The Drydock - Episode 206 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 206

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:34 - Revised design for the USN's Six Frigates? 00:05:29 - Would dazzle camouflage have been effective during the age of sail? 00:09:42 - How would a Des Moines do against a Kongo, at night, at the throw-your-coffee-cup-and-hit-them range so common in Iron Bottom Sound? 00:13:29 - How important was the anti-aircraft role in the Des Moines design process? 00:16:27 - Cost of keeping a museum ship running? 00:20:05 - North Carolina concept designs? 00:24:43 - Surveying in the age of steam and steel? 00:29:37 - Do you intend on covering the Black Sea theatre of operations? 00:33:06 - Why do warships have windows in their sides? 00:36:46 - Are there plans to do a special on the naval actions and land counters used in the Great Siege of Gibraltar from 1779-83? 00:38:40 - Is "fleet in being" concept in anyway a contradiction with active missions? 00:41:03 - Using an under-sized floating drydock? 00:44:48 - What do you think is the most interesting event where a ship's crew made it back to port after a long time at sea and found out the world had changed significantly? 00:50:35 - What type of Military Commander was James Cook? 00:51:57 - Destroyers serving in the US Coast Guard? 00:54:33 - Battle-carriers for Russia? 00:59:19 - Did anyone ever try to employ some system to load coal into the furnace other thank lots of men shoveling? 01:01:57 - Do you know of any interesting cases of unexplained damage or even sinking's of ships outside combat? 01:05:04 - Channel Admin