The Drydock - Episode 283 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:28 - Hedgerow modified landing craft?

00:05:08 - Roughly how much of the budget of a navy went to personal, supplies, acquisition of new ships, refits of ships, etc?

00:10:43 - SS Stockholm ramming SS Andrea Doria

00:18:16 - To what extent did the Japanese Navy make use of the naval installations captured from the Allies in WW2?

00:20:47 - Alternative HMS Victorious refit?

00:26:43 - Why could VTE powered liners run at full speed for days?

00:32:11 - Was there any investigation or movement towards metal masts before the movement to iron ships in general?

00:37:04 - HMS Liverpools travels without a bow?

00:39:53 - Have you played Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter?

00:44:29 - Coral Sea and the destroyer pursuit that didn't happen?

00:50:13 - Seponov's "All big gun battleship"?

00:55:13 - H39/44 power estimates?

00:58:36 - Did the system fail or did Seymour fail the system?

01:03:35 - In your opinion in regard to the Age of Sail, what are the personal attributes and achievements that you use to judge a seaborne leader as 'Great'?

01:08:04 - What in your opinion is the most practical and most impractical headgear from any navy in the timeperiod the channel covers?

01:10:17 - What is the largest portion of a particular predreadnought preserved in a single location other than Mikasa?

01:11:01 - The failed Dodecanese campaign of September 1943?

01:14:40 - Unreliable high-pressue boilers?

01:18:07 - Age of sail methods for determining top speeds of vessels?

01:20:18 - Real life 'Nova Cannon'?

01:24:13 - How were land-bombardment/fire support missions accomplished?

01:29:05 - Were there any instances in WW1 or WW2 where an overestimation of the enemy strengths benefited the side that overestimated the opponent, and if so, what happened?

01:34:04 - If the USN had decided to omit the heavily armored conning towers on their fast battleships, where do you think the tonnage that was freed up would have been utilized?

01:36:47 - If you switched from iron bracing to marine grade steel bracing. Could you make a wooden ship larger?

01:39:47 - What exactly is Fisher's Baltic Plan?

01:47:04 - Why were steel warships armored only against guns of their own caliber?

01:51:54 - Did any Pearl Harbor survivors manage to be in Tokyo Bay at the end?

01:52:28 - SS United States and 'Iowa type' engines?

01:57:29 - Alternate KGV layout?

02:01:25 - What did the US learn in terms of ship design and technology in WW2?

02:06:18 - Shore leave shenanigans?

02:09:12 - Has their ever actually been a case or strong suspicion of a nation attempting to sabotage or destroy a ship of another nation while they are at peace?

02:11:36 - Do we know what the G3/N3 naming convention was going to be? If not, what would your best guess be?

02:18:16 - The Galatee letters

02:21:51 - Where does freeboard end and superstructure begin?

02:25:21 - How effective were the Kriegsmarine bombardments supporting the Army on the Eastern Front?

02:27:53 - British ships poor fuel mixture in WW2?

02:33:48 - Indian crews on Royal Navy ships in the Opium Wars?

02:42:44 - Post-war effects of a successful Torpedo Bomber strike on the HSF?

02:47:50 - No Allied intervention in Greece?

02:57:44 - Minor update re:livestreams