The Drydock - Episode 228 (Part 2)

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:28 - Humphrey's diagonal bracing vs Seppings

00:03:15 - How badly would the USN have done if it joined WW2 in 1939?

00:09:26 - Rating ships by their guns?

00:15:42 - Admiral Troubridge attacks?

00:26:06 - Pacific War in 1938?

00:32:20 - What kind of damage can you realistically expect to take from an over-penetration?

00:36:36 - Torpedo defence systems pro's and con's

00:46:04 - The Age of Sail Dardenelles operation

00:50:38 - What was the typical procedure for protection of newly completed capital ships departing from the east coast of the US during WW2?

00:54:40 - What would you recommend to improve the Konigsberg and Nurnberg Class cruisers while still stuck with the are displacement?

01:00:20 - Speaking purely from an engineering standpoint (hand waving canal passage, harbor passage, draft considerations, etc) how big can a ship be before it is impossible to move or sinks immediately?

01:05:03 - Why wasn't it Roosevelt's or Nimitz's fault that Halsey went chasing north rather than staying home and guarding San Berardino?

01:11:26 - In hindsight, would Japan have been better off building the Yamato's as Shinano's (or a similar ground up design) instead of the battleships they ended up as, or would they still have ended up as floating hotels?

01:16:05 - During the age of sail, what percentage of crew could be expected to have their ankles broken by loose rolling cannon balls and other heavy equipment during a battle, and what could be done to prevent injuries, yell “fore” when one got loose or wear shin braces?

01:19:59 - What could the US Navy have done to their interwar cruiser format of situating floatplane facilities amidships to avoid the kinds of devastating fire damage seen in the Battle of Savo Island?

01:24:31 - Given the pressure the treaty era put on guarding the Empire, did the Royal Navy look into using aircraft to "take up the slack"?

01:30:36 - What's your favorite examples of Royal Navy "Jack-Speak" and what are the names of the equivalent "secret" languages in other navies?

01:35:38 - What might have been the names of the unbuilt County class cruisers?

01:38:37 - Disabling an enemy with large calibre HE?

01:44:45 - Has anyone attempted to make a decoy capital ship to draw attention from aircraft?

01:47:39 - Seaplane tenders/carriers notable moments?

01:50:41 - Hypothetical WW1 battlecruisers?

01:52:55 - Retrofitting the QE's with triple turrets?

01:58:23 - Did Australia have any dry docks that could be used for the repair of US Crusiers and smaller vessels in 1942?

02:00:30 - Tripe 4" guns on the Renowns etc?

02:05:07 - WW2 IJN ASW doctrine/lack thereof?

02:10:33 - Many people criticize admiral Kurita for withdrawing at Samar, but what would he have been able to accomplish if he’d pressed on the attack?

02:17:33 - If the Royal Navy hadn't scrapped all its cruisers, would any of them (ie. the Towns, Counties, and Crown Colony's) have faired better from a stability perspective than the USN ships if converted to similar extents and why?

02:23:56 - Relative serving aboard Yorktown?

02:26:17 - Given the obvious danger of splinters, enemy snipers and cutlass-wielding boarders, why was body armor neglected by Napoleonic-Era naval Officers?

02:29:35 - I recently learned that USS Nevada took fire as a gunnery target for 5 days before being sunk by an aircraft launched torpedo. Was this because the Navy was studying the damage intermittently, or for some other reason?

02:32:46 - In a recent Drydock you discussed how effective a late-war USN carrier group could hit late-war USN defenses. What about the other side of the war? How effective would the poorly trained aviators of the IJN (circa Philippine Sea) fare if they had to strike a similar era IJN fleet?