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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:30:35Why modern warships take longer to buildQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:31:52French naval-architecture theory and British building experienceQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...10:49Shipbuilding scale, exports and wartime requisitionNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:57:33British pre-dreadnought export reachQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:07:54Vickers' breakup, debt and wartime asset lossesQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live23:36Scottish independence, Faslane, and naval shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:36:04Britain's narrow base of nuclear-certified shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 212:02What the 1944 G-class destroyers were forQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:13:16Could British yards build new Dog Boats?Q&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:46Cunard's overseas construction and wartime merchant supportNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:11Libertad's game faction and British design ancestryQ&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima17:08German-influenced destroyers missed TsushimaNotable Point
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?15:21A possible British bargain for Norwegian rearmamentNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!6:04British Type 26 construction and yard capacityChapter
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!8:50Scottish yards and Britain's domestic-build requirementNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!27:32Britain's two-yard model divides escort work by roleNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!41:09Construction photographs make frigate progress harder to dismissNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!42:13Type 31 delivery slippage extends the frigate gapChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon5:27:41The industrial ecosystem behind British naval powerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:53:48Where Britain might find extra shipbuilding capacityQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:14:00How an early marine-engine breakthrough could spread ashoreNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:52What a surviving Royal Dockyard could provideQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:24How procurement decisions can slow shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:44British yards could build export carriersQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:22Why Britain's naval-shipyard count is approximateQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?1:12:30Nelson refits compete with new constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:24Mothballed shipyards and British rearmamentQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:36:45Could British yards build the extra cruisers without cutting battleships?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:55:26Why Palmers declined despite building Queen MaryQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:05:45Why Palmers had less control over shipbuilding costsNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:36Why Britain did not buy Charles F. Adams destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:18Where preserved Rodney and Nelson might goQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:21British warship designs created for exportQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:59Could Britain and America revive merchant shipbuilding competition?Q&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:37How postwar British shipbuilding could have stayed strongerQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:22:15Why a future Harland and Wolff LHD remains hard to predictQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:18:36Why British paper warships look more buildableQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:08:53Why Britain could not trade two Queen Elizabeth carriers for three smaller shipsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:28:58When a River-class OPV replacement might appearQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:44:39The broad interwar market for British warship designsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?4:13:11Building six Invincibles across two shipyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:37:31Why Italy's Trieste does not simply restart British amphibious constructionQ&A
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...30:35Distributed block construction as industrial policyChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...31:44Larger dry docks and a longer carrierNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...1:29:15Rosyth assembly and the cost of delayNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:40:12If Cammell Laird completed every capital ship orderedQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'41:18British yards and Dominion orders could create a large classChapter
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:47:51Britain's post-Cold War shipyard contractionQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat26:35Tiger-derived cruisers as a bridge for British shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:46:48Why aircraft carriers still need capital-ship cranesNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:52:12Britain's capital-ship construction ceiling before 1914Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:56:53Why shipyard expansion depends on trained workersQ&A
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign38:37A large dock is not the same as shipbuilding capacityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:08:43British shipbuilding capacity in the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage15:19The surprise British-built submarine in TallinnNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:35:53Foreign orders as test beds for British warship technologyQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:28:37How building CVA-01 could have reshaped British shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:48:41Why Australasian cruisers would be built in BritainQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered53:19Where Britain obtained iron for naval steelQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:17:33Why steady warship orders lower industrial costNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:14:15Why modular warship construction needs enforced standardsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:30:36How Germany might use a captured Dutch battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:43:06Domestic warship construction and foreign standard componentsNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:09:52Why Britain's shipyards build below emergency paceQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:32:48Britain's enormous post-World War One shipbuilding advantageQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:57:28How naval construction could soften an economic downturnNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.42:11Why outsourcing does not create a warship marketQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered51:32Why one-off HMS Unicorn remained affordableQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:08:20Where China could order battlecruisers in 1913Q&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:42:50How many yards Britain needs to expand the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time25:58Chinese replacement orders would probably follow Japan toward British yardsQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:15:24Queen Elizabeth construction was modular; delay created the exceptional costQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:45:17Postwar yard competition made G3 and N3 hulls unusually affordableQ&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?31:53Why British shipyards failed despite a huge maritime industryNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?1:25:54Britain's qualitative challenge mattered more than Germany's numbersNotable Point
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 830:58The shipyard depth behind the Daring programNotable Point
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 511:44A First World War cruiser completed at interwar paceChapter
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri1:53:58Status and exports in the 1905 naval marketNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri2:00:48Does the South American dreadnought race fit this model?Q&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response23:38Britain trades debt reduction for bigger dockyardsQ&A
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?17:23Industrial depth enabled British capital shipsNotable Point
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?18:13Specialized yards limit real competitionChapter
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?22:53Britain preserved no battleship of its ownNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 84:42Japan's British-built Six-Six FleetChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 824:16Foreign powers misread Japan's battleship programNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 829:04From British trials to Japan's Standing FleetChapter
