Notable Point · 2:27:19 Experience in local government supports a case for informed disagreement, evidence-led decisions, and judging solutions by fit rather than ideological ownership.
From Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises · 30 Dec 2021
Q&A · 2:29:53 A compact answer rules out the Fairey Swordfish because the submarine concept depended on much smaller purpose-designed aircraft.
From Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises · 30 Dec 2021
Q&A · 2:30:40 A brief classification answer separates the Kongō class's original battlecruiser identity from its later fast-battleship reconstruction.
From Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises · 30 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 2:33:54 Claims about politicians, foreign news, and supposed insiders are used to show why repetition and proximity do not automatically establish truth.
From Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises · 30 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 2:40:24 The closing lesson is to test familiar stories about the crises against their details, competing motives, and limits.
From Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises · 30 Dec 2021
Chapter · 1:26 A proposed Orion-style battleship uses triple mounts, with a 14-inch game model standing in for 13.5-inch guns.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 3:56 The King Jupiter design tests British triple turrets in a conventional arrangement as an alternative to the all-forward layout.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 4:48 The central counterfactual is a Queen Elizabeth class with triple 15-inch turrets and a much heavier broadside.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 6:26 A permission question reveals why a privately supplied naval photograph can start research without yet serving as publicly reproducible proof.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 8:06 A question about Nelson-style layouts leads to the Royal Navy's long interest in maximizing guns that could fire ahead.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 10:37 A detailed viewer comment compares British 13.5-inch shell weights with American 14-inch ammunition and considers the logistical effect on earlier ships.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 12:09 A reference to Vickers repeatedly offering triple turrets leads to the possibility that a working mounting was built to prove the design to customers.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 13:02 A hull-size question becomes an argument for placing machinery aft and the main battery and magazines forward.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 15:04 Historical beam figures and machinery output provide scale checks for the wider, faster triple-turret alternatives.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 17:42 A navy willing to adopt triple turrets might also accept semi-oil or oil firing to reach a worthwhile speed increase.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 20:40 A challenge to the value of 24 knots separates the strategic benefits of faster ships from what the Grand Fleet could exploit tactically in formation.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 22:07 Family notes suggesting that a triple-turret possibility appeared in a 1907 constructors course provide a research lead, with their meaning still unconfirmed.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 23:17 The alternative design tests how much speed is needed before a powerful dreadnought becomes a true fast battleship.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 26:46 A pre-war British commitment to triple mounts could influence later choices between triples and quadruples on capital ships.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 28:45 A 28-knot Queen Elizabeth with twelve 15-inch guns would outclass contemporary battle lines and intensify pressure for larger American and British capital ships.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 30:38 A 1907 American proposal for a 30,000-ton battleship with six triple turrets shows how far contemporary all-forward-firepower ideas could reach.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 31:17 A brief question asks whether a ship's bow wave could upset a torpedo's guidance, especially as torpedoes improved.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 31:50 A Japanese export-design possibility raises separate questions about the photographed gun's calibre and the much less certain written 1909 date.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 32:00 A Fuso-class example shows how the calibre-length convention makes a 14-inch gun substantially longer than a 12-inch weapon and complicates multi-turret hull arrangements.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 36:46 A question about 1909 places British triple-turret choices alongside Italian, Russian, Japanese, American, Austrian, and German battleship programs.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 39:47 Supplier records, material investigations, and possible speculative test mountings offer ways to trace undocumented British triple-turret work.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 40:17 Closely spaced barrels raise a practical question about muzzle blast, shell dispersion, and delayed firing circuits.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 43:37 Germany would likely respond to British triple mounts more slowly because shipbuilding capacity matters.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 44:42 A query about the conning-tower armour figure leads to the deliberate choice to spend little protection weight there.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 45:12 A former shipyard worker points to Barrow-in-Furness archives and the Walney Island gun range as places where the mystery turret may have left records.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 46:00 A concern that adopting the Vickers mounting would force the Royal Navy to accept the firm's 14-inch gun leads to a proposed 13.5-inch substitution.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 47:24 The larger barbette and mounting implied by an early triple turret may create room to replace three smaller guns with two larger weapons during modernization.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 48:08 The alternative all-forward battleships retain a turtleback scheme because all-or-nothing armour lies outside the period design options being tested.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Q&A · 48:47 A final design question weighs independently mounted guns against a smaller triple turret with heavier external armour and backup systems.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 50:00 Possible Vickers, Armstrong, Russian, and Japanese design records offer routes for testing the historical basis of early triple mounts.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 0:27 A photograph of what may be a 14-inch triple turret opens a cautious investigation into whether Britain explored the idea before the First World War.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 1:58 The proposed timing places triple turrets alongside the Orion and King George V classes, when 13.5-inch guns and ten-gun broadsides redefined British battleships.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 6:26 A game-aided design comparison tests 21-, 24-, and 27-knot battleships built around three triple 14-inch turrets.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 7:24 The game design draws on F3 and related concepts discussed in a naval constructors' course whose class graduated in 1907 and included Stanley Goodall.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 10:37 The thought experiment asks whether slower-to-build triple turrets could nevertheless equip more hulls and increase total squadron firepower.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 13:32 Range and fuel assumptions show why a faster triple-turret ship would demand careful choices about displacement, horsepower, boilers, and crew.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 16:00 The hypothetical ship combines three triple 14-inch turrets with period-appropriate fire control, secondary guns, torpedo tubes, and modest armour changes.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 17:29 Three triple turrets simplify a layout but make each hit more damaging, because one disabled mounting removes a third of the ship's main-battery firepower.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 19:29 Pre-treaty concepts behind the G3, M3, and Nelson layouts suggest how forward-firing main batteries might support a charge into a torpedo attack.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 22:03 The unverified photograph becomes a research plan spanning Vickers company records, a previous historian's papers, testing-ground material, and the National Archives.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Notable Point · 24:13 The design exercise compares three triples, four triples, and mixed triple-and-twin batteries instead of assuming that one broadside arrangement was inevitable.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 26:01 Established twin-turret practice, vulnerability concerns, and the logistics of changing gun calibre all make the historical choice more understandable.
From A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol) · 29 Dec 2021
Chapter · 0:36 The Abdiel class paired a destroyer-like hull with a very large mine load so it could lay a field and escape before the enemy could react.
From Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol) · 28 Dec 2021