Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Admiralty

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  1. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    35:22Battenberg's strategy and political vulnerabilityNotable Point
  2. Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?
    58:08Why published Admiralty fuel stocks need careful interpretationNotable Point
  3. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    9:00Pink Lists as dated snapshots of naval readinessNotable Point
  4. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    10:34Why ship-design folders can mix several projectsNotable Point
  5. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    23:28Naval secrecy and the absence of a shared war planChapter
  6. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    31:09Keeping ministers informed without exposing operational detailNotable Point
  7. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:02:01Admiralty leadership losses and Churchill's influenceChapter
  8. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:06:18Choosing a First Sea Lord in a crisisNotable Point
  9. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    2:21Admiralty expertise under political authorityNotable Point
  10. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    51:05Cunningham on missed warnings and the late pay-cut letterNotable Point
  11. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    55:41Port inquiries and the revised 10 percent pay ceilingNotable Point
  12. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:12:28Admiralty telegrams and petty-officer escalationChapter
  13. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:16:24Colvin's mission and Austen Chamberlain's top-down policyChapter
  14. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:20:30Tomkinson's concessions and the pressure to settleChapter
  15. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:22:57Dispersing the fleet and rejecting forceChapter
  16. Ironclads go Two Decker....
    25:17Baldwin Walker narrows the choice to frigate or two-deckerNotable Point
  17. Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)
    1:29:17The Admiralty's interim pay message fails to settle the disputeNotable Point
  18. Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)
    1:47:31Who was responsible for Invergordon's communication failure?Notable Point
  19. Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)
    2:00:45Tomkinson's career and a cautious Admiralty inferenceNotable Point
  20. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    45:01Could Reginald Henderson have stopped Churchill's pause?Q&A
  21. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    52:53Mrs Henderson retained influence through the naval wives networkQ&A
  22. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    53:43Why Bruce Fraser was poorly placed to resist ChurchillQ&A
  23. Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...
    49:42Why Monarch's exact construction cost is uncertainNotable Point
  24. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    19:39Chamberlain and Churchill show how reputations shape blameChapter
  25. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    23:10Canopus could not guarantee Cradock's safetyChapter
  26. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    0:00Why the Royal Navy needed a modern staffChapter
  27. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    13:58How the Admiralty divided work among the Sea LordsChapter
  28. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    21:48Why Lloyd George could reform the AdmiraltyChapter
  29. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    28:37A counterfactual Admiralty Board for 1905Chapter
  30. Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...
    1:37:23Why a former intelligence director could challenge BeattyNotable Point
  31. Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII
    18:35Admiralty advice met Canadian political ambiguityNotable Point
  32. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    43:57What an earlier integrated Royal Navy staff might changeQ&A
  33. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    43:57An earlier naval staff and the adoption of existing technologyNotable Point
  34. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    44:59Admiralty departments, intelligence workloads, and quality controlNotable Point
  35. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    49:04Staff qualifications and Beatty's communications appointmentsNotable Point
  36. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    2:47:52Naval intelligence was a core institution before 1914Q&A
  37. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:01:26The Admiralty's loss of officers able to challenge ChurchillNotable Point
  38. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    32:41Cunningham raises the Admiralty's operational tempoChapter
  39. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    36:20An Admiralty team built around proven specialistsChapter
  40. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    2:37Why the Third Sea Lord could shape the whole fleetChapter
  41. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    10:04The modern procurement lesson of restoring a naval integratorNotable Point
  42. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    14:16Why the Third Sea Lord could plan beyond a personal legacyNotable Point
  43. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    29:58How requirements became Royal Navy warshipsNotable Point
  44. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    1:19How the Royal Navy studied American Pacific battlesChapter
  45. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    32:33Why allied summaries could soften internal naval criticismNotable Point
  46. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    36:12Why Leyte Gulf dominates the Admiralty collectionNotable Point
  47. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    47:45Naval engineering methods shape the first tanksChapter
