Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Capital Ship Design

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  1. Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans
    1:28:08Trading Hood for an F3 battlecruiser programQ&A
  2. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    7:23:13Why semi-dreadnoughts survived into the dreadnought transitionQ&A
  3. Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?
    41:03The modified F3 as a treaty battlecruiserChapter
  4. Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?
    47:24Visualizing a late-1920s F3 developmentNotable Point
  5. Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?
    1:05:21Japan's three new fast battleshipsChapter
  6. Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?
    1:10:09British capital designs evolve by building batchNotable Point
  7. Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?
    1:13:16France must answer Italian fast capital shipsNotable Point
  8. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    4:18:44Renown, Repulse, and Resistance as purpose-built battlecruisersQ&A
  9. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:28:41A twelve-gun Bismarck would push King George V toward heavier weaponsQ&A
  10. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:32:48Radical Admiral-class redesigns would cost nearly a new shipQ&A
  11. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:36:50Fast battleships would follow the Revenge classQ&A
  12. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:50:06J3 and K2 designs would overwhelm the High Seas FleetQ&A
  13. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    2:41:42Designing a battleship in a peaceful 1942Q&A
  14. Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice
    2:40:41Would France build Dunkerque without naval treaties?Q&A
  15. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    2:19:08When British battleships and battlecruisers might convergeQ&A
  16. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    2:22:53K2 and K3 were formidable designs rather than a final practical limitQ&A
  17. Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty
    9:04Why Tillman wanted a maximum battleshipChapter
  18. Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty
    13:48Italy fought two different naval racesNotable Point
  19. Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty
    31:18Tillman III and IV as super-battleship benchmarksChapter
  20. Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty
    33:58Why battlecruiser labels need a generational baselineNotable Point
  21. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    16:03A battleship ceiling clears the way for cruisersChapter
  22. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    33:43Giant battleships face more than a Panama lock limitQ&A
  23. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    1:33:31Britain can build a squadron of F3-like fast battleshipsChapter
  24. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    1:50:42Sixteen-inch battleships preserve visible parityQ&A
  25. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    1:20:13How an F3 layout could produce a faster NelsonQ&A
  26. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    2:08:56Why torpedo-style contra-rotating propellers do not scale easilyQ&A
  27. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    3:06:21Why G3 and N3 were not the Royal Navy's whole building planQ&A
  28. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    1:47:59A 45,000-ton F3-style Nelson classQ&A
  29. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:30:06Francesco Caracciolo could define the fast battleshipQ&A
  30. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:42:34A New York-derived battlecruiser gives the US Navy a fast wingQ&A
  31. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    2:27:54N3 and South Dakota balance armor, shell weight, and volume of fireQ&A
  32. Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response
    4:06Caracciolo seakeeping beyond the MediterraneanQ&A
  33. Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response
    11:58Why the final Caracciolo design carried eight 15-inch gunsQ&A
  34. The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response
    7:48Why Tosa's rear structure is not a second funnelQ&A
  35. The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response
    10:46Why Amagi would not simply replace the Royal Navy's N3 programQ&A
  36. The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response
    13:37How a benchmark navy responds without admitting it followsNotable Point
  37. Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response
    25:21Why G3's paper turret layout might have changed in the yardNotable Point
  38. Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response
    29:51What a no-treaty battlecruiser generation might have becomeQ&A
  39. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    0:17Why the G3 remained a battlecruiserQ&A
  40. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    7:14Battlecruisers do not require fewer turretsQ&A
  41. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    12:12N3 gun caliber and an unknowable service historyQ&A
  42. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    34:28Rearranging the K3 turrets for stabilityNotable Point
  43. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    36:15The all-forward battery still left room for antiaircraft gunsQ&A
  44. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    41:41Why 1920s technology could not produce an IowaQ&A
  45. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    43:48Queen Anne's Mansions traded target size for staff spaceNotable Point
  46. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    1:06:32All-forward guns traded stern fire for tactical controlQ&A
  47. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    1:08:42Larger treaty ships widen Germany's industrial gapNotable Point
  48. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    1:16:50F3 battlecruisers as a treaty alternativeQ&A
  49. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    1:24:48N3s and the hyper-dreadnought labelQ&A
  50. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    9:30Battlecruisers as a spectrum of design intentChapter
  51. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    22:30Where Fisher's large light cruisers fitQ&A
  52. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    1:02:43Why Hood could dominate earlier dreadnoughtsNotable Point
  53. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    1:05:59What the F2 and F3 studies reveal about battlecruiser strategyQ&A
  54. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    1:28:19Why G3's armor did not automatically make it a fast battleshipNotable Point
  55. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    1:34:49Could the F3 have been the first fast battleship?Notable Point
  56. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    2:22:31Why Renown is the preferred battlecruiserQ&A
  57. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    3:31:14Gun caliber does not locate a battlecruiser on the spectrumQ&A
  58. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    3:38:08Why the 15-inch gun remained the practical choiceQ&A
  59. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    3:42French industry bounded the early capital-ship studiesNotable Point
  60. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    10:56The Deutschlands turned a cruiser killer into DunkerqueChapter
  61. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    15:21Why Britain explored a 25,000-ton battleship limitNotable Point
