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The Drydock - Episode 426

Drachinifel Podcast 11 days ago

Description

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:38 - Why did the IJN build so few light cruisers?

00:03:50 - Washington Treaty without 'heavy' cruisers?

00:10:52 - How did Trinidad get hit by her own torpedo?

00:12:57 - What was the next generation of British capital ship design likely to be if WW1 hadn't started?

00:19:37 - 5.25" Fiji class?

00:22:27 - What was lloyds relationship to slavery and the slave trade?

00:28:08 - What was the impact of the great fire of London on the British navy?

00:33:19 - When did Lloyd's refuse to insure ships?

00:37:27 - When did the Lloyd’s register come into being?

00:39:43 - What % rate of fire increase would be needed to legitimize Germany's low caliber sliding breech block guns?

00:42:36 - If RAF Coastal Command had been turned over to the RN in 1937 together with the Fleet Air Arm, what kind of a difference do you think it would have made during the war?

00:51:23 - What in your opinion is the best technical improvement in a Naval or Maritime sense that was inspired by or conceptualized from fields of study that had absolutely nothing to do with Maritime activities?

00:55:51 - During the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, HMS Agamemnon and USS Niagara were chartered to lay cables for the Atlantic Telegraph Company. What was the process of chartering a naval warship in this period, and was this a semi-regular occurrence?

01:01:06 - How do you think the Imperial German invasion of America would have gone?