Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Bittern Class Sloops

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  1. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    4:06:13An early escort program changes the U-boat warChapter
  2. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    8:18:00How the Bittern hull led to different escort rolesNotable Point
  3. What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?
    37:00Bittern and Egret development leads toward Black Swan and Hunt escortsChapter
  4. Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s
    1:25:08Designing sloop hulls for rapid destroyer conversionNotable Point
  5. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    8:02How Britain could mass-produce submarine escortsNotable Point
  6. Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 2
    5:13Black Swans and the Royal Indian NavyChapter
  7. Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 2
    8:16From Bittern and Egret to the Black SwanNotable Point
  8. Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 1
    0:01The Egret-class sloops and two revealing wartime lossesChapter
  9. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    1:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
  10. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    3:52Spreading sloop construction kept escort-building skills aliveNotable Point
  11. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    6:25Why the first ship did not give the class its nameNotable Point
  12. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    8:03Treaty speed limits shaped the Bitterns' machineryChapter
  13. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    13:23HMS Stork's survey fit left a quick route to wartime escort serviceNotable Point
  14. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    14:54Sloops traded torpedoes and speed for treaty-compliant escort workChapter
  15. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    15:48Sloop assignments show deliberate prewar ASW specializationChapter
  16. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    22:51The four-inch battery could serve above and on the waterNotable Point
  17. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    26:43Nine sloops a year offered a treaty-era escort alternativeChapter
  18. HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class
    20:18Why a sloop's peacetime outfit could conceal its wartime roleNotable Point
  19. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    43:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
  20. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:43:38How treaty-era sloops stayed under the 20-knot lineQ&A
  21. ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    23:39Sloops as long-range anti-submarine convoy escortsChapter
  22. Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol
    58:18From Bittern surveys to Black Swan escortsChapter
  23. Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol
    1:07:08HMS Bittern at NamsosNotable Point
  24. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    8:35Hunt-class destroyers as dedicated escortsChapter
  25. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    15:51How treaty rules enabled heavily armed sloopsQ&A
  26. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    28:07A familiar hull made the Hunt design easier to trustNotable Point
  27. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops
    10:25The Bittern class as a multi-role sloopNotable Point
  28. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops
    14:07The Black Swan lineage begins with BitternNotable Point
  29. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 4
    35:34HMS Enchantress combined sloop, yacht, and presence rolesNotable Point
  30. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    39:50Bittern design linked peacetime needs to wartime escortsChapter
  31. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    59:18Were Bitterns really flak sloops?Q&A