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The Drydock - Episode 307
🕑 Added 2024-07-20 08:00:04 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:42 - What wood types were typically used by the large navies of the world for shipbuilding?
00:04:48 - How did the Spanish crews compete to the British crews in terms of skill and experience?
00:10:19 - Was there a frantic rush to cancel ship-of-the-line that were being planned once ironclads and the steam engine had proven themselves?
00:14:11 - How do you rate the Santa Ana design compared to their contemporaries in both france and england?
00:19:45 - What are some never built ship designs that you think had the most potential to be good designs?
00:24:29 - Why didn't the Germans not produce anything larger then 11" prior to Bismarck and Tirpitz for the Sharnhorst class and the pocket battle ships when they obviously didn't care about naval limitations in the interwar period?
00:28:37 - How was WMD protection implemented on older steam-powered warships, where forced draft system might have proved a problem in case there's airborne radioisotopes or chemical weaponry outside?
00:32:02 - Why do some barrels have a more pronounced neck at the end of the barrels and some don't?
00:36:00 - RN deserters and the USN prior to the War of 1812?
00:42:45 - What if the Great Lakes had seen all 5 ships of the line completed?
00:48:03 - Is "demolishing fire" synonymous to "withering fire" so far as terminology of the era is concerned?
00:49:58 - In Master and Commander, Midshipman Calamy was promoted to acting 3rd lieutenant. Calamy would still have to pass his lieutenant's exam, right? Were such promotions common, and what significance did they have?
00:53:41 - Royal Navy plans for Operation Sea Lion?
01:01:38 - USS Minneapolis and USS Pittsburgh lost their bows, for different reasons, during World War 2. Is their survival as extraordinary as it seems?
01:05:51 - Middle Ages naval technology?
Comments
BEAUSABRE23
2) Actually the RN took the 11 inch gun Scharnhorsts as a greater challenge than a 15 gun armed version as they were only useful for raiding which was a direct threat to Britain
BEAUSABRE23
24-29 Due to Versailles, the Germans did not have the industrial base to produce 15 inch guns at that time. IIRC Germany was limited to producing one gun of less than 12 inch caliber per year and only Krupp could produce guns of above 170mm caliber (and was prohibited from less than 170mm) under Versailles
