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The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 1) (Patreon)

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2022-07-30 12:01:03
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2023-02

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The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 1)

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:31 - Why did the United States give their brand new ship of the line, USS America (1782) to France in 1782? 00:07:00 - How much cross-pollination was there between service branches? 00:15:09 - When did the examination for Lieutenant become explicit Admiralty policy? 00:19:52 - Why did the lateen sail on the mizzenmast go out of style, and does the gaff-rigged sail have any particular advantage? 00:24:18 - Could the Yamato's have safely bombarded Henderson Field? 00:27:39 - Apart from obvious sources like aviation fuel, oil or munitions stored outside the magazines, are there any other items on or components of 20th century warships — specifically battleships and battlecruisers — that cause fires after damage was sustained? 00:31:59 - The RN had the Queen Anne Mansions style superstructure and the IJN had the Pagoda for some of their ships. Were there other navies that had names given to their superstructures, such as USN fast battleships since they all look a bit similar? 00:35:11 - Victoria Drummond MBE and her career 00:41:13 - What are the major advantages and disadvantages of variable pitch propeller types over a more conventional model? 00:44:46 - Can you 'cut a destroyer in two' with a bombers guns? 00:48:20 - What would have been acceptable losses at Jutland for the British while destroying the German fleet? 00:59:40 - For Royal Navy scientific expeditions, how did officers and men normally view such assignments, and how were the officer assignments usually determined? 01:02:51 - Wacky and wonderful conversions of ships into bizarre roles? 01:06:34 - To what extent did the French and British collaborate on warship and naval weapons development in the first half of the 20th century? 01:10:23 - Did the design of the Bismarck have vulnerable areas where such a penetrating hit below the armoured belt could have caused Bismarck, like Hood, to explode? 01:16:23 - Have any other ships had as extensive refit history as the Kitakami? 01:19:21 - What went wrong during the 1711 Quebec Expedition and if it went as planned what impact would it have had on colonial North America? 01:25:21 - Should you put the definite article, "the", before a ship's name if you do not use a prefix like HMS or USS? 01:31:23 - Is SMS Linz the smallest armored warship ever, and if not, then what was? 01:32:34 - Rangefinding equipment on WW1 light warships? 01:37:44 - What, if any, design differences exist for a Venetian mass produced galley vs. its contemporaries? 01:41:29 - How do aircraft carriers etc determine wind direction and speed while making headway? 01:44:09 - The Mary Celeste mystery... 01:49:44 - Where would a shot from Fort Widley's 9-inch gun land? 01:51:39 - How effective was disruptive camouflage/dazzle paint? And is there a decent book on the subject? 01:55:17 - Were coal, oil, and wood the only fuels used by naval vessels in the period covered by this channel? 01:57:50 - What is considered the first effective class of submarine? 02:00:46 - What role did Italy play in the Battle of the Atlantic? 02:03:29 - After the Battle if Jutland, Jellicoe was often criticized for not achieving a Trafalgar-like total victory. What were the ideas which might have had the most effect on the outcome? 02:13:51 - France vs Thailand 1941 02:20:27 - What do you make of the argument that human beings are a seafaring species? 02:25:57 - It was stated that Halsey was warned that the navigation lights in San Bernardino Strait had been lit and should have been a sign of impending trouble. How did the navigation lights work and was this an important clue of Kurita's movements? 02:29:06 - Given the focus on commerce raiding during WWII, would the construction of more 15" armed Scharnhorsts have been a better alternative compared to the 2 Bismarcks? 02:35:21 - In the german language there is a word that describes a daring, reckless act that ends in (huge) success and humiliates the opponent, the "Husarenstück". Are there such acts in the naval history from the age of sail to 1950 and could you name/describe 5? 02:40:55 - Which ships modernisation would you sacrifice to modernise HMS Hood? 02:42:45 - Could you briefly talk about and describe the Battle of Sinop in 1853? 02:46:52 - Battlecruiser classifications 02:50:51 - Did ammunition ships carry torpedos for their nations destroyers and cruisers to be restocked at sea or did those ships have to go back to port to restock their torpedos? 02:52:57 - Where is the famed Drydock question list in Excel. I have looked in Patreon, Drach.com and Discord. Cannot find it!! Where is it?? 02:54:01 - When defending doesn't work out? 02:57:36 - While the Royal Navy enjoyed a certain amount of patronage. The bulk of captains seem to have been overwhelmingly from the Gentry or just below. Was this sociological or practical (the Royal Navy being large and the English nobility small)?

