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The Drydock - Episode 343 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2025-03-29 10:00:08 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - When did Admiral Spruance know about the atomic bomb and is there a record of his staff's reaction?
00:05:16 - What would happen if a battleship shell passed close by?
00:09:20 - How do ship designers get together and decide who gets what space for all these various sub systems needed in a ship near the end of the period the channel covers. Further how long would it take to design a whole ship?
00:17:48 - Is there a hard and fast rule to separate large Destroyers from small cruisers?
00:22:41 - What else could be added to HMS Tiger?
00:27:15 - What technologies would not have worked if they had been invented/developed/deployed about 150 years earlier than they actually were?
00:30:31 - During the second world war, which submarine would be considered the most "luxurious" to serve on, in the perspective of both crew and officers?
00:33:03 - Richelieu 15" shells?
00:40:59 - Königsberg redesign?
00:47:15 - Force Z sinking analysis?
00:53:17 - How did warships not run into problems with high-sulfur steels?
00:59:45 - Foundry markings on Age of Sail British cannon?
01:05:47 - Courageous class with mine-rails?
01:07:39 - What if Doenitz didn't micro-manage the U-Boats?
01:15:59 - The use of light carriers?
01:21:32 - Between 1890 and 1900, which three to five ships, built or moderrnised, would you save from the breakers yard?
01:25:46 - What did sailors eat on the way home from long missions?
01:28:44 - How did nations that purchased capital ships from traditional naval powers such as the UK and France in the late 19th/early 20th centuries repair such ships if they needed major repairs?
01:33:08 - What 'real' ships are Lego pirate ships?
01:36:23 - Spotlights and searchlights in Naval circles?
01:41:57 - Examples of ships extricating other ships from sticky situations?
01:45:19 - During the inter war fleet exercises such as the US navy fleet problems how was the effectiveness of fighter aircraft against other aircraft judged?
01:49:17 - Did sails stretching have any real issue on ships during the age of sail?
01:52:17 - When did torpedoes fall out of favour in different ship types?
01:58:01 - When did power tools on ships become availabale and what did they look like?
02:02:35 - Is there a naval equivalent of the Ypres battlefield?
02:03:53 - Would the deck amour of capital ships in the WW1/WW2 era be face hardened similar to the belt amour of the time?
02:10:57 - Why did the Royal Navy choose to kill Admiral Byng?
02:19:18 - What did the US know about the Yamato and Musashi and when did they know it?
02:24:09 - Differences between the Midways and Malta's?
02:29:58 - USS Monitor and 'bronze shot'?
02:38:27 - What was the role of a captain of the fleet in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and why weren't they more common?
02:42:26 - How efficient was the design of the Great Eastern's hull?
02:44:05 - LST's with runways?
02:46:36 - Hiryu survivors accounts?
02:48:59 - With the Washington and London treaty rules lawyering would it have been possible for the Royal Navy to put a bunch of the High angle dual purpose 8" County turrets in the Pacific as "honestly it's AA!"
02:51:34 - How did U-Boats get to the Atlantic?
02:55:39 - Captain Gatch of USS South Dakota?
Comments
Dangerous Lines
Drach, what you want for your web site is called a scraper. They exist and aren't hard to write. Making the content available yourself would absolutely run into copyright issues though.
Michael Andrej Molnár
Did you get and discuss my question on alternative history - Coral Sea and Midway?
