The Drydock - Episode 209 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 209

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:33 - Leasing a Tudor warship? 00:02:59 - Any thoughts on the 1566 "Adler von Lübeck"? 00:06:33 - Why is the British Navy called the Royal Navy but the Army is just the British Army and not the Royal British Army (or some such derivative)? 00:10:48 - Was the Tudor navy any good? 00:14:37 - How often did navy's train on the guns and fighting tactics? Did it change and become more/less from the golden age of sailing too WW2? 00:19:31 - Early helicopters/autogyros 00:22:08 - Ranging gun on a ship? 00:25:33 - Steering for the fall of shot 00:31:14 - How did the Royal Navy visits to Copenhagen in 1801 and 1807 shape naval thinking until minefields and motor-torpedoboats made such endevors a thing of the past? 00:33:40 - Who would win between a swarm of angry Destroyer Escorts (ie all of them) vs a swarm of angry Fletchers/Clemsons (either or both)? 00:36:55 - 19th century invasion scares 00:43:51 - British and French quad turrets? 00:49:53 - What problem(s) with all-forward design led to both RN and MN to abandon it in favor of more conventional design for Alsace and KGV? 00:59:10 - Prior to a gun engagement, how did the gun tampions get removed? 01:02:43 - Channel Admin