The Drydock - Episode 313

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:42 - Could the RN have built two G3-based carriers like Lexington or Amagi? 00:07:41 - Had USS New Orleans and USS Chipawa been completed, would this have possibly resulted in an early attempt at building a proto-Weland canal to give the two first rates access to the sea? 00:12:12 - Did the 'nothing' in the all-or-nothing armour scheme ever come back to haunt a ship? 00:17:42 - Was HMS Hood an inefficient design? 00:23:31 - Trying to deploy submarines against carriers generally ended in failure due to the speed difference, as the Japanese found out the hard way with their flawed submarine doctrine. So what went into pre-positioning American submarines in the paths of much faster Japanese capital ship forces? 00:27:56 - Is there any record of a hedgehog being fired at a surfaced submarine, and would this have been effective? 00:30:30 - In a recent video Ryan (from USS New Jersey) listed museum ships that had recently been drydocked and I noticed that none of them were subs. Can you discuss the differences between drydocking a surface ship versus a submarine and what that might mean for museum subs? 00:35:47 - How did the Germans stay current with submarine technology but fall behind in surface ship technology in the interwar period? 00:39:01 - Why transport bricks from the Netherlands to Batavia? Was there an international trade of stolen maps and charts? 00:45:08 - South African Navy in WW1 and WW2? 00:48:08 - In the period covered by th

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