The Drydock - Episode 312 (Part 2) (Patreon)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:26 - What’s the worst / dumbest take on matters naval you have ever heard / read / seen?

00:05:09 - How was fire discipline maintained on a ship of the line?

00:08:29 - Why did the RN build so many 2nd rates?

00:15:12 - Did the US Navy escort Atlantic convoys early after the US' entry in the war, mere months after Pearl Harbor, and if so, what classes of DD or DE were actually used?

00:18:06 - The evolution of the turret?

00:24:30 - If Gorgon had been accepted back by the Norwegians at the end of WWI and had been in Narvik along with Norge and Eidsvold; do you think it could have contributed significantly to the defense of the harbor?

00:28:10 - Consequences of a 12-gun KGV?

00:36:02 - The Napier Deltic engine was a high performance Diesel engine used primarily in marine applications that was very advanced for it's time. Would it be possible/advantageous to use a Deltic-derivative as an engine powering a tank or an AFV?

00:38:11 - Kongo class sub-division?

00:42:43 - Age of sail French 'fire on the upswing' techniques?

00:46:49 - Would it be actually worth building 'gunboats' that you could quickly turn into fleet destroyers?

00:52:18 - How do base-fused shells work, and how is the detonation delay set and adjusted?

00:57:31 - Why did the the RN 'forgot or forgoe' convoys for most of WW1?

01:02:05 - Just how did the various companies go about peddling their wares?

01:07:40 - The manufacturing of blocks for age of sail ships was one of the early industrialized process. What other naval requirements drove industrialisation of manufacturing?

01:11:07 - Would reconstructing HMS Malaya along the lines of the modernized QEs in the second half of 1943 have been a better use of the ship than placing her into reserve at the end of 1943?

01:13:44 - The Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory was built with two circular 15" turret drive gear sets and associated pinions from 15-inch gun turrets from the World War I battleships HMS Revenge and Royal Sovereign. Do you know of any other conversions of warship parts into scientific platforms?

01:16:13 - In the process of scrapping a warship, its seems to be common practice to have scrapyards bid for the right to scrap that warship. Was it common for foreign scrapyards to bid on scrapping a warship that did not serve in said foreign shipyards' nations, and were there any ironic or notable instances of ships scrapped in a nation the ship previous fought against?

01:19:20 - Why were IJN carrier islands so small?

01:23:51 - The B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for over 70 years with the most recent deliveries being 60 years old, with plans for them to serve for many more years. What are some examples of Warships that went to serve for a longer than expected?

01:27:35 - Are you better off building a few big ships with many guns or more ships with less guns?

01:33:17 - Logisitics of an inland museum ship?

01:37:03 - Could the USN have hunted Bismarck?

01:47:44 - Did the Royal navy have any campaign plans for a war with France in the interwar period, and if they did, did these plans prove useful when France fell in WW2?

01:51:18 - When did the Royal Navy cease ordering sail-only ships, and when did the RN cease operating sail-only ships as active cruising warships?

01:53:50 - How did Henry V's navy work and how, if at all, did it differ from common practice?

01:59:11 - Who did spotting duty ashore for the Royal Navy?

02:02:11 - What if the Scharnhorsts forced the issue during Operation Berlin?

02:07:43 - Has Gibraltar been enough to prevent any nations navy transiting into or out of the Med?

02:10:50 - The testing and development of the W Mines used during Operation Royal Marine?

02:15:33 - How did the IJN so badly screw up submarine and ASW?

02:20:06 - In the age of sail how would you become a ship's Carpenter?

02:22:02 - Limiting yourself to countries that were not part of the inter-war treaty system, what ships do you most wish you could save to become museum ships?

02:23:33 - The length of a large naval gun is expressed as a multiple of the gun's (or perhaps the projectile's) diameter. In my experience the multiple is always an integer. Is there some law of physics or ballistics or ease of manufacture that makes this so?

02:25:52 - Magnetic detonators and torpedoes?

02:29:55 - How do you rate each of the Washington Treaty signatories first generation cruisers compared to each other, both as built and at the most modernized examples of each at the start of 1942?

02:32:53 - When they happened, how much did natural disasters affect the functioning of naval facilities and how did they recover?

02:36:58 - Was the radar able to pick out individual aircraft as opposed to broad enemy formations approaching the ship?

02:41:34 - Why don't we ever hear about a Belgian navy?

02:43:58 - The "Luxburg Affair"

02:48:06 - Why wasn't underwater form more emphasised in WW1/WW2 submarine design?

02:51:08 - Small Channel / YT Update