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- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!12:59Frigate-built hulls, sailing rates and overseas cruisingChapter
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:01Mercury's survival against Ottoman ships of the lineQ&A
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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:32Why winds and currents produce repeated naval battlegroundsNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:48When a Bismarck rebuild becomes a new shipQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...25:31Radio and the transition in fleet commandChapter
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:05Age of Sail artillery standardization and logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:26:43Early colonial naval history and changing trade routesQ&A
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- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live42:13Could an army ambush a fleet inside a port?Q&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live45:37Port and starboard watches in the Age of SailQ&A
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- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:40Religious ship names behind a Tempesta design clueQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:29Why age-of-sail rigs could not optimize only for windward sailingQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:06Carracks, galleys and favorite age-of-sail fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:26Dutch firepower and the amphibious objective at TaiwanNotable Point
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:53Portuguese carrack height and firepower against galley boardingNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:30:49Books for studying naval guns and ship constructionQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:56The sailing-era institution worth restoringQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:45:33A 170-gun first rate starts a qualitative arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:36:36How opponents could fight an oversized first rateQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:12Caribbean naval materials came through Atlantic tradeQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...59:08How realistic is Master and Commander?Q&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:50:39Forced separation and family life aboard warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 28:52The Glorious First of June as a mid-ocean interceptionNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:11:57Using a Franco-Spanish fleet to secure the western MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:00:49Why a 170-gun first rate would enter ordinaryQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:02:47If Britain captured Santisima TrinidadQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:20:32Arranging the guns of a 170-gun first rateQ&A
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- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)13:35Age-of-sail commanders assembled named forcesChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)16:27Commodore appointments could bypass an unsuitable senior captainNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)49:03Task forces existed before the steam ageQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:59Boarding ships through gunportsQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:08How boarders could get through a defended gunportQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:28Why a 170-gun first rate would strain its worldQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:04Where a 170-gun first rate could actually see actionQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:04Why an enormous first rate would merit screw conversionQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:10Choosing a third rate to carry across five centuriesQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:24A giant first rate in Crimea and the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:09Why pirates avoided ships of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:07Why four decks were not an absolute wooden-warship limitQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:37Santisima Trinidad's repairs before the stormQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:03Why rocking chairs appeared aboard sailing shipsQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:39Why the 170-gun HMS Duke of Kent stayed on paperQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:07When 150 guns redefine the ship-rate systemQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:41Why HMS Duke of Kent would not start a naval reactionQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:00How much storm warning the Trafalgar fleets hadQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:14Designing Duke of Kent without Santisima Trinidad's instabilityQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:12Why the HMS Duke of Kent proposal sounds fictionalQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:32Santisima Trinidad and the limits of repeated rebuildingQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:12When sailors began using hammocks at seaQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:36The Dutch fleet's abundance of admiralsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:02The most competent fleet in naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:09Why an early submarine charge might not sink a wooden warshipQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:01The most junior officers to command a post ship in battleQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:15Dyeing sailing canvas in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:31Could coloured sails identify fleets in battle?Q&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:30Why a second-rate ship of the line was a major honourQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:24Screw propulsion without the steel warship revolutionQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:04Trafalgar, Channel invasion pressure, and French commerce raidingQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:52A Civil War-era US Navy in the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:02Why the Austrian Navy remained a lower eighteenth-century priorityQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:44Whether Grace Dieu is worth raisingQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:16Why Victory might lead a fictional age-of-sail Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:16Red, white, and blue squadrons in Royal Navy commandNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:06Yellow admirals and the limits of promotion by seniorityQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:20Sustaining a Flower-class corvette before TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:41A marine chronometer at the court of Henry VIIQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:41Samuel de Champlain encounters a Huron ballista-armed frigateQ&A
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality0:34Press gangs targeted seafaring manpowerChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality2:28Wartime expansion drove emergency recruitmentNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality13:10Captain reputations and bounties attracted volunteersChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality15:32Officer retinues helped sustain long naval careersNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality16:39John Quilliam rose from impressed sailor to Victory's first lieutenantNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality17:53Naval service could lead to merchant commandNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality19:35Debt protection could draw sailors toward naval recruiting partiesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality21:02The King's shilling and limits on recruiting abuseChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality24:14Press officers could become volunteer recruitersChapter
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:32Destroyer captains inherited the frigate-captain traditionQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:35False musters collapse when a ship has to performQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:14First, second, and third rates were all battleships of their ageQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:01Third rates fought fleet actions while frigates carried on the cruising roleQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:35Another Santísima Trinidad conversion would require a hull surveyQ&A
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?7:32Age-of-sail ranks and fashion shape naval formation namesNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:49Nelson, insubordination, and the protection of victoryQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:02HMS London as a dependable second-rateQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:55An 1870s admiral commanding a fleet in the 1670sQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:06Why a mahogany second-rate would be a poor investmentQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:30A practical timber revision for the mahogany second-rateQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:13Polearms in boarding and anti-boarding combatQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:22Forecastle work underway in a sailing shipQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:13Why sailors received a gallon of beerQ&A
- Bruships12:14Trade winds and Age of Sail routingQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:07A sail-only central-battery ironclad in the 1700sQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans49:09St. Vincent and Britain's layered fleet strategyQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:10:37How many admirals could gather on one ship?Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:24Why navies adopted regular gunnery drillQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:31From medicine balls to modern shipboard gymsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:23Longitude solutions without John HarrisonQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:52Steam power breaks the geography of sail blockadeQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)20:14How shipboard users shaped the marine chronometerNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)26:40Why longitude mattered differently to French and British fleetsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)27:55The Board of Longitude and the incentive to remain necessaryNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:30:20Copper sheathing as an operational advantageNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:38:14How long copper sheathing lasted and why crews benefitedQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:16:30How copper sheathing was laid on a wooden hullQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:28Why sailcloth improved slowly in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:23How research funding shapes the naval-history books that appearNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More14:34Rigging systems complicate undermanning comparisonsNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start44:08A modern destroyer's guns and radios in earlier naval battlesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start46:11Using a modern RIB to scout an age-of-sail fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:37:26Why VLS cell count cannot define corvettes, frigates, destroyers, and cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:32How far back could a modern Royal Navy captain command?Q&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:12:10Shakedown cruises tested ships long before computer modelingNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:39:40Earlier crews helped heel ships for hull maintenanceQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:00The overlooked work of sloops, cutters, cogs, and carracksQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:46Favorite fifth-rate frigates from the Age of SailQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:30Could Australian timber have supplied sailing-warship construction?Q&A
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!36:58French captain grades preserve age-of-sail commandNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!40:22French NCO depth and age-of-sail vocabularyChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!56:26Spanish admiral titles and amphibious commandChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!58:20Alférez preserves the Arabic roots of Spanish junior-officer ranksChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?1:26How the frigate name became tied to cruisingChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?22:31Third rates added weight to frigate diplomacyNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:06:30Naval patronage built independent officers and long institutional lineagesQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:54:06Weather can end a naval battle after the fleets have metQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)3:18:13Historic ratings described naval price pointsQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:21:47Third-rate does not mean badly builtNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping2:02:40Different warship roles combine within a fleetChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping2:03:59Heavier frigate guns required suitable hullsNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?43:53The third-rate principle: enough capability at scaleChapter
