00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:34 - Why did pre-dreadnoughts and early dreadnoughts have such poor anti-torpedo protection? Torpedoes and mines were not a new thing around 1900.

00:04:04 - Why didn't the Royal Navy build any more heavy cruisers after York class?

00:07:11 - What is your opinion of the Italian Francesco Caracciolo class super-dreadnoughts? Was there any possibility of getting the lead ship completed?

00:14:45 - Had the Bofors and Oerlikon not existed, what in your opinion would have made up the AA defences on allied ships late war ... and how effective would these alternate systems have been against the gold standard of Bofors/Oerlikon?

00:20:58 - What if the Dunkerques were seized in port?

00:26:11 - Which is the more efficient gun layout: three triples in traditional fore and aft, or two triples with two twins superfiring?

00:29:35 - What weapon were navies worried about that didn’t exist or wasn’t as effective as they thought it was?

00:33:45 - Why do you think the U.S Congress for the most part of U.S Navy history never gave them the funding they needed and how did it effect U.S Naval Doctine ?

00:39:56 - Admiral Fisher vs Admiral King

00:41:31 - Machinery on battlecruisers

00:44:04 - What was the normal process for shipyards designing ships? How many iterations of a plan did they go through and how often did they outsource the work?

00:48:40 - How secret were Yamato's guns?

00:50:42 - How does World War II go if the Japanese attack the Philippines but not Pearl Harbor in December 1941?

00:54:32 - Frigate and Ship of the Line Command

00:57:35 - Meaning of galley?

00:59:53 - Iowa's top speed and it's uses?


01:03:29 - Channel Admin / USA Trip / 250k subs competition


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