The Drydock - Episode 276

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:42 - Ships that sank easily when they really shouldn't have?

00:05:48 - Was Force Z the RN's worst defeat in WW2?

00:11:38 - Why didn't the various navies in the World Wars hire privateers to help raid enemy commerce?

00:16:42 - Differences between both design and their mission profiles of corvettes, frigates, sloops and destroyers.

00:21:05 - Why didn't destroyers have torpedo launchers built into the hull akin to submarines' tubes?

00:26:30 - Did ships in WWI/WWII time frame have generators to produce electricity independent of the boilers?

00:30:25 - Is USS Wisconisn riding higher in the water than her sister ships?

00:35:40 - How long would the CSN ironclads have lasted if the CSA had managed to break away successfully?

00:39:39 - When steam-powered ships received coal in a foreign harbor, for example the 2nd Pacific Squadron in Spain, how did they pay for that coal?

00:43:34 - How effective were blockade runners for the Axis and Central powers?

00:50:47 - We know that just about all the signatories violated or bent the treaties in some way. In your opinion who was the most blatently obvious and who was the most subtle about it?

00:55:10 - Has any historian written about Adm Mitscher's part for taking the IJN's carrier bait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf? Should he share blame for leaving the landing force so undefended like Adm Halsey?

00:56:47 - How did the Japanese and Germans approach resupply at sea, especially underway replenishment?

01:00:05 - If the Washington Naval Treaty was never signed would casemate guns still remain a feature on warships with smaller quicker firing guns being used for AA defense?

01:03:35 - Was there any special formulae for warship hulls/strengths to combat heavy weather situations over and above what cargo ships might use?