The Drydock - Episode 272

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Have there ever been efforts by navies to salvage fuel from enemy vessels that were sunk or otherwise significantly damaged as opposed to captured? 00:04:02 - How many ships of the same name were lost during WW1 or WW2? 00:05:58 - Given that Germany's Naval plans in the 1930's weren't exactly looking to downsize anything, why didn't the Germans expand the Kiel canal? 00:09:59 - Why didn’t the Allies or Japanese use Auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific? 00:14:25 - How would you rate USS New York (ACR-2)'s design based on the technology and industry available to the USN at the time? 00:26:16 - Why do battleships tend to have such a (proportionally) low freeboard? 00:30:48 - Were the Yamatos a mistake or was the Kantai Kessen the thing to blame the ineffectiveness of japanese battleships? 00:41:14 - Were there any instances of a naval force generating excess smoke to lure any enemy force into a trap or out of position? 00:45:12 - Standardized classes of armed and unarmed trawlers: what was the reasoning behind them, and did they start from peacetime requirements or wartime emergencies? 00:50:38 - Was project/operation Hula really necessary for the war effort, even if the Manhattan Project never worked out? 00:54:15 - What ignites the charge of a battleships gun? 00:59:46 - The Cornish (among other coastal communities) were renowned for their use of false beacons and the like to lure merchant ships to their fate. Were there ever occasions when beacons (or the like) changed the coarse of a naval battle? 01:04:26 - What are some good book recommendations for a young child to read if they are interested in naval history?