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The Drydock - Episode 348
🕑 Added 2025-05-03 07:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - French pre-dreadnought design elements that were good?
00:06:49 - Obviously the British didn't know Dreadnaught was coming so what did they call battleships in the 1890s
00:11:08 - How well did old ships hold up under fire?
00:15:46 - Changing guns on a battleship?
00:23:46 - How does radar tell distance vs size of objects?
00:29:28 - Why did the Japanese even build Shimakaze when the construction of the AA-specialized Akizukis at the same time seems to indicate they knew Shimakaze was going to be obsolete and effectively useless upon launch?
00:34:13 - What books on pre-dreadnoughts do you recommend?
00:37:21 - Would you ever be interested in reshooting (or just editing together) old (mini)series along with the questions from the associated drydock segments?
00:39:48 - If HMS Campania hadn’t been sunk in the dying days of the 1st World War do you think she would have been converted to a full carrier?
00:41:48 - How many age of sail ships did the Royal Navy have floating (or not floating) before WW1 given that HMS Implacable (the 74 gun) was only broken up in 1949?
00:44:59 - When it comes to visually identifying aircraft, there's the WEFT mnemonic - Wings, Engines, Fuselage, Tail. Is there any equivalent for capital ships, including carriers?
00:49:55 - Could further preparations have been made by the RN for WW1?
00:53:00 - During the Age of Sail, how difficult was it to perform a boarding action?
01:00:29 - Would it be possible to replace the triple 12 inch guns with twin 15 inch on the Italian refits?
Comments
Elliott W James
Re books on Pre-Dreadnoughts, may I recoomend "The Pre-Dreadnought Revolution: Developing the Bulwarks of Sea Power" by Warren Berry. This book gives a good overview of introduction and development of the battleship in the period 1885-1905.
Smokey The Bear
Q&A: Within French good pre-dreadnought design elements - you mentioned electrification including electric motors to run turrets instead of hydraulics others used. What powered the hydraulics others used (hand pumps, steam pumps, the cosmic miasma of the Oort cloud)?