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates18:17Tordenskjold and the Baltic's White Eagle frigateNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates38:12Why heavy frigates still avoided ships of the lineQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates38:43How two-deck second rates changed the sailing battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:02Age-of-sail parallels to modern procurement failureQ&A
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet2:52Piet Hein from captive sailor to admiralChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet4:16Why Hein's two-sided broadside attack proved fatalNotable Point
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet12:17Why early modern fleets mixed warships and privateersNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:38Marines as gun crews and the limits of dual dutiesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:39:49How an Age of Sail boarding party seized a shipNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:49:29Letters of marque and paid convoy protectionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:57:12Strategic materials before the modern rare-earth eraQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…7:49:32What wreck archaeology can infer from gunfire and fireQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:17Indian teak's quality and shipbuilding costQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:59Trincomalee, Unicorn, and differences within a sailing-ship classQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:47:52Naval intelligence was a core institution before 1914Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon4:19:01HMS Africa would make a mobile ship-of-the-line museumQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon6:11:08Game battle formations and the limits of historical comparisonNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:45:17How a Bofors-armed motor gunboat could dominate TrafalgarQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:47:02How wooden navies planned around timber shortagesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust38:30Mountjoy and the naval logic of relieving LondonderryNotable Point
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- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:59:31When land artillery was pressed into naval serviceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:13:30What an Age of Sail breech-loader would requireQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust12:22What happened to obsolete Age of Sail cannonQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust32:10Ships of the line disguised as East IndiamenQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust44:23How prize captures could transform a Royal Navy captain's careerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust57:04Prize money and the origins of local landed wealthQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust5:16:29HMS Agincourt at the Battle of the ChesapeakeQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust8:52:29Keeping a small frigate out of a heavy battleNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:54:41Small Second World War vessels in an Age of Sail counterfactualQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:40:24Holding a line while opponents approach bow firstNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:09:09A later sailing warship in the early sixteenth centuryQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:13:02Frigate positioning behind first rates in the game battleNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:26:34Why early English iron guns would force an Iberian naval responseQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:18:01Why lighter guns did little to speed up a 74Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:19:14Why razing a ship did not remove its strength deckQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:46:36Why a fifth rate with 42-pounders would be inefficientQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:23:21Why heavy end-on batteries declined in sailing warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida30:27The earliest English fleet that could stop Claudius's invasionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida36:29How large a wooden warship could practical shipbuilding sustain?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida40:32Choosing the battery for a 74- or 84-gun ship of the lineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:47:17How a reliable breech block would change an age-of-sail gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:33:25Why higher-yield explosives could be safer than black powderQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:10:21Why gun ports were not ordinary ventilation openingsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I59:38Building a representative Imperial Spanish museum fleetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:37:58Why steam propulsion changed naval warfareQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:21How a three-masted rig helps a sailing ship turnQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:55What an age-of-sail Humber base would supportQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:08Preserving an eighteenth-century French 74Q&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:06The French 36-pounder in age-of-sail combatQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:49What lets a frigate hurt a first-rate shipQ&A
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...1:01:16Age-of-sail navies built commanders from adolescenceNotable Point
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships2:07Why sail persisted after steam arrivedChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:15:53Why an overseas squadron becomes a mixed forceQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:00:50Preserving and quarantining Trafalgar's fleet todayQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:19What made suitable timber for sailing-ship mastsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:28Why Anglo-Dutch and Napoleonic naval wars differedQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:36Sovereign of the Seas: difficult to manoeuvre and difficult to overwhelmNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:19How sailing navies moved mast timber to dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:08Why shipboard magazine explosions are rare but memorableQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:40Why brigs and snows were indispensable sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:55Galleys and carracks beyond the familiar age-of-sail storyQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:18Why an 18-pounder label does not settle shot weightNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:07How the Royal Navy might have razeed Santisima TrinidadQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:46Why Assassin's Creed's Jackdaw is too heavily armed to be a brigQ&A
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville & the Battle of Hudson Bay(1697)22:24Pelican and the French squadron bound for York FactoryChapter
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville & the Battle of Hudson Bay(1697)24:10Pelican fights three English ships in Hudson BayChapter
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)1:12:11Edward lets the Castilians sail into his trapChapter
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?0:00How Age of Sail ratings counted gunsChapter
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy9:14French naval schooling before École navaleChapter
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy11:35The floating academy and its Borda training shipsChapter
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy12:24Why the floating school repeatedly needed new hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:54Nelson ambushes the French before AlexandriaQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:39The overlooked sloops and survey ships of naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:33:31Using an anchor for a warship handbrake turnQ&A
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory33:34Leander defies the fourth-rate's usual restraintNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:01:30Anchor springs let stationary ships aim their broadsidesNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:20:51Leander rakes the line as French losses mountNotable Point
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- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!2:32:13Starting points for reading naval historyQ&A
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence0:01Why Geoffrey Hornby won without battlesChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence35:57HMS Edgar displayed Hornby's mastery of sailNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)59:58A surviving first rate belongs in a museumQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:05:32Peacetime acquisition in the age of sailQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:08:14Great rebuilds and preservation sustained sailing fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:20An hour with an eighteenth-century admiralQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...38:07Dutch officer ranks and the watch kept at the rearChapter
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...45:01Merchant-marine roots of Dutch rating titlesNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...53:12How fleet formation produced rear and vice admiralsNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...1:55:26Why a master's mate was an assistant in trainingQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:07:25Why lieutenants faced high Age of Sail mortalityQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:13:07Was there a hierarchy among warrant trades?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:49How sailors' messes turned rations into mealsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:19Why naval mess cooking differed from army cateringQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:04Issuing vitamins aboard an age-of-sail warshipQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:06Endurance adapted to an age-of-sail combat roleQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:31:58Royal Navy sailcloth and Victory's surviving Trafalgar topsailQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:27:51How sailing ships survived lightning strikesQ&A
- Why do Historians like to Name things?1:04Dreadnought, ironclad, and sail as naval era labelsNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:16:17Ship growth leaves sixty-gun vessels marginalNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power14:30HMS Torbay and the identity of a rebuilt warshipNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power51:29HMS Monarch in Rodney's Moonlight BattleChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:18Why first-rate ships served as fleet flagshipsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:33Keel-hauling and the limits of USS Constellation's recordQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:56:16Why Treasure Planet's ships resist engineering redesignQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:59:12Why naval uniforms arrived late in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:09:51Constitution-class frigates multiply Royal Navy commerce warfareQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:33Age-of-sail sloops rarely hunted in wolfpacksQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:39Shelf-stable rations transform Elizabethan sea enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:29What belongs in a ship's library?Q&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:18A three-pounder saluting gun was small enough for a swivel mountingQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:16Pirates usually avoided the largest shipsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:23A pirate third-rate would provoke a concentrated Royal Navy responseQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:10How first- through sixth-rate warships were dividedQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:20A lieutenant could command a snow as master and commanderQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:39Weather gauge and flexible frigate groups in commerce raidingQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:33:54When Russian and Soviet naval power peakedQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:51The timber bottleneck in building sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:50Why Brazil did not become a major wooden-warship building hubQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:10Could Brazil's rivers and forests have supported an earlier shipbuilding industry?Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:37A family account of women commanding privateersNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:54Why Britain did not standardize very heavy naval guns in the 1780sQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:00Comparing fictional space travel with sail and powered fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:47Libraries and schools aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)2:58:17How could an Age of Sail warship be disinfected?Q&A
