The Drydock - Episode 311

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:37 - Did anybody try to make a fast battleship (in the sense of a big-gun capital ship that doesn’t sacrifice either firepower or armour for speed) in the predreadnoughts era?

00:05:13 - Would it have made sense for the USN to forward deploy older battleships or second-line cruisers in the Philippines to deter Japanese aggression, especially as Japan ramped up their war in China as a show of force and as a deterrence/first line of defense against a naval invasion of the P.I?

00:10:06 - What was different about USS Delaware that allowed her to steam ahead longer than other dreadnought class ships of her time in the US Navy

00:14:09 - If Hitler had sent the first wave of V-1 Bombs against the invasion fleet at Normandy how effective would it have been?

00:18:56 - You mentioned that Delaware's turret 3 was unable to fire rearward for fear of damaging turret 4's sights with the blast wave. Why is this not a concern for other super firing turrets, are there preventative measures that could not be taken on Delaware's rear turrets for one reason or another?

00:22:17 - Torpedo head vs Fast Fish head?

00:25:51 - Drach will you at some point talk about the risks of transporting certain cargos such as grain and coal?

00:31:07 - You mentioned subs getting maintenance on a slip way, how was that done? A massive winch and rollers? Why wasn't this used for larger ships as an alternative to drydocks?

00:35:08 - If USS Yorktown was raised, could she be preserved?

00:41:31 - Is the early commander performance issues with the US Navy in WWII a result of no real sustained combat since the Civil War?

00:49:16 - Is there any particular reason why foreign-procured warships would have not only the ship name changed, but the class name as well?

00:52:25 - There is a quote attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "The sergeant is the Army." Could the same be also be said of a navy's non-commissioned officers, in terms of their relative importance to both commissioned officers and ratings alike?

00:55:47 - Operation Wunderland?

00:59:13 - What was considered the worst generic, at-sea assignment for a RN Officer during the Napoleonic era?

01:01:53 - We see a lot of information about torpedo defense systems designed into Battleship hulls, and to a lessor extent Aircraft carriers. Were there any efforts to design some sort of mitigating defense into any other classes hulls?