The Drydock - Episode 132

Sorry, just noticed that. Navy.mil has the drawings, believe it or not. Download the hi-res and poke around, it's some interesting stuff. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/s-file/S-584-151.html Also, I wouldn't really consider this a "source", but it's relevant and pretty cool-- shapeways actually offers a model. https://www.shapeways.com/product/SDE2HBMJX/1-350-1919-us-small-battleship-design-a7-stern

Dubsington

I want to hear Drach's view of it too, but I do know that planes dropped depth-charges. They weren't usually as heavy, and had a rounded nose-cone and find attached to the ends.

Johann der Jäger

Where'd you find that detailed data? I would like to know because I'm quite curious of this peculiar warship.

Johann der Jäger

I don't think those were so much pre-dreads as basically a monitor/coastal battleship that was ocean-capable. They were an all-big-gun arrangement (just not very many of them) and used a turboelectric drive, so while certainly not a proper superdreadnought they were not really a throwback. I'd be curious to hear Drach's opinion too. For all their small size, 16"/50s and 12" of armor is no joke in the 1920.

Dubsington

I have worked on carriers too, it was just the picture of the one that Drach showed on his video I could not see the edges of the lifts on the photo and was just trying to see where they where on the deck in the photo; I knew that there must be some method of lifting out of the hangar but just could not see the mechanism in the photo. Regards and thanks for the comments.

John Hargreaves

A CVE had two, as best I remember from my dad. He was an Aviation Machinist's Mate, and eventually served aboard USS Altamaha. They stored aircraft on the hangar deck, and also on deck. During Typhoon Cobra, Halsey's first typhoon, he had to go on deck to double-lash planes, and later went back to cut the lashings and let the aircraft roll over the side. After that, he and the other "airdales" went to the hangar deck to clear the forward elevator. They had a "ready plane" sitting on that elevator, but had lowered it to lower the center of gravity. The ship's jeep and the (secret) "captains jeep" that had been stolen from the army both washed down the elevator along with various bits of debris and large amounts of sea-water. The skipper had decided that it was better to raise the elevator, so they cleaned out enough to get the elevator raised again.

I believe they had an in-deck elevator, roughly around where the island is. There are a few pictures that show it either lowered, or from an angle that you can see the outline.

Steve A

Q&A: Could you go over the Hunter-Killer groups and the tactics used to by the Allies to not just defend against u-boats in the Atlantic by actually attack them; were depth charges ever dropped from plains, how did plains attack u-boats?

Robert Henry Illston

Post it here

Robert Henry Illston

Hello Uncle Drach, love your work. Anyways, I was looking through Pinterest and came across a so-called "1919 Small Battleship A7", it looks to me to be a Pre-Dreadnought in a post super-Dreadnought era. How ineffective, or possibly effective would it be as a warship? (The ship is American, so no surprises for that design being considered.) Also, could you possibly say when you plan on doing a Wednesday special touring the HMS Warrior?

Johann der Jäger

This was covered recently. ...And now I can't remember what it is. I think it's in the Patreon rewards post.

'General' Dipper

OK, seriously-- what is the procedure for submitting a question?

Dubsington

Looking at the picture of an escort carrier on the Dry dock 132 how do they get the aircraft from storage onto the deck or were the aircraft always on deck as there seems in the picture to be no lifts or mechanism to achieve the transfer?

John Hargreaves