00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:49 – Correction on shell weight for 5″/38 and 4.5″
00:01:48 – Reaction to the No.13 Battleships if built?
00:08:02 – You’ve often mentioned that converted carriers were far less efficient than purposefully designed carriers. Considering the Hiyos were purposefully designed to be converted, how efficient were they compared to other carriers?
00:12:12 – How large was the speed difference of a typical WW2 battleship with a full fuel load vs with almost empty tanks?
00:16:17 – Would it be safe to say that the Orlando class was trying to get too much, out of too little a hull?
00:20:36 – Fleet Problems and the use of enemy tactics?
00:25:21 – How badly does seawater affect the barrels of naval guns?
00:28:49 – Overhanging object on a battleship?
00:31:47 – Ripping the jacket off an officer?
00:35:24 – Any chance of finding the Panzer IV that lost a fight to an RN destroyer?
00:37:12 – Do you think the USN’s concern over using Ranger in the Pacific was justified?
00:40:51 – Why were so many documents regarding the US Navy’s Neutrality patrols in WWII destroyed?
00:44:23 – Source of the museum guns at Palma?
00:46:46 – During the Napoleonic wars, what did the French Navy think of the design of the captured British ships they had in service?
00:50:03 – The Montreux Convention?
00:55:04 – Late 19th century Washington Treaty equivilant?
Follow up on the question about seawater on gun barrels:
Would tampions ever be an issue in the case of a surprise attack? I'd imagine you'd avoid using the heavier ones (the ones you can't easily just shoot through) in peacetime, and the only example of a surprise attack on a navy that's fully on peacetime footing is, of course, Pearl Harbor – a massive air raid where the only guns that matter are the AA guns, which are probably easier to bring up to fighting capability than the main battery. Or would they always be such that you could just shoot through them fine if you're caught completely flat footed? If not, would there be a fast way to eject them, like say putting a small powder charge with the tampion itself being treated as the projectile. (Or is that a terrible terrible idea, I know dry firing is never a good idea, and I don't know if the tampion would be sufficient.)
I thought any conference in Montreaux would be an opportunity to speak to building codes and/or considering giving Funky Claude a medal for heroism after some idiot fired a flare gun into the ceiling of the casino during a Frank Zappa concert. I understand the fire in the sky was matched by smoke wafting across Lake Geneva. Oversight of the Dardanelles, eh?
Learned something new today.
Thanks Drach.
The Austrian army attempted to employ the Girardoni air rifle, but rejected it on the grounds of cost, material seal problems, and the need to produce as many regular weapons as possible for the war with France. But given that there is no flame in firing, and navies had desperately spent the better part of few thousand years trying to keep fires of any sort off of the ships, what did the Austrian Navy think of it? Given the smaller size of Navy vs the army in re-equipping, did it gain any more traction there?
26:50 So, naval tampons.
whats it like to be able to pontificate about old ships for over an hour and have nearly 15 thousand people watch your videos in less than 14 hours after publication. the internet is such a great place.
You were right. The metric system is wrong.
In Lucky Number 13's, did you just say (we) the Americans were in a slightly different boat? Drach, I see what you did there…
00:31:47 like in Muppet Treasure Island, Kermit to Long John?
trust me Drach the documents and the US navy they probably weren't destroyed on purpose, lost in a fire lost in a flood from a busted pipe misplaced or mislabeled are the most likely explanations!! to use the old TV show the odd couple, the US navy tends to be more Oscar the slob not Felix the tight ass organized neat freak! it wouldn't surprise me if someone going through an old warehouse would find a case of swords or long guns from the war of 1812 that were put in it and forgotten about!!!
USS Ranger Deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces against Japan,[1] she spent most of World War II in the Atlantic Ocean, where the German fleet, the Kriegsmarine, was a weaker opponent. Ranger saw combat in that theater and provided air support for Operation Torch. In October 1943, she fought in Operation Leader, air attacks on German shipping off Norway. She was sold for scrap in 1947.
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Question Drach some years ago you did a alternate history on what would potentially have happened if the US and the Brits were on opposite sides of WW2. Which video was that because I would like to watch it again and I can't find it.
Q and A. were do world war 2 subs. keep their deck gun ammo?
Request: could you look up Admiral Weems of the USN? Really quite a story. Thanks, Drach.
I remember reading an article in a warbuff mag about the minisubs some years ago featuring an aerial picture during the attack that showed what could be a minisub with the bow pointed at Batttleship Row. Since it is an aerial photo very early, (IIRC, Oklahoma was still upright) the film would have been Japanese. It could be a real pic or it could have been altered during the war.
Pearl Harbor mini subs have always fascinated me. For instance, what likely happened to the crews? Looking forward to that future discussion.
I would have let that go, but after the "redheaded stepchild" comment…
Let the flogging commence! 😂
Has anyone ever constructed a metal hulled ship from something other than iron and steel? Like for example a full copper hull, rather than just copper sheeted wooden hulls?
Could you do a video on the ghosts of the battleship north carolina?
Concerning US using Japanese tactics during fleet problems, tactical manuals are generally unclassified and therefore available to naval attaches. Open intelligence gathering is their mission so any professional articles written in the various journals, conversions observations etc. Generally, any change in tactics is discussed in open source magazines first and for quite awhile before the changes take place in action. Consider the decades long arguments about blitzkrieg style use of tanks. No one should have been surprised.