Description
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:50 - Prior to the Farragut class, the US Navy had some ideas of a destroyer leader designs. What was their ideal warship for that role?
00:03:50 - Why no stacked torpedo launchers?
00:07:45 - Why do many French interwar destroyers have 3-4 funnels?
00:09:44 - Large smokescreens for destroyers?
00:12:19 - How much impact did the Fubukis have on the designs of other nations’ destroyers?
00:14:23 - Why did the British choose to develop an 18-inch 40-caliber gun when pretty much every main gun in the dreadnought era had been at least 45 calibers long?
00:16:58 - Co-ordination between US and British ships in the early anti-slavery patrols?
00:19:55 - What happened to the pro-slavery Dutch judge in the early 1820's?
00:21:22 - Who paid the prizes for a British ship taking a foreign slave ship?
00:24:28 - What would be the smallest design change that would have the biggest consequences in getting the US to build an actual Battlecruiser during the period?
00:27:42 - What do you think a 35k ton treaty compliant Battlecruiser would look like?
00:29:16 - Japan’s lack of fire control radar is well-established, but why is the idea Japan lacked fire control systems period so prevalent even amongst certain historians?
00:33:13 - Cost effectiveness of the various navies in the WW1 naval arms race?
00:36:57 - Could coal powered ships use wood/sawdust as a cheaper fuel?
00:39:58 - Where any tactics developed specifically to deal with all-foward gun ships?
00:43:27 - Building a super-detailed model?
00:46:59 - Inertia vs Kinetic Energy for naval shells?
00:51:31 - Was the Channel Dash a mistake?
00:58:59 - Could the treaty limits have been any higher and not rendered all but perhaps the QE’s, Nagatos, Colorados, and the battlecruisers obsolete?
01:03:53 - Seaplane Raider?
01:06:32 - What is the general process of learning to helm a ship?
01:09:32 - Armour on the 'Splendid Cats'?