The Drydock - Episode 133

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:38 - Anglo-German War in 1904? 00:06:02 - Just how often did blue-on-blue engagements actually happen come WWII? 00:08:33 - Did the Royal Navy learn enough from flying-off platforms and the various furniture re-arranging on HMS Furious etc to make it worth it, or would they have been better off making a flat-deck ship of whatever size and going from there? 00:13:37 - Why did Allied and Axis navies make little effort to capture enemy merchant shipping in the Mediterranean theater instead of just sinking it, considering how tight supplies were for both sides in the Malta and North Africa campaigns? 00:17:25 - Book lists? 00:19:33 - Flying-off platforms in combat? 00:23:03 - German ships in WW2 without much escort? 00:27:43 - What do you think the role of submarines might be in either world war assuming torpedoes had never been invented? And what do you think the navy as a whole might look like? 00:33:11 - How was Barham allowed to get repaired in the US after crete because the US was still neutral? 00:36:42 - Would the QEs and the Rs have been able to take the 15/45mark2 if it had been built? 00:39:28 - What on earth was it with the RN during WW2 that they insist on exposed Bridges, it's not like they needed to be outside, in fact surely communicating with other parts of the ship would be more difficult out in the wind and noise of battle? 00:42:52 - I once read that German guided anti-ship missiles could be thwarted by turning on electri

Published 2021-02-14 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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