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The Drydock - Episode 311
🕑 Added 2024-08-17 12:30:01 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - Did anybody try to make a fast battleship (in the sense of a big-gun capital ship that doesn’t sacrifice either firepower or armour for speed) in the predreadnoughts era?
00:05:13 - Would it have made sense for the USN to forward deploy older battleships or second-line cruisers in the Philippines to deter Japanese aggression, especially as Japan ramped up their war in China as a show of force and as a deterrence/first line of defense against a naval invasion of the P.I?
00:10:06 - What was different about USS Delaware that allowed her to steam ahead longer than other dreadnought class ships of her time in the US Navy
00:14:09 - If Hitler had sent the first wave of V-1 Bombs against the invasion fleet at Normandy how effective would it have been?
00:18:56 - You mentioned that Delaware's turret 3 was unable to fire rearward for fear of damaging turret 4's sights with the blast wave. Why is this not a concern for other super firing turrets, are there preventative measures that could not be taken on Delaware's rear turrets for one reason or another?
00:22:17 - Torpedo head vs Fast Fish head?
00:25:51 - Drach will you at some point talk about the risks of transporting certain cargos such as grain and coal?
00:31:07 - You mentioned subs getting maintenance on a slip way, how was that done? A massive winch and rollers? Why wasn't this used for larger ships as an alternative to drydocks?
00:35:08 - If USS Yorktown was raised, could she be preserved?
00:41:31 - Is the early commander performance issues with the US Navy in WWII a result of no real sustained combat since the Civil War?
00:49:16 - Is there any particular reason why foreign-procured warships would have not only the ship name changed, but the class name as well?
00:52:25 - There is a quote attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "The sergeant is the Army." Could the same be also be said of a navy's non-commissioned officers, in terms of their relative importance to both commissioned officers and ratings alike?
00:55:47 - Operation Wunderland?
00:59:13 - What was considered the worst generic, at-sea assignment for a RN Officer during the Napoleonic era?
01:01:53 - We see a lot of information about torpedo defense systems designed into Battleship hulls, and to a lessor extent Aircraft carriers. Were there any efforts to design some sort of mitigating defense into any other classes hulls?
Comments
Architect096
Q&A Question for August Drydock: On average how many of the aircraft carrier crew was dedicate to the maintenance of the planes would these personnel be part of the squadrons operating the planes? I assume that it does depends on the navy and ships in question but would there be some sort of standard of X number men per aircraft or just Y number of men responsible for maintaining all them.
drewbot
A collegue of mine at an open mapping data project shared his side project this week and it's quite impressive: mapping all the ships sunk during WWII. The coverage is staggering: https://ww2sunkenships.ca
Peter Navarch
We are fortunate that here in Fremantle, Western Australia that we have a slipway that was used in WW 2 for the repair of submarines. It is right next to our extensive Maritime Museum. This slipway has become the permanent home for HMAS OVENS, preserved in essentially the condition as which she paid off, less batteries. I did support her first main refit at Cockatoo Island, Sydney.
Peter Navarch
The spaces outboard of both the upper and lower hopper faces become water ballast tanks, for voyages where no cargo is carried.
Peter Navarch
This makes the cargo space essentially self-trimming, and facilitates the unloading by shore-based cranes with grabs. If well filled with grain (or other cargo) this avoids the need for both shifting boards and bagged grain.
Peter Navarch
For bulk carriers, for grain, coal and ore (the most common cargoes involved, you missed addressing the common configuration of hopper tanks. (There may be another name, but nothing comes to mind.) The upper tanks start at the underside of the hatch coaming, of conventional width, and run out to the ship's side, at around 45 deg to horizontal. The lower tanks roughly mirror these,between topside and tank top.
BEAUSABRE23
1. V1's and V2's had no homing mechanism. The CEP meant when they aimed at Picadilly Circus, only 50 percent of their shots would land in the COUNTY of London. 2. Sub maintenance - see Marine Railway
BEAUSABRE23
WW2 Scharnhorsts had a torpedo defense rated to contain 300 kg (660lbs) TNT. Unfortunately the British Mk VIII had a 800 pound warhead
Elliott W James
Pistachio nuts are noted to be dangerous to transport: https://cargohandbook.com/Pistachio_nuts
W. Osterberg
Thank you Drach for another great presentation. 👍
