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The Drydock - Episode 299 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2024-05-25 09:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - Can you explain and summarise the problems with availability of RN secondary armament turrets of various calibres before and through WW2, significant delays in commissioning and changes made to ships to overcome these issues?
00:06:57 - Stablity calculations through time?
00:12:40 - Why was Admiral Nagumo selected for command of Kido Butai?
00:16:26 - In the film Master & Commander, there are two lieutenants as far as I can tell, Mr. Pullings and Mr. Mowett. Would it be typical for a frigate to sail with only three officers?
00:19:17 - What is Ammonium Picrate (a.k.a. Dunnite) and why did the United States Navy keep using Ammonium Picrate for so long, since pretty much every other nation switched to other alternatives?
00:23:59 - Yamato's gunnery at Samar?
00:29:14 - Getting close to an enemy to provoke friendly fire / avoid being hit by enemies scared of it?
00:33:13 - Land based anti-shipping strike aircraft?
00:40:45 - Germans POW's in Canada?
00:45:05 - Caustic commentators?
00:52:40 - Top 3 and Bottom 3 converted aircraft carrier hulls?
01:01:12 - USN ship on the Thames in the late 1960's?
01:02:23 - What is the combination of flags to be flown to show a ship has been captured?
01:04:10 - Aircraft carrying Fletcher's. Why?
01:07:33 - Malta Convoy book recommendations?
01:09:56 - How often were ships lost in the Age of Sail?
01:13:38 - So there seems to be this perpetual myth going around that the reason the Battlecruisers at Jutland had accuracy issues was because Royal Navy XOs were limiting the amount of gunnery practice because it made the ship look dirty, which hurt their chances for promotion.
01:18:34 - Hypothetical auto-loading AA 6" secondary battery?
01:22:15 - How was Shinano's one good photo discovered?
01:24:53 - What is the difference between how a surface search radar and a surface fire control radar works?
01:30:41 - Why did the 20" Rodman gun fail?
01:35:01 - Just how good of commerce raiding ships would the Des Moines class have been?
01:40:55 - What would the the Japanese would have done if the U.S. Navy had left their battleships on the west coast of the U.S. instead of forward deploying them to Pearl harbour?
01:47:29 - How would a contemporary 'Great Eastern' have been used in WW1/2?
01:55:23 - Later pre-dreadnoughts / semi-dreadnoughts vs early Dreadnoughts?
02:00:13 - Guns that survive from ships that didn't?
02:05:14 - How much priority was given to aircrew if a carrier needed to be evacuated?
Comments
Art Brogden
WOOO HOOOO.. Despite my occasional disagreements w Drach... I'VE SEEN ALL 300... GREAT JOB DRACH.. GREAT F'N JOB!!!!!!!!!
Ted Jones
I can't believe I've watched all 299 of these. Will there be fireworks or an extra rum ration for #300?
