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The Drydock - Episode 349
🕑 Added 2025-05-10 07:00:06 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - In your opinion, between Vanguard, Richelieu and Littorio, which was the most powerful of the 15” gun final-generation European battleships, accounting for Vanguard being built a few years later than the other two?
00:08:44 - Autism and the Navy?
00:17:28 - Was the fall of the Spanish navy completely due to factors outside of their control?
00:22:30 - If my understanding is correct, some ship from the french navy where sent in the pacific toward the end of the war, what kind of role did they play ?
00:27:05 - Early Dreadnought and Battlecruiser build times?
00:36:40 - Were there any navies that gave or devoted serious thoughts or designs to allow aircraft to take off from either end of a carrier?
00:39:54 - What are the three biggest technologies/design solutions/organisational changes, that were implemented slowly/to late without any good reason?
00:47:01 - What were the impacts to naval design practices and operational procedures in the wake of the Peacemaker accident?
00:50:19 - How would Taiho have handled the 1942 Carrier battles?
00:54:45 - What Countries would have had the resources to build a Yamato like ship and what would it look like if said country built it?
00:58:40 - What was the closest the KitaKami or her Kuma sisters came to unleashing a spread on an enemy?
01:02:21 - Why did people stop wearing armor in sea battles? Did anybody ever try age of sail equivalent of FlaK-jacket to protect against splinters?
01:07:38 - Can Strasbourg be considered a battleship when she's only armoured against 11" or 12" guns?
Comments
The Rogue Chief
Perhaps it was to reflect the technological decision of “Let’s get rid of these relics because it’s 1900 already” ?
Ted M Jones
On the other hand, back in the day there were probably a greater percentage of sailors who couldn't even speak the language of command (depending on the navy). So allowances would have had to be made.
Ted M Jones
In the "biggest technologies/design solutions/organisational changes, that were implemented slowly" section, why were we looking at age of sail hulks?
The Rogue Chief
As someone who grew up in the old school disciplinary tradition, if you were on what we today would call the spectrum and in the navy (or military in general) of the day, then I can tell you that just like left-handed persons back then you would’ve been “corrected” depending on your behavior
