The Drydock - Episode 408 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:25 - What did the Soviet Pacific Fleet do during World War Two? 00:03:15 - Shooting through a ship of the lines deck? 00:06:58 - In all your years of research, what are some of your “hang on, they did WHAT?” moments? 00:11:55 - Development of shipbuilding knowledge in the Age of Sail? 00:17:51 - Would the US have been less aggressive in the Pacific War without the destruction of USS Arizona? 00:20:23 - How did the RN pick officers for the China Station? 00:24:04 - Harpooning a ship to board it? 00:29:41 - Sinking submarines on the surface with larger warships? 00:32:55 - HMS Furious refitted instead of HMS Victorious? 00:37:02 - Centreline vs wing-mounted secondaries? 00:43:35 - Tennessee class armoured cruisers as light cruisers? 00:47:54 - Was there any reservation in naming a class of cruisers after Hawkins? 00:55:09 - When did large battle ensigns go out of favour? 01:01:34 - What was the public mood on the home front in the UK around naval spending during WW1? 01:06:27 - Sinking of SS La Bourgogne 01:09:45 - What chance would the German seaborne invasion of Britain have actually had during WW2? 01:16:27 - What do you think the impact would have been if production of the Admiral-class battlecruisers had not been cancelled? Assuming their design is more or less identical to Hood. 01:22:11 - Which yet undiscovered or unresearched shipwreck would you like to know more about? 01:23:43 - Why was broadside weight considered so important even in the Dreadnought era? 01:29:02 - Did the various Treasuries push back against naval spending in the 19th century due to rapid technical advancements? 01:34:35 - Torpedoes frozen in place? 01:39:00 - Were VT fused shells used against surface and/or shore targets, or did ships carry "dumb" ammunition for the 5"/38 in addition to the VTs? 01:41:14 - How did the Adbiel's go so fast? 01:47:52 - Seizing the Ottoman battleships? 01:53:47 - Lend/Lease and PBY flights around the time of Bismarck's voyage? 01:58:10 - Arming a fleet with the Washington Treaties leftovers? 02:02:27 - Terrible weapons of WW1? 02:05:17 - How does a ship sail upwind? 02:10:53 - What would have happened if Nelson caught Napoleon's troop convoy in the Med? 02:15:46 - Modernising small-tube QE's? 02:19:49 - Difference in salvaging a submarine vs a surface warship? 02:23:04 - Weight savings of twin and quadruple turrets vs twins? 02:29:08 - Box chute on the side of ships? 02:32:33 - Is better protection better than poor AA guns? 02:36:06 - Anti-torpedo crushing tubes? 02:40:28 - Are there any aviators who became notable surface warship commanders? 02:42:16 - Naval career of Jimmy Carter? 02:44:02 - After Dec 7th 1941 did US Navy carrier dive bombers ever attempt to use smoke pots to aid torpedo planes in active combat? 02:47:00 - Are there any ships built during the era the channel covers that served so little purpose as to have likely been better not having been built? 02:50:28 - Was the Jeune Ecole ever revived? 02:57:15 - The Washington Naval treaty forbid signatory nations from selling old warships to third party powers. If this provision hadn't been introduced, do you forsee a scramble to buy up these old dreadnoughts and cruisers? If so, who might be interested? 03:02:13 - Did anyone downplay the performance of their naval equipment? 03:06:41 - Could you compare unhappy calibers to similarly sized happy calibers and go over what makes each one or the other? 03:13:17 - How would France and Britain respond to a non-directly threatening HSF? 03:20:14 - Could you briefly provide some information about the Savioe (Vasilefs Konstantinos) battleship? 03:23:14 - How do you build an effective second class ship when you don't have the resources to build what everyone else is building? 03:28:04 - Earlier Dreadnought? 03:30:48 - Cutting out operations that went wrong? 03:34:41 - Ancient Grain ships?