The Drydock - Episode 339

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:37 - What degree of casualties to disease should have been expected to occur for the royal navy during operations in the Caribbean during the 18th century? 00:06:34 - Did the Allies in WWII know about the german Alberich "Anti-Sonar-Coating" and how effective was it? 00:12:00 - Did Germany and Italy have a coherent strategy for deploying their ocean going and coastal submarines during WW2 to make the best use of the attributes of each type? 00:16:32 - Was there any way in your opinion as an engineer to make the walter drive submarines safer? 00:20:10 - Considering the ineffectiveness of Japanese ASW efforts, did anyone besides Eugene Fluckey think about using submarines to land ground troops on Japanese-held territory? 00:23:13 - In the Walter-type U-Boats had actually been produced, would they have had Cold War successors? 00:26:00 - How did the Type XXI, Type XXIII, Walter boats etc. compare to the Japanese Type-201? 00:29:45 - Was there ever any thoughts in WW2 of giving submarines a vertically firing torpedo or floating mine? 00:32:39 - For those of us who are used to thinking of Hydrogen Peroxide as a benign disinfectant stored in plastic bottles could you elaborate on the challenges of using and storing it in the Walter Boats? 00:38:04 - Why didn’t the US ever consider using 15 inch (381MM) caliber guns on their battleships? 00:46:22 - Did large corporations of the Age of Sail like the British and Dutch East India Companies have th

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