The Drydock - Episode 275

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:57 - Why did so many battleship armour belts end up below the water?

00:07:13 - How would the process of rearmouring the ship to a new type of plating take place?

00:11:48 - In your opinion Drach, what would need to be changed, either on the Japanese side, or the Russian side, for the Russians to win the Russo-Japanese War?

00:17:36 - German project 50 steam powered submarines?

00:25:30 - How effective and useful were searchlights in WW1, WW2? How often were they used?

00:29:59 - What makes a warship qualify as a dreadnought?

00:36:16 - Should Force Z have gone elsewhere?

00:42:48 - Are you aware of any plans to use the excellent fw190 on the graf zeppelin?

00:46:25 - When did sink exercises first take place, and how scientific were the first exercises?

00:49:04 - How would a 1st rate built with modern day materials fair in the ironclad era ?

00:51:55 - Could Wallises bouncing bombs be theoretically used against the St. Nazaire dock gates?

00:54:54 - We know that had Japan not surrendered after the Atomic bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki that America would of launched an invasion of Japan but what were British naval plans?

00:59:36 - Could you explain the engineering processes used to raise, preserve and display the Mary Rose.