The Drydock - Episode 184
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:43 - What is the US Navy in the 1930s decide to take a ‘Quality over quantity’ approach when designing Yorktown and Enterprise and build them to 27,000 ton limit.
00:03:12 - Doolittle Raid launched as planned?
00:06:03 - Cancelled FAA fighter in 1939?
00:09:30 - Why were Enterprise and Saratoga used for mostly night fighters by the end of the war?
00:13:45 - How do different navies handle battle honours? Are they attached to the actual ship or passed on with the name?
00:16:22 - How do iron/steel ships sink from fire damage?
00:20:35 - Can you tell us something about the Venetian Arsenal?
00:24:40 - How effective were disappearing batteries?
00:31:04 - Why the delay in angled flight decks?
00:34:45 - Recently discovered the open air bridge of the US Alaska class cruisers. Is this a common trend found on the larger warships?
00:36:34 - Pirate boarding actions?
00:41:42 - Why did the inter-war Emden only have single guns?
00:43:38 - How was USS Arizona's keel broken?
00:46:15 - HMS Utmost
00:48:48 - 28 knot Nelsons?
00:50:51 - Why keep older ironclads?
00:56:48 - Did the marines during age of sail use linear warfare tactics in repelling boarding actions, aka. when the enemy boarding action is iminent, form a double/triple line on the opposite side of the deck and unleash a fury on anybody coming over?
01:00:09 - How much of the Royal Navy's resources were tied up in Danish waters towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars?
01:03:11 - Channel Admin
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