The Drydock - Episode 272

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Have there ever been efforts by navies to salvage fuel from enemy vessels that were sunk or otherwise significantly damaged as opposed to captured? 00:04:02 - How many ships of the same name were lost during WW1 or WW2? 00:05:58 - Given that Germany's Naval plans in the 1930's weren't exactly looking to downsize anything, why didn't the Germans expand the Kiel canal? 00:09:59 - Why didn’t the Allies or Japanese use Auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific? 00:14:25 - How would you rate USS New York (ACR-2)'s design based on the technology and industry available to the USN at the time? 00:26:16 - Why do battleships tend to have such a (proportionally) low freeboard? 00:30:48 - Were the Yamatos a mistake or was the Kantai Kessen the thing to blame the ineffectiveness of japanese battleships? 00:41:14 - Were there any instances of a naval force generating excess smoke to lure any enemy force into a trap or out of position? 00:45:12 - Standardized classes of armed and unarmed trawlers: what was the reasoning behind them, and did they start from peacetime requirements or wartime emergencies? 00:50:38 - Was project/operation Hula really necessary for the war effort, even if the Manhattan Project never worked out? 00:54:15 - What ignites the charge of a battleships gun? 00:59:46 - The Cornish (among other coastal communities) were renowned for their use of false beacons and the like to lure merchant ships to their fate. Were there ever occasions w

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