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The Drydock - Episode 129 (Patreon)

Published:
2021-01-15 21:37:06
Imported:
2023-02

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The Drydock - Episode 129

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:40 - Washington Treaty displacement ratios 00:08:29 - Ships ballast 00:12:58 - Internal vs External armour belt 00:16:49 - AA guns on submarines. Were they ever actually effective? 00:19:25 - USN ship positioning for AA 00:23:33 - Bayern and Baden at Jutland? 00:26:21 - Why is it exponentially difficult to increase the number of guns per turret? 00:32:19 - What would it take for the High Seas Fleet to have been unquestionably victorious at Jutland? 00:38:30 - If better shells had been used at Jutland, could this have masked the problems with Beatty and his flag officer? 00:41:56 - Favorite example of a bureaucratic mess up during WW2? 00:45:43 - How important was the sinking of the Blucher by Norwegian defenses in the overall course of the war. 00:51:17 - Sailors disconnection from the battles their ships fought? 00:54:40 - How many shipbuilders went under in the inter-war period? 00:58:55 - Cost of Hood refit? 01:01:50 - A modern major-general-at-sea? 01:04:31 - How would Pre-Dreadnought or Dreadnought Battleships fair against modern anti-ship missiles? 01:06:10 - Channel Admin: Building Warspite 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

Comments

Kennit Lynch

My first early Drach dry dock. Keep up the fine work my friend!

John Hargreaves

Hi Drach - Oil as ballast - One of the problems I came across in submarine oil tanks (nuclear subs use oil as a secondary propulsion system) which also applies to surface ships is at the interface of oil and water there lives a little worm that is in the water and feeds on the oil; unfortunately this little worm also likes steel and organic coatings (paints) and corrodes the tanks quite significantly from the inside. There is a solution by utilizing phenolic epoxides but is not liked by current safety philosophy because it can leech into the water much as the older antifoulants do. The problem using oil/water as a variable ballast is that it does create an accelerated corrosion process in the tanks. Regards

Anonymous
>>51531609

Same here, joined when he lost his job. :) Prefer he'd do this instead... :D

Roger H

Can I ask have you ever done a video on the French (well obviously) battleship Napoleon 0f 1850 - or any of the other screw/steam battleships of those few years?

Dmechanico Dude

this is a big what if scenario so I will try to be brief about it. suppose the US became a british commonwealth instead of an independent nation. and now suppose that during the Napoleonic wars that the north american commonwealth had similar frigates to what we had in our timeline (I.E. diagonal bracing, live oak backing, basically a similar hull). with those two points in mind what would their contributions be if the royal navy ever called them up for service during this time period?

Anonymous

Drach, in regards to munitions output being sabotaged by slave labor, I think you are surely right (it's only natural that at least some of them would want to get revenge for the treatment they and their families got), however, I believe there is a confounding factor in regards to the targeting of V2's. From what I've learned about the captured German spies in Britain (most if not all of whom were turned into double agents for the British), thry gave false information about where V1's and V2's landed, resulting in the "corrections" making the fall of those weapons further and further off their marks.

Anonymous

Hey Drach, Im wondering if you can talk about the plastic armour (asphalt) used on merchant ships during ww2. Could this have been developed further for use on combat ships? maybe with a different aggregate like silicon carbide (mass produced from 1900) or something similar?

Wayne Borean
>>51686766

That did happen as chronicled by R. V. Jones in Most Secret War, but the sabotage campaign is also chronicled. I can’t remember specific books, but one I think covered the capture of the assembly tunnels and Allied discovery of sabotage to the production lines.

Wayne Borean
>>51810875

Oh yes, plastic armour. A really interesting story, I read about it in a book on the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development. Not the safest place in the world to work in my opinion!

Anonymous
>>51686766

There have been a few TV episodes on the MHC and Smithsonian Channel that mention it, particularly in relation to the famous double agent code named Garbo.

Anonymous (edited)

Comment edits

2023-02-08 18:08:45 Q&A for drydock - Early dreadnaughts had elaborate rigs for torpedo nets. And there has always been some discussion about how there should have been torpedo nets at Pearl Harbor. Can you think of any instances where such torpedo nets actually did the job of protecting ships from torpedo attack?
2021-02-27 21:22:09 Q&A for drydock - Early dreadnaughts had elaborate rigs for torpedo nets. And there has always been some discussion about how there should have been torpedo nets at Pearl Harbor. Can you think of any instances where such torpedo nets actually did the job of protecting ships from torpedo attack?

Q&A for drydock - Early dreadnaughts had elaborate rigs for torpedo nets. And there has always been some discussion about how there should have been torpedo nets at Pearl Harbor. Can you think of any instances where such torpedo nets actually did the job of protecting ships from torpedo attack?