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)3:00:11Why the eighteenth-century Russian Navy was professionalNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:46Interpreting HMS Pickle's one-day coppering recordQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:40What a British fourth rate looked like around 1815Q&A
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley1:59Joshua Rowley and the officers who made the wooden wall workChapter
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley9:29What becoming a post captain meantNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley38:43Conflicting accounts of Warspite's cannon at Quiberon BayNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:26Nelson's leadership, tactics, and political blind spotsQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:20Would a yellow-fever vaccine earn a naval benefactor a peerage?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:48Copper sheathing as an operational advantageQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?1:26:29Napoleon's reaction forces treated the sea too much like landNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!25:04Children, supervision, and survival aboard an eighteenth-century warshipNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!35:11Did copper sheathing make keel-hauling safer?Q&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!37:21How keel-hauling moved a sailor beneath a shipQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!45:51HMS Monmouth and the Ship of Theseus problemNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:02:49Sarah Rowley and captains' wives as informal shipboard staffNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:29A 1778 privateer sloop as a path to early steam powerQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:56Which sailing ship would be most useful in 1500?Q&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:06Why infectious disease can disable a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued26:16Which ships were the most successful surface raiders?Q&A
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...59:48How Royal Navy commodores received staff supportChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:12:38Fishermen, smugglers, and Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:30:39Why Constitution was not an age-of-sail battlecruiserQ&A
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias43:14Why fleets could overwhelm forts in the age of sailNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:02How stronger rigs let sailing warships carry more canvasQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:56Rifled muzzle-loaders in an age-of-sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:12What an acting captaincy revealed about promotion and patronageNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:20Food reserves as a limit on warship enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:17What Chatham's ropewalk output reveals about a ship's riggingQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:45Why sailing navies could not economize by starving crewsQ&A
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees0:00From boarding castles to artillery warshipsChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:45:39First rates evolved from bastions to line-breakersNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...29:29When sailing-warship ratings stopped matching fighting powerQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...38:00Why Royal Navy second rates disappeared from the active listQ&A
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…9:48Patronage, fourth rates, and Jervis's early trainingChapter
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…15:43What post captain meant in the Georgian Royal NavyNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…27:32Flag captain, fleet staff, and command at seaNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…51:13How blue, white, and red admiral ranks workedNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live8:07Cannon transform medieval fighting at seaChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live3:19:56Napoleon misreads naval artillery as land artilleryNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes18:58Fourth rates and Rodney's place in Hawke's factionChapter
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:41What powder monkeys did aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:40The minimum crew for a square-rigged shipQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:48Could darkened lighthouses cause hostile ships to run aground?Q&A
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth30:11Steam made energy consumption a strategic variableNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:58Age-of-sail officers, naval pubs, and Admiral DuncanQ&A
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!55:41Prize money rewards aggressive captainsChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:48:19How the Royal Navy's colour ranks organized seniorityNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!3:12:35How did midshipmen spend their days?Q&A
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!3:13:47What animals and women could be aboard sailing warships?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:37HMS Bellona in 1500: transferring shipbuilding skillsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:06A proposed 170-gun three-decker at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:41Historic warships were smaller and more crowded than visitors expectQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...40:36Why the Admiralty resisted a modern naval staffChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...44:35Women formed part of an admiral's informal age-of-sail staffNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...15:48From veteran officer to cadet and student in BritainChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:02:02Why mutiny does not automatically mean indisciplineNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 100:30Why the fifth rate was the classic frigateChapter
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1012:43How the frigate became the symbol of the Age of SailNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1013:36Independent cruising, fame, and prize moneyNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...21:59Salted provisions, grog, and drink at seaQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:34:29Eighteenth-century warships: refinement before revolutionQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:46:18Arming a Roman quinquereme for the late Age of SailQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:50:51What navies might look like without marine steam enginesQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise35:34The Royal Navy's eighteenth-century timber crisisQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:57:31L’Orient and the limits of the Océan-class first ratesNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:10:42Why Santísima Trinidad did not become a first-rate modelQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube46:44Why Royal Navy sloops belong in river-gunboat historyNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:00:38Why sailing-ship rigging required specialist organizationQ&A
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…2:05Convoy origins and mutual defense at seaChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…3:18When convoy defense produced fleet battlesNotable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?36:32Master and Commander illustrates command discretion at seaQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?37:46Copper sheathing as a costly Royal Navy advantageQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:32:59Suffren deserves wider recognition as an operational admiralQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:22:55What would a 4,000-BM-ton warship look like in a 1799 scenario?Q&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202438:22Why cutting a first-rate down rarely produced a superior third-rateQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:55:45How much better officers lived at sea in the Age of SailQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:26:55Which warships carried surgeons and doctors?Q&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:19:23Why an 80-gun two-decker makes an adaptable battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:15:10Reliable breech-loading naval guns in 1750Q&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...8:53How prize money differed between naviesQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...11:48Admiral Duncan as an overlooked Age of Sail leaderQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:21:28Why opposed landings were rarer before steamQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:53:13Why Collingwood could save little more after TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:03:49Women aboard age-of-sail warships were part of fleet lifeNotable Point
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates0:14Why fourth rates struggled in the middle groundChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:04:27How did generals adapt to command at sea?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/429:41Modern weapons through an age-of-sail gunportQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:28:24Hospital ships turn casualty evacuation into force protectionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:47:16A sailing ship stuck in the Sargasso SeaQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:29:30Could lightning detonate an age-of-sail warship?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/439:44Which HMS Warspite fired before an order was given?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:51:08How naval timber planning outlived the sailing battlefleetQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:56:39Why historical naval language can mislead modern readersNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:24:46British rope quality and French rigging precision in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:54:32Spanish saint names were a tendency rather than a fixed rating ruleQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:17:47How crews scuttled wooden warships without Kingston valvesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:03:49How wooden warships overcame limits on hull lengthQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:43:43British cannon consistency and charts became strategic advantagesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:49:46Better rigging let sailing warships extract more power from the windQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax5:07:54Timber storage was a difficult foundation of naval shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:04:19Why American ships of the line were awkward Royal Navy reservesQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:13:35British ships of the line crowded on sail before battleQ&A
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!0:00Why a third rate was not a third-class warshipChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!27:57First rates belonged at the fleet's coreNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!39:47Third rates made Trafalgar a massive battleChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!49:00First rates broke the line, third rates filled itNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:40:18Why lateen rigs did not scale cleanly to large warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:46:45Changing Columbus's rigs to suit Atlantic windsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song4:04:03Composite timber joints freed sailing ships from tree sizeQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:12:26Books for studying Leda-class frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:48:18What capturing a first-rate could do for a brig captainQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....10:31A sailing-age force for the Dutch East IndiesQ&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:25:16Would Beatty have excelled as an age-of-sail captain?Q&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?28:45HMS Implacable: the last lost third-rateNotable Point
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?1:15:45Why Implacable completes the final threeChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:29:36Non-European frigates and ships of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:55:50Why the first shipboard shower depends on definitionQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:02:37Why navies did not build a double-razée frigate directlyQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 22:11:09How Age-of-Sail blockades stayed suppliedQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!48:23Double-razee frigate in Napoleonic serviceQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:22:17Admiral Hood in place of Graves at the ChesapeakeQ&A
