The Drydock - Episode 174 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 174

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:33 - If Rodney had fresh machinery in the same situation, how fast could she really go? 00:07:01 - Why were Britain and Germany so reluctant to try and force major engagements with each other prior to and especially after Jutland? 00:11:16 - Did 20th century battleships ever fuse their main battery HE shells for airburst when doing shore bombardment? In WW2 were any naval shells fitted with proximity fuses for that purpose? 00:13:23 - Why is the RN only now getting a King George VI? 00:19:52 - How much of the daily maintenance performed as shift work, scrubbing the decks and such, was actually needed maintenance and not just a way to keep the crew busy? 00:23:35 - How does battleship replenish their main armament shells and charges? Through a hatch in the turret? Typically how long does it take at port to fully load all main armament shell and charges? 00:27:12 - Admiral Callaghan, good or bad? 00:34:41 - Atlanta-style Dreadnought? 00:39:25 - Alaska compared to Dunkerque? 00:42:56 - Was Wasp really any better than Ranger? 00:45:47 - What was the temperature like in WW1 and WW2 submarines. Did they have AC? Or temperature control? 00:50:21 - Has an entire class of ships been lost in a single battle? 00:52:17 - In general terms, how did navies determine their requirements for shell bursting charges and is not 'more' always better? 00:58:57 - All-or-nothing vs Intermedite armour? 01:04:34 - Should the USN have used only Wildcats and Dauntless' in 1942? 01:07:57 - How accessible are ships logs? 01:14:37 - How many crowd-funded ships were there? 01:17:53 - Ottoman Dreadnoughts from the USA? 01:21:48 - How close were Ships of the Line in the age of Sail when in formation? 01:24:19 - How were turrets tested for strength? 01:28:07 - Is there anything left of the ships involved in the battle of Salamis. Has anyone tried to mount an archeological expedition to the site to look for relics? 01:30:39 - What did the Deutschland class had fuel purification plants? 01:34:44 - All or nothing or Distributed armour for the Lexingtons? 01:40:51 - How are the names of naval battles chosen? Jutland seemed to range all over the North Sea, Cape Matapan spent most of its duration near Crete instead, and it seems like most of the Guadalcanal Campaign naval battles were the Nth Battle of Savo Island. 01:44:49 - When did torpedo bombers become the main damage-dealers in aircraft strikes to the point that dive bombers became obsolete after the war? 01:49:37 - ASW Blimps 01:52:01 - 156 Years saw the world move from Trafalgar to the launch of USS Enterprise CVN-65, the first nuclear powered carrier. What, in your opinion, were the largest contributing factors to the speed of advance in that century and a half, compared to the precious 3 to 4 centuries of the age of sail? 01:59:30 - Corvus? 02:03:24 - What was Jellicoe's reaction when he found out his fleet hadn't reported the High Seas Fleet overnight? 02:06:15 - Titantic and lifeboat regulations 02:10:22 - When did flush toilets and plumbing appear on board ships? 02:12:17 - Could you give us an update on the Drach naval picture project? 02:18:31 - Were there any hybrid coal+oil battleships in operation in WW2? 02:21:14 - Would it be possible to design a treaty compliant Hood and what would that look like? 02:25:33 - USS South Dakota conning tower? 02:28:53 - With the location of spotlights on ships being known to the bridge crew, were they ever used to find the range of a target by measuring the interception between lights? 02:31:26 - What role do aesthetics typically play in warship design? Does "form follows function" rule over all or are design choices made for other reasons? 02:34:15 - By 1940 the US was sending tons of supplies over to Britain as part of the lend-lease program. How much of these supplies were for the Royal Navy and what kinds of supplies were sent? 02:37:43 - Of the major naval powers, was there any technology that was highly adopted by one nation, only to be generally shunned by others? 02:41:08 - When it comes to your photo preservation efforts, have you encountered much in the way of stereoscopic imagery, and is the extra information contained in such stereo pairs of any historical research value beyond the novelty? 02:44:04 - Were there any "rough design ideas" for German naval'wonder weapons'? 02:49:58 - Who were the Deutschland class panzerschiffe aimed at? 02:53:58 - Do you believe the fuel oil remaining in shipwrecks around the world poses a major environmental threat or is the threat only present in certain high-density areas?