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The Drydock - Episode 321 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-10-26 08:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:30 - Did the interwar German Navy try to retain surface ship design skills?
00:05:54 - 'Sink the Bismarck' film questions?
00:09:58 - Naval officers who accidentally sabotaged their own side?
00:14:57 - Influence of ships on standard equipment ID's?
00:18:50 - Had USS Olympia been built as an armored cruiser instead of a protected cruiser would she still have been sent to the Ppacific during Spanish-American War
00:21:28 - How were the West Indies squadrons/fleets of the RN actually organized during the classic 1750-1850 period?
00:25:19 - What is an Alpha Strike, and are there any other named strikes?
00:28:31 - Would auto-loading battleship guns actually be possible?
00:33:31 - Armies predated navies, so it would make sense that navies would try to adapt army tactics and maneuvers to the high seas environment. What examples of these can be pointed out, and did armies consider adapting any tactics and maneuvers originally developed by navies for their own use?
00:43:10 - How efficient were classic age of sail vessels?
00:46:51 - How many history books do you have?
00:48:42 - How much influence did the government finance departments have over wartime appropriation?
00:53:05 - Could you recommend a good English language book on both the Dutch Republic and Dutch East Indies Company?
00:54:12 - What if the IJN forced a battle at the Gilberts or Marshall Islands?
00:59:01 - During the 19th century, was there ever a large Royal Navy Force based out of India/Sri Lanka (comparable to Med Fleet)?
01:03:38 - Largest naval gun for a 'unity' round?
01:10:09 - Torpedo-tube launched depth charges?
01:14:11 - How would the Royal Navy have dealt with the Yamato if they had to confront the Japanese Navy after cleaning up Europe without United States help?
01:18:41 - Details on the IJN 'turret farms'?
01:22:49 - Who owned the various Liberty and Victory Ships and T-2 tankers, etc. produced by the US dockyards during WW2?
01:25:30 - Between 1850-1950, what naval inventions were written off as failures, but as technology developed were revisited 10-20-30 (etc.) years later and found to be successful?
01:31:50 - In the film Master and Commander, would lashing be the typical punishment for the level of insubordination displayed to Mr. Hollum by Nagle? Seems quite harsh for a captain like Aubrey.
01:36:37 - Old war records?
01:38:07 - Ddi anyone manage to pass the Gibraltar Straits unwelcomed in time of war and get away with it? (Without being a submarine)
01:41:03 - Could you please include metric measurements when talking about lengths of various objects and especially depths?
01:42:20 - Were anti-aircraft guns, particularly dedicated guns on ships that didn't have dual-purpose secondaries, ever equipped or used to fire on surface targets?
01:47:32 - How did firepower evolve from number of guns to weight of shot/shell?
01:52:57 - What were the biggest contributions of Malaya to both the Allies and Axis during WW2 from a naval standpoint, and based on this how important was Malaya in the Pacific theatre compared to say, the Philippines, Formosa or Hong Kong?
01:56:26 - How would sailor’s family know if the sailor is alive or dead in age of sail?
01:59:43 - The USS Turner DD 648 and USS Solar DE 221 were destroyed at anchor by separate internal explosions. Both by ASW ammunition. Why was this ammunition so volatile?
02:06:34 - If the Alaska’s had been able to keep their original design speed before they began to get weighed down do you think the US would’ve kept them around instead of the Iowa’s?
02:14:06 - What factors would make an admiral disobey a direct order and what determined how severely they were punished (if at all)?
02:21:43 - You've mentioned before that you consider the USS Galena one of, if not the worst, ironclads of the American Civil War. Are there other designs that came out of that war that you would consider to be as bad, if not worse, than the Galena?
02:24:52 - Were there ever reasons why sailors would be expected to climb into a gun barrel?
02:28:19 - Did the battleship Duke of York ever happen to be at sea within the range of an active V2 battery?
02:30:14 - Had Kurita recognized Taffy 3 for what it was, and barreled through them instead of engaging, could he have wiped out 7th Fleet?
02:36:41 - Victorian era RN 'spit and polish' officers?
02:39:59 - Is it really fair to compare G3 with Lexington and Amagi?
02:42:34 - Was there any cross pollination between the army and navy when it came to armour technology/production?
02:47:10 - Things BuOrd did well?
02:49:06 - Why did the British fight for but then abandon Newport in the American Revolution?
02:52:19 - Bias in the Jutland Naval Staff Appreciation?
02:54:41 - Why are only some German destroyers given a name rather than an alphanumeric designation?
02:57:45 - In your opinion, which of the world's navies represents the greatest waste of potential?
Comments
João Rita
3500 naval books?!... that's twice my entire library! :D
W. Osterberg
Thank you for yet another both informative and entertaining Drydock .
Ted M Jones
Elbonia is an invention of Scott Adams in the Dilbert comic series. While this is a UK Army stupidity, my vote for the most Elbonian decision of WW2 goes to the COMPLETE REFUSAL of the UK Army to provide HE or cannister rounds for their 2 pounder gun. This is particularly frustrating since the result of doing so would have been a munition very similar to the Pom-Pom 40mm round.
David Pierce
w/r/t armies adapting naval tactics, I'm surprised you didn't mention that early tank doctrine borrowed a lot from naval tactics. Hence things like "cruiser" tanks. Some of it was undoubtedly due to the RNs early involvement in tank design and production, since they had a lot of technicians and engineers I guess? It ended up being an imperfect metaphor and it's arguable how much of that theorizing was still current doctrine by WWII, but it was definitely a thing for a while.
Squeued
G'morning Drach ! Thanks for the brain food and mild amusement !