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 50:05Firepower, speed, and survivability as a design frameworkChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 54:57How four navies built their 74-gun fleetsChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 516:59The 74 as the battle line's working massChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 520:29The all-rounder that could serve anywhere in the lineNotable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 527:19Gun power, hull rigidity, and ocean enduranceNotable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 536:59Global utility and cost per useful hullChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 545:24HMS Implacable and the cost of losing naval heritageNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 40:55Second rates between prestige and fleet massChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 47:21Second rates as line-breaking heavy shipsNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 410:35How fleet growth created the second-rate nicheNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 412:14Royal Catherine, Charles, and a century of rebuildingChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 414:13Why the Royal Navy kept building second ratesChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 422:12Three-decker firepower against stronger opponentsNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 426:30The sledgehammer value and handling costChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 429:21Second rates for the early US NavyNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 433:53What two-decked second rates might changeNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 437:36The context and changing utility of second ratesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:09Speed, range, and balanced capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...26:22Why teak ships still favored copper sheathingQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...29:19Why nineteenth-century navies landed naval brigadesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...36:03Camperdown as a starting point for Age of Sail battlesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...41:18Fresh water as an age-of-sail endurance limitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:24:49Baltic timber mattered most for specialized mast sparsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:30:53Royal Navy automation began with saving hands aboard sailing shipsQ&A
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 20:25How larger ships made the rating system grow upwardChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 23:57Broadside weight mattered more than gun count aloneNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 25:22Early first rates needed supply support and careful stabilityNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 27:07How earlier first-rate performance moved down the ratingsNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 211:03Why first rates were individual construction projectsChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 216:08Victory, peacetime economy, and wartime activationNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 222:45Ports, timber management, and Britain's first-rate fleetNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 224:19What defined a first-rate ship of the lineNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 228:26The rarity and prestige of first ratesNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 233:03How close several first rates came to survivalNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 234:54Prince Royal and the rebuild path to first-rate statusChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 238:23Heavy handling and surprising first-rate speedNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 240:02First rates as command platforms and intimidating state powerNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:00Four ships as a guide to the wooden wallChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)7:47Brigs, snows, and sloops beneath the frigate lineQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)15:14HMS Richmond's armament and class commonalityChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)23:14Richmond returns at the Battle of the SaintesNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)47:56HMS Terrible and the 74-gun production systemChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)54:28A 74's gunports did not settle her armamentNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:23:39Third rates formed the working line while first rates carried statusNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:54:12Royal Oak and the continuing evolution of the 74Chapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:17:46The ordinary ships behind the wooden wallNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:23:11How many third rates could the Royal Navy keep in commission?Q&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:28:03Why the wooden wall is a specifically British metaphorQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:29:02Royal Navy numbers in the age of sail and 1914Q&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:33:01How wind and tide concentrated sailing-fleet battlesQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:38:13Did Britain's wooden wall come from Athens?Q&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:40:51Age-of-sail classes as evolving production batchesQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:42:56Greek ship eyes and British figureheadsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!24:31Signal flags for fleets and merchant convoysQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:13:34French 80-gun ships and the limits of design qualityQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:32:48Peacetime sailor life from 74s to pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:39:21Warships carrying cargo in the age of sailQ&A
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:39Women as sailing-era admiral staffNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote58:05Beating to quarters in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:49:48Why higher company pay did not empty the Royal NavyQ&A
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:33:08From grog and unsafe water to a 'wet navy' traditionChapter
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off11:45Pellew's prize money in IndefatigableQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off19:29If Nelson had obeyed the retreat order at CopenhagenQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:09:14Why some whalers carried a boom below a square sailQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:03:09The unrecorded tragedies of the age of sailQ&A
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 100:42Ardent-class 64s beside AgamemnonChapter
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1026:35French hull lines with a British sailing systemNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1030:23HMS Ardent's capture and battle careerChapter
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1035:09Raisonnable and Nelson's first Ardent-class linkNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1054:36Stately at Zealand PointNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:06:30Alternating broadsides at Zealand PointNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:24:19Royal Navy lessons from the War of 1812Q&A
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!2:00Why the Royal Navy still valued 64-gun shipsChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!6:17When HMS Africa joined the chase of USS ConstitutionNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!11:10Scaling a 90-gun design down to a 64Notable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!12:26How a 74-gun ship survived into the air-power eraNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!17:59Why a ship's launch date differs from her first commissionNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!18:38Inflexible and the 64-gun fleets at CuddaloreChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!26:06HMS Africa approaches the enemy line alone at TrafalgarNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!27:10HMS Africa holds a convoy screenNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!31:58Why Africa was the principal threat to ConstitutionNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!35:28Sceptre and the broken French battle line at TrincomaleeChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!42:24British praise for Suffren and the cost of punishing captainsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!44:48Hughes takes his damaged fleet to Bombay as the monsoon beginsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!45:45Sceptre and armed merchantmen capture a Dutch convoyNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!57:52Sceptre's anchors fail in Table BayChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:00:51Dictator shifts between battle line and troop transportNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:07:28Dictator uses her anchor to bring a broadside onto NajadenChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:20:4064-gun captains and demanding independent commandsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:27:56Standard class designs and individual shipyard finishingNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed27:16How navies reused captured cannonQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:17:19Why shotguns would not transform TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built15:13HMS Africa as a missing Trafalgar museum shipQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built24:41What an age-of-sail three-pounder would do to a medieval cogQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!58:28Essex's carronades made range the decisive tactical choiceChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:47:42Range and mobility decided the Battle of ValparaisoChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:52:41Phoebe opened from Essex's stern and denied her anchor maneuversNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?25:12How Chesapeake became prize money for Shannon's crewQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:04:50How the Royal Navy's rating system emergedQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:27:54Why an 18-gun sloop could carry more than 18 gunsQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:28:57Why frigates could not simply mount long 32-pounders everywhereQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:31:09Broadside weight mattered only inside effective rangeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:34:17What was an Age of Sail razee?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:38:08Could USS Constitution fight HMS Victory?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:22:06How would HMS Indefatigable fare against USS Constitution?Q&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered45:51Old ships' boats may survive without a clear pedigreeQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered50:17Earlier refrigeration improves endurance more than tacticsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books12:01How European navies secured shipbuilding timberQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:10Why armed merchant ships carried carronadesQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books40:11Sending HMS Victory back before the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:04:38How a major refit changed a sailing warship's gunsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:27:27Bombay craftsmanship versus Havana timberQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:00:00French speed versus British endurance in ships of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered40:31How naval histories handle the hardships of ratingsQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:10:40Ordinary, guard ship, depot ship, and hulk in the sailing navyQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:13:48Constitution has the weight, but Cochrane makes the result uncertainQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:39:38Modern admirals map imperfectly onto Napoleonic command rolesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:24:08Fires, coverings, and whaling routes sustained high-latitude sailing fleetsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!35:27Why there is no simple first frigateQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:04:27Brigs as the age of sail's unsung workhorsesQ&A
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence25:10Balanced fleets depend on ships below the battle lineChapter
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!32:28Successful frigate captains could earn modern-millionaire fortunesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!43:18The 1821 Britannia would make a compelling first-rate replicaQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:23:18Captured Louis XIV names gave Royal Navy fleets a pointed messageQ&A
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response0:25From bomb vessels to coastal monitorsQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat55:19Nelson's Trafalgar fleet against the ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:01:15How Nelson might attack the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:07:52A treasure fleet or Tribal destroyer against the ArmadaQ&A
