The Drydock - Episode 343 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:28 - When did Admiral Spruance know about the atomic bomb and is there a record of his staff's reaction?

00:05:16 - What would happen if a battleship shell passed close by?

00:09:20 - How do ship designers get together and decide who gets what space for all these various sub systems needed in a ship near the end of the period the channel covers. Further how long would it take to design a whole ship?

00:17:48 - Is there a hard and fast rule to separate large Destroyers from small cruisers?

00:22:41 - What else could be added to HMS Tiger?

00:27:15 - What technologies would not have worked if they had been invented/developed/deployed about 150 years earlier than they actually were?

00:30:31 - During the second world war, which submarine would be considered the most "luxurious" to serve on, in the perspective of both crew and officers?

00:33:03 - Richelieu 15" shells?

00:40:59 - Königsberg redesign?

00:47:15 - Force Z sinking analysis?

00:53:17 - How did warships not run into problems with high-sulfur steels?

00:59:45 - Foundry markings on Age of Sail British cannon?

01:05:47 - Courageous class with mine-rails?

01:07:39 - What if Doenitz didn't micro-manage the U-Boats?

01:15:59 - The use of light carriers?

01:21:32 - Between 1890 and 1900, which three to five ships, built or moderrnised, would you save from the breakers yard?

01:25:46 - What did sailors eat on the way home from long missions?

01:28:44 - How did nations that purchased capital ships from traditional naval powers such as the UK and France in the late 19th/early 20th centuries repair such ships if they needed major repairs?

01:33:08 - What 'real' ships are Lego pirate ships?

01:36:23 - Spotlights and searchlights in Naval circles?

01:41:57 - Examples of ships extricating other ships from sticky situations?

01:45:19 - During the inter war fleet exercises such as the US navy fleet problems how was the effectiveness of fighter aircraft against other aircraft judged?

01:49:17 - Did sails stretching have any real issue on ships during the age of sail?

01:52:17 - When did torpedoes fall out of favour in different ship types?

01:58:01 - When did power tools on ships become availabale and what did they look like?

02:02:35 - Is there a naval equivalent of the Ypres battlefield?

02:03:53 - Would the deck amour of capital ships in the WW1/WW2 era be face hardened similar to the belt amour of the time?

02:10:57 - Why did the Royal Navy choose to kill Admiral Byng?

02:19:18 - What did the US know about the Yamato and Musashi and when did they know it?

02:24:09 - Differences between the Midways and Malta's?

02:29:58 - USS Monitor and 'bronze shot'?

02:38:27 - What was the role of a captain of the fleet in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and why weren't they more common?

02:42:26 - How efficient was the design of the Great Eastern's hull?

02:44:05 - LST's with runways?

02:46:36 - Hiryu survivors accounts?

02:48:59 - With the Washington and London treaty rules lawyering would it have been possible for the Royal Navy to put a bunch of the High angle dual purpose 8" County turrets in the Pacific as "honestly it's AA!"

02:51:34 - How did U-Boats get to the Atlantic?

02:55:39 - Captain Gatch of USS South Dakota?