The Drydock - Episode 414

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:45 - Flimsiest ship? 00:02:53 - Ibuki-style armoured cruisers for the High Seas Fleet? 00:06:16 - Fixing the 'hats' on US pred-dreadnoughts? 00:09:03 - When and why did navies stop building or ordering ships with fabulous bow & stern ornamentation? 00:11:26 - Actual length of the armoured cruiser Warspite? 00:13:11 - How much did steam engines and especially funnels affect the placement of masts and the overall efficiency of sailing rigs? 00:15:42 - How do they prevent corrosion on deck guns on submarines? 00:17:36 - Was there enough USN sub activity in the Atlantic during WW2 to talk about? 00:19:48 - Why was the crush depth of USS Salmon so much deeper then what was calculated by the builders of the sub? 00:24:00 - How effective was the US Navy's Mousetrap anti-submarine multi rocket launcher compared to the Hedgehog multi spigot mortar? 00:26:40 - Are there any particular examples during the period this channel covers of a ship name (like Enterprise) that has multiple highly successful members under it? 00:27:48 - Terrible naval plans? 00:29:27 - If you shrunk an actual battleship down to 144th scale (gun caliber, projectile mass, propellent volume, armor thickness, etc.) what kind of things would change dramatically because of the square cubed law? 00:31:26 - What are the differences between the Spanish Canarias class and their basis the County class, including their sub classes? 00:32:59 - Who stayed aboard a radio-controlled target ship when it was under attack? 00:34:46 - What class had the greatest increase in it's actual speed limit vs it's design speed limit? 00:37:41 - Based on how "violently British" your name is: if you're given a choice of a hot beverage and accompanying snack, what would it be? 00:38:32 - Converting the Tennessee class cruisers into heavy cruisers? 00:44:50 - If the Americans had taken 1944’s Admiral Spruance’s wish to heart and struck straight for Iwo and Okinawa ASAP in late 44 (October-ish) instead of the Philippines, in your opinion how do you think the Japanese and its navy in particular would have reacted? 00:49:20 - How much more powerful was the 5"/54 compared to the 5"/38, and how much of a difference would it have made if introduced on the Iowa's and Essex carriers? 00:54:45 - Were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau subject to the Versailles Treaty 11 inch gun restrictions when designed? 00:56:38 - First-of-type ships in the US Navy? 01:00:18 - Have you heard Jeff Wayne's Musical War of the Worlds? What do you think of the Thunder Child battle.