Published On Aug 29, 2021
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:34 - With and without hindsight, how did the scales between battleships and carriers balance in mid december 1941?
00:06:39 - The decoration of sail ships?
00:11:17 - What if Seppings had been born earlier?
00:18:08 - Medical Capabilities of WWII navies
00:21:51 - How exactly would a navy go about selling used warships? How does this process differ between selling a ship for scraping, civilian conversion, or use by another navy?
00:25:56 - U-Boat co-ordination with Bismarck's break-out?
00:29:56 - Why the comparative lack of RN factionalism in WW1 and the Interwar years?
00:33:44 - Why would a warship be carrying the flag of an enemy nation onboard?
00:36:27 - How large could you build a capital ship be it a ship of the line or a battleship?
00:40:16 - Level bombing warships
00:43:28 - Admiral Lee, sniper
00:45:44 - Rich people buying ships for the navy?
00:49:48 - Railways and navies
00:52:37 - Godfroy and Gensoul switch places?
00:58:02 - Best Royal Navy Destroyer commanders of WWII?
01:00:42 - REAL naval actions of WWII you think would make good movies?
01:03:23 - Exclusive to sea-service side-arms?
01:05:55 - How do you rate the 'first' dreadnoughts?
01:12:43 - Interwar long-range gunnery ideas
01:19:34 - What was home life like for an ordinary competent seaman (and his family) during the age of sail?
01:25:31 - Casablanca class as ferries post-war?
01:28:44 - Did sail quality matter significantly and where there specific places that made the best sails for ships?
01:32:03 - Rotor-kite effectiveness?
01:35:41 - HMS Malaya at Jutland
01:43:57 - IJN kill over-claiming?
01:48:18 - When loading big guns with a power rammer, how did the operator know how far to push the shell and charges? What happened if he stopped short or pushed things too far?
01:49:53 - Reversing engines/rudders?
01:52:42 - Steel crush tube effectiveness?
01:55:46 - 500lb and 100lb bombs on naval aircraft?
02:00:41 - What did the IJN have to respond to the Doolittle raid?
02:02:54 - In the opening scene of film Master and Commander, the Surprise puts some boats in the water after beating to quarters but before the Acheron fires. Why is that?
02:04:19 - When stripping toxic-burning paint from ships during WWII, what was it replaced with, if anything?
02:06:03 - Maximum size wake?
02:08:45 - Survivability of conning towers?
02:13:24 - Landlocked navies?
02:15:49 - What were the worst mistakes in the British pre-WW1 building program, and what options do you think would have been better and why?
02:21:20 - Matress/hammock protection on IJN ships?
02:22:40 - How did the life/conditions for Royal Marines aboard ship differ from that of their sailor counterparts, especially during the age of sail?
02:24:05 - Helena accompanying Lee?
02:27:57 - What exactly was it about their design and construction that made the Yorktowns so tough?
02:30:38 - What do we know about how the US planned to use nuclear artillery shells on the Iowas?
02:32:24 - Size and capability of ships boats
02:37:22 - How challenging was gunnery on coastal defense ships in the pre-dreadnought period?
02:40:55 - Most unlucky ship name?
02:42:40 - Elco 'Thunderbolt' turrets
02:46:28 - Can you describe the various type of naval shells used by the Japanese and American Navy in 1944?
02:50:12 - Admiral Craddock and Coronel
02:54:06 - Supply Axis forces via the Black Sea - Mk 2
02:58:06 - Who is your favorite unsung figure in naval history and why?
02:59:11 - Propellor shafts and their positioning
03:01:41 - USS Canopus and sneaking around
03:07:59 - Could a Fleet Carier like a Yorktown class win against a Destroyer in a 1v1 without any planes?
03:10:03 - Eary history of shipboard radio?
03:14:00 - Helldivers at Midway?
03:16:39 - Early Two-Ocean Navy Act?
03:19:09 - Could the Pacific Campaign have been prosecuted more aggressively?
03:21:35 - The sinking of the White Ship
03:28:53 - Slipways and angles
03:33:03 - Practicality of large MLR's?
03:35:42 - Why no smoothbore dreadnought-era guns?
03:39:42 - Shaped charge torpedo warhead?
03:41:51 - Optimum placement for a starshell?
03:44:52 - French pre-dreadnoughts video thoughts?
03:46:16 - Alternative refits for the IJN?
03:51:09 - Did Nelson try to get himself killed?
03:54:28 - Why no Italian 16" guns?
03:57:02 - Oil for oil spraying?