The Drydock - Episode 229

Описание: 00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:46 - As the Saipans were originally made as escort carriers, would they have worked well as a pure fighter carrier, and would they have survived kamikazes if hit with their armor?

00:05:06 - "Military Communications" ships?

00:10:25 - Do you think that the Romans or Greeks or Carthaginians had the technological capabilities or could have developed the technology within a few hundred years to build a ship with the size and sea going capability of late 18th century ships of the line ala HMS Victory (obviously minus cannons) before the beginning of the first millennium AD?

00:13:34 - Do you think the biggest ships in Zheng He's treasure fleet ever really existed the way their size is described, given not even in the 1800s wooden, metal-reinforced ships of smaller size had trouble not breaking on the open ocean?

00:18:01 - Are shells interchangeable for example cold Rodney and Iowa fire each other’s main battery shells?

00:22:50 - HMS Tiger at Chatham?

00:23:47 - Lexington and Hood differences?

00:28:23 - With the K-class, did no one, at any point, stop to question whether designing a sub whose crush depth was less than the length of the sub itself might have been a poor design choice?

00:33:50 - Would wood from the West Australian Jarrah tree have made good timbers for wooden warships?

00:37:06 - Tabletop games, how do you personally rate different games and systems?

00:41:13 - Which Dystopian Wars model is HMS Warspite?

00:41:58 - Do you know of cases where an emergency program either permitted a capital warship to escape opposing forces under fire or else be completed to defend itself against an impending attack?

00:45:28 - How much additional power was gained by adding oil to coal ?

00:49:30 - Were folding masts on central battery or turret ironclads ever considered to act backup power without encumbering the firing arcs?

00:53:30 - How long did it take the British Battlecruisers to raise steam at the Battle of the Falkland Islands?

00:57:47 - How long would it take on average for the navies of the commonwealth, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Poland, Germany and Japan to mobilize for war in say early July of 1939?

01:00:51 - If the size limitations imposed on the US Navy through WW II (width to fit in Panama Canal locks, height to pass under Brooklyn Bridge) had not existed, how would that have changed the design of fast battleships and carriers?