Comments

Graham William Kidd

A Drydock and the HMS Neptune guide all at the same time! You spoil us Drach, you really do!!

ROBERT NABORNEY

As far as the RN being the only operator of battlecruisers after "Jutland - the Battle of Annihilation", didn't the IJN have the four Kongos...As a matter of fact, I can see them joining the RN ships at Rosyth as the Second or Third Battlecruiser Squadron as a result of that battle. Renown and Repulse became operational in late 1916. HMS Eagle would be completed as a battleship and she and her sister, HMS Canada, would be retained by the RN post-war, as would HMS Erin. After the US entered the war in April 1917, I can see a mighty effort being made to get all her dreadnoughts - oil fueled or not - to Scapa. Add Brazil, which joined the Entente in October 1917, and had two ships to contribute as well. Of course, with the High Sea Fleet destroyed, maybe Allied reinforcements would not be needed. What Britain would build in terms of its emergency battlewagons would make for an interesting contest using SpringSharp with the winning designs being featured on a Friday episode.

ROBERT NABORNEY

Add the gunboat USS Wilmette, a converted Great Lakes excursion ship. She was based at Chicago's Navy (duh) Pier. Interwar she trained Naval Reservists from states adjoining the Lakes - during Prohibition port calls in Canada were a highlight of training cruises! During WW2, she naval armed guards prior to their being assigned to merchant ships. She actually sank a German U-Boat in Lake Michigan. The USN took some captured U-Boats on tour around the US. One was assigned to the Lakes and after her touring was completed was sunk as a target by the Wilmette.

ROBERT NABORNEY

USS Kearsarge's conversion to Crane Ship Number 1. Mississippi served as a missile test ship in the Fifties. http://navsource.org/archives/01/041/014153t.jpg

ROBERT NABORNEY

http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/014164.jpg

ROBERT NABORNEY

Are we amphibious Ribbit Ribbit

Anonymous

Good answer on primitive seafaring. Watercraft are a toolset and the most important force at work in their development is pressure on land, usually population pressure, often violent. Those are push factors. Pull factors include fish protein, which seems to explain for some anthropologists just why Homo sapiens spread from the southern coastal tip of Africa along the Indian Ocean littoral rather than overland, and might explain why sea protien is essential to our brain development. Even today, a population heat map shows that we mostly live near coasts and rivers, where our best evidence is that humans have always developed watercraft optimized for the local conditions. If you can tie things together, you can make a raft of logs or reed bundles. If you can cut a log, you can build a canoe. So whereas the Nile has northerly winds and a southerly current, so that you can easily sail upriver and float back down, the Tennessee is steep and full of rapids and the winds blow the wrong way on the Mississippi. Thus, sails were useful on the Nile but not in North America, while the lack of trees ruled out a birchbark canoe in Egypt. We've been making these efficiency choices as far back as we can see.

ROBERT NABORNEY

Nelson commended the skipper of HMS Glatton after Copenhagen - Captain William "Breadfruit" Bligh

Ted Jones

Wellll... If the Brits lost 1 for 1 and the Germans had nothing left, it wouldn't matter which Royal Navy ships were left. Hell, the Royal Navy could put some ships in reserve and save some money. The 12" ships would have been as good as the 15" ships if there were nothing but pre-Dreadnaughts left on the German side.

Felix B

Escher Wyss Zurich startet with variable pitch propellers for small ships and used it as starting point for aircraft propellers. It even startet in another field though, water turbines. The first prototype ship is still around, its the MS Etzel on lake zurich from 1934. Www.msetzel.ch

SendPenguins
>>88637897

I thought I recognized that name - that was the former S.S. Eastland, infamous for capsizing at dock with a Westinghouse family excursion group aboard killing heartbreaking numbers of people. One common claim about the ship was that it was unstable, and then made more so when it had to come in compliance with the new maritime safety regulations enacted after the loss of RMS Titanic.

The Rogue Chief

Very interesting take that perhaps it was pressures on land that compelled many peoples to take to the sea. I’m not sure if anyone in the archaeological/anthropological community has considered that possibility before!