  48. Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence
    1:02:57Hornby demanded a professional naval staffChapter
  49. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    25:16The Royal Navy's secretive staff cultureChapter
  50. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    13:02Warrants, petty officers, and leading ratingsChapter
  51. Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power
    7:22How the Admiralty managed promotion and the yellow squadronNotable Point
  52. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    31:53The Naval Intelligence Department as the Royal Navy's hidden staffChapter
  53. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    46:45Why Lloyd George is chosen to reform the AdmiraltyChapter
  54. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:01:11A proposed Admiralty staff and Sea Lord structureChapter
  55. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:17:01Would an intelligence Sea Lord encourage departmental empire-building?Q&A
  56. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:22:28Why fixed Admiralty terms collide with parliamentary sovereigntyQ&A
  57. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:48:58Could Treasury resistance stop Lloyd George becoming Chancellor?Q&A
  58. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    2:23:46Why the Admiralty won ships but lost the strategy debateNotable Point
  59. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    16:31Lloyd George could oppose naval spending yet support trade protectionNotable Point
  60. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    56:26Nelson's promotion was more than simple seniorityNotable Point
  61. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    1:03:40Admiralty reorganization disrupted naval intelligenceNotable Point
  62. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    1:09:56The Harwich Force was left out of the battleNotable Point
  63. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    25:40William May turns convalescence into an Admiralty apprenticeshipNotable Point
  64. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    29:09Learning to force a naval case through wartime politicsNotable Point
  65. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    1:05:55Jutland as a battle of confused informationNotable Point
  66. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    1:35Why the Royal Navy centralized officer educationChapter
  67. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    1:23:53Rodney breaks escort to intercept BismarckChapter
  68. Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship
    43:32Deputy Director of Signals carried authority beyond Somerville's rankChapter
  69. Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship
    54:10Designing interwar signals for night fightingChapter
  70. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    2:35:02From Iceland command to shaping promotionsChapter
  71. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    38:10Newfoundland service and Admiralty influence in ParliamentChapter
  72. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    11:20War College studies connect Greenwich to Admiralty procurementNotable Point
  73. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    41:08Herbert Richmond unites technical service with naval scholarshipChapter
  74. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    47:12Ragnar Colvin teaches command decisions through integrated staff workChapter
  75. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    0:00Eight centuries behind the British AdmiraltyChapter
  76. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    14:14Why the Lord High Admiral was put into commissionChapter
  77. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    19:21Institutional rivalry as an anti-corruption controlNotable Point
  78. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    21:52Why the Controller could resist a First Sea LordChapter
  79. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    1:03:52George Byng and the professional officer pipelineChapter
  80. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    1:05:33The Admiralty as an early specialist civil serviceChapter
  81. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    1:56:08The First Sea Lord as political and naval intermediaryNotable Point
  82. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:57:06Churchill and Sandwich swap First Lord erasQ&A
  83. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    36:38Reginald Bacon brought gunmaking expertise into Jellicoe's officeNotable Point
  84. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    40:36Why the Admiralty resisted a modern naval staffChapter
  85. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    51:45A plausible funding mechanism under the Third Sea LordChapter
  86. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    55:43A naval staff could turn intelligence into workable operationsChapter
  87. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    56:15Could an Admiralty staff constrain Fisher?Notable Point
  88. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    4:26How the Admiralty became a permanent naval administrationChapter
  89. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    7:09Why a sophisticated civil service delayed a naval staffNotable Point
  90. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    12:37The Navy Board and Admiralty Board divide naval powerChapter
  91. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    26:29Sea Lords, secretaries, and the distribution of Admiralty powerChapter
  92. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    29:38How the Third Sea Lord shaped procurement decisionsNotable Point
  93. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    31:58Why the Admiralty developed a permanent secretaryNotable Point
  94. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    34:05Why Britain kept such an awkward Admiralty structureQ&A
