The Drydock - Episode 338 (Part 2)
Added 2025-02-22 10:30:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:27 - Captain Leslie E Gehres?
00:05:34 - How does one counter flood and do it well?
00:10:14 - French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861 by Winfield & Roberts?
00:12:49 - Understanding Track Charts?
00:16:28 - Why are HMS Renown's Captain's not better known?
00:20:49 - How much did the WNT's anti-fortification of the Pacific rule help the IJN?
00:23:42 - Has the naval design principle of "Speed will be our armor" ever been an unqualified success?
00:26:44 - Could you recommend some books (or other resources) on seaplane tenders and their operations in both the world wars?
00:29:50 - When did the USN start viewing the RN as friends and not adversaries?
00:35:17 - Transom stern adoption in the RN?
00:37:31 - The "weather war" of WWII?
00:41:02 - Ships being used against their makers?
00:43:14 - Best warship name that hasn't been used yet?
00:44:40 - Italian anti-convoy torpedo?
00:47:11 - How exactly were ships crests and mottos chosen, especially when the vessel wasn't named after a notable person?
00:51:21 - Casemate Battery ammo supply?
00:54:22 - If Japan had signed the 2nd London naval treaty, what alternative doctrines do you think they might have pursued instead of the "outranging" strategy they did with the Yamatos?
00:56:41 - Should HMS Surprise have been running with her colours flying?
01:00:15 - Did the Axis underestimated American production capacity and if so by how much?
01:05:22 - In the Dreadnought to Iowa era, how were the powder charge weights set?
01:09:16 - Who made best use of ships acquired from other nations in WW2?
01:13:24 - Hybrid-type Illustrious/Implacable class?
01:18:59 - Seymour or Beatty the more responsible?
01:23:09 - Apart from the Germans at the end of WW1 and the Japanese with Ten-Go in WW2, has any other country or navy planned to gather their fleet as much as possible into one placeand then do a suicidal charge into the enemy to cause as much damage as possible?
01:24:30 - USS Jason?
01:28:11 - Non-Navy Navies?
01:29:47 - Submarines capturing surface ships?
01:31:15 - Did anyone see more shells fired that Captain William Packenham?
01:33:35 - Ships scout aircraft going on the offensive?
01:35:18 - What is the Monopoly Battleship?
01:37:22 - What is an 'X Lighter'?
01:41:09 - RN post war cruiser rebuilds?
01:46:52 - Is the sinking of Yamato an official holiday in Japan?
01:48:20 - An overview of the development of automatic large caliber (3-8 inch) naval guns?
01:55:31 - After Tsushima why were the Russian prisoners treated so well but 40 years later allied prisoners treated so brutally?
02:06:24 - Triangular bits on a WW1 Cruiser?
02:09:45 - When did the navies of the world begin to use white uniforms?
02:11:38 - Wednesday video list?
02:14:25 - Shell first vs Frame first construction?
02:18:46 - How much further could a man in the crows nest see than someone on the deck of a ship of the line?
02:20:53 - Weapons at the ready on an ironclad?
02:24:14 - Chapman batteries?
02:25:48 - 'Skunk Able'?
02:27:54 - Why is Richelieu missing a gun in some pictures?
02:32:03 - How you source and vet historical photos for your videos?
02:38:41 - Pom-pom vs Bofors decision?
02:42:21 - Which nation's Pre-Dreadnought Battleships and individual ships performed the best (brought the most honor to the class) over the class's total active-service lifetime?
02:45:04 - 'Class Photos' of various battleships?
02:47:05 - Would WW2 German destroyers have been better off with 105 mm dual purpose main guns than surface only 150mm guns?
02:49:21 - What resources from the British Empire were vital in the two World Wars?
02:51:58 - Would you know of any Pre-WWII Japanese planning/wargaming sources equivalent to what we have on stuff like Plan Orange in the U.S.?
02:54:49 - The Holman Projector?
Comments
1:28 Non-Navy ships? How about an Air Force ship? In the 1970s and 1980s, I served with the Eastern Test Range and Space Shuttle Support (DDMS) at Canaveral Air Force Base Florida. We had the USS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg as a missile tracking ship. She was earlier under US Air Force command but transferred back to the US Navy whilst I sailed on her. We later got the USS Range Sentinel, a bit smaller and more agile. Then we had a lot of small boats, mostly in the Gulf of (pick a name) for recovery of drones.
Allen Parmet
2025-03-12 02:53:20 +0000 UTCJust finished listening - 10/03/2025
C G Southgate
2025-03-10 16:16:20 +0000 UTCOMG my Canadian cousins next door neighbor must have manned a Holman projector on a merchantman in WW2. I met him in the 1970’s and he described it as a steam powered Mills bomb thrower. According to him they didn’t just shoot potatoes at the enemy. The crew on other ships in the convoy who weren’t paying attention were fair game and the occasional spud fuels mock navel battle took place to relive the boredom.
Jellicoe Cats
2025-02-25 18:27:36 +0000 UTCThe Set for that Yamato movie (which me and my fellows sometimes call "Japanese Titanic") was a big tourist draw while it lasted, since it was the bow to about the funnels at 1-1 scale. There is a BIG model (1 to 10) now at the Yamato Museum in Kure (which dates from that movie). No holiday though. It's NOT official but SDF bands will play the theme to the "Space Battleship Yamato" anime from the mid 1970s on occasion (it's been described as the "unofficial anthem" of the SDF). US Navy bands (and possibly replenishment ships leaving harbor) also use the tune, since the English adaption (Star Blazers) used the same main theme tune (with slightly altered lyrics), and it is STILL in the cultural conscious (and it's a GOOD tune, lots of gravity).
Andrew Dederer
2025-02-25 16:14:36 +0000 UTCHas anyone ever counted how many US planes are shot down in that movie about the sinking of the Yamato?
Ted M Jones
2025-02-25 06:12:47 +0000 UTCThis is a it of a leap, but it's worth noting that the USS Oregon was an Indiana Class battleship and she was constructed at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco -- which is where Henry George was living when he got his ideas for "Progress and Poverty." The game Monopoly was invented to pass on the ideas from that book.
Ted M Jones
2025-02-25 06:00:51 +0000 UTC
