The Drydock - Episode 321 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:30 - If Japan somehow managed to take Hawaii, what's the best way to retake it?

00:08:12 - Best views for shipping in different time periods?

00:11:03 - Where do you sit on the scale of ULTRA solved everything and shortened the war by 3+ years, to, the impacts of ULTRA are given too much weight. And why?

00:14:27 - Why were the funnels on early British cruisers raked back?

00:17:05 - Inverting Leyte Gulf?

00:20:36 - Spanish Treasure Galleon San Jose?

00:22:22 - Can you tell us a bit about the WWI high speed lighters used by the Harwich force?

00:27:47 - Most serious obstacle to a fast battleship pre-WW1?

00:33:23 - Could a navy physically destroy an island?

00:39:59 - Did ships in the age of sail have full transom sterns?

00:42:51 - Who else considered quad gun turrets apart from the British and French?

00:45:39 - Most historically impactful swap?

00:52:32 - Can you go through a sample calculation for adjusting naval gunfire and show why you need that 4th data point so much compared to say a 3-shot salvo?

01:00:40 - Alternative QE battleship design?

01:05:02 - IJN and USN pilot differences?

01:07:12 - Yukikaze post-war?

01:10:08 - What is a torpedo bomber redux?

01:12:49 - How was the Naval Airborne Lifeboat Mk.1 "RN1" to be employed?

01:18:47 - What are the top five things that you have accomplished as a result of establishing your channel?

01:21:47 - Could HMS Dreadnought have been built in such a way with the constraints of the time to still be relevant in the line of battle and thus have her day in the sun at Jutland?

01:25:38 - Design differences between USN and RN cruisers and battleships in the late 1930's?

01:31:42 - Difficulties in identifying ships at night?

01:37:58 - Dented hull plating on USS New Jersey?

01:41:17 - History swimming naval troops?

01:45:48 - Would nitrous oxide (N2O) make for a good oxidizer for torpedoes in WW2 in terms of performance, safety and ease of use / price?

01:48:01 - What was the performance of the Vickers twin 6-inch turrets used on the Monmouth class armoured cruisers and Humber class monitors?

01:52:20 - How did the hp per ton of ship powerplants in the Dreadnought era up to 1950 develop. Was it linear or did it have spikes of rapid growth?

01:55:12 - How does Roosevelt's 'Naval War of 1812' hold up?

01:58:59 - Was HMS Renown still the world's fastest capital ship in 1945?

01:59:59 - In the Age of Sail did any non-Western nations build or have plans to build Ships of the Line?

02:03:21 - Why did the British overestimate the range at Jutland at the start of the battlecruiser engagement?

02:07:30 - What is your assessment of the Fairy Barracuda as an aircraft for the FAA and how was it regarded at the time?

02:11:28 - During the Classic Age of Sail, how were the Crews of Royal Navy ships stationed at distant foreign stations like India or China paid?

02:14:56 - How long was the galley/galleass firepower solution viable?

02:19:13 - How big does an aircraft carrier have to be to accommodate twin-engine fighters and bombers during interwar/WW2 time period?

02:26:25 - What is your favorite ghosty/spooky/supernatural tale from the Naval history for the period this channel covers?