00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:50 - Now that you have seen a number of different maritime museums from different countries which ones would you recommend that people go to visit?
00:06:03 - Diesel/Turbine Hybrids?
00:11:32 - Admiral Scheer wreck access?
00:14:41 - HMS X1 turrets
00:17:16 - Just how much does a steel-hulled submarine crush as it dives?
00:22:38 - How long does it take for a ques...
2024-02-03 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:50 - Now that you have seen a number of different maritime museums from different countries which ones would you recommend that people go to visit?
00:06:03 - Diesel/Turbine Hybrids?
00:11:32 - Admiral Scheer wreck access?
00:14:41 - HMS X1 turrets
00:17:16 - Just how much does a steel-hulled submarine crush as it dives?
00:22:38 - How long does it take for a ques...
2024-02-03 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
So, dear Patron's, if you've seen any of the Fun Friday videos where I upload an album you'll know Squarespace has a 40MB limit per photo on uploads. Whilst I will get around to downscaling the oversized photos eventually, the photos in question are 600DPI scans of larger pictures and so it seems a shame that no-one will get to enjoy them in their full glory and resolution.
Thus, my new idea, each week, I'll upload a different 40MB+ image for your perusal, the advantage of the full size...
2024-01-29 09:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - Hedgerow modified landing craft?
00:05:08 - Roughly how much of the budget of a navy went to personal, supplies, acquisition of new ships, refits of ships, etc?
00:10:43 - SS Stockholm ramming SS Andrea Doria
00:18:16 - To what extent did the Japanese Navy make use of the naval installations captured from the Allies in WW2?
00:20:47 - Alternative HMS Victorious refit?
2024-01-27 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:34 - Why do USN Fleet and Light Carriers, as well as Light and Heavy cruisers, share hull number sequences, when Escort and Large cruisers have their own?
00:04:25 - How long did it take nations to catch up with other nations armour technology?
00:10:34 - Smaller ships of the South American Dreadnought race?
00:15:56 - Easily detachable armour plate?
00:20:51 - Fleets, Flotillas, and Sq...
2024-01-27 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJust quick reminder that at 1400 UK time today the Victuallars Yard on the drachinifel.co.uk website will have an array of tabletop wargaming kits, models etc made available for the grand old price of nothing except postage costs. Have fun!
2024-01-20 12:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - Updates to previous questions on mines!
00:03:40 - ABXY 15" ships with triple turrets?
00:08:31 - Between World War I and World War II, did the Swedish Navy ever fire their guns in defense of their Homeland, or to defend themselves?
00:09:27 - Difference between Swedish coast defence and the Jeune Ecole?
00:17:08 - Lots of UK science museums I've been to have large ship model...
2024-01-20 09:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:41 - When the US was in the middle of their prohibition against alcohol from 1920- 1933 what would the Royal Navy do if they had to visit the US at the time?
00:04:19 - Under what circumstances could one realistically end up with a WWII-era battleship or fleet carrier's crew having to fight off an actual full-scale boarding action?
00:10:46 - How usual was it to have battleships have their guns replaced by a great...
2024-01-13 11:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:54 - Do you plan on doing a video looking into the loses of the British Battlecruisers and Armoured Cruisers at Jutland?
00:06:27 - The role of lighter than air craft in naval applications?
00:11:34 - Format of burials at sea?
00:14:25 - What would the theoretical advantages and disadvantages be if the King George Vths and Vanguard had followed the design profile of the Nelsons?
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2024-01-06 10:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - Airborne attack on the High Sea Fleet on 1st November 1918?
00:11:03 - Royal Navy Turret naming?
00:18:25 - How many navies observe the crossing of the equator tradition?
00:24:07 - Half Pay in the 20th century?
00:29:18 - 'Losing' a ship to get around naval treaties?
00:32:20 - What notable actions were Japanese patrol planes involved in?
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2023-12-30 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:45 - Naming conventions and how good various navies were at following them?
00:10:08 - In the United States Navy in World War Mark E Stille confidently proclaims that the US Navy produced the best submarines of the war in the Gatos, the best destroyers of the war in the Fletcher's, the best light cruisers in the Clevelands and the best heavy cruisers in the Baltimore class plus the best carriers in the Essex's and battleships in the Iow...
2023-12-29 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:45 - What is the difference between the Triple Expansion engines used in ships and the "triplex" steam locomotive? Why were triple expansion engines successful in both warships and civilian vessels while every attempt at a triplex locomotive failed?
00:06:36 - How effective would a quadruple expansion steam engine have been compared to early steam turbines would it have been more cost effective for some navies to have tried to use...
2023-12-23 10:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:52 - How effective would the Union and CSA ironclads be in other wars?
00:07:34 - What real differences would have come from the USN being better supported and financed in the years between the Civil War and WW2?
00:15:25 - Why were the Italians allowed to retain the two Andrea Doria class battleships post-WW2 when all the other surviving Italian Capital Ships (The two surviving Littorios and the Giulio Cesare) were giv...
2023-12-16 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! You may be aware of a rather grainy set of footage from 1922 showing HMS Victory going into Drydock, well, a good friend of mine with a lot of artistic talent took a series of stills and turned it into this wonderful pencil-art drawing. It shows Victory coming into her permanent home with HMS Repulse in the background, the original is c.3ft*1ft and we've made 50 artist-quality prints of it. These will go on general release with this weekends Drydock, but they'll be available t...
