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The Drydock - Episode 317 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2024-09-28 08:00:07 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - How did officer advancement boards/tests in the RN come about? How did standardization set in? Are they still administered in some form today?
00:06:27 - WW2 supply routes to the USSR via the Pacific?
00:10:45 - Anti-shipping stakes at the Siege of La Rochelle?
00:15:38 - What types of ships resupplied the British and Commonwealth forces garrison at Tobruk during their siege in 1941?
00:21:02 - Which hypothetical/prototype ship design are you most glad was never built, and why?
00:26:58 - Airships with sub-hunting sonar?
00:30:03 - Can you please calculate where a shell fired from the 11inch gun from the Dutch Pantserschip HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën on display at the Museum TNI AL Loka Jala Crana in Surabaya, Indonesia, would land if it were to be fired?
00:34:15 - It seems on naval history YouTube channels two ships that never served in a naval capacity, The Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald, are unspoken "fair game" for questions. What is your stance on questions from your viewers regarding civilian ships?
00:38:06 - Star Trek followup - Could Chief O'Brien have taken command of USS Valiant?
00:41:33 - Is there a place for the battleship in modern warfare?
00:52:07 - Late 1939 USN AA upgrades?
00:58:28 - You have stated that maximum theoretical rate of fire of battleships means little in practical combat ranges due to need to observe fall of the shells. Is this true even after advanced optical and radar fire control systems came into service?
01:04:25 - Battle of Midway 'colorful' pilot radio transmissions?
01:06:15 - What if Jellicoe never made it to the Grand Fleet?
01:10:20 - In the aftermath of the Washington treaty when a large number of battleships and battlecruisers were being scrapped, were any of the main guns reused by the signature nations for coastal defence?
01:13:25 - Degrading a modern battleships capacity to fight with HE shells?
01:17:51 - What part of Admiral Halsey’s problems in the latter part of WW2 was temperament, what was seamanship and what was a matter of an old dog not learning new tricks because he was behind a desk when the tricks where being invented?
01:23:19 - Most and Least important engagements that went unrecognised as such at the time?
01:31:58 - Carrier vs Battleship build times?
01:37:40 - What makes the perfect Q ship?
01:46:30 - Which nation's ship designers benefitted the most and which the least from the collapse of the treaty system?
01:50:46 - Did the Japanese know about HMS Victorious / USS Robin?
01:55:30 - Will you come and visit USS Intrepid?
02:00:04 - If the Italians had the budget do you think they would have built a dreadnought based on Vittorio Cuniberti's before any other nations did?
02:04:17 - Does hammering a cannon ball actually help?
02:08:14 - Were there any significant Allied war atrocities during WWIi which were papered over like My Lai in Vietnam?
02:15:22 - Mechanical fuse setting and delay in loading?
02:19:30 - How were ships maintained and cleaned before drydocks?
02:24:27 - What individual had the greatest and/or longest-lasting positive influence on their country's navy as a direct result of their poor judgment or incompetence?
02:31:36 - Could you please tell me about holystoning?
02:35:18 - Where were HMS Dreadnought and HMS Ramillies at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet?
02:38:49 - Admiral vs Captain responsibilities in battle?
02:42:44 - Why were twin gun turrets the standard for so long on battleships?
02:49:55 - Are there estimations of how many personnel, through the two WW, died not of disease, enemy action or sea catastrophe but out of exhaustion and stress?
02:53:07 - Raising propellors?
02:55:56 - How did second world war LCGs compared to the first world war monitors?
Comments
Elliott W James
Ted M Jones, the US Navy was "Dry." The consumption of alcohol on board U.S. Navy vessels was prohibited by General Order 99, effective 1 July 1914, issued by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels on 1 June 1914.
The Rogue Chief
Regarding the allied war crimes question, it is also important to remember the fact that the kind of situation they’re in does have a psychological effect on people. The continuous strain, exhaustion, fear, and possibly anger built-up, combined with some of the specific things you read about in some survivor accounts, is simply going to affect those people, even change them in a way, as well as possibly change their understanding of some concepts from civilian life. The book “On Killing” takes a hard look at this, including the psychological struggle of teaching young recruits going to combat that they have to kill even though they’d always been told up until then that killing is wrong, and then the equal struggle of trying to teach these same persons after having been to war that killing is once again wrong even though they’d just been drilled to understand it was necessary. As a personal family example that’s sort of similar, I had a great uncle who was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and spent the rest of the European war in a POW camp— when he came back relatives who knew him said he was always different afterward, that something had changed in him. Bear in mind this is not an effort to excuse, but to explain— although I can freely admit I empathize with my brothers.
Ted M Jones
Those admirals who died at the end of WW2 were also heavy smokers, I believe. It wasn't just stress. And aside from Spruance, most USN officers were heavy drinkers as well.
Ted M Jones
Would a modern BB want anything larger than 12" guns? Maybe autoloading 12".
Ted M Jones
Speaking of subjects that aren't in your wheelhouse, I would love to know your thoughts on the engine pods ad bow thrusters that are common today. Would these things be useful on warships? Would these technologies have been possible if someone had thought of them earlier on?
mikelima777
Now I'm giggling at the idea of Chief O'Brien ripping and tearing through Red Squad before taking command of the Valiant.
