The Drydock - Episode 212 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 212

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:44 - Given their general design preferences and tendencies to experiment and tweak as well as their strategic requirements, if the French had been prescient and rich enough to build a few carriers in the 1930s, what do you think they might have looked like? 00:04:16 - Mythbusters and splinters 00:06:26 - Crippling a first rate with one salvo? 00:09:31 - Can you recommend a source for maritime traditions/customs and law? 00:11:05 - Scaling the answer of a test? 00:20:19 - KGV armour thickness? 00:26:05 - Did the Polish Navy ever have plans to make a Coastal Battleships like the Finnish Ilmarinen? 00:29:00 - When and why did drydocks sides go from stepped to slabsided? What was the advantage of either? 00:33:26 - What contemporary ironclads could CSS Stonewall realistically beat in battle? 00:37:22 - Has there ever been any definitive and reliable sources listing why Bismarck's main guns knocked out it's own radar and why this was not detected prior to her sailing? 00:42:37 - There are photographs where war-time censors have removed radars from WWII USN warships. Are there any other examples of censors removing a specific weapon system but have still allowed the picture to be published? 00:44:03 - How effective would 16" HESH be against a given capital ship in, say, 1942? 00:46:37 - Ships hit by shore batteries in the WW2 Pacific Campaign? 00:48:15 - Centreline AA turrets? 00:51:32 - Future-proofing ships? 00:57:31 - Did anybody look at designing a WWI monitor around a large high angle howitzer or mortar? 01:01:49 - 18th century mortar bombs and fusing?