The Drydock - Episode 360 (Part 1)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:30 - At what scale ratio do models start to give usable data in testing?

00:04:59 - Would a better funded USN in the post-ACW era with armoured frigates affect European naval development?

00:11:28 - What could be gained if the Nelson class was built without torpedo tubes?

00:15:03 - RN and IJN night-fighting training in the inter-war period?

00:25:11 - What is the optimal size for a seamine?

00:29:38 - When a nation sells a warship regardless of type to another nation what normally is done during the refit period to make that ship ready for its new owners?

00:33:44 - What measures are in place to prevent the splinters, caused by a turbine stripping its blades, from travelling further downstream in the propulsion system?

00:37:32 - Could you please give us a quick rundown of naval scout plane communications?

00:44:02 - Escorts carried both depth charge racks AND depth charge mortars. Were the charges different for each system, or was it the same charge, just used differently?

00:47:26 - Drop keels on submarines?

00:52:04 - Cable over HMS Agincourt?

00:57:19 - Varying speeds in the Kido Butai?

01:01:23 - Did Bismarck almost experience a Hood-like explosion at Denmark Strait?

01:08:29 - Could the IJN have mounted an effective carrier campaign during 1943 and early 1944, to slow the USN's progress?

01:14:21 - Using Ultimate Admiral Dreadnought - build HMS Agincourt and then improve her

01:17:18 - Who is the greatest First Lord of the Admiralty and why is it George Anson?

01:21:16 - 'Overdrive mode' on US DE's?

01:28:08 - Zuiho, IJN CVL's and aircrew numbers?

01:31:33 - How different were the night fighting technology and tactics of the RN and KM at the time of the battle of Jutland?

01:37:57 - For the 18th and early 19th centuries, how much influence did Parliament have in the appointing of RN commanders of squadrons/fleets/task forces?

01:43:19 - Would you agree that, inferior numbers aside, the Imperial German Navy lost any chance of achieving a decisive victory at Jutland when it failed to build super-dreadnoughts before the Bayern class?

01:48:59 - Just why was Prinz Eugen equipped with hydrophones?

01:55:19 - County class refit timeline?

02:01:13 - What experience had the Royal Navy in dealing and working with Darlan and Gensoul, in alliance prior to the setting up of Vichy France and Mers El Kébir?

02:07:31 - Why didnt the Red Airforce do to the Kriegsmarine what the Luftwaffe did to the Red Navy during Barbarossa and destroy the forces taking part in Unternehmen Hannibal?

02:10:10 - Coffee in the Age of Sail?

02:14:25 - When did the worlds major navies start to think of the USN as more of a threat than an annoyance?

02:18:35 - U-Boats and returning convoys?

02:23:01 - Airships moored to battleships?

02:25:44 - Fishers Baltic Project?

02:32:42 - When it came to AA weapons, who actually picked the targets and gave the order to open fire?

02:37:37 - How have your answers to us changed since you started the Drydock?

02:44:55 - What happened to the specialist gear of the Great Lakes warships after the War of 1812?

02:47:11 - Had Admiral Tryon survived, do you believe he would have been successful in his attempts to make the Royal Navy more free-thinking and less rigid?

02:52:58 - How many Deutschland class heavy cruisers (aka "Pocket battleships") would need to be operating in a single formation for a contemporary battlecruiser to be dissuaded from engaging?

02:59:01 - Did the British government allow the 15/42in guns to be sold to foreign countries?

03:02:06 - What were the origins of the "We love to hate you" relationship between the Japanese Army & the Japanese Navy?

03:08:36 - Were the US heavy frigates the first time the battlecruiser strategy was employed, or did it arise in past navies?