The Drydock Episode 330 (Part 2)

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:29 - A brief overview of the developments of galley equipment from the first electrified galleys though to the end of WWII/Start of the cold war? 00:06:16 - US fast battleship magazine/secondary seperation from machinery rooms? 00:13:44 - Ships maximum speed in combat? 00:17:45 - How is it that even Nelson was not above reproach for alleged marital misgivings while Beatty seems impervious to the miasma of a marriage that only a tabloid writer could love? 00:25:32 - Could WW2 ships see incoming fire on radar? 00:29:42 - How ready for war was the RN in the interwar period? 00:38:13 - How did ships like Ranger deal with lower power output when conducting flight operations? 00:42:24 - How do naval architects compute the weight/height (metacentric height?) of a ship during the design process and why do they sometimes get stability calculations (USS Midway, Treaty Destroyers, etc.) so embarrassingly wrong? 00:51:03 - Nelson class 'C' barbette alignment? 00:55:38 - Why did Brazil want monitors in the 1910's? 00:57:18 - Why didn't I-26 fire on USS Saratoga at close range? 01:00:25 - Why did the two 8inch armed Thai coastal defense ships (HTMS Thonburi and Sri Ayudhya) perform so badly against the old French Lamotte Picquet? 01:03:02 - How did navies decide how many admirals to have and when to promote officers to new admirals? 01:10:08 - Did the Royal Navy blockade Vichy shipping in the Mediterranean? 01:14:21 - British thoughts on the 'battle c

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