The Drydock - Episode 325 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:38 - What if John Paul Jones remained in Imperial Russian Service?

00:04:29 - Why were cutting out operations often successful?

00:11:23 - Why shell vs armour penetration figures do you use?

00:20:28 - Could the Courageous class be modernised into useful gun-based vessels?

00:26:06 - What would at-sea firefighting efforts look like around the 1850s-1870s?

00:28:36 - When is the last recorded time in history that a naval officer used their sword in combat?

00:31:12 - How on earth did the Westinghouse Electropult work?

00:33:29 - Did the Japanese have a navy to oppose the Mongols?

00:35:17 - Did IJN ships have oxygen generation plants aboard their ships?

00:36:47 - What is the IJN and 2nd Pacific Squadron met early in their voyage?

00:38:44 - What are the 'Brown M&Ms' of naval history?

00:46:02 - Fighter-carrier Ryujo?

00:50:58 - Magnification on rangefinders?

00:54:27 - Are there any unexpected or particularly annoying holes in the naval historical record you have encountered during your research?

01:03:44 - What is the dimensions and weight of the electric motors used for the Lexington class aircraft carriers?

01:05:13 - How did the Ise class deal with the loss of the weight of the turrets?

01:07:26 - Were Jellicoe and Beatty buried side by side deliberately?

01:08:58 - What's the longest a wooden ship of the line is known to have been in service?

01:13:44 - Why did the USN only ever try to build 1 class of Battlecruiser?

01:23:00 - AA Omaha conversion?

01:27:23 - What resources would you recommend to learn more about the ship building capacities of the major navies during the interwar period?

01:30:52 - Have you read Robert Massie's books Dreadnought and Castles of Steel. If so, what is your impression of them?

01:32:28 - Is there a credible scenario where Bismarck and Prinz Eugen escape detection by the British forces and find themselves in the Atlantic undetected? If this occurred, any guess as to what convoys they might have ran across first?

01:35:37 - How many crew do you save switching from coal to oil?

01:37:43 - What are the differences between land and sea warfare that invert what a small country should build?

01:47:24 - Why did diesel aircraft engines not work too well?

01:50:48 - Have you ever made a war canoe?

01:54:53 - The origins of USS Constellation?

02:02:28 - UK Museums question?

02:06:38 - Were the Nelson class completed underweight?

02:14:58 - Would crews of battleships 'brace for impact' in WW1 / WW2?

02:20:26 - Electrification of warships?

02:25:06 - On a battleship that used its coal stoarge as a secondary armour belt, what happens if an AP shell exploded in a coal bunker?

02:29:23 - What if the Courageous class were not built?

02:35:02 - How was the armour from the Almirante Cohrane used on the Renown class?

02:37:54 - Why was the submarine HMS P222 not given a name before it was lost?

02:39:51 - Did Conte Di Cavour sink in 1943?

02:44:42 - Can you name some occasions when a Free French ship engaged in a battle with a Vichy French ship that wasn't during Torch?

02:46:21 - What's happening to HMS Terrible?

02:49:47 - Alternate Sverige class?

02:57:18 - Why did whaling ships have 'gun ports'?

03:00:50 - Odd lengths on British WW1 battleship guns?