The Drydock - Episode 340
Added 2025-03-08 09:00:10 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - Why did Destructor not immediatly spawn a response?
00:04:02 - Given the advancements in material science since the last battleships were built, how much more protected would a battleship be if built with modern materials?
00:13:15 - Could the IJN have effectively curtailed Ulithi's use as a forward staging area, and more importantly rest&repair stop?
00:18:19 - Why did the IJN find it easier to work with O2 instead of H202, whereas in the Kriegsmarine it was the other way around?
00:22:30 - Was Japanese security around the 8-8 plan breached?
00:25:40 - Gun turret in Manilla?
00:27:55 - Was consideration given to re-commissioning and deploying Italian warships, including their battleships, to the Pacific for Allied use?
00:31:49 - If the British had not pulled ships out of the Pacific in 1930-41, how do you think it would have impacted Japan's offense?
00:36:33 - IF the BPF had been created 12-18months earlier, do you think it might have done more than support the US?
00:39:22 - Why did the US restrict the British from attacking IJN capital ships?
00:42:15 - What naval engineering disasters other than poorly designed ships do you think are interesting?
00:45:10 - Ship choices for an RN Naval Museum in No.1 Basin, Portsmouth
00:50:42 - Moments in naval history where great wins or disasters could have happened with one change?
00:55:34 - During WWII, when a Pacific Island was bypassed, how many assets were used to maintain that island's isolation?
00:57:35 - Replacing a warships coal-fired boilers with oil-fired ones?
01:02:21 - Figurehead on L'Orient?
01:04:32 - What were the barriers to replacing stokers with some sort of mechanical coal handling system?
Comments
Modern armor can be defeated by modern weapons. Even in WW2, air-launched PGMs were lethal to battlships, e.g. Fritz X going through HMS Warspite in 1943. Today a 30 mm hypersonic BASS round would go through Yamato, side to side.
Allen Parmet
2025-03-21 02:54:19 +0000 UTCIn the Gun turret in Manila question, the "x" in "Roxas Blvd." is pronounced with an "h", and the "g" in "Corregidor" is, oddly enough, also pronounced with an "h." Yes, our language is lovely and inconsistent in that way. (If ever you would like help with Filipino pronunciations in the future, let me know.)
Glenn Ricafrente
2025-03-09 00:42:52 +0000 UTCAnother problem automatic stocking of boilers on ships: the technology wasn't introduced on steam locomotives until 1905, pretty much when oil firing was being adopted.
Elliott W James
2025-03-08 14:50:23 +0000 UTCSaturday morning coffee and listening to Drach...life is good.
W. Osterberg
2025-03-08 09:18:05 +0000 UTC
