The Drydock - Episode 337

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:38 - Why was the Japanese seaplane carrier nisshan armed with 6 140mm guns in turrets? 00:04:18 - Why and how did people camoflague ships? 00:10:28 - Was the 6" secondary battery a good or bad idea? 00:16:42 - Were USAAF efforts to mine the seas between Japan and the mainland successful in fully blockading Japan and bringing them to the peace negotiations? 00:21:21 - Why weren't triple turrets developed for HMS Hood? 00:26:33 - USS Essex and CAG-15? 00:32:30 - Cooling guns with hoses? 00:37:31 - Japanese submarine torpedoes and US destroy flotilla leaders? 00:48:56 - Kamikaze vs battleship? 00:53:43 - It's said that HMS Dreadnought made all the ships that came before her obsolete. That said, which pre-dreadnoughts gave the best performance in the dreadnought era? 00:55:32 - Assuming the Fleet Air Arm had remained under Royal Navy control rather than being put under the RAF during the interwar years, how much of a difference would it have made to the RN as it entered, then fought, WW2? 00:58:11 - What would 14 year old Drach think if you could tell him about naval history, travel and writing? 00:59:39 - Metallurgical responses to the failure of early armour in cold waters? 01:03:25 - Differing numbers of aircraft on deck on WW2 carriers? 01:07:32 - Between 1910 and 1922, which three to five ships, built or moderrnised, would you save from the breakers yard?

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