00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:32 - Kriegsmarine fire support in the Baltic in 1945

00:05:24 - Knots / Nautical Miles / Miles / Kilometers

00:08:48 - Japanese Army aircraft carriers?

00:12:35 - Have the wrecks of Glorious, Acasta and Ardent been found?

00:13:36 - Post-1860 successful boarding actions of fully ready warships?

00:15:33 - Any other relatives served in the world wars apart from on Royal Oak?

00:24:31 - Fresh water supplies in the Pacific and combat auxillaries

00:28:22 - 19th century RN plans for war with the USA?

00:35:12 - Shooting off your own guns?

00:39:09 - Turret armour vs Belt armour

00:46:56 - Italian fleet at Crete?

00:50:54 - Outside of direct combat, has a battleship ever been accidentally sunk by the crew failing to take appropriate measures to address a problem?

00:53:34 - Can you describe the geography and man-made defenses of your “perfect” naval base? Which historical ports came closest to this ideal?

01:02:32 - Best websites for naval discussion?

01:08:32 - King Neptunes Court and other traditions?

01:12:58 - Belt fed 40mm Bofors?

01:15:11 - Naval expansion in WW1/WW2 and the effect on crew quality?

01:21:25 - Weird 19th propulsion methods?

01:25:51 - The Otranto Barrage

01:30:19 - Mega-dreadnought?

01:33:02 - HMS Barham's badges and warship heraldry

01:36:05 - Battleship shell hoists

01:36:34 - Which major WW2 navy had the best gun in the 6” and 8” ranges?

01:44:26 - Long distance navigation feats

01:46:16 - Neutral merchant navies in WW2

01:51:48 - French vs German navy in WW2 without the British?

01:57:34 - Torpedo vs gun range

02:01:44 - HMS Incomparable, possible?

02:07:31 - Ships chaplains

02:10:49 - Dye in naval shells

02:14:13 - Most unusual/improbable naval engagments?

02:20:30 - How much information did non-combat engaged crewmembers (engine room personnel for example) get about what was going on in an engagement during the 1st and 2nd World Wars?

02:25:50 - 40mm vs U-Boat?

02:27:33 - Wichita AA cruiser?

02:32:52 - Merchant ship vs Warship sizes

02:36:47 - What are names given to decks in the UK and US?

02:38:56 - Torpedo battleships?

02:41:10 - RN and AH gunboats

02:45:20 - Message transmission in the Dreadnought era?

02:49:22 - What happened to the Roman fleet?

02:52:09 - USS Arkansas in WW2

02:54:45 - Captain Miles Browning, USN

02:57:52 - Frigates vs a ship of the line

03:02:39 - Why do I rate Beatty so badly?

03:09:14 - Royal Marines and the USMC

03:12:22 - Overrated warships in the early 20th century

03:18:04 - Damage to USS Yorktown at Coral Sea

03:23:11 - Grand Fleet flagship and the loss of HMS Audacious

03:28:25 - The Royal Navy and Manning the Rails

03:30:43 - Data analysis in WW1/2

03:33:40 - Most efficient machinery of WW2 battleships?

03:35:58 - Why did transom sterns not catch on much earlier in modern warship design?

03:39:13 - IJN cruisers forward turret layouts?

03:43:00 - What exactly goes into the selection of a gun caliber/bore?

03:47:40 - Damage control procedures in submarines in WW2?

03:52:20 - What do you call the fancy whistle that gets blown to call the men to attention?

03:56:10 - Damage to ships shot head-on

04:02:41 - Loading/unloading ships from the left-hand side?

04:06:21 - Operations stopped because of good weather?

04:10:00 - What is the most underrated part of the a ship that most people overlook?

04:12:59 - Emergency stop effect on ships gearing

04:18:50 - How do the very diverse class of V Boat Submarines of the US compare to other nations interwar submarines?

04:22:23 - When it was evident that France was going to fall in WWII why did the French just not send their naval assets to UK or US ports?

04:28:48 - Channel Admin and Website Update



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