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies2:12Congreve rockets put heavy firepower on light shipsChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare40:58Kiln-dried timber in seventeenth-century shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:12:06Modern naval weapons against Age of Sail fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:04:47Explosive shells make Trafalgar far more lethalQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:11:23Second rates fit missions and yards that first rates could notQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:18:14Commander ranks grew from ships too small for post captainsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:28:39Captain could be an address without being the officer's rankQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:30:47Master and Commander compresses several real ship ratingsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:43:26A 9-pound shot might lodge in USS Midway's islandQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:58:07How the Royal Marines became a naval forceChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series7:00How a naval-history quiz can manufacture a misconceptionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series19:40The modern improvement for an age-of-sail crewQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:14:05Old sailing-warship types faded through changing rolesQ&A
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)0:23The centuries-long supply chain behind a sailing fleetChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series50:32Why Harrison's chronometer matteredQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:26:04Hammocks as naval beddingQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:40:21The gap in broad Indian Ocean naval historiesQ&A
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19607:02Why pre-1860 naval guns still looked familiarChapter
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:13:23HMS Heroine and the name's long Royal Navy serviceNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:50:38Why losing a cannon did not necessarily condemn a captainQ&A
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences2:00:20Moving ship cannon into coastal fortsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 525:59Finding a reference for square-rig sail terminologyQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!16:14Why a fourth rate offered awkward living conditionsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!39:08What sailing-ship sails were made fromQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!56:22How diagonal bracing could strengthen sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:26:44Why sailing navies stopped at three gun decksQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:33:52How gun decks determined flag accommodationQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:44:11How George III would cross the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:51:10How the U.S. original six frigates crossed oceansQ&A
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough2:06Why fourth rates sat in an awkward middle groundChapter
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough15:07The rating system began as a pay systemNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer9:54Singing, morale, and work aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer10:25What happens when a broadside gun is disabledQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer11:08How a first-rate uses its height against a third-rateQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer20:33How powder monkeys advanced into sailor rolesQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer27:16What follows when a lieutenant challenges the sailing masterQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:07:18What HMS Victory's broadside could do to a container shipQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:28:07From opening salvo to fire at willNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:47:04Why age-of-sail crews kept working under fireQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:55:07How great refits extended age-of-sail careersNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?4:47Operating an age-of-sail cannonChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?19:21Danger inside an age-of-sail gun deckNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?20:51Why more gun ports were not always betterNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?26:37Industrial capacity favors proven standard gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:51Why ships of the line were rare on the American west coastQ&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail5:02What counts as losing command of the sea?Chapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail9:26Why the Raid on the Medway does not qualifyNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:13:17Standard rations and the scale of naval victuallingNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:26:21How sailing warships handled livestock before actionQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued27:34HMS Victory's career beyond TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued44:42James II and the development of signal flagsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:03:58Signal flags traded secrecy for usable commandQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:56:08Rigging turns square sails without rotating the mastQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:48:53Finding Age of Sail naval memoirsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:52:38Clearing an age-of-sail warship for actionQ&A
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)49:40Why trained crews can matter more than hullsNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)15:14How sailors endured tropical heatQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:09:55Tonnant shows the long service life of a wooden warshipNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:49:13Why an 80-gun ship changed rates by 1801Notable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)2:40:00Why a wooden warship was difficult to scuttleQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:02:31Radio would transform age-of-sail command and controlQ&A
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?49:45Prizes traded time for intelligenceNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?52:24Finding the French and forming a flying squadronChapter
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...1:23:29Where the age-of-sail analogy stopsNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:28:32The Glorious First of June through contemporary lettersChapter
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation1:13:04Better rope lets the Royal Navy rig for smaller crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus37:21Why an age-of-sail frigate was more than a gun countQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus58:14The Royal Navy's wooden wallsQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:24:25The Armada's limited influence on naval warfareQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:25:42Why naval and land guns used different carriagesQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:23:22The long history of the name DelightNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...12:52Why smaller ships avoided the battle lineNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...40:30Pre-Trafalgar ship construction under fireNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation0:01Navigation as a scarce professional skillChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)1:21:31Using the wind and distance during a pursuitNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)1:26:37Concentrating naval fire under the game's rulesNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)2:08:54Galleons against rated warshipsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)4:03:20When game fleet actions resemble cavalry combatNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:16:43Lord Sandwich and Admiralty strategy in the Age of SailNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:35:08Baltic convoys and disguised British tradeChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:56Brest's tides, reefs, and three difficult exitsChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron11:50Wind and weather could break a close blockadeChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)14:50Searching for historical Anglo-French fleet combinationsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)9:02Choosing when a naval battle needs hands-on commandNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:00:41Gun decks became living space until the ship cleared for actionQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:10:23Age of Sail gunners chose hull or rigging by tactical needQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)1:36:57Why steamships are limited in Empire: Total WarQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)1:40:03Fire safety before steam propulsionNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books18:51Why better navigation would not free sailing fleets from geographyQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books47:16HMS Africa's solitary approach at TrafalgarNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books54:40How a gun deck shifted between combat and daily lifeNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:05:57A guide to the steam battleship's emergenceChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:22:35How steamships managed coal soot on their sailsQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:29:47The fire that destroyed HMS Glasgow at Montego BayNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:46:35HMS Surprise recaptures Hermione at Puerto CabelloNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:48:17How an ice-free Arctic changes Age of Sail strategyQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:24:48Command of the Ocean as a broad guide to naval historyChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:33:54The Brest blockade beyond the famous fleet actionsChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books3:08:04The many Royal Navy ships named AntelopeNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)11:52A close-in weapon system would overwhelm an age-of-sail warshipQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources5:20Historical naval tactics and Total War's combat rulesNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources21:46A modern cruise ship as army transport in the age of sailQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)1:36:27Line tactics and game fire controlNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)2:31:13Single-frigate escape and capture tacticsNotable Point
- Blockade!!5:38Phantom blockades exploit signaling and confirmation biasNotable Point
- Blockade!!25:16Sustaining a blockade at seaChapter
- Blockade!!27:05Local purchasing sustains the blockading fleetNotable Point
- Blockade!!40:16A wind shift exposes the French advanced squadronChapter
- Blockade!!43:46Rigging fire and the escape under Toulon's batteriesNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)2:38Fleet concentration and port defenseNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)1:02:00Pirate action, chain shot, and prizesChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)1:31:48Fifth-rate engagement tacticsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)1:42:35Overwhelming and capturing a pirate galleonChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)2:28:11Capturing a race-built galleonChapter
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak5:12Refrigeration, fresh vegetables, and health at seaQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak27:05Why the Drinkwater novels suit a naval television seriesQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:00:11How combat exposure changed from sail to global warQ&A
- Ship Design0:00Institutional memory behind ship shapeChapter
