The Drydock - Episode 235

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Were the C-class AA cruisers worth it? 00:05:25 - Was HMS Hotspur's scrapping anything to do with Jackie Fisher? 00:07:42 - Richelieu secondary battery guns in WW2? 00:10:35 - Would the RN would have been better off building more Arethusa's (alongside the later Town and Crown-Colony classes) and scrapping the older C and D class vessels, rather than curtailing the Arethusa's and modernising the WW1 ships? 00:14:10 - I've read in AoS novels of hauling a spare sail around the outside of the hull to slow the inflow of water and give the carpenter more time - was this actually a real thing? 00:18:01 - Are there some examples or any theoretical use of "all backwards" main armaments scheme? 00:21:50 - Why were the British slow to adopt all or nothing armour scheme? Was it because it was unproven or was there more to it? 00:29:23 - Could you lose your foot to a rolling cannonball? 00:33:27 - Would a WW2 sub have had difficulties picking up a sailing vessel on hydrophones? 00:37:05 - Headroom in HMS Unicorn gun deck looks much more generous than on Victory, though reducing height lower down. Why was this and why reduce headroom as you go down? 00:41:38 - What factors contributed to Nisshin surviving the Battle of Tsushima? 00:44:19 - Was any consideration made to rearming the County's with triple 6 inch turrets given the RN was looking more for volume of fire? 00:48:27 - Hitler and the Flanders Flotilla? 00:50:47 - In what ways did Royal

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