  95. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    51:54Why Royal Navy leaders are called Sea LordsQ&A
  96. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    58:28A Lord Commissioner did not need a peerageQ&A
  97. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    1:26:52Admiralty guards did not sell entry at the doorQ&A
  98. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    56:05Jellicoe's tenure and demands for armour testingNotable Point
  99. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:03:50A workable 1900 Admiralty research systemChapter
  100. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:09:03Why the First Sea Lord lacked a formal staffNotable Point
  101. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:20:34Could a new First Sea Lord replace the inherited staff?Q&A
  102. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:21:56How discretionary funds would work inside the AdmiraltyNotable Point
  103. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:25:43Does a Sea Lord have to be a peer?Q&A
  104. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    3:18:49Why did this Admiralty reform not happen?Q&A
  105. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    35:34The Royal Navy's eighteenth-century timber crisisQ&A
  106. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    19:50Jellicoe and the power of the Third Sea LordChapter
  107. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    52:43Was Reginald Bacon Third Sea Lord?Q&A
  108. Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s
    51:15How the Third Sea Lord shaped naval procurementNotable Point
  109. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    24:20Were the Glen ships designed with wartime conversion in mind?Notable Point
  110. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    50:02The evidence for preplanned Glen conversions remains circumstantialNotable Point
  111. MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 2
    10:01From many proposals to one implemented ship typeChapter
  112. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    2:18:25The Admiralty treats air work as an integral naval functionNotable Point
  113. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:35:16Why the Admiralty created a formal staff in 1912Q&A
  114. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:57:57Replacing Churchill as First Lord in 1911Q&A
  115. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    0:23How the Admiralty could have rescued Whittle's jet proposalChapter
  116. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    9:47Direct research links could turn Whittle's proposal into a joint programNotable Point
  117. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    1:46:43Joint research matters more than tidy institutional efficiencyNotable Point
  118. 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 7
    9:57Reading naval priorities from design and construction decisionsNotable Point
  119. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    54:51The Third Sea Lord's construction powerChapter
  120. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    58:45Translating between the Third Sea Lord and the DNCNotable Point
  121. Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?
    24:46How missing Admiralty records should shape historical claimsChapter
  122. HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response
    19:14Russian invasion fears and Australian naval infrastructureNotable Point
  123. HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response
    20:36Andrew Inglis Clark's family and an Admiralty dockyard planNotable Point
  124. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    25:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
  125. Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    53:31James, Room 40, and informal intelligence channelsNotable Point
  126. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    33:11Colonial politics and the limits of fixed defencesNotable Point
  127. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    6:25Why the first ship did not give the class its nameNotable Point
  128. Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 3
    1:10Fisher, Churchill, and wartime construction powerNotable Point
  129. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    2:46:12Churchill's naval advocacy under European-war prioritiesNotable Point
  130. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    23:33How political rivalry disrupted the AdmiraltyChapter
  131. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    25:18Sandwich's hard-working but politically weaker AdmiraltyNotable Point
  132. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    1:16:35Reassessing Lord Sandwich at the AdmiraltyNotable Point
  133. Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)
    0:17WATU within the anti-submarine systemChapter
  134. Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)
    9:41The Submarine Tracking Room turns reports into decisionsChapter
  135. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    8:24Wartime experience returns to the design officesNotable Point
  136. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    12:34The Fifth Sea Lord puts aviation at the Admiralty tableNotable Point
  137. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    35:09Using interwar Admiralty rules for naval wargamingNotable Point
  138. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)
    27:41How Britain coordinated army and navyQ&A
  139. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    25:01Why staff service did not guarantee a plum naval appointmentQ&A
  140. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    1:17:17How political support shaped Walker's steam-fleet programmeNotable Point
  141. Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?
    31:24Who actually shaped a battleship designChapter
  142. Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?
