Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Breech-Loading Guns

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  1. Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    12:57Identifying an unusual rifled breechloaderQ&A
  2. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:04:34Vertical sliding breeches and turret spaceQ&A
  3. Ironclads go Two Decker....
    30:49How a two-decker Warrior might distribute roughly a hundred gunsChapter
  4. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    7:13:30What an Age of Sail breech-loader would requireQ&A
  5. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    6:01:49Why QF and BL labels complicate British 6-inch gun comparisonsNotable Point
  6. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:16:44Krupp's preference for sliding-block breechesQ&A
  7. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    9:13:35Arming Great Eastern with heavy breechloadersQ&A
  8. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    9:47:17How a reliable breech block would change an age-of-sail gunQ&A
  9. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    10:20:25Why a battleship-scale Puckle gun adds more machinery than firepowerQ&A
  10. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    9:26:34If the Welin breech block appeared in 1830Q&A
  11. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    9:30:02How early breech loading could change ammunition supplyQ&A
  12. Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships
    17:45Why large muzzle-loading guns persistedChapter
  13. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:26:34An interrupted-thread breech belongs to the screw-breech familyQ&A
  14. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    2:15:10Reliable breech-loading naval guns in 1750Q&A
  15. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    32:36Quick-firing guns meet breech pressure and shell weightChapter
  16. New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response
    7:35Could New Ironsides have been rebuilt?Q&A
  17. Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada
    1:02:00Were Blanco Encalada's nine-inch guns muzzle-loaders?Q&A
  18. HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 6
    10:19Why turrets encouraged breechloadingNotable Point
  19. HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 6
    17:22A later breechloading refitNotable Point
  20. HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?
    54:30Armstrong guns and breech-loading riskChapter
  21. HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?
    57:09Rushed procurement and the Armstrong breech sealNotable Point
  22. Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers
    28:54Breech-loaders, muzzle-loaders, and the search for a reliable gunNotable Point
  23. HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p4
    11:41Muzzle-loaders, partial rearmament, and torpedoesChapter
  24. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    2:41:23Breech-loaders in 1812 trade rate of fire for reliabilityQ&A
  25. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    3:28:34What reliable breech-loaders would change at seaQ&A
  26. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:53:43Why Warrior's Armstrong breech-loaders struggledQ&A
  27. Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora
    1:51:43HMS Hood's 13.5-inch guns were breech-loadersQ&A
  28. Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era
    59:07What Alexandria revealed about ironclad gunneryQ&A