The Drydock - Episode 187 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 187

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:33 - On concrete, acid and corrosion 00:07:26 - Why were the Washington State fortifications abandoned? 00:18:32 - What is the process to flood a magazine? 00:21:40 - What was the procedure if a big (14+ inch) gun misfired? 00:25:55 - During the Age of Sail, what was the role of the "Harbour Master"? 00:31:48 - How effective were animal powered ships such as "The "Experiment" horse powered boat when compared against early steam, sail or even human (oar) powered vessels? 00:35:32 - Testing of ships for wave conditions? 00:41:25 - How did Submarines travel on the surface without being attacked by friendly aircraft and ships? 00:44:31 - Radar antennae cannot be protected against enemy fire. So what did navies do: put antennae all over the place, just hope for the best, share data between ships? 00:50:11 - US battlecruiser designs 00:57:17 - What actually happened with the collision between HMS Hawke and RMS Olympic, and who's fault was it? 01:02:14 - Why not simply dodge torpedoes? 01:06:02 - AA gun crew positions in a surface battle? 01:12:33 - Had the Graf Zeppelin been completed as designed with her armament what would her combat potential be in a surface action and what is the largest class of warship she could be expected to reasonably engage successfully? 01:16:04 - Are there any documented cases of people from multiple generations of a family serving onboard the same ship? 01:18:07 - Were there ever any plans to move German shipbuilding industry to the French Atlantic coast after 1940, thereby taking advantage of captured French infrastructure and resources, and offering a route into the Atlantic operational areas that bypassed the need to run the Denmark Straits? 01:22:00 - The failed 4.7" HA gun? 01:28:03 - High ranking foreigners in navies? 01:32:39 - Do you have any plans or ideas to visit the GALATA sea musium in Genoa, Italy? 01:33:54 - Practical gun accuracy in the dreadnought era? 01:40:04 - Was their any thought given to putting 8in secondary gun on battleships or Battlecruiser? 01:42:25 - Inclining tests? 01:45:16 - Fuel usage of the Yamato's vs what could've been built instead? 01:48:49 - Why did some countries give up carriers after WW2? 01:50:03 - Age of sail logistics ships? 01:53:06 - HMS Dreadnought armour layout? 01:56:37 - Ocean going monitor fleet in the ACW? 02:04:53 - Force Z to Pearl Harbour? 02:08:53 - Industry limits on armour thickness? 02:14:18 - Lord Fisher vs Lord Beresford 02:18:32 - How did people arrive on the use of Fathoms as a measurement of depth? 02:20:15 - How are various range/angle measuring devices zeroed on a warship? 02:26:05 - About what era did the Royal Navy become professional enough that subordinates could be depended on to provide proper support? 02:31:03 - ACW blockade breaking? 02:33:54 - Were seaplanes underutilized in WW2 relative to their utility? 02:35:50 - What doctrinal thinking underpinned the design of unarmored river gunboats? 02:39:20 - In terms of total full load displacement, how many Holsteins could Schleswig-Holstein hold if Schleswig could Holstein Holsteins? 02:40:42 - How much of a radar advantage did the Allies really have at sea late in WW2? 02:44:17 - What exactly is happening when shells are being 'cue balled'? 02:47:08 - How does an AP shell fuse work? 02:50:49 - Admiral Beatty? 02:54:53 - What should HMAS Sydney have done instead? 02:56:48 - Russian WW1 battlecruisers? 03:01:33 - Assassination of an Admiral? 03:03:00 - Powder charges and red hot shot 03:06:25 - Was there a time when the French Navy was capable of challenging the Royal Navy with any chance of a successful outcome? 03:10:07 - Would Tirpitz have come into the Atlantic without the St Nazaire raid? 03:12:54 - Did many submariners survive the loss of submarines hit by Hedgehog? 03:15:44 - Builders models as design aids? 03:17:39 - What would you say was the most undergunned class of ships? 03:19:01 - TNT shells in the 1860's? 03:21:15 - RN/FAA and divebombing? 03:24:35 - How late were coal fired war ships in opearative use? 03:25:49 - RN training carriers in WW2? 03:30:29 - Chester class cruisers? 03:34:26 - What makes Drydocks so expensive, that navys often decide to limit ship construction to Drydock size? 03:39:03 - How big of a target were paddlewheels on warships really? 03:42:26 - If Royal Oak hadn't been lost because the U-Boat attack failed, is it likely that she would be sailing up Narvik Fjord instead of Warspite? 03:44:33 - Fire damage to carriers? 03:47:24 - Recurring gaps in capability? 03:50:46 - Surface based torpedo launchers in WW2? 03:55:58 - Riveted and welded submarine pressure hulls