  62. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    46:29Spanish dreadnoughts clarify what makes a battleshipNotable Point
  63. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    1:00:01What if France had built the 36,000-ton alternative?Notable Point
  64. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 11
    34:10Introducing Eagle's heavily armored capital-ship designChapter
  65. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 11
    46:17Why mature 16.5-inch turrets beat newer 17-inch gunsChapter
  66. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 11
    54:38Spending saved gun weight on shells, protection, speed, and radarChapter
  67. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:18Why 11-inch guns did not make Scharnhorst a battlecruiserNotable Point
  68. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
  69. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    7:08Why unbuilt capital ships are revealingChapter
  70. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    9:40Germany's L20 and the appeal of 16.5-inch gunsNotable Point
  71. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    34:50Why 28 knots mattered in the MediterraneanNotable Point
  72. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    44:07When more armour can make a shell more destructiveNotable Point
  73. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    45:35Hood, G3, and the meaning of battlecruiserNotable Point
  74. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:04:02Why Britain's post-G3 plans remain uncertainNotable Point
  75. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    2:00:39Unbuilt warships as a record of national ambitionChapter
  76. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:09:43One-off capital ships carried the design process forwardQ&A
  77. Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    45:53Speed and the capital-ship spectrumNotable Point
  78. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    2:36The missing generation between Hood and NelsonChapter
  79. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    5:13Infrastructure, not aesthetics, drove the compact layoutChapter
  80. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    6:34Machinery heat, magazines, and evolving fire controlNotable Point
  81. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    8:24Wartime experience returns to the design officesNotable Point
  82. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    8:59What the unusual turret position gained and lostNotable Point
  83. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    10:24Why G3 and N3 would disrupt rival battlefleetsNotable Point
  84. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    11:28G3 speed, range, and uncertain performance marginsNotable Point
  85. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    13:20G3 as concentrated capability, not one breakthroughChapter
  86. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    15:06An alternate G3 layout for balance and maintenanceNotable Point
  87. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    18:37Internal separation made maintenance and resilience easierNotable Point
  88. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    21:25K3 as the fast nine-gun eighteen-inch extremeChapter
  89. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    22:21The armour problem created by eighteen-inch gunsNotable Point
  90. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    28:02Francesco Caracciolo and a harder Mediterranean treaty bargainNotable Point
  91. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    28:50Yamato-level firepower, not Yamato-level protectionNotable Point
  92. Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?
    1:32:49Yamato and the logic of big ships, big gunsQ&A
  93. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    2:30:25Normandie's design and the break to DunkerqueNotable Point
  94. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    1:15:28How French survival changes British shipbuildingNotable Point
  95. Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    56:01Why the alternate treaty keeps the eight-inch cruiser limitNotable Point
  96. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    34:43A fast battle line would reshape rival designsChapter
  97. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    40:16Why a two-ship pair produces a different designChapter
  98. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    41:05Why the Revenge class becomes the slow secondary lineNotable Point
  99. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    44:21Why treaty-maximum guns made the pair preciousNotable Point
  100. Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...
    1:26:36Why a pre-Washington bonus ship would not be a third NelsonQ&A
  101. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1915
    19:18Postwar capital ships extended the technology raceNotable Point
  102. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1913
    0:40HMS Tiger and the battlecruiser trade-offChapter
  103. Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments
    16:36How battlecruiser speed and guns encouraged aggressive handlingNotable Point
  104. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    22:38G3 blind arcs and concentrated turret firepowerQ&A
  105. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
  106. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    32:15All-forward main guns versus the G3 and N3 Q turretQ&A
  107. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    32:46Books for studying interwar treaty warshipsQ&A
  108. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    33:51Could the X Kiwi design fit a 35,000-ton limit?Q&A
  109. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    12:44From Dreadnought to the postwar capital-ship problemChapter
  110. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    19:29Why triple turrets were the practical sweet spotQ&A
  111. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    25:34How wartime lessons pushed British designs upwardChapter
  112. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    32:24How different Grand Fleet leadership might have changed the G3Q&A
  113. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    49:45Citadel layout concentrated guns, magazines, and armorChapter
  114. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    56:51The tactical cost of an all-forward main batteryChapter
  115. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    58:43Later British designs moved away from Nelson's all-forward batteryQ&A
  116. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:00:52Why a one-inch increase mattered for battleship gunsQ&A
  117. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:04:49Why turbo-electric drive did not solve the machinery-layout problemQ&A
  118. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:08:43Waterline protection limited extreme citadel economiesNotable Point
  119. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:25:35Why moving the G3 bridge aft complicated ship controlQ&A
  120. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:28:39G3 speed versus N3 gun powerChapter
  121. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:39:52A fast battleship compromised by its center turretNotable Point
  122. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:49:28Surviving G3s could have raised the treaty battleship ceilingNotable Point
  123. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    2:12:53Gun caliber eventually loses to rate of fireQ&A
  124. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    2:27:02M3 was an earlier step toward the N3 battleshipQ&A