The Drydock - Episode 236 (Part 1) (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 236 (Part 1)

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:35 - Age of Sail wood security and planning? 00:06:24 - During a large battle, such as Jutland, did the top ranking Admirals such as Scheer and Jellico directly signal minor forces such as the destroyer flotillas and cruisers with orders? 00:09:07 - If the 40mm Bofors hadn’t been available, could the 1.1” “Chicago Piano” have been improved into an adequate defensive weapon? 00:13:10 - Why during WWII did German shipwrecks tend to have broken-off sterns while Japanese and American shipwrecks tend to have broken off bows? 00:17:48 - Can you tell us more about "luxuries" on warships? 00:21:58 - What was the USN's plan to deal with the Kongos before the Iowas were put into service? 00:24:34 - Hood and the two Renowns were much faster than contemporary battlecruisers. What were the reasons/rationale for the jump in speed? 00:27:09 - What was the material condition of USS Enterprise by the end of World War 2? 00:30:34 - Tiny Tim rocket turret? 00:32:56 - Ships more dangerous to their own side than the enemy? 00:34:34 - Equipment ships immediately disposed of? 00:37:19 - How do Canadian destroyer and escort commanders such as Harry DeWolf compare to other commanders in similar roles during the World War Two period? 00:38:48 - How far apart were TF16 and TF17 operating during the battle of Midway? 00:40:38 - Could a ship be so unmanned that an officer there to “liaise” with a navy be able to take photographs of critical areas of a ship? 00:44:15 - Could you discuss how likely WW2 era battleship main battery guns would have been to remain operational if the turret received a non-penetrative hit to the face plate from a BB caliber shell? 00:47:57 - Air to surface rockets. How were they used and how effective were they? 00:51:54 - Were there any class of ships that were so different from each other that they could be bearly be called sister ships and why? 00:54:17 - Early counter-U-Boat tactics with ASDIC/sonar? 00:59:04 - What Muppet allowed the K-class to be fitted with a steam engine and how wasn't he stopped? 01:06:23 - How much of a distraction and resource drain did the Royal Navy experience when patroling Danish waters following the attack on Copenhagen in 1801? And how much did that change with the attack of 1807? 01:11:31 - Who is the highest ranking naval officer from the State of West Virginia and what did they do in the US Navy? 01:13:19 - Admiral Lee and TF34 at Samar? 01:17:47 - 'All forward' cruisers? 01:20:29 - How was identification of enemy ships often so poor? 01:23:28 - How do you face-harden curved plates? 01:28:17 - Please regale us with the wonderful qualities of Balsa as a naval building material. 01:32:31 - Versailles treaty limits and the Deutschlands 01:37:17 - RMS Titanic head-on to the iceberg? 01:40:16 - IJN night optics in WW2? 01:42:42 - During the Boston Molasses flood US Navy sailors assisted in the rescue operations, do you know which ships where in harbor in Boston for this? 01:44:13 - Measuring a ships length 01:46:19 - Are there any incidents of a U-Boat Wolfpack attacking a convoy surfaced? 01:48:13 - Was the channel at Port Stanley narrow enough that SMS Gneisenau could have sacrificed herself to block it? 01:51:54 - Why did the Royal Navy keep so many of its heavy cruiser's on anti-blockade running and eastern waters operations in 1939-42? 01:56:28 - Could other nation's warships, such as the KGVs, have benefited from using diesel over steam turbines? 02:00:02 - Generally speaking, what happens to stores of naval ammunition once a caliber becomes obsolete such as the 10, 12 and 13.5 inch shells of the early dreadnoughts? 02:02:58 - Why were stacked turrets tried twice? 02:05:55 - What was the Caribbean like for the bulk of the 19th century? 02:09:32 - I know you're not a big fan of the 16" super-heavy shells used by the U.S. Navy, but what about the 6" and 8" super-heavy shells? 02:13:31 - IJN equivilant of D-Day? 02:15:02 - What is the largest surface engagement that the US and UK fought in as allies? 02:17:38 - Pumping out an Age of Sail ship? 02:21:52 - AA Des Moines class? 02:24:08 - How useful were the ships the german navy "borrowed" from other navies during WW2? 02:26:20 - Would the USS Lafayette/SS Normandie have made a good aircraft carrier conversion? 02:29:14 - Tumblehome and stability? 02:33:12 - Tracers in naval combat? 02:35:18 - Why was the Royal Navy slow in moving it's secondary batteries from casemates to turrets? 02:39:05 - Why could ocean liners maintain their speed across the Atlantic when many period warships could not? 02:43:14 - The escape of the submarine ORP Orzeł 02:49:31 - What was Captain Ramius in the Hunt for Red October talking about? 02:51:49 - Why were there not combined arms attacks on the Arctic convoys? 02:55:42 - Why do steam ships need to blow off extra steam, such as the merchant ship which ignited the Battle of Jutland?