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The Drydock - Episode 304 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2024-06-29 10:00:03 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:33 - What are your thoughts on the career of Admiral George Rodney? Especially the criticisms about prize money chasing.
00:04:28 - How complicated was refitting the Standard's after Pearl Harbour?
00:08:17 - During WWII, did American dive bomber doctrine change in regard to the attack profile and bomb release height?
00:15:11 - Did the USN have more ships at Leyte Gulf than the IJN did aircraft?
00:19:55 - When was the worst period for the Royal Navy, in the time period the channel covers?
00:25:15 - Can the tanks or self-propelled artillery on board landing craft shoot while the vessel is in motion? A railway gun on board a train ferry?
00:28:02 - Over the next 12-18 months, what had more of an impact? The loss of Neosho or Lexington?
00:31:18 - Can you give us some interesting tidbits about the service of author and naval officer Lieutenant Commander Douglas Reeman RN?
00:34:27 - Did small ships like Black Joke ever run into problems dealing with the large number of crew and freed slaves on some of the captured slaving vessels?
00:36:48 - How would you have designed USS Wasp?
00:41:14 - Do you think there is anything that could have realistically been done to keep Titanic afloat long enough for Carpathia to arrive or at least long enough to save more lives?
00:46:37 - When was it no longer possible to seize and operate an enemy vessel?
00:51:31 - What happened to the Captain of HMS Birmingham after he faced off with the IJN?
00:54:13 - How often did mechanical malfunctions happen on British, US and Japanese carrier aircraft?
00:57:16 - When did navies culturally transition from losing a ship being annoying, but not unheard of, to where by World War One it was considered abhorrent to surrender a ship by almost anyone?
01:03:03 - International Law and the Trent Affair?
01:11:55 - Can you tell us a bit about the Japanese 27 inch torpedo mentioned in the long lance video?
01:13:20 - How much, if any, difference would it have made to the war in the Mediterranean if the British had taken control of the French squadron interned in Alexandria rather than allowed it to be disarmed?
01:18:12 - Was there smuggling in the World Wars?
01:22:46 - Electrical issues on Yamato?
01:25:01 - Famous ships mascots?
01:27:01 - During the period the channel covers what was some of the strangest ammunition types used by navy's around the world and were any of them effective?
01:29:46 - Should the RN have pressed harder for smaller 6" cruisers?
01:32:48 - Live shellfire at a celebration?
Comments
Jellicoe Cats
Shooting self propelled howitzers from landing craft during the run into the beach was not uncommon. I know it happened on D-Day and I reasonably sure the US Marines used the tactic in the Pacific. Most of the time the idea was to create a creeping barrage on the way in but the Canadians were actually able to hit specific targets. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/floating-priests-hammer-nazis-canadian-innovation-on-display-during-d-day
Allen Parmet
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc on Lake Michigan does have a submarine, USS Cobia (SS-245), a Gato-class boat, that has the ability to bunk up to 65 people overnight. See the website: https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/visit/stay-on-the-sub/
