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The Drydock - Episode 351 (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2025-05-24 07:30:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - At what distance from the impact point do the effects of HE shells fired from the main battery of a battleship become negligible when fired at a land target?
00:07:52 - Did the Japanese launch a search for 'Shangri-La'?
00:10:00 - In your opinion, would the USN of the 1890s have been better off building two or three more Olympia-class ships instead of Maine and Texas?
00:13:38 - Was there ever a ship or other technology that navies had, but avoiding using for fear the technology would be captured and copied?
00:17:59 - Why and how often does a ship get loaded to "deep load" as compared to normal standard loads?
00:22:53 - If in May 1940 the Richelieu and Jean Bart had sailed to the UK, and the British decided they could be an important and relatively quick reinforcement, what would have been done to promptly bring the two ships into British service?
00:29:34 - Why didn't the Spanish simply upgun the Santisma Trinidad instead of building it up?
00:33:49 - Taffy 2 destroyers at Samar?
00:36:36 - What do you consider to be the historic RN ship name least suited to its present allocation?
00:38:46 - How did the French view their navy in the 1650-1890 period?
00:46:23 - What is the smallest size an aircraft carrier can reasonably be?
00:50:03 - Steering with the anchor?
00:53:30 - Personal beliefs and naval history?
01:06:09 - Why were dive bombers chosen as the USN scout platform?
01:11:06 - Was there ever a more desperate engagement between a U-boat and a destroyer than when the USS Borie DD215 engaged U-405?
01:14:53 - 27,000ton Yorktowns?
01:21:46 - German naval sabot rounds?
01:26:10 - Were similar superstructures on different types of ship a deliberate attempt to deceive?
01:29:46 - Callaghan's night action?
01:37:14 - What is your favourite maritime mystery?
01:39:51 - What was the significance of the SMS Magdeburg's grounding in the Baltic Sea in 1914 and its subsequent boarding by the Russian Navy?
01:42:32 - Did any other Navy than the German use Generals names as Ship Names?
01:44:42 - What are your favorite ship names or themes of non-navy (pirate or privateer) ships?
01:46:45 - When Dreadnought was being considered/designed were there any alternate designs or other paths considered for the future of battleship design as far as replacing pre-dreadnoughts and if so what were they?
01:49:12 - Iron hooks on Tudor warships?
01:51:46 - Does inclining a belt versus angle of incoming shot have a double effect?
01:58:42 - What were the costs for the design phase of a capital ship?
02:05:22 - Approximately on what date did the Allies' Pacific naval strength become greater than the IJN?
02:10:03 - Could you shed some light on some of the interwar experimental British destroyer weapons?
02:17:28 - Radar-stealthed U-Boats?
02:20:57 - Plans to introduce Mini-Drach to ship models?
02:25:33 - Which naval warships throughout history had the worst armament layout. Both ergonomically for the crew and tactically for combat operations?
02:30:04 - Flaws/weaknesses in the torpedo denfence system of the Yamato's and Iowa's respectively?
02:42:55 - KGV low bow justification?
02:49:05 - Problems with early coppered ships?
02:52:16 - Does Iowa hold the record for the most museum ships associated with a land-locked area?
02:53:40 - Do less popular subjects on Patreon votes not get videos?
02:56:12 - Scalloped Deck Gusset Plates?
03:04:46 - Why did the Luftwaffe never try a massed air-raid on Scapa Flow when some carriers were there?
Comments
The Rogue Chief
Historian/political scientist/sociologist here who has developed an interest in the Tudor period for its dynamism & transitory nature within Western history… but my own religious upbringing background means that I have VERY personal investment & opinions on what was going on and the characters involved, so yah! Separating the personal from the professional when examining things there is VERY interesting!
Ted M Jones
I still think the best explanation for First Guadalcanal is that the opposing admirals were asleep on their feet. Both sides ignored usual battle doctrine.
