The Drydock - Episode 347 (Part 2)

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:33 - How were Tribal class captains selected? 00:06:01 - Were any ships blown up in battle due to coal bunker fires? 00:10:21 - Could the USA have demanded more from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War? 00:15:51 - At what point, if any, during WW2 did the Japanese begin to regard the Allies as something other than cowardly and soft? 00:19:48 - The misadventures of interwar Thornycroft export destroyer designs? 00:24:18 - If the Kriegsmarine had the political power to do it's pre war navy and have more U-boats and tech could they have achieved their objectives with the U-boats for the war up to and in 1944? Or was the strategic goals too optimistic? 00:27:17 - Were Casemate guns on dreadnoughts ever effective in battle actions against enemy combatants in WW2? 00:29:45 - Beer on USN ships in WW2? 00:34:33 - In a recent Drydock, you mentioned that you were fascinated by certain aspects of the sinking of HMS Victoria. Would you be willing to share a few of the most fascinating bits? 00:37:07 - Can you give a rough breakdown of the various costs of building a warship during the 1930s? 00:40:21 - How were small arms/bladed weapons issued to RN or other naval sailors during the age of sail? 00:43:14 - Great Eastern as a hot-air balloon carrier? 00:48:15 - Please tell us more about the 3 survivors from HMS Hood? 00:53:50 - Exactly how obsolete were the ships that Lord Fisher scrapped when he became 1st Sea Lord? 00:56:33 - Why is the 2

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