The Drydock - Episode 320

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:45 - Given the constantly changing nature of large capital ships even while under construction (as seen with examples like the North Carolina), just how likely would it be that USS United States would finish up as a more conventional carrier (much like how she appears in World of Warships) before she's even launched?

00:04:20 - Assuming that USS United States is either completed or quickly refited after a short period of time to a more conventional design, how long would her class's likely service life be?

00:07:27 - What were some of the Post WW2 designs from countries like France and the other Allied nations?

00:11:12 - Can you tell us more about the time that HMS Unicorn bombarded ground targets in North Korea with her own guns?

00:13:49 - What were in your opinion the best naval use cases for unguided rocket projectiles in the period the channel covers?

00:18:05 - Most daring submarine feat?

00:25:38 - Naval mercenaries?

00:32:13 - The Akagi and Kaga originally had multi flight deck plans when completed but later were refitted to have a single flight deck. Were there any plans to do something similar to the ships of the Courageous class?

00:39:10 - When did bre

aking the line cease to be a viable fleet tactic?

00:44:45 - The tendency of the Imperial Japanese Navy to falsely claim that various American ships were sunk during the Pacific War leading to the ships in question being nicknamed as "Ghosts" is rather notorious nowadays. However, given the fact that the Americans avoided this tendency by decrypting Japanese radio communications, what Japanese ships could have been considered Ghosts without the help of these intercepts?

00:48:22 - What is/was the largest cast piece of metal on a ship and why was it produced that way?

00:51:12 - When did the first “frigate duel” occur and when did history’s last frigate duel happen?

00:54:27 - What might be some examples of ships with short active services lives, but with significant impact even in that short life?

00:58:14 - How many videos [on average] do you have as a work-in-progress at any one time (ie. initial research, script writing, script finalizing, recording, postprocessing, final export not counting) and how does this vary during a week and month respectively?