    1:55:31Who built Britain's economic-war picture?Q&A
  143. Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class
    1:08:09HNLMS Soemba's guns for Operation OverlordNotable Point
  144. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    43:02Pepys's reporting network against naval fraudNotable Point
  145. Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 12
    1:17:16Admiralty micromanagement on the Broad FourteensNotable Point
  146. Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 5
    6:10William White and professional naval constructionChapter
  147. Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control
    31:11The Admiralty command crisis behind CoronelChapter
  148. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    10:53Selborne, Kerr, and Fisher share responsibility for the schemeChapter
  149. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    25:31Poor communication turned reform into a lightning rodNotable Point
  150. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    30:09Common entry challenged patronage and intensified institutional unrestNotable Point
  151. Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches
    43:08Which Admiralty office did Selborne hold?Q&A
  152. Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))
    38:55A wartime Admiralty needed leadership depthChapter
  153. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    1:01:22Could the First Sea Lord control every admiral's employment?Q&A
  154. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    1:31:16How the Fifth Sea Lord related to naval aviationQ&A
  155. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    1:53:38The Admiralty needed depth far below the First Sea LordChapter
  156. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:27:01The official dispatch records five capturesChapter
  157. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:30:00Evan Nepean's dispatch desk led to an imperial careerNotable Point
  158. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy
    44:23How Admiralty hydrography became an institutionChapter
  159. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    27:53Why the Admiralty did not buy Whitehead outrightQ&A
  160. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)
    16:35Politics behind Royal Navy turret choicesNotable Point
  161. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)
    36:44Admiralty conservatism amid rapid technological changeChapter
  162. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    54:34First Lord, First Sea Lord, and Admiralty rolesQ&A
  163. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    1:07:38How the Royal Navy's ship-naming committee guarded its authorityQ&A
  164. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    1:41:36How Admiralty offices divided responsibility for naval gunsQ&A
  165. Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)
    22:56A serving officer in ParliamentChapter
  166. Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)
    33:53Captain Hall and naval-intelligence scrutiny in ParliamentNotable Point
  167. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    11:15Read catalogue results for institutional cluesNotable Point
  168. How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)
    1:10:51The Fleet Air Arm's interservice translation problemNotable Point
  169. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    29:20Admiral Duncan combines authority with advocacy before CamperdownNotable Point
  170. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p1: Strategy & Some Priniciple Personalities
    41:53Dundas, corruption and naval intelligenceNotable Point
  171. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p1: Strategy & Some Priniciple Personalities
    45:24Gambier and the Admiralty command structureChapter
  172. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    17:12Why knowing the shipping problem did not produce convoysNotable Point
  173. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    37:55A report helped move Jellicoe toward convoysChapter
  174. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    3:21:45Why the Third Sea Lord shaped Royal Navy warshipsQ&A
  175. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    1:02:57Why the Admiralty needed global tracking mapsQ&A
  176. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    1:09:46Beatty and Fleet Air Arm controlQ&A
  177. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    1:52:51How the Royal Navy temporarily searched the wrong way for BismarckChapter
  178. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    43:15Norway's command chain separated rank from operational controlNotable Point
  179. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 2
    10:40Hubert Scott-Paine assembled Supermarine's early talentChapter
  180. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    2:04:00Design debate and displacement margins behind battleshipsNotable Point
  181. The Fairey Story - Part 4 of 4: Into WWII
    12:31The institutional gap behind Albacore procurementNotable Point
  182. The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation
    31:32Fleet Air Arm needs passed through Admiralty and Air Ministry layersNotable Point
  183. The Fairey Story Anew...
    2:29:43How Admiralty requirements passed through the Air MinistryQ&A
  184. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:05:42How First and Third Sea Lord authority could shiftQ&A
  185. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    2:05:39Oswyn Murray and Admiralty administrationChapter
  186. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:11:31How the Admiralty treated Lloyd's viewsQ&A
  187. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    0:53From Leeds workshop to naval aircraft makerChapter
  188. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    57:20Operational requirements bridge Admiralty and Air Ministry controlNotable Point
  189. Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car
    9:41What is known about Reginald Henderson's death?Q&A
  190. Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car
    16:02Understaffing magnified Henderson's Admiralty workloadNotable Point
  191. PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/3
    20:56Ultra, high command, and the pressure on PoundChapter
  192. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    1:34:38The missing files behind the Tsingtao incidentQ&A
  193. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    9:28Tsingtao containment shifts attention back to EuropeChapter
  194. Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:55:19Oswin Murray and continuity at the AdmiraltyChapter
  195. An Introduction "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P1/4 WWI
    8:56The A.D. Flying Boat and Admiralty aircraft designNotable Point
  196. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 1
    23:12Why First and Third Sea Lords need political strategyNotable Point
  197. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 1
    24:10Caspar John's book as a window into Reginald HendersonNotable Point
  198. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    9:02Churchill among the First Lords of the AdmiraltyQ&A
  199. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    11:30What the Admiralty meant by 'Winston is back'Q&A
  200. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)
    30:18Even an expert designer could misidentify a landing shipNotable Point
  201. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    1:24:38First and Third Sea Lord responsibilitiesQ&A
  202. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    1:31:00The Second Sea Lord handled people and trainingQ&A
  203. Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!
    44:00The missing biography of Reginald HendersonQ&A
  204. Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!
    1:36:57Reginald Henderson's practical influenceQ&A