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides6:21Modular construction spreads a large-warship programme across yardsNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:55:08Why the Tide-class decision does not predict foreign-built warshipsQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 915:20Cost uncertainty and competitive naval procurementChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 919:23Northampton's distributed engine supply chainNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 103:52Spreading sloop construction kept escort-building skills aliveNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1020:21British engineering in the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 510:40The competing Dutch dreadnought designsChapter
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 512:31Almirante Latorre as a construction benchmarkNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 525:00Why a Vickers ship could be strategically usefulNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 540:00What if the Dutch had ordered in 1911?Chapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 426:18Design growth outruns German yard capacityChapter
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas15:36Japanese capital ships and British industrial accessNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas37:12What the game's Japanese advantage assumesNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:56:54Shipyard capacity limits a 1915 Japanese designNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 330:58Refit economics preserve Britain's qualitative advantageNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 355:52A wartime building decision leaves the fleet short of carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett3:19:39Policy choices shaped Britain's postwar naval limitsQ&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...56:39Italy and Japan drew on Britain's maritime industrial networkNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:13:44Could Britain have redesigned the first King George V ships after Japan left?Q&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:55:32Why capital-ship yard capacity might disappearQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:57:57Old shipyard capacity cannot simply build modern warshipsQ&A
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War17:56Ordering the Cochrane-class ironclads in BritainNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War24:08Why Chile chose Earle’s of HullNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War27:07Shipyard economics and the loss of Earle’s capacityNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada38:01What a fixed-price warship contract asked of Earle'sNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 721:48Angamos matched rival ironclad designs built in BritainChapter
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 66:41One design, two national shipyardsNotable Point
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 54:53Osmaniye-class broadside ironclads from BritainChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:27:48British shipbuilding from iron to steel, turbines, and dieselChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:56:03Why Italian cruisers used British boilers and turbinesQ&A
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 1026:47Earle's Shipbuilding and the mid-sized yard problemNotable Point
- Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p87:48Compound armour's strength-and-elasticity compromiseChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p423:06An expensive failure the Royal Navy could learn fromChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out27:10The risk of concentrating British warship constructionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out34:41British shipbuilding in the two world warsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out50:21Why shipyard capacity must be funded earlyQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments31:42Could British yards fit Dutch battlecruiser orders?Q&A
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths9:33Industrial competition behind British turbine developmentNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths18:46Shipyard capacity during the dreadnought transitionNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths21:21Why HMS Liverpool's builder seems surprisingNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths31:21London finance behind a Glasgow shipbuilderNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:28:10Britain's limited commercial shipbuilding baseQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:23:55What British commercial shipbuilding can still produceQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:07:32Britain kept motor torpedo boat development in private handsQ&A
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)40:52Palmer's shipyard, the Depression, and the Jarrow MarchChapter
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)16:41Could Yamato have been a more effective deterrent?Q&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)31:16Could HMS Unicorn lead to wartime light fleet carriers?Q&A
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)0:48When the Royal Navy set the terms for shipbuildersNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)8:53Why quality defined Cammell Laird's reputationNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)11:00Boilermaking, armour, and railways behind the shipyardNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)13:45The merger behind Pathfinder's shipyardChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)37:46A Far Eastern war changes Britain's building prioritiesNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)54:01A replacement HMS Birmingham and the limits of emergency buildingNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)28:08How a larger order could sustain industryNotable Point
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)14:15Fairfield's long shipbuilding lineageNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)0:24Narrative and technical approaches to shipbuilding historyNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)9:21Why building warships at home became politically vitalNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)17:12The Tyne as an industrial shipbuilding systemChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)26:13Postwar stagnation in British shipyardsChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)42:25Clyde output and innovation before declineChapter
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:01:11Two routes into British shipbuilding historyChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:13Northeast England's shipbuilding concentrationChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"12:18Swan Hunter's yard machinery moved from the Tyne to IndiaQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"16:48Britain's coastal network and maritime investmentQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"19:25Palmer's and the depth of Britain's shipbuilding marketChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"27:04Harland and Wolff and Workman, Clark filled Belfast's waterfrontChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"34:27An apocryphal shipyard boast becomes a source-criticism lessonNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:34:03The Cinque Ports had lost their former shipbuilding weightQ&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:26:00Q&A: Did Russia plan British-built coastal-defence ships?Q&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)5:17Could Britain actually build the N3 and G3 designs?Notable Point
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)14:33How treaty rules constrained British naval practiceNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190823:29Foreign dreadnought orders preserve surge capacityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19070:43Dreadnought production reshapes the 1907 naval balanceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190722:51Minas Geraes brings British shipbuilding into Brazil's naval expansionChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190723:43Brazilian orders give British yards a technology testbedNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:21:34A larger Type 83 need not require a larger crewQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans1:07:04España's compact dreadnought layoutChapter
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:33:11A Chilean carrier-and-battlecruiser counterfactualQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:20:43Designing an Irish coastal-defense battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:23:13Spanish reconstruction after the war of 1898Q&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:26:57Vickers and Spanish rearmamentQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class27:52Industrial capacity let Britain turn surplus guns into monitorsNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response2:18Could Britain afford the G3 and N3 programmes?Q&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes46:53The G3 orders halted by the Washington negotiationsChapter
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:52:22Capital-ship orders as employment and national policyChapter
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:29:46Could treaty construction quotas have preserved shipyard employment?Q&A
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War4:29Swan Hunter races Belfast to complete EdinburghNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:46:31Britain entered the war before its shipbuilding buildup maturedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:56A human-factors caveat on shipbuilding criticismQ&A
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 226:05A class spread across British shipbuildersNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:29:20Why British gunmakers and shipyards grew togetherNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered58:59British shipyards built more than Japan's famous battleshipsNotable Point