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The Drydock - Episode 080 (Patreon)

Published:
2020-02-08 09:00:02
Imported:
2023-02

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The Drydock - Episode 080

00:00:18 - Channel Admin 00:03:52 - Lost bows and sterns? 00:11:58 - What battle or engagement do you think beancounting, cost savings, and budgeting had the most impact on? 00:17:31 - Indian Ocean Raid path not taken... 00:27:03 - What to do with Ralph Seymour... 00:30:27 - French WW1 capital ships and gun range 00:35:09 - Could the RN prevented the invasion of Norway or were they just spread too thin? 00:41:20 - What year is the earliest that you could argue that the US Navy was stronger than the Royal Navy. And what is the latest year you could make a reasonable argument that the Royal Navy was still stronger. 00:51:41 - Kido Butai intercepts the Doolittle Raid / Age of Sail Career Path? 01:01:14 - Corrections, Armoured Cruiser Competition Winners, Apologies An archive of Drydock Questions - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=01617042833519560963 Want to support the channel? - https://www.patreon.com/Drachinifel Want a shirt/mug/hoodie - https://shop.spreadshirt.com/drachinifels-dockyard/ Want a medal? - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Drachinifel Want to talk about ships? https://discord.gg/TYu88mt Want to get some books? www.amazon.co.uk/shop/drachinifel Drydock Episodes in podcast format - https://soundcloud.com/user-21912004

Comments

Matt Blom

The rum is ready.

Anonymous

How do I submit a design?

Anonymous

As a resident in flyover country, I would accept your apology except I was never offended in the first place. I can safely say that the article you read was correct in that the rural areas were not particularly industrialized, but farmers were forced to learn how to fix most anything. By the 20's farms were mechanizing with tractors, generators (until rural electrification came along), and assorted other machinery. So while there were few folks who could run an assembly line for function therein, the fly over states offered a fair share of machinery savvy souls. This didn't include my family who were busy making beer, selling jewelry, accounting services, and selling real estate.

Anonymous (edited)

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2023-02-08 18:13:54 Q&A: How common and successful were land based torpedo launchers? Blucher aside, was there any other notable ships they sunk? Also on some turrets the guns are grouped closely together such as on the Pensacola class, but on other ships they were spaced apart, what was the reason for this?
2020-02-12 12:53:20 Q&A: How common and successful were land based torpedo launchers? Blucher aside, was there any other notable ships they sunk? Also on some turrets the guns are grouped closely together such as on the Pensacola class, but on other ships they were spaced apart, what was the reason for this?

Q&A: How common and successful were land based torpedo launchers? Blucher aside, was there any other notable ships they sunk? Also on some turrets the guns are grouped closely together such as on the Pensacola class, but on other ships they were spaced apart, what was the reason for this?

Anonymous
>>32392777

The reason for guns being grouped closely together is quite simple: to make the turret narrower. Narrower turret not only means less steel needed to maintain a given thickness of armor, it also means a narrower barbette is possible. Which in turn means the ship as a whole can be narrower. During the era of the Washington and London Naval Treaties this was very important, because everybody was trying to fit as much combat capacity as possible into the 10,000 ton limit (give or take some extra tonnage from cheating). The reason this isn't always done, and guns ended up being spaced further apart, is that closely spacing the guns had 2 significant downsides. The first is that it reduces the rate of fire, because the gun crews start to get in each other's way if you pack them too close together. The second is that it makes the guns less accurate, because if the shells leave the barrel at the same time, the air they displace will cause them to disrupt each other's flight paths.