Complete directory
Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
Two American fast battleships are expected to strengthen the Allied position at Denmark Strait, while the reverse substitution changes the Kirishima outcome less.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Stronger protection competes with the need to fire astern when withdrawing from British warships.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The treaty's tonnage and armament clauses tried to stop navies disguising powerful cruisers as carriers.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A smaller Hermes or a higher treaty limit could support a programme of small carriers operating with cruiser groups.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Conversion studies depended on funding and Admiralty leadership able to turn technical options into authorised purchases.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Preserved cruisers and escorts could show wartime service and the design choices separating Tribals from cheaper destroyers.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Keeping the additional aircraft orders depends on having more flight decks to employ them.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Uncrewed equipment preserves the separation sought by airborne sweeping, while selective mine sensors complicate attempts to trigger a weapon safely.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Japan's Type 5 promised useful ship and shore mountings but never reached operational service.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A Princess flying boat available in 1935 would give Britain the range, carrying capacity, and turbine technology to transform maritime patrol.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The 1935 technology transfer extends from long-range flying-boat bombers to redesigned fighters, with aerodynamics still limiting what greater engine power can achieve.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The Princess's carrying capacity suggests multiple torpedoes per attack, while its size limits where such an aircraft could sensibly operate.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The Princess counterfactual reaches armoured vehicles, where compact power would come with a much larger fuel requirement.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Compact coupled turbines could narrow the speed gap between Fairmile D boats and Schnellboote, especially when rough water limits the German advantage.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The same turbine power that attracts coastal-boat designers becomes a liability for escorts and submarines that must remain at sea.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The rarity of accidental powder explosions contrasts with memorable battle losses at the Nile and an unnamed Spanish night action.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Six German battleships would be a serious concern, while stern-mounted V-2 installations would sacrifice gun power and introduce launch and propellant hazards.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Merchant-ship boarding remains a naval task, including responses to piracy and terrorism.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Norway's geography produces a distributed fleet built around small combatants, mines, reconnaissance, submarines, and resilient communications.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Common ammunition offers a possible saving, but the cost of large guns argues against imposing one calibre on every Norwegian shore position.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A hypothetical funding question compares F-35C development, technology maturity, and carrier-specific requirements.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Recurring family names connect a personal reading question with eighteenth-century naval promotion and prize-taking.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Ohio conversions establish the shared-hull principle, while Vanguard conversion and additional Dreadnought construction remain British proposals.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The carrier-interceptor mission sets the criteria for comparing Phantom and Tomcat variants.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Selective lighting, harbour markers, and deception balanced safe wartime navigation against the risk of helping an enemy.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Sextants and paper plots link wartime navigation with the modern need to operate through GPS denial.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Naval Strike Missile is the leading suggestion for a British purchase under the Type 26 agreement's reciprocal-buying clause.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A Queen Elizabeth II submarine name would have to account for the existing carrier's name and expected service life.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
British charts were broadly comparable with foreign equivalents, with sustained updating and extra detail contributing to their quality.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The brig's escort role makes a River-class OPV the closer modern comparison.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
A proposed Tribal-class substitution turns on an estimated four-to-one advantage in shell output during a close-range destroyer action.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The Catalina offers an established flying-boat choice for 1938, although Coastal Command could not bypass the Air Ministry by ordering abroad.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
Fjord terrain and Britain's more exposed operating areas lead to different self-defence requirements for mine-countermeasure ships.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
County names are the preferred option when other geographical naming schemes are already attached to serving classes.
From Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live... ·
The opening distinguishes surprise ruined by warning, faulty intelligence, and exaggerated expectations before turning to English attacks on Spanish treasure routes.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Robert Blake leaves part of the Cádiz blockade and races to Tenerife after learning that the Mexico treasure fleet is crossing the Atlantic.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Blake adapts an earlier anti-pirate raid by sending Richard Stayner's frigates against the galleons while heavier ships suppress Tenerife's forts.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
The Spanish have already landed the bullion, so Stayner's successful destruction of the harbor squadron cannot achieve the raid's economic purpose.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
A historiographical digression tests a radical claim about American recruitment against colonial population totals and traceable regimental records.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Disciplined English gunnery, smoke, and Blake's no-prizes order turn the harbor attack into the destruction of the Spanish squadron.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
The English suppress the forts and work their ships out without a loss, but the celebrated victory still fails to capture the treasure fleet.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Blake's final operations also connect Commonwealth sea power to freeing English captives and protecting the southwest coast from Barbary slavers.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Francis Hosier takes a large squadron and detailed route intelligence to Porto Bello in an attempt to control the movement of Spanish bullion.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Porto Bello offers the quickest bullion route but exposes a blockading fleet to delay and yellow fever while Spain can choose longer alternatives.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Ambiguous orders leave Hosier waiting offshore until yellow fever destroys his crews and the 31-million-peso treasure fleet escapes.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Porto Bello's losses illustrate why navies invested early in cleanliness, nutrition, medical observation, and preventive care.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
After capturing Trinidad, Ralph Abercromby and Henry Harvey bring a powerful expedition to a fully mobilized San Juan.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·
Abercromby lands only three thousand troops in daylight, allowing Spanish forces to occupy prepared lines and push the invasion back.
From The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver ·