The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 2) (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 208 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:27 - Any known or suspected examples of mutual destruction in the age of sail? How did the respective Admiralties react to their information, or lack of it? 00:05:14 - During World War 2, did the Allies look into building or using faster merchant ships to reduce shipping losses on more hazardous routes like the Arctic convoys and Malta convoys? 00:09:14 - Navies sometimes use their country's national flag as their ensign, whereas others have a flag of their own design. Isn't your normal national flag sufficient to identify you at sea or abroad? 00:11:45 - Naval battles where a ship was damaged and on the verge of defeat but was able to repair its damage, turn the tide, and emerge victorious in the end? 00:13:26 - How were aircraft carriers measured for the inter war treaties? 00:15:54 - Can you recommend a book covering basic physics and ship handling for a person interest in naval history but with no knowledge about this basics? 00:20:14 - Were their any turret/gun equivalents to the US's MK14 torpedo in just how many failures they contained piled on top of each other? 00:22:16 - How would the South Dakota class have performed in peer combat? 00:29:07 - Could you offer a quick overview of the effects of the hoaxed John Paul Jones letters about naval officer qualifications? 00:34:39 - 1946 ASW wargames? 00:37:12 - Yamato class design planning? 00:42:03 - How did HMS Duke of York's bell end up at the Lenana School in Nairobi, Kenya? Where are the bells from the other four KGVs? 00:43:06 - Did the destroyer squadron off Omaha Beach disobey orders by coming in close to the beach to engage the germans? 00:44:08 - Were there any occasions that the weather and sea conditions are so bad, both sides decided to stop a naval engagement? 00:45:49 - Nathaniel Bowditch, what was it that he came up with that was so revolutionary, and was it really that big of a deal? 00:49:28 - How different would a Fletcher look if it was designed by the Royal Navy? 00:51:31 - 2nd Pacific Squadron gunpowder? 00:53:30 - Why did the UK agree to the clauses in the WNT that limited their ability to build ships for foreign powers when they clearly had the most to lose from this? 00:56:18 - How common was it for someone to serve on one ship for basically the entire war? 01:03:54 - Admiral Canaris 01:07:49 - What was the cause of the relatively high dud rate in German shells in WW2? 01:12:54 - When the defences of Toulon crumbled in 1793, there were considerable numbers of french warships left behind, why did nobody make sure that all vessels were either removed or destroyed? 01:17:14 - Between Japan and the US in November 1941. which battleline would have had the upper hand? 01:18:45 - The creation of the ballistic tables that coupled with the rangefinding equipment, changed battle ranges from "point blank" to 25k yards as an effective fighting distance? 01:23:26 - Do you know of any articles or books that cover the breakdown of the court-martial system during World War I? 01:25:06 - In some ships during WWI and WWII, the bow of certain ships have some verticle wires goes from the tip to under the waterline. What are they? 01:26:14 - Universal or 2-stage AP shell? 01:29:48 - Pitch stability in ships? 01:34:09 - If Seydlitz would have been converted to an aircraft carrier, how would it compare to other light carriers of the period like the Independences or the British Light Fleet Carriers? 01:37:11 - In steam powered ships, how quickly could a ships boilers be regulated to increase steam in response to telegraph orders? Did this time change between coal and oil fired ships? 01:39:59 - "Target Obsession" in navies? 01:42:13 - SS John Harvey and the raid on Bari 01:45:41 - Pro's and Con's of different types of propulsion? 01:48:40 - From where was the physical aiming of a battleship/battlecruiser's main guns controlled in the WW1 period? 01:50:45 - Was Operation Sealion a serious plan? 01:53:12 - What were the economics behind the Royal Navy's destroyer caliber guns? 01:56:55 - Did ships during the age of sail go out purposefully overcrewed cause they knew a certain amount of sailors would die in battle or more likely from illnesses and the like? 01:59:40 - In a recent Drydock question on USS Constitution you stated that the only design change you'd make was to add a strong horizontal bulkhead just beyond the captain's quarters. Removing the ship's vulnerability to raking fire. Since this seems like an obvious improvement to counter a clear weakness in ship design it does raise the question why no-one ever thought of or implemented such a feature during the Age of Sail. 02:03:24 - Do mines find transom sterns........attractive?