- Ship Design3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)4:52Royal Navy standardization and industrial rootsQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)12:35Teak and imperial shipbuildingNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)13:29California redwoods and warship material selectionQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)21:24Oak forests and century-scale state planningChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)27:40Second rate, third rate, and naval languageQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)34:01Seasonal rivers, carts, and timber bargesQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)38:09Merchant ships and naval timber standardsQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)54:49Captured timber and hulk valueQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)57:26Two-decker second rates and sea-keepingQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)1:13:27Lumber convoys as strategic prizesQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)1:16:06Ships, crews, and tradition on sail-era timescalesNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites49:20Anson's Pacific expedition: unsuitable troops, disease, and ship lossesChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites54:33Anson's depleted crews: care, prize money, and naval disciplineNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites56:06Keeping Centurion at sea: Tinian repairs and Macau diplomacyNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:08:54How eleven ships kept company at seaQ&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:19:31What limited severe punishment aboard Royal Navy ships?Q&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:23:54Royal Navy promotion before Victorian rigidityNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century4:00Oak timelines behind ships of the lineChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century8:31Forests as strategic naval resourcesNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century10:20Naval timber control and dockyard enforcementNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century16:08HMS Thunderer at the scale of 3,400 oaksNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:10:17The third-rate balance at Cape St VincentChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:24:36The three-decker force mix at TrafalgarChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:26:31Boarding mechanics and the capture of ships of the lineNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:54:22Rigid fighting instructions and the Western SquadronChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine59:08Prestige weakened Russian naval professionalismNotable Point
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course6:13Letters of marque turn private ships into naval toolsChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:15:52Modern naval firepower compressed the chance to surrenderQ&A
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction8:38Kemal Reis, Grimani, and uneven fleet commandChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction11:02Zonchio and the first cannon exchange at seaChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat11:28Christmas at sea as a naval morale traditionQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat52:17Nelson's inconclusive Christmas frigate actionNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars0:34Colonization begins with routes and supportChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars8:24Sail-and-steam redundancy explains shipboard resilienceNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars16:02Gravity-assist routes resemble age-of-sail navigationNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars18:58Phoenician trade routes grew into support citiesChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars22:00Viking reach depended on self-sufficient crewsNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars24:02Explorers usually discovered routes, not empty landsNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars25:15Portuguese expansion followed the price of trade routesChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars56:34Support ports turn damage into a recoverable casualtyNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.10:55Colonization needs larger ships and techniciansChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.43:43Phoenician ports and Viking crews as colony lessonsChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.52:12Viking routes and the flat-earth mythNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.56:36Portuguese routes and the economics of direct tradeChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:17:34Why Spanish treasure routes favored British interceptionQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:16Napoleonic brigs as frigate substitutesQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat10:17Small escorts do the fleet's daily workQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat13:25Majorca as a Mediterranean strategic prizeQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat22:24The long Royal Navy lineage of WarspiteQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat32:05HMS Africa's isolated approach at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat38:17What paid off and in ordinary meanQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:46:54Admirals on Samuel Hood's path to commandChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:35:18A modern wooden sailing warship becomes a larger WarriorQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat4:06:11The smallest modern gun for defeating an Age of Sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:20:26Chart secrecy and the slow adoption of Mercator navigationChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:36:34How officers and institutions shaped shipboard cultureQ&A
- Visiting Cutty Sark0:25A look at Cutty Sark's riggingNotable Point
- Visiting Cutty Sark0:37Tea chests and standardised cargoNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...57:44What the Trafalgar Chronicle offers beyond battle narrativeNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:25:11Why merchant crews were paid off and rehired in portQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:31:16How ships carried Enlightenment ideas across the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:14:18Terriers controlled rats aboard small craft, while larger shipboard dogs also went to warQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 450:51A frigate-heavy 1806 fleet still needs third ratesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:03:58Poland's age-of-sail navy illustrates the limits of state capacityQ&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:09:28What determined an Age of Sail ship's rate?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:14:58Did the Royal Navy invent fireships?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:20:51Post-Napoleonic warships packed heavier batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations18:00A modeler's guide to HMS VictoryChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:59:21A hypothetical meeting between Zheng He and Portuguese sailorsQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:23:32How small sailing warships were ratedQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:25:48Why old warship wrecks may survive unevenlyQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:37:02War films make elite weapons and brutal discipline too commonQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:53:14A 36-hour watch is brutal and operationally wastefulQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:03:21The Royal Navy ships most dangerous to their own crewsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:29:39Designing an age-of-sail ship to repel boardersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 255:18Cleanliness and health aboard Age of Sail warshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:07:02How Age of Sail capital ships were ratedQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:07:35Preferred sailing waters in the Age of SailQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out11:33Why South American navies bought old gun cruisersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out26:26Dutch or English shipbuilding for a global sailing navyQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches42:45What authority did a sailing ship's master hold?Q&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches45:02Was Master Gunner an actual naval title?Q&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams0:08The high-low mix hides a navy's essential middleNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:06:43HMS Terror from bomb vessel to discovery shipChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.32:34Bermuda's endurance and India's lost shipbuilding transitionChapter
- Ruse de guerre7:24HMS Swallow traps Bartholomew RobertsChapter
- Ruse de guerre14:04Warships repeatedly borrowed merchant identitiesNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre19:04An en flûte transport can display one full broadsideNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare12:14Paint and maintenance complicated age-of-sail identificationNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare58:08Pulo Aura: merchantmen bluff a French squadronChapter
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:12:18Master and Commander visualizes a full ship disguiseNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:25:07Warren reverses the Pulo Aura disguiseChapter
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:33:35Why ten extra guns can compound an advantageQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:34:22How Amazon disabled Belle Poule with few casualtiesQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:35:14Broadside superiority grows as guns and crews are lostNotable Point
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today8:48Why a 36-gun vessel is a frigate, not a brigQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today16:49How rare were 104-gun first rates?Q&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today22:50Why broadside weight did not determine a ship's rateQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:46:14Why brig-rigged frigates remained rare experimentsQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:05:49Royal Navy boarding actions stranger than fictionQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)38:07How frigates, cruisers, and destroyers changed rolesQ&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:46:16Which era of French naval history is Dr. Clarke's favorite?Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:48:14Following the Glorious First of June through maps and orders of battleChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)5:43The enduring missions of cruising warshipsChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?0:31The cruising role before cruisersChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)4:48Why the Blonde class were destroyer killersChapter
- Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart4:43Why the title says sailed rather than mastedNotable Point
- Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart5:18Elvar discipline compared with the Royal NavyQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:07:20Did navies exchange captured ships?Q&A
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)29:56Building American cruiser doctrine from scratchChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:34:57Why size alone does not make a battleshipNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:46Why an exploration cruiser needs exceptional volumeChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century23:39A cruiser can still be a capital shipChapter
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...16:57Coordinating mixed fleets before radioQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...33:17How the Royal Navy exposed phantom crewsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:20:34How a hostile posting could punish an age-of-sail officerQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions39:34Galleons and galleys in the same fleetQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions40:02Could HMS Victory return to sea?Q&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:00:30Building and improving Age of Sail ship modelsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:34:51Who enforced discipline aboard an Age of Sail warshipQ&A
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)32:24Training officers to outgrow their last commandNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:41:33River Plate and Hood's chase orders as tactical innovationQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:48:49Why sustained competition favored Western sailing naviesQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:57:58How a modern warship would attack an Age of Sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:04:19Watertight spaces predated whole-ship compartmentationQ&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol10:39Corfu as an Ionian naval baseChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...23:48Maintaining sails on early steam-converted warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:07:00How sailing warships endured lightningQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider28:42If the early U.S. Navy built first-rates instead of frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:24:02Admiral Hood’s career and mentorshipNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:55:24Where HMS Implacable might have survived as a museumQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:45:05A forgotten HMS Victory and Admiral BalchenNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions9:15Why bronze cannon carried personal inscriptionsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru5:42Why a rebuilt sailing warship becomes a different shipQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru14:29HMS Victory in the Anglo-Dutch WarsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru23:15Why the Royal Navy has a strong claim to the longest continuous historyQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:14:09Why naval rigs moved toward boom-and-gaff arrangementsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:26:40How junk-rigged ships compare with Western sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)28:35The sea as an opponent in the South AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:37:44Could a third British column have protected Nelson?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:41:45Why strong Indian shipyards did not create local battle fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:17:04What the poop deck did aboard sailing shipsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:19:35When forecastles and sterncastles ceased to be fighting positionsQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...32:18Post captain as a substantive rankQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...49:05Timber quality sets the practical length of an eighteenth-century warshipQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:35:45Anson's Navy and the infrastructure behind a fleetChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII6:05Why early night actions closed to spar rangeNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...14:22Age-of-sail store ships and self-repairChapter
