56:45 - Why did the USN downsize from 13" to 12" in their early pre-dreadnoughts?
01:01:44 - Just how efficient were the first triple turrets that entered service - the turrets on Gangut, Tegetthoff and Dante Alighieri?
01:05:30 - Why was bomber nose art prohibited in the USN/USMC?
01:09:19 - How did 6-gun ships get accurate salvos?
01:15:12 - Were escort carriers ever considered as floating missile batteries post WW2?
01:17:27 - Wide grill on top of ships funnels?
01:19:15 - A ship flying all sorts of nations flags?
01:22:29 - Do other navies besides the USN had 'ratings' in various fields to enlisted men?
01:24:54 - What special precautions did navies take with resupply and transport ships that carried large amounts of ammunition and explosives?
01:30:40 - Seaplane carrier Liberty/Victory ships?
01:35:21 - Colour markings for US ships for identification?
01:38:02 - Size/prevelance of machine shops on various ships in various navies?
01:40:01 - What would a USN 1950s carrier anti-shipping strike package look like?
01:43:04 - For the Royal Navy Western Squadron during under Admiral Lord Anson and Sir Edward Hawke, how was the squadron staff organized under the Commander-In-Chief?
01:49:32 - How important was crew comfort to ship designers in late 19th and 20th centuries?
01:55:16 - Alternatives to the Atlanta and Dido classes?
02:01:20 - Could you talk about the naval actions that took place in between the first and second Big Night Battles of Guadalcanal?
02:03:58 - Have there been any crews that engineered this sort of thing in order to get rid of a hated commander?
02:06:08 - What was the French reaction to Cochrane?
02:09:06 - What would the un-engaged turrets on a Hexagonal-layout battleship do?
02:10:29 - When would you say that the English (or British) navy crossed the line from an assemblage of ship into an actual navy able to go toe to toe with the likes of Spain and France?
02:14:00 - During the age of sail what would you say were the most important but least known battles involving the smaller navies of the world?
02:18:13 - Are displacement and weight difference?
02:19:57 - For capital ships main turrets, after each firing how long did the crews have to wait before opening the breach?
02:23:15 - How efficient were the Yamato's?
02:32:08 - Why was the Harwich force so important in WW1 but not WW2?
02:36:46 - How were boats carried by submarines?
02:41:19 - Are 'screw' and 'propeller' interchangable?
02:43:01 - Real world examples of Star Trek's USS Defiant?
02:45:50 - Types of ship that could have existed earlier and would have had a significant effect if so?
02:51:26 - What if the Imperial German Navy used oil instead of coal?
02:57:39 - What was the fuel efficiency of different engine types compared to each other?
Comments
C G Southgate
Seaplane carrier Liberty/Victory ships? CAM ships? They were a thing and did most of the things that you said aircraft launching ships should not.
W. Osterberg
Thank you Drach for another awesome production.
