The Drydock - Episode 396

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:43 - Why did the Admiralty divert from the River/Thames class into small subs? 00:04:08 - Did German WW2 submarines have the same inefficiency problems as the German surface fleet? 00:12:30 - Did the Royal Navy consider building a class of large destroyers in the late 1920s or early 1930s as a response to Italy’s Navigatori destroyers? 00:16:00 - British submarine shenanigans? 00:18:07 - What, in your opinion, prevented Clippers, or earlier forms of clipper-like fast merchant ships from emerging earlier, like the beginning of 18th century? 00:22:34 - Is construction space or machinery the bigger bottleneck in ship construction? 00:25:50 - What were early colliers? 00:29:45 - Would bronze cannon not be considerably cheaper if not for all the ornamentation on them? 00:34:30 - Classes vs one-offs? 00:40:45 - Are you selling signed copies of your book to America? 00:42:08 - Were Lemnos and Kilkis suitable candidates for any substantial overhaul in the 1930's, and how might they compare to the German pre-dreadnoughts? Would they have been useful units come ww2? 00:47:29 - During the South American Dreadnought Race, was there a difference in the quality and training of the crews? How about doctrine? 00:50:41 - Most are familiar with the Battle Turn Starboard the High Seas Fleet executed at Jutland. Was there also a Battle Turn Port? If not, why did they pick Starboard and not Port? 00:53:15 - What did the Japanese know about the Iowa class? 00:55:01 - When and why did submarines move to one center propeller at the end of the pressure hull and who was the first to do that? 01:00:13 - Early US battlecruiser?