The Drydock - Episode 339
Added 2025-03-01 09:42:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:37 - What degree of casualties to disease should have been expected to occur for the royal navy during operations in the Caribbean during the 18th century?
00:06:34 - Did the Allies in WWII know about the german Alberich "Anti-Sonar-Coating" and how effective was it?
00:12:00 - Did Germany and Italy have a coherent strategy for deploying their ocean going and coastal submarines during WW2 to make the best use of the attributes of each type?
00:16:32 - Was there any way in your opinion as an engineer to make the walter drive submarines safer?
00:20:10 - Considering the ineffectiveness of Japanese ASW efforts, did anyone besides Eugene Fluckey think about using submarines to land ground troops on Japanese-held territory?
00:23:13 - In the Walter-type U-Boats had actually been produced, would they have had Cold War successors?
00:26:00 - How did the Type XXI, Type XXIII, Walter boats etc. compare to the Japanese Type-201?
00:29:45 - Was there ever any thoughts in WW2 of giving submarines a vertically firing torpedo or floating mine?
00:32:39 - For those of us who are used to thinking of Hydrogen Peroxide as a benign disinfectant stored in plastic bottles could you elaborate on the challenges of using and storing it in the Walter Boats?
00:38:04 - Why didn’t the US ever consider using 15 inch (381MM) caliber guns on their battleships?
00:46:22 - Did large corporations of the Age of Sail like the British and Dutch East India Companies have their own navies, how large/effective were they, and was there much overlap in crews between state and private navies?
00:51:57 - HM Drifter Catspaw?
00:55:45 - How strong was the Dutch East India Company in comparison to other navies at the height of its power?
00:58:47 - Did France have an alternative to Bearn?
01:02:06 - Could USS Enterprise CV-6 have kept up with the Essex's in front-line daytime duty in 1945?
01:06:04 - USS Langley's carrier pigeons?
01:08:20 - The passing of naval supremacy from the Royal Navy to the US Navy was fairly amicable. Was there ever another time in history this happened, when the ascending naval power did not have to execute a hostile takeover?
Comments
Submarine Raid: Makin Island, August 17-18, 1942: USS Argonaut (V-4) and USS Nautilis (V-6), two unusually large submarines, transported 211 members of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. They actually outnumbered the Japanese forces on Makin Island, only 70. During the attack, two Japanese flying boats arrived, carrying reinforcements. The marines withdrew after killing most of the garrison and many of the reinforcements. Final casualties were US: 19 killed, 9 captured and executed, 2 MIA and 17 wounded. The Japanese suffered over 100 casualties plus the loss of two airplanes and two small boats. The Raiders failed to take any prisoners and alerted the Japanese to the weakness of island garrisons, which led to increased Japanese defenses facing later island invasions.
Allen Parmet
2025-03-17 19:22:56 +0000 UTCI just finished watching the 6 hours in 2 parts!
Maya Media
2025-03-02 03:50:39 +0000 UTCAnother great listen from Drach. Thank you sir.
W. Osterberg
2025-03-02 02:18:21 +0000 UTCIncredible to think that there’s a fuel source SO DANGEROUS that we would rather use what’s essentially a slow burn atomic bomb instead
The Rogue Chief
2025-03-01 14:39:46 +0000 UTCHigh Test Peroxide really wants to become water and oxygen, give it the slightest excuse it will do so, VERY rapidly, and with lots of heat being evolved.
Rob Smith
2025-03-01 10:34:32 +0000 UTC
