The Drydock - Episode 284 (Patreon)

The Drydock - Episode 284

00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:50 - Now that you have seen a number of different maritime museums from different countries which ones would you recommend that people go to visit? 00:06:03 - Diesel/Turbine Hybrids? 00:11:32 - Admiral Scheer wreck access? 00:14:41 - HMS X1 turrets 00:17:16 - Just how much does a steel-hulled submarine crush as it dives? 00:22:38 - How long does it take for a question to be answered in the drydock right now? 00:25:01 - How did the lookouts in Titanic and Yamato get up to the crows nest? 00:29:56 - White 'wrapped' carrier? 00:32:49 - What was the end-game at Komandorski Islands if Salt Lake City was crippled and destroyed by the IJN? 00:35:16 - What were the British equivilant of the Allen M Sumner's and Gearing's? 00:37:35 - Would you classify the USN PC(subchasers) as a corvette or large gunboat in WW2? 00:39:03 - Prior to the advent of gunpowder based weapons, did siege weapons such as catapults and ballista see wide spread use on ships, and if so how effective were they? 00:43:00 - How were Cook's voyages possible? 00:48:06 - During the classic age of sail, what where the immediate preperations for combat? 00:52:58 - If the Soviet Union had allowed the US to use its territory to go after Japan, would a campaign where the US Navy strikes south from the Sakhalin islands be viable? 00:56:04 - In addition to VADM Fletcher. What other officers you think were unfortunately or prematurely reassigned away from the front? 00:59:15 - HMS Victory is 246 years old. Assuming continued funding, can we expect the more complex museum ships from the age of steam and steel to go on for as long, or do they have more of an inbuilt expiration date? 01:06:04 February 2024 US Mini-Trip