The Drydock - Episode 147 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 147

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:39 - How much influence does one nations ship building have on anothers? 00:07:01 - How comparable are the Late-WWI capital ship designs such as Hood, the L20eas, the Mackensens, etc compared to WWII-era fast big-gun capital ships? 00:13:34 - Modernised L20ea vs Bismarck? 00:17:18 - How did the various naval groups (Military and Commercial) around the world agree upon the International Signal Flags we have today? 00:19:56 - Calender for Pearl Harbour Battleships salvage efforts 00:21:49 - How common and dangerous was the problem of hydrogen sulfide building up in damaged ships? 00:24:14 - Post-Pearl Harbour cleanup? 00:26:55 - Italian Salvage after Taranto? 00:29:10 - Electrical power redundancy on a battleship? 00:35:39 - Returning Oklahoma and Arizona to service? 00:40:57 - Average height and ship construction 00:46:58 - Why are US engineering rates often called Snipes? 00:49:18 - Did the Axis and Soviet navies have chaplains or equivilants? 00:50:35 - What was the state of the Soviet Navy at the end of WWII, and what were the plans for rebuilding and expansion immediately after? 00:53:36 - How much of a sailor's watch was made up of busywork, or was most of it necessary to keep the ship from losing the fight against the sea? 00:57:38 - When did wooden backing for armour plates stop? 01:02:17 - Given the USN's tendency to mount a 5"/38 to anything afloat, is there a record of how many were produced? 01:03:49 - Channel Admin/US Trip 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