The Drydock - Episode 386 (Part 1)

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:29 - If the US hadn't moved the Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, how might that have affected Japanese planning for the Pacific War? 00:03:35 - Pistol ammo expended during the Ancona operation? 00:05:25 - What happened to the Balearic Islands in WW2? 00:07:57 - Line crossing ceremonies? 00:11:56 - Can you tell us more about the naval support given to the Gallipoli landings and the following gridlock? 00:16:28 - Why were the heavy (3” and 5”) AA guns almost always in a twin turret? 00:20:58 - Were there ever cases of main guns loading and nothing happening when the “trigger” was pulled? 00:25:44 - Why did Nelson 'wear' his ship around to engage the Spanish at Cape St Vincent instead of just going straight in? 00:28:34 - Better stand-in's for Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate movie? 00:30:53 - Did the North Atlantic/North Sea help develop British seamanship? 00:37:37 - Outside of the Titanic, Bismarck, and Hood, do you know if there been any shipwreck surveys that changed the story of what happen or that surprised you the most? 00:41:01 - During the age of sail are there any notable naval battles during inclement weather aside from the defeat of the Spanish Armada? 00:42:41 - How many are actually involved in determining the target and getting the guns aimed at that target, in an Iowa class? 00:45:05 - During the Age of Sail, did the Royal Navy lose more ships to operational losses such as shipwreck, lack of maintenance, or simply disappearing while at sea, than to actual combat? 00:49:42 - Were the British gun emplacements on Gibraltar ever effective at controlling the Strait? 00:53:45 - How would other Navies handle the typhoons that the US Navy had to handle during WW2? 00:58:29 - Could the Germans have intercepted the Tizard Mission? 01:02:18 - Amongst US, UK, French, Italian, German, Japanese and Russian Light and Heavy Cruisers, what classes would have still been in Frontline service if WW2 in the Pacific and Europe had not broken out until December 31st 1948? 01:06:58 - Is HMS Defence in World of Warships based on anything realistic? 01:09:15 - Effects of a non-airpower attack on Pearl Harbor? 01:13:28 - Naval 'tripwire' forces? 01:16:58 - Could Spain have gotten a decent battleship in the early 1930's? 01:21:01 - Would Pearl Harbor style attacks against Germany & Japan by the U.K., France, and the U.S. have had a reasonable chance of preventing WW2? 01:27:55 - Given that the 17th century saw the widespread adoption of line of battle tactics, what were the major changes in shipbuilding/design that took place throughout this era? 01:32:16 - Has any fleet ever tried a Hannibal-style double envelopment? 01:35:46 - What is so wrong about inefficient ship designs? 01:41:37 - Dealing with the unreliability of eyewitness accounts? 01:57:30 - Could you please tell us about a moment so unbelievable from the Royal Navy that you didn’t believe it at first? 02:00:45 - The service career of HMS Coreopsis/RHNS Kriezis before she became a film star? 02:04:32 - Could we consider the Aircraft Carrier in WW2 a pseudo implementation of the Jeune-Ècole doctrine, considering the use of relatively cheap craft (Aircraft) to counter the big capital ships? 02:10:30 - How do you envision the proposed Highball attack on Tirpitz going if the attack by the Lancasters had failed? 02:13:54 - Missiles or carriers as a greater factor in battleships being superceded? 02:19:55 - 360 degree turrets in real life? 02:24:53 - When could a later destroyer beat an early 'light' cruiser? 02:28:58 - What are your thoughts on the Dreadnought Hoax ("Bunga Bunga!") and did anyone top Horace de Vere Cole & Virginia Woolf shenanigans with any navy? 02:33:31 - USS Somers incident of 1842? 02:44:48 - Did the Axis have inter-ship voice radio? 02:48:11 - Interwar interventions in Morocco? 02:51:13 - How would the Admiralty go about handing out Captaincies in the age of sail? 02:57:59 - Under what situations would an open bridge be used and who would be stationed there?