00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:03 – I know that RMS Queen Mary and RMS Lusitania were both hit by massive rogue waves that destroyed Lusitania’s bridge and made Queen Mary list very badly so how much damage could one do to a warship from the same period?
00:04:51 – What would happen if those ships interned in Scapa Flow decided to return to Germany using force and was that a real threat?
00:06:06 – MN Commandant Teste?
00:11:12 – If the Chinese actually have working ammunition at the Battle of the Yalu River. How does this affect IJN doctrine going forward?
00:14:37 – Do vessels of this age through the period the channel covers use gearing? i.e. have a transmission. Why or why not?
00:19:21 – I’ve seen the photos of the model of Duke of Kent (the unbuilt “largest man of war ever”) and the photos of HMS Howe (1860) the largest man of war actually ever built (though never getting to sail as such unlike her sister HMS Victoria) and Duke of Kent comes off as being nowhere near as long as Howe, is this perception correct?
00:21:52 – Which Pearl Harbor survivor should have been saved?
00:26:32 – What if the Scharnhorst’s tried to fight HMS Rodney?
00:32:37 – Do you plan to do a video on the actions of the Royal Navy on the Delaware during the American War for Independence?
00:34:30 – Falklands War what-ifs?
00:40:55 – Why didn’t Britain buy or lend lease one of the Iowa’s?
00:46:36 – What were the construction differences during age of sail in warships vs merchant ships, other than the obvious things like more gun-ports or cargo holds?
00:50:51 – How did the process of internment work? What would have happened if the Admiral Graf Spee had not left Montevideo?
00:54:04 – Other than convoy escort, what did the US Navy do in World War I?
wrt the question about a lend lease Iowa, When I was reading "Fifty Ships That Saved The World" a while back, the thought crossed my mind, what if the US offered New York, Texas, and Arkansas, in addition to the destroyers? Those three battleships were operating together in the Atlantic in early 40. The book I read mentioned that one of the groups of destroyers was en route to the UK when they picked up radio traffic from Jervis Bay, when it was being attacked by Scheer. The destroyers, which the USN had handed over with full magazines and torpedo tubes, rushed to Jervis Bay's location, but arrived too late. What if the US had handed over those three obsolete battleships, and one had been traveling with Jervis Bay? Scheer's recon plane had reported the convoy was unescorted. If the plane had reported a battleship escorting the convoy, regardless how old, Scheer may not have attacked at all.
Should the Armoured cruisers be separated into different categories much like Dr Clarke advocated for Battleships?
There are "sovereign" style mixed battery armoured cruisers and then the Invincible class which were designed as Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers.
The picture of the scuttled Graff Spee at 53:03 seems to have the aft triple turret very close to the stern of the vessel.
Is it just a foreshortening or did the turret get displaced or did the stern break away and slide forward under the rest of the ship?
Or is that the lower part of the barbette and it is not a propeller at the bottom left of it.
Drach i love you, but what would bourgeoisie lies have to do with the Qing dynasty?
I wish those clutch war posts were readily available.
Apropos of nothing, has anyone here noticed that Imperial March bears striking similarities to Heart of Oak?
hey Drach what's your opinion on the current theory on methane eruptions and ships sinking without a trace?
The gearing on Belfast is beautiful in its complexity and apparent tight tolerances. As someone involved in complex parts manufacturing, I can respect.
Yo a year by year American revolutionary war naval series sounds dope
Commandant Teste? A very short-tempered officer, I believe.
Excellent.
Thanks Drach.
Could someone please photoshop Nevada as a current museum ship alongside Ford Island… *painted orange*…
The West Virginia should have been saved on the grounds that the reconstruction made her absolutely bloody beautiful.
Would be good if you as an engineer addressed the stability problem here that even l had to learn as a exec branch midshipman 40 odd years ago. That is; the centre of gravity, the centre of buoyancy and the resulting metacentre jobbies.
And for interest my granddad was in the battleship Emperor of lndia at Scapa Flow to escort the High Seas Fleet at the surrender in 1918. He was a diver as well as an Ordinance Artificer and later did a fair bit of work to raise various German ships after they were scuttled by their crews at Scapa.
Loves your show anyways.
Cheers Australian/Kiwi cuz
Soo… Does the fact that some ships did have clutches imply that some engineer successfully mastered powershifting for extra acceleration?
Could you please include in the description the armoured cruisers question, with timestamp?
Bahhahahaha! Someone … or better yet a group of “someone’s” actually said “you know nothing about shipping”? Sir, you are a living testament to shipping knowledge! You handled the situation in a true gentlemanly fashion in proving them all wrong, as well.
If I remember correctly, having a few inches of water on a large surface (see Herald of free enterprise disaster), like in a hangar could cause a ship to capsize
The Clutch discussion was silly. It implies that there is a friction clutch like from a car's manual transmission in the ship's engine room. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. More likely there is a dog clutch in the engine room that prolly lacks synchros. The reason they put signs up is to avoid the harsh dog clutch grinding noise due to the clashing of the dog clutch by trying to shift with too much rpm delta. In no way can this damage the drive GEARS.
Re Falklands – the Junta accurately surmised that it would be impossible to retake the islands once they had been seized. But they hadn’t factored in Harry Leach! Let us all raise a tot to the great man ⚓️🥃
@Drachinifel, question on Tiger refit: dropping X turret would allow the citadel to be shortened, but wouldn't that also be a big reduction in reserve buoyancy as well? (Reserve buoyancy that can't be lost unless the main armour is penetrated.)
And as a fan of HMS Tiger I am mildly offended by your description of the 15" refit as a "poor man's Renown". She would be a couple of knots slower due to a lower length to beam ratio (although new engines could bring her up to 30?) but otherwise she's got the same big guns and the armour, and with her heavier displacement more space for adding on all the AA guns and radar that WW2 ships acquired. Renown was the marathon runner of the RN in WW2, being sent everywhere to do everything, so while yes it would have been very expensive to refit Tiger, with hindsight I think it would have been worth it.
The only success that Argentina had against ships was with Exocet missiles. Destroyers and a cargo ship. Exactly what effect an Exocet would have had against a ship with actual armour is a question I cannot answer, but lacking any kind of amour-piercing warhead there is a fair chance the answer is 'not a lot if it hits the armour'.
@Drachinifel, I was watching the video on HMS Renown and was struck by the placement of flying off platform atop the turrets. Would those platforms be reinforced to withstand the blast pressure of the main battery? Or were they just written off and made of cheap materials so I wouldn’t matter if they got blown away in the first few salvos?
A question that has been raised elsewhere, if the Japanese had had more cruisers and battleships with the carriers at midway would they have been more helpful or a hindrance to the carriers?
I'm sorry it was Chang Lee who got screwed over by the Burial of Ordinance more then 3 times. Please explain them. and or a whole video of their stonewalling career of people and or why they are historically such "Badies" I had ask about this earlier thought it was Nimitz. maybe it was too. but Chang has had a tuff time. Fat electrican on YouTube has brought this back up. reacent video he's made. "Stand aside, I coming through…" Lee
Why did battleships have problems losing power after firing salvos? Didn't they test this before war? Lee's BB Washington vs Japan
Hear me out HMS Warspite formally know as USS Iowa
When talking about the UK buying an Iowa. What if the UK bought one of the unfinished hulls (Kentucky or Illinois).