Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Armed Merchant Cruisers

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  1. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:33:23Why fast liners make expensive armed merchant cruisersQ&A
  2. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:06:08Armed merchant cruisers as commerce raidersQ&A
  3. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:34:28Peacetime roles for merchant shipgirlsQ&A
  4. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:47:39A layered system protects Atlantic sea lanes from raidersQ&A
  5. Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?
    21:32Armed merchant ships trade missile density for valuable hullsNotable Point
  6. Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?
    22:20Why a vehicle-built EMALS track is impracticalNotable Point
  7. Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?
    0:12Why the advertised missile container ship would stand outNotable Point
  8. Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?
    3:39A concealed launcher depends on the whole merchant crewNotable Point
  9. Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?
    8:08Containerised missiles require investment before a warNotable Point
  10. Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?
    1:09:53The modern requirement favors auxiliaries and protected shippingNotable Point
  11. Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?
    1:13:39Rawalpindi's torpedo counterfactualNotable Point
  12. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    1:48:42Commercial testing could mask an Admiralty requirementNotable Point
  13. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    1:16:29Radar-equipped merchant ships become potent raidersNotable Point
  14. How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?
    1:45First World War Town cruisers and unexpected merchant raidersNotable Point
  15. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    3:38Converted liners enter commerce warfareChapter
  16. Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!
    7:51Carmania fights Cap TrafalgarChapter
  17. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    33:29An armed container ship has capacity and concealment limitsNotable Point
  18. 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 3
    36:47Scheme X2 tests global trade defenseNotable Point
  19. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    42:50Fisher's obsolete ships still carried global missionsQ&A
  20. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    33:11Ocean liners as cruisers, troopships, and hospital shipsQ&A
  21. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:41:51How modern commerce raiding might workQ&A
  22. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:52:19Why Britain needed both armed merchant cruisers and merchant aircraft carriersQ&A
  23. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    45:14Merchant-service experience suited auxiliary warship commandNotable Point
  24. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:57:54Torpedoes could make armed merchant cruisers lethalQ&A
  25. Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s
    1:31:06Merchant shipping as latent naval capacityNotable Point
  26. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    45:03Why armed merchant cruisers need real striking powerNotable Point
  27. Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    50:04Balancing technology, mines, and fleet financesNotable Point
  28. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    1:42:30Italian and Japanese armed merchant cruisersQ&A
  29. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    1:34:13Where torpedoes could fit on an armed merchant cruiserQ&A
  30. Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?
    32:28Why Operation Berlin was not a carefully staged British trapNotable Point
  31. Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?
    43:49What a real Rawalpindi ambush might have looked likeNotable Point
  32. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    34:59Japan assembled a layered order of battleChapter
  33. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    12:43Hull fouling and a denser blockade narrow Graf Spee's optionsNotable Point
  34. Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    58:09Using armed merchant cruisers where enemy warships are scarceQ&A
  35. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 7
    2:22:16Merchant ships can still carry a stingNotable Point
  36. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney
    12:03Where armed merchant ships could strengthen convoysQ&A
  37. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    2:17:37Otranto took away Cradock's speed choiceNotable Point
  38. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    5:25The fall of France opens the mid-Atlantic air gapChapter
  39. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    13:29Small purpose-built cruisers versus armed merchant cruisersQ&A
  40. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:11:38Could Germany rely more on merchant raiders?Q&A
  41. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    0:26Why the Columbia class chased ocean-liner speedChapter
  42. Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p1
    34:53Unprotected cruiser or armed merchant ship?Notable Point
  43. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    28:52Give armed merchant cruisers a torpedo threatNotable Point
  44. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:35:50Where an Olympic-class liner could mount gunsQ&A
  45. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)
    12:10Washington Treaty rules for other shipsChapter
  46. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)
    14:25British ship exports and a possible County-class building programmeNotable Point
  47. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)
    16:12Could six-inch gun supports prepare merchant ships for torpedoes?Notable Point
  48. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    1:25:42What armed merchant cruisers reveal about fleet shortagesQ&A
  49. Some Sunday Naval Books
    24:50Armament choices drove the Town-class design spiralNotable Point
  50. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    33:23How earlier losses shaped Denmark Strait optionsQ&A
  51. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    45:29Aircraft torpedoes for an armed merchant cruiserNotable Point
  52. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    2:07Ludovic Kennedy remembers his father's return to commandNotable Point
  53. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    18:01What an armed merchant cruiser could actually doChapter
  54. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    22:35Rawalpindi's rapid conversion and limited armamentNotable Point
  55. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    38:00Building a fighting ship from reserves and merchant sailorsNotable Point
  56. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    54:41Churchill speaks to Ludovic Kennedy about RawalpindiNotable Point
  57. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    59:09The different wartime careers of the R-class sistersNotable Point
  58. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    1:00:23The limits of merchant conversion in a major warChapter
  59. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    1:03:31Armed merchant cruisers as a wartime force multiplierNotable Point
  60. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    4:05:48When did Britain stop using armed merchant cruisers?Q&A
  61. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    4:09:37Could merchant conversions deter piracy?Q&A
  62. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/4
    36:06Fushimi, logistics, and the appeal of visible warshipsQ&A
  63. A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 1939
    7:24Limits on converting merchant ships into armed merchant cruisers and escort carriersNotable Point
  64. Bruships 55: New Books
    1:39:03Three Canadian passenger ships take different wartime rolesNotable Point
  65. Bruships 55: New Books
    1:40:34Reconstructing HMCS Prince Robert in miniatureNotable Point
  66. William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 3
    4:05Turning HMS Corfu into an armed merchant cruiserNotable Point
  67. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result
    9:19Parliament proposes armed ocean liners as naval auxiliariesChapter
  68. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result
    11:24Why an implausible armed-liner story still shaped naval planningNotable Point
  69. Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora
    2:34:44Why carrying big guns inside ocean liners was impracticalNotable Point
  70. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys
    2:10:03Could Japan have fielded a stronger commerce-raiding force?Q&A
  71. The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)
    22:51The convoy-escort value Fisher discardedQ&A
  72. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    2:38:06HMS Rawalpindi through Ludovic Kennedy's last visitNotable Point
  73. Four Random Books 5: Destroyers
    0:05A destroyer officer’s account of the Bismarck huntChapter
  74. A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history
    41:42The danger of identifying armed merchant raidersQ&A