The Drydock - Episode 118 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 118

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:31 - Naval consription in the World Wars 00:07:27 - What was the Brussels Gazette, and why did British sailors hate it? 00:09:52 - French naval engineering school history 00:11:23 - Graf Zeppelin's actual uses? 00:17:07 - Why so few catamaran warships? 00:21:21 - MN Jean Bart 00:24:18 - Ships names and pronounciation 00:28:29 - How hard it would be for a WWII era cruiser or a battleship to fend of an air attack while engaged in surface combat with its peers? 00:32:27 - Why not more USS Olympia's? 00:35:51 - What are the best attributes of Russian/Soviet ships? 00:40:07 - HMS Centurion, radio controlled battleship 00:43:40 - Which warship of the pre-dreadnought era had the most eventful/colourful service history? 00:46:41 - Heavy vs High Velocity shells, why not both? 00:52:31 - Reliability of early ironclad's engines 00:58:09 - Cornelius Drebbel 17th century submarine 01:03:51 - What led to the Germans and French building such large destroyers? 01:10:46 - What was the magnitude of the pressure wave from a big gun firing (in psi or atmospheres)? 01:16:46 - Why nuclear battleship shells? 01:21:06 - How do the roles of the armored, battle, and heavy cruiser compare to each other? 01:27:09 - Ancient Egyptian circumnavigation of Africa? 01:31:07 - KGV main battery 01:35:19 - Enhancing British ship-building capacity 01:42:20 - Yamato hanger 01:43:51 - Why the super-cruisers? 01:47:43 - Commander Charles H. Lightoller 01:53:08 - How far does an armored belt extend below the waterline? What sort of effects to shell hits below the waterline cause? 01:58:04 - Do you have additional future battle report videos such as Battle of the Texel (1918) planned, COVID willing of course? 01:59:45 - How did the Kreigsmarine compare to the other navies of the world before and during WWII that weren't the RN, USN and the IJN? 02:06:58 - The weather gauge in an Age of Sail battle 02:14:00 - Small navies in WW2 02:20:51 - Horses at sea 02:27:46 - How fast in the 19th century was the propagation of naval ideas and technology between nations? 02:37:00 - Who was the most *effective* commander-in-chief/professional head of their respective navy during World War 2? 02:41:38 - Biggest cause of the demise of the battleship? 02:47:11 - Why so many holes in a ships sails? 02:50:39 - Royal Navy families/dynasties 02:55:36 - Best 'escalator clause' improved treaty battleship? 03:04:16 - RN 8" guns and the Geneva Naval Conference 03:08:59 - Near miss damage 03:14:47 - Magazine flooding valves 03:16:58 - Reactive vs Planned Strategy 03:27:45 - The heavy cruiser 03:33:40 - Knocking out an AA battery 03:38:17 - Germany Navy in the run-up to WW1 03:42:19 - Of the ships that went down at Scapa, which do you think would have made the best modernisation? 03:49:13 - Levels of force in the Adriatic? 03:56:06 - Has there ever been a time when a dreadnaught has achieved a broadside that hit their target with every shell? 03:59:24 - Lend-Lease vis the Black Sea? 04:02:03 - Titanic vs Iceberg 04:11:03 - Channel Admin An archive of Drydock Questions and free naval photos - www.drachinifel.co.uk Model ships of many periods - http://store.warlordgames.com?aff=21 Want to support the channel? - https://www.patreon.com/Drachinifel Shirt/mug/hoodie - https://shop.spreadshirt.com/drachinifels-dockyard/ Poster? - 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/drachinifelDrydock