2023-12-12 16:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:42 - Ships that sank easily when they really shouldn't have?
00:05:48 - Was Force Z the RN's worst defeat in WW2?
00:11:38 - Why didn't the various navies in the World Wars hire privateers to help raid enemy commerce?
00:16:42 - Differences between both design and their mission profiles of corvettes, frigates, sloops and destroyers.
00:21:05 - Why didn't destroyers have torpedo launcher...
2023-12-09 10:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:57 - Why did so many battleship armour belts end up below the water?
00:07:13 - How would the process of rearmouring the ship to a new type of plating take place?
00:11:48 - In your opinion Drach, what would need to be changed, either on the Japanese side, or the Russian side, for the Russians to win the Russo-Japanese War?
00:17:36 - German project 50 steam powered submarines?
00...
2023-12-02 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:44 - Could you please describe briefly at least three incidents where a naval officer went “This is stupid!” and then did the logical/sensible thing?
00:04:51 - The USN Expansion of the late 1800's that never was?
00:08:31 - How did PT109, commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, end up getting rammed and sunk? Did any other USN PT Boats suffer this fate in WW2?
00:11:51 - Why was Admiral Yama...
2023-11-25 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Who, if anyone, saluted USS Johnston as she sank?
00:10:37 - Was Gneisenau's fatal damage due to unusual dockyard practices?
00:16:12 - How did mail work in the Age of Sail at great distances?
00:22:14 - Of all the "real" personalities from the age of sail, who has been done the worst by fiction?
00:26:23 - Effects of Admiral Anson taking command of the Channel Fleet in 1758?
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:13 - Ibuki class cruiser carrier conversion?
00:05:12 - Was suspending aircraft from a carrier's hangar ceiling a common practice among other navies, and was the idea ever utilised to its full potential?
00:13:34 - Could you explain why turret balancing is important and how it works?
00:21:16 - Why were the Turks allowed to keep the Goeben when the first world war ended?
00:...
2023-11-18 10:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - Have there ever been efforts by navies to salvage fuel from enemy vessels that were sunk or otherwise significantly damaged as opposed to captured?
00:04:02 - How many ships of the same name were lost during WW1 or WW2?
00:05:58 - Given that Germany's Naval plans in the 1930's weren't exactly looking to downsize anything, why didn't the Germans expand the Kiel canal?
00:09:59 - Why didn’t t...
2023-11-10 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA few have been asking where the livestreams went, the answer is, they haven't gone anywhere, they're just a little behind. Here's why:
During September is was obviously not possible to do them as I was mostly in the US, however, on the 3 flights I took to get back, I caught something, not sure what exactly, but it seemed at first to be 'plane flu' and took a few days to get over.
Unfortunately, it also left me with a wracking, hacking cough that has taken a couple of courses of a...
2023-11-08 10:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - Correction on shell weight for 5"/38 and 4.5"
00:01:48 - Reaction to the No.13 Battleships if built?
00:08:02 - You've often mentioned that converted carriers were far less efficient than purposefully designed carriers. Considering the Hiyos were purposefully designed to be converted, how efficient were they compared to other carriers?
00:12:12 - How large was the speed difference of a typica...
2023-11-04 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - How effective would a battleship be against a container ship?
00:02:34 - How do submarines estimate their targetting solution?
00:08:44 - How did the galley on a Uboat/Submarine evolve during the period the channel covers and what are/were the implications on the food that was (made) available for the crew?
00:14:28 - The history of ship log?
00:19:09 - Why couldn't the Regia Marin...
2023-10-29 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - At what point in ship design do you invent a new class?
00:06:25 - If Naval Codes were changed while a ship was underway, how would the ship captain know what the new codes to use were?
00:11:18 - How did the freedom of action granted by steam change battle tactics?
00:17:18 - In the event of an attack from the air by fighters as well as torpedo and dive bombers, what was the Japanese doctrine/stra...
2023-10-28 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:52 - Convoy rescue ships and chain of command?
00:06:36 - HMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake?
00:13:09 - When did turtleback armor scheme fall out of use with the major Nations, and why did Germany continue using it?
00:21:29 - Which Alsace turret was the least problematic?
00:25:20 - How hard is it NOT to apply hindsight?
00:34:49 - So what DID the axis think when the...
2023-10-21 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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?
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2023-10-14 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:58 - Do any other intermediate designs for UK light cruisers with 6 inch guns exist between the Leanders and the Towns?
00:05:31 - What would the crew or operator of landing craft do after unloading troops or supplies?
00:08:00 - We always talk about what happens when a Naval shell hits it's target. But what happens to the shell if it misses it's target?
00:12:04 - How much damage could WWII-era J...
2023-10-07 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostApologies! Due to a combination of PC issues, Microphone issues and catching some virus or other on the flights back to the UK, I've been bogged down getting the Patreon Drydock finished and uploaded.
Final rendering finished a few moments ago and the videos are now uploading, but obviously this means that (assuming they upload reasonably quickly) I am unable to bring you the traditional early release this week, as they'll finish uploading about the time they need to go live.
Regu...
2023-10-01 10:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:04 - Did the English govenment leave its sailors to die?
00:07:13 - The scuttling of HMS Implacable
00:12:42 - How did the boilers get air when the ship was locked up for battle?
00:14:45 - Could the spanish fight the french republic/empire on equal footing at sea if things had been different?
00:18:15 - If the british had managed to tow Santissima Trinidad into a port and later c...
2023-09-23 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post