The Drydock - Episode 041 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 041

00:00:18 - Channel Admin 00:01:03 - Sources for Livadia video 00:01:57 - How often were ships secondary batteries used in battle and how effective were they? 00:05:53 - How could the design of the Popov's be changed to be more successful? 00:07:58 - Which would win, a squadron of Fletcher-class destroyers vs a squadron of Tribal-class destroyers? 00:11:07 - Layout of WW2 ships with three turrets forward 00:14:27 - Sources for Tirpitz video 00:15:08 - Were they able to rescue any of Tirpitz's crew after it capsized? 00:16:43 - What do you thing of the scattering of PQ17? 00:19:35 - Tirpitz effectiveness and resources aimed at it 00:24:00 - Any battleships that could survive a Tallboy strike? 00:28:17 - What do I think of Italian Admirals of WW2? 00:32:58 - Why didn't countries just lie about how thick their belt armour was? 00:35:45 - Would 'Doubloon' be a good name for a dog? 00:36:19 - Was Scharhorst's loss caused by Duke of York or an unlucky machinery malfunction? 00:39:08 - Kriegsmarine ships firepower/weight ratio 00:43:13 - Churchill and Battleship = Fortress 00:47:09 - Why did the IJN designate U-511 a Type-IXC sub a second-class submarine? 00:48:33 - What is 'raking' a ship? 00:54:59 - Differences between a ram bow and a regular bow? 00:59:11 - Most interesting inter-war era British ship? Want to support the channel? - https://www.patreon.com/Drachinifel Want to talk about ships? https://discord.gg/TYu88mt Music - https://youtu.be/1Zzqio6jPRQ Want to get some books? - www.amazon.co.uk/shop/drachinifel Drydock Episodes in podcast format - https://soundcloud.com/user-21912004