Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers

Also searchable as Brooklyn Class, Brooklyn Class Cruiser, Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers.

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  1. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    17:25Extra US cruisers in the Philippines still need a workable command planQ&A
  2. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    15:48Naval gunfire, field batteries, and ammunition supplyNotable Point
  3. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    49:01Task-group frigates and independent pickets need different designsNotable Point
  4. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    5:48:51Arethusa and Cleveland reveal different cruiser doctrinesQ&A
  5. What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?
    40:54Kinkaid had practical picket forces availableNotable Point
  6. Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?
    50:26Town-class cruisers gain speed or rangeChapter
  7. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:29:46Which World War II hulls could accept modern combat systems?Q&A
  8. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    8:39The Pacific Fleet battle line on 6 December 1941Chapter
  9. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    1:35:27How did British six-inch fire compare with the Brooklyn class?Q&A
  10. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    28:13Task Force 3 as the credible discovery forceChapter
  11. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    4:11:14Why the Brooklyn-class cruiser seems too slow in the gameQ&A
  12. Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 108
    2:44:53Brooklyn-class cruisers offered the strongest scouting fitQ&A
  13. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    4:32:14Why Brooklyn carried more six-inch guns than the Town classQ&A
  14. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    4:38Why the Town class was not a copy of BrooklynQ&A
  15. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII
    38:00Why send Brooklyn-class cruisers back to the Yangtze?Q&A
  16. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    24:59Wichita as a heavy-cruiser transitionQ&A
  17. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    53:16Wichita service record and Baltimore successorNotable Point
  18. US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect
    22:55Brooklyn and six-inch volume of fireNotable Point
  19. US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect
    28:08Wichita as the fighting-cruiser templateChapter
  20. US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect
    34:25Cleveland as a general-purpose wartime cruiserNotable Point
  21. US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect
    43:25Honolulu, command judgment, and moral courageNotable Point
  22. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    2:58:11Recognizing British and American cruiser layoutsNotable Point
  23. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat
    3:10:13Testing six-inch dual-purpose guns on a Brooklyn hullQ&A
  24. USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser
    0:00Why Pacific distances shaped WichitaChapter
  25. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    1:15What continuous rapid fire does to a cruiserNotable Point
  26. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    5:48Why rebuilt Savannah was held from immediate combatNotable Point
  27. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    24:36Why Brooklyn used internal magazine armourQ&A
  28. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    37:14Using radar-controlled rapid fire to break torpedo attacksNotable Point
  29. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    39:37Why Brooklyn design Scheme B used a broken deckQ&A
  30. Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    41:35Fast enough, armored enough, and hard to outmatchChapter
  31. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    0:00Why the Brooklyn class paired firepower with reconnaissanceChapter
  32. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    3:30Brooklyn design studies reveal two fixed prioritiesChapter
  33. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    6:58Turret arcs and secondary guns shape the cruiserNotable Point
  34. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    11:55Brooklyn against Magami and the British Town classNotable Point
  35. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    14:00Brooklyn machinery, fire control, and protectionChapter
  36. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    17:30Why 6-inch volume fire suited the scouting missionChapter
  37. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    21:28USS Brooklyn enters service as a globally useful cruiserChapter
  38. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    35:00Savannah's changing fittings demand date-aware identificationNotable Point
  39. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    40:35The Brooklyn hull becomes a wartime design foundationNotable Point
  40. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    1:01:25A US Navy Mediterranean counterfactual changes more than carriersNotable Point
  41. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    1:07:35St. Louis shows the mature Brooklyn designChapter
  42. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    1:31:45Brooklyn's balance carries into the Cleveland classChapter
  43. New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers
    1:12New Orleans class and the evolution of American treaty cruisersChapter
  44. UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)
    21:38Industrial capacity made Allied design learning possibleQ&A
  45. Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    0:07The US Navy's interwar cruiser transformationChapter
  46. Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    23:06Brooklyn and Omaha cruisers in the 1939 battle forceChapter
  47. Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    33:38From sound hulls to coherent American cruisersChapter
  48. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)
    50:18Town and Brooklyn layouts reveal national doctrineChapter
  49. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    1:54:45Town and Brooklyn: two valid cruiser answersChapter
  50. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    2:04:12What made the Brooklyn role distinctive?Q&A
  51. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    38:58Task Force 67's powerful but mixed columnChapter
  52. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    35:43Did fifteen-gun cruisers make the Town class feel underarmed?Q&A
  53. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    1:09:01How much damage could Boise's fifteen six-inch guns do?Q&A