The Drydock - Episode 268

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:53 - Were flat-side first rates a bad idea?

00:04:47 - How do you replace the guns on a ship of the line?

00:07:29 - Had America lost the revolutionary War, what impact would its resources have on the British Navy during the Napolonic wars? 

00:12:04 - In the 1830's/1850's, did the combination of (potentially) sparking funnels and sails in close proximity actually pose a problem?

00:14:10 - Why were naval mines once called 'torpedos', and how, why, when, etc did the nomenclature change to the modern definition of, and distinction between 'mines' and 'torpedoes'?

00:17:35 - Why was USS Iowa restricted to full speed only in water greater than 600ft deep?

00:20:38 - If the US Navy wasn't able to acquire the 20mm oerlikon or the bofors 40mm do you see there being a timeline where they would press the US army's 37mm M1 auto cannon into service in a navalized form? Or would they try to upgrade the 1.5inch  Chicago piano? 

00:21:59 - Do we have solid information on the ratio of flowers destroyed compared to submarines destroyed during the war?

00:23:32 - How many ships in the Royal Navy actually had "Royal" in their name? 

00:26:56 - When was the first Naval battle in 'the new world' post 1492, and which war was the first to feature a major Naval theater in the America's?

00:29:38 - Which would have had a higher impact factor on the naval war in the Mediterranean: better leadership in the Regia Marina early in the war, or better quality control in the factories that produced naval ammunition?

00:32:18 - What is the difference in role and equipment between a navy yard, fleet base, section base, and other levels of naval bases?

00:36:22 - How do time fused shells work?

00:39:39 - I recently discovered that the Papal States intermittently had its own navy over the course of several centuries prior to Italian unification. Could you perhaps discuss its history, briefly?

00:43:48 - Were there any two enemy warships that fought each other more times than USS Enterprise (CV-6) and the IJN's Zuikaku in history?

00:45:26 - What damage did Yorktown take to Midway from Coral Sea?

00:51:18 - How much air conditioning capacity would it have taken to keep Prince of Wales and Repulse's fire control functioning?

00:53:28 - Why did the UK try to save HMS Conway and not Implacable or Warspite?

00:57:46 - How dramatically would daily life for a sailor differ today compared to a common sailor in the dreadnought/Great War era?