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...20:05Wood stocks and everyday repair work aboard sailing shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...24:36What did ship's carpenters do in battle?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...25:49How often did crews work the bilge pumps?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...27:04Prize crews and promotion for ship's carpentersNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...28:01What is a spar on a sailing ship?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...30:15Why sailmakers valued ship's catsQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...31:12Could sailing fleets replenish at sea?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...32:05Why gun carriages dominated post-battle repair workNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...35:28Did other sailing navies use similar maintenance systems?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...44:30Were ship's carpenters also surgeons or blacksmiths?Q&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions7:58What sailors might hear aboard an eighteenth-century warshipQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:48:58Wooden warships as complex industrial investmentsChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions2:01:15Warship cutaways can turn curiosity into naval-history studyChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:28:48HMS Thunderer as a favourite 74-gun shipQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:30:22Three starting books for the Anglo-Dutch WarsQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol3:06Trafalgar, wind, and global naval operationsChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat18:23Quiberon Bay and Hawke's fighting spiritChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:21:03Nelson's Navy through objects and frigatesChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:27:52Why frigate commanders resisted reassignmentQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:13:40Muskets, cutlasses and boarding pikes at seaQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles5:17From Trafalgar's sail fleets to DreadnoughtChapter
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:04:22Columbus and the blurred merchant-warship boundaryQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:29:33Roman and medieval warships compared across different seasQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:31:47Where to research HMS Badger and an obscure sloopQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore19:44Blockade logistics predated steam naviesNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:20:42Where corvettes fit among Nelson-era warshipsQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:56:24Counting babies born during naval battlesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:04:11Why age-of-sail warships became harbour guard shipsQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:55:17Were warships already divided into formal rates?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:07:28Early line tactics still led into repeated melee attacksNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:23:23Which unbuilt age-of-sail ships are most intriguing?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:08:32Translating Napoleonic fleets into World War II warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:03:48A modern warship line without the steam-and-shell revolutionQ&A
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?3:29Building an Age of Sail squadron around ships of the lineChapter
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?6:47Chain, round, and grape shot as a tactical sequenceNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?8:27Why tons burthen is not displacementNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?9:34Why generic Age of Sail diagrams can misleadNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?32:02Pounder guns and muzzle-loading practiceChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:31:21The two British battles of CopenhagenQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:53:09Why fire ships worked against the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:09:17Why Napoleon's Continental System struggled to choke BritainQ&A
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/71:53Why ancient ramming does not translateNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy3:34Camperdown, blockade pressure, and Duncan's attackChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy5:46Duncan's reputation for personal combatNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy7:16Camperdown's captures and the limits of prize valueNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol6:16A competent captain under Saint VincentChapter
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol9:46Why sailing-ship command demanded specialist seamanshipNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol43:42Villeneuve declines his own renewed attackNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions58:48Howard of Effingham and the hit-first traditionNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail6:29Frigate origins as speed and economic warfareChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail13:47Why frigates were not disposable warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail15:01Did frigatebirds take their name from sailing frigates?Q&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail15:27Why fleets needed smaller frigate-like shipsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail18:29How early frigates acquired familiar cruising rolesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail20:52Battle of the Downs and the frigate-hull advantageNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail27:56How a navy specified a new frigateQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail29:20How the Dutch tracked the Spanish fleet before the DownsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail31:12Gun-deck height, stability, and seakeepingQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail36:07Global trade made frigates into cruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail40:31Why frigates were not simply enlarged pinnacesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail42:44How a pinnace could be both ship's boat and sailing craftQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail46:18How long a sailing frigate could remain at seaQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail47:14Great frigates and the battlecruiser ideaQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail53:30Could USS Constitution be called a battlecruiser?Q&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail59:30Medee and the classic sailing frigateNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:03:35How captured French frigates changed British designsNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:06:16How captured French designs led toward HMS SurpriseQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:08:1618-pounder frigates and carronade tradeoffsNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:14:22From captured Hebe to the Leda and Seringapatam classesNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:18:15Pallas-class captures as design intelligenceNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:19:58Why carronades were omitted from nominal gun ratingsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:20:39Spanish treasure frigates and prize-money politicsNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:32:31What happened when a captured ship duplicated a Royal Navy nameQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:33:15When long guns or carronades decided a frigate fightQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:33:45Why Spanish treasure fleets had to land at CadizQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:35:20Why a frigate captain might not want a larger commandQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:36:35Super-heavy frigates before the War of 1812Notable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:40:54How Royal Navy frigates compared with American super-heaviesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:46:09Royal Navy razees predated the War of 1812Notable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:48:46Why third rates did not dominate the frigate war of 1812Q&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:49:27Why copper appeared early in powder magazinesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:49:56How gun size affected age-of-sail rate of fireQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:51:00How much live oak helped American heavy frigatesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:53:47How razees expressed the battlecruiser philosophyQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:56:58Why frigates usually stayed out of the line of battleQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:57:47How sailing warships kept sparks out of powder magazinesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:00:37What actually determined a frigate's speedQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:05:38Sovereign of the Seas and the meaning of a long service lifeNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:06:49How Sovereign of the Seas changed gun ratingsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:10:59How a powder magazine was lit without an open flameQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:14:28Nelson boarding one enemy ship through anotherQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:16:42Spardeck frigates built to hunt American heavy frigatesNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:22:19Why sailing navies treated black powder so cautiouslyQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:22:42When a spardeck frigate could trouble a ship of the lineQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:23:58Why the upper level was called a spardeckQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:25:05Edward Pellew and the Western Frigate SquadronChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:32:25Ralph Collier's attack on FlecheNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:40:13Post ships and the lower boundary of a Royal Navy frigateChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:44:15Sidney Smith's precocious command and intelligence apprenticeshipChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:48:11Sidney Smith from Swedish fleet command to the Toulon firesChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:50:32Sidney Smith's Western Squadron raids, capture, and escapeChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:54:43What happened to a prize captured after peaceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:14:32From boarding combat to gun-armed sailing fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books44:27Why Royal Navy ships carried the name BarfleurQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books52:42Why second-rate ships of the line were less prominentQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:45:37Why fighting tops offered little protectionQ&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.11:06Why states granted East India monopoliesChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.32:14East India Company trade power at seaChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.37:20East Indiamen as long-range bulk carriersNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.46:26Arniston shows the voyage rhythm of East IndiamenNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:07:10HMS Calcutta shows the merchantman-warship gapNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:09:53Blackwall frigates succeeded the classic East IndiamenChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune0:18John Quilliam's career beyond TrafalgarChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune4:00Prize money, frigate command, and Quilliam's court martialNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune4:40Why the Quilliam book is a useful sourceNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune7:27HMS Amazon as a prime frigate appointmentChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune8:52Edward Riou saves HMS Guardian after an iceberg strikeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune9:41Riou's hard discipline and preventive cleanlinessNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune12:05Amazon trains sails and guns before convoy dutyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune14:01Privateers, letters of marque, and recaptureNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune16:21Amazon moves toward the Baltic crisisChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune20:08Who Favourite of Fortune is forNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword39:52Why a sailing ship could not use a dreadnought gun layoutQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword48:38Why HMS Warrior could dominate the fleets of TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History57:45The American Revolution as a global naval warChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:09:25Why Britain did not permanently clear France from the CaribbeanQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:28:36Winter limits, Atlantic trade, and the road to the Glorious First of JuneChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:34:22John Clerk, line-breaking theory, and tactical controversyChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:44:46Convoy intelligence and the difficulty of finding a fleet at seaChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:10:56How Howe attempted deliberate line-breaking before 1 JuneChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:29:59Battle damage, fog, and the approach to 1 JuneChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:37:48How Howe tried to break the French lineChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:06:07Why Victory at Trafalgar was not Warrior at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:07:01Why a razee could beat a new frigate as an 1815 commandQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail4:54How winds and sailing seasons shaped strategyChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail11:27How sailing ships reached ports far upriverQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail12:37Defining the start of the age of sailNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail17:22Naval history as national historyChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail34:11From king's ships to permanent purpose-built warshipsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail37:06Traditional shipbuilding skills still surviveQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail39:59Why wooden splinters were lethal in battleQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail41:20The best sailing warship depended on its missionQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail43:03Why the 74-gun USS America was underwhelmingQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail46:08How explosive cannonballs were fusedQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail47:09Why an age-of-sail frigate was not a destroyerQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail47:57Why a 74 could outperform a larger ship of the lineQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail48:40Orders to distant stations traveled at the speed of shipsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail49:40Hemp was a constant demand; copper was a critical investmentQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail52:10Fresh water set an age-of-sail ship's rangeQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail57:37Climate and landfalls shaped early Atlantic routesQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail59:46Major rebuilds could keep a 74 in service for decadesQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:06:58Francis Austen's Royal Navy careerChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:17:31Italian sea power before a unified ItalyNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:18:54Entangled rigging could lock two ships into a death spiralNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:20:13Why Royal Navy admirals carried red, white, and blue ranksQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:21:21Later sailing navies prepared hulls in dry dockQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:31:07No sailing ground was completely safeQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:31:53Admiral ranks began as positions in the battle lineQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:41:42The Napoleonic Wars were also an Indian Ocean conflictChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:42:56Before standard weather scales, sailors judged wind by sea and riggingNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:47:01Surviving an Indian Ocean hurricane under sailChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:07:09At Lagos, convoy duty made battle unavoidableQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?4:34How the China Fleet bluffed a French squadron at Pulo AuraQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?18:21Why oak and teak were prized for wooden warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?51:41Why peacetime promotion slowed the Georgian Royal NavyQ&A
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:51:51How could a surrendered wooden ship be repaired?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda11:09Why HMS Falkland is absent from the Colony frigatesQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-935:17Fleet numbers, specialist ships, and wartime reuseNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments7:30Twilight visibility in the 1696 Dogger Bank actionQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments8:15Why frigate, sloop, and brig labels can overlapQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment16:19Pepys's Navy as a guide to Restoration warshipsChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment20:39How Restoration gun crews prepared and aimed at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment27:09Why sailing warships could not rely on fixed trajectory tablesQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment29:11Midshipmen as messengers and combat leadersQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment32:05Grog and working routines aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment35:31Children aboard fighting ships in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment37:48Would David Beatty have fared better in the age of sail?Q&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:10:04Why there was no standard Elizabethan warshipQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:12:00Drake's Pelican and the logistics of an oceanic raidChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 17811:56How the Age of Sail rating system shaped a battle lineChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 17819:24Why battle lines did not remain tidyNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 16966:09What Age of Sail warship ratings measuredChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects41:32Tracing Royal Navy names across centuriesChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects42:15Why two 32-gun ships could have different fighting powerNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191618:31How guns replaced crew size in the ship rating systemChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191623:51Charles Galley as a specialist Mediterranean warshipNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191628:00How a fourth rate differed from a fifth rateQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191634:04Why convoyed merchant ships carried limited armamentQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191635:28Was the Dutch convoy under-escorted?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191643:52The balanced British and Dutch fleets of 1781Chapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191645:21Ship ratings changed as warships grewChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191647:09Why battle ensigns were enormousQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191656:42How frigates joined an age-of-sail fleet battleQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:01:43Age-of-sail admirals fought beyond central directionNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:32:22Why sailing navies painted wooden hullsQ&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)50:30How close did naval guns need to be for shore support?Q&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)1:22:57HMS Diamond Rock and a three-gun defenceNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today13:25Builder's Old Measurement and sailing-ship tonnageNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations35:15An 1880 naval chronicle close to the age of sailChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)16:55Captain Cook's exploration ship began as a collierQ&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)56:44How did the age-of-sail frigate role become the cruiser role?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)24:34Sicilian currents buy time for Duquesne's reinforcementNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:11:01Fleet lists reveal Stromboli's communications and logisticsChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:11:36Fast snows carry orders between squadronsNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:41:06De Ruyter turns maneuver and broadsides against French gun numbersChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:32:22How large was a sixty-gun ship in the 1670s?Q&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History51:30Officer and sailor rations in Nelson's navyNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History55:05Who cooked a sailors' mess's rations in Nelson's navy?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:00:15Trafalgar Chronicle and the reputation of William CornwallisChapter
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:26:46Had British and French gunnery already diverged?Q&A
- HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/41:52The long naval history behind the Arethusa nameChapter
- HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/411:56The Belle Poule duel and the weather gaugeNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review7:35Britain and the Ocean Road for maritime beginningsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy20:24How fast could a ship of the line sail?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:23:20A multinational Royal Navy built around sea skillChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:29:54What made a topman an elite sailor?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:33:48How much could an Age of Sail mast flex?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:40:03Mast timber, hull wood, and salt-water seasoningNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:42:41Choose rigging or hull fire by the tactical objectiveQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:14:22Was Hornblower based on a real officer?Q&A
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol13:46Age-of-Sail sloops as the fleet's working networkNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:11:51Why a wooden warship needed valued tradesmenQ&A
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson0:54Mutiny and officer discipline in the Age of SailChapter
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson2:38Why junior officers had to think independently at seaNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson3:55A deep survey of the Royal Navy, 1649-1815Notable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson6:13Finding an enemy fleet on an open seaNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson7:53How Howe's fleet turned maritime clues into contactNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:17:08How early did sailors go ocean-going?Q&A
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)42:36Texel and the changing Age of SailChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 234:01An early stage in the age of sailNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:11Command discretion and private conduct at seaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:50Punishment, accountability, and restraint in naval disciplineQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:20:24Authority through restraint in shipboard disciplineQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:11A reading path from sail to the dreadnought eraChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:12Naval timber shaped Britain’s forestsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:19:09Robert Blake and the wider work of an admiralQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:05Age-of-sail logistics without reliable schedulesQ&A
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 310:00Trafalgar rewarded a plan the fleet could executeChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A56:39Why an age of sail ship could lose its bow and keep fightingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:37:11Collingwood in Nelson's place at TrafalgarQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history9:56The first Leander from the Nile to CorfuChapter
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history17:07A second Leander for distant-station serviceChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 16:35Were purpose-built landing craft needed before World War I?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?7:51The sloop label survived changing hulls and missionsNotable Point