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- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?40:11The tentative case for Admiral-class carrier conversionsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?46:45American and Japanese carriers without compulsory conversionsNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live57:25Additional Audacious carriers and Lion conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:20:20Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth as emergency carriersQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:37:03The military use that suits a large ocean linerNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:08:38Planning liner conversions into aircraft carriersQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:13:26Criticism of India's ex-Baku carrier reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:14:19Alternatives to rebuilding India's ex-Baku carrierQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:36:39A Japanese carrier-conversion reserve after MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:46:46Converting a Kongo-class hull into an aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:40:18Rebuilding a young battlecruiser as a carrier costs too muchQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:04:13The Japanese carrier lessons Aquila neededQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 210:57Lexington battlecruisers built with Hood-style protectionQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 240:05A faster French carrier conversion for World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:28Reworking Ibuki after a carrier conversionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon11:41Akagi's strength versus Béarn's value before carrier conversionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:32:10Could a King George V hull make a useful carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:49How giant imperial dry docks change interwar capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:20Fitting giant I3 carrier conversions into a treaty ratioNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:38How India might rebuild Admiral KuznetsovQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:49Lexington class designed as an American HoodQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:25How a large Italian carrier changes British planningQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:43HMS Tiger as a treaty-era aircraft-carrier conversionQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:04:35Converting a Königsberg into an aircraft-maintenance shipNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:38What the Shahid Bagheri conversion can contributeQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:27Why an Admiral-class carrier's 1942 AA fit cannot be assumedQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:54Armament choices for Admiral-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:32Air groups for converted German ocean linersQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:03Comparing Hermes-style G3 and Eagle-style Admiral conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:40Why K3 is suggested for a formidable carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:36An Admiral-class carrier conversion could displace 37,000 to 40,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:27Larger treaty cruisers could alter carrier allowancesNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:06Converting the Admirals or the Courageous classQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...15:10Why the Independence-class light carriers resisted modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:19:46An Alaska-class conversion would be nearly a fleet carrierQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:52:26An early redesign could turn Fisher's large light cruisers into useful carriersQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:05:41Treaty carrier conversions were compromises, not ideal carriersQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:11:01Why Independence-class carriers lacked a 5-inch batteryQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:04:25Essay: Francesco Caracciolo becomes an aircraft carrierChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:39:59Why Omaha was a poor carrier-conversion hullQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:57:21Why battlecruisers made the best carrier conversionsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/41:11:35Why Béarn wants to close the range with IndependenceNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast1:03:23Could a cruiser hull make an escort carrier?Q&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'2:16:40Interwar fleets adapt to a world full of Tiger CubsChapter
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:27:12Essex and British light fleets offered different jet-conversion advantagesQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:25:45What USS Langley inherited from a collier hullQ&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?53:08USS Saratoga: battlecruiser conversion and nuclear-test victimNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:48:07Baku's conversion to Vikramaditya revealed the hull's carrier potentialChapter
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:40:39Why a fast ocean liner cannot become a battleshipQ&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion0:49Carrier design could lag behind carrier doctrineChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion14:39Lower flying-off decks and the cost of rebuilding British conversionsNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:27:37Carrier conversion planning was already technically matureNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction15:22Which Starfleet ships could become carriers?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:17:10A carrier variant of the Daedalus battlecruiserChapter
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution0:00Why HMS Furious became more valuable as a carrierChapter
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution9:41Furious begins life as an evolving aircraft carrierNotable Point
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution26:46A four-year reconstruction creates a new carrierChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:09:41Four Lexington conversions need more escortsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:51:28Four Lexington conversions create demand for escortsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:04:16Japan must choose between battleships and carrier conversionsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:31:51More treaty construction does not guarantee a larger YamatoQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 194213:12How an Admiral-class carrier conversion might have workedQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:02:48How much lighter a purpose-built Lexington might have beenQ&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.19:13What else could the hybrid conversion resources support?Notable Point
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/202413:29Could an Admiral-class hull have become an early carrier?Notable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time55:35Treaty carrier conversions depended on how much hull already existedQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?8:52Hybrid carriers consume scarce shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids32:45Overdeck platforms test flight without surrendering the shipChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids43:41Furious exposes the problems of hybrid flight decksChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:09:49Battlecruiser conversions concentrate treaty tonnageChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:22:21Treaties make conversions the dominant carrier generationNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:47:08Could a County-class hull become an escort carrier?Q&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō15:14Why the Royal Navy rejected very small carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books18:49Why nobody wanted Courageous and Glorious as gunshipsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:12:21Would larger Courageous-class ships become carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:19:35What Britain converts if the Courageous class stays armedQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:20:34The Washington treaty allowed new carriers as well as conversionsQ&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?1:42:22Piemonte remains battle-ready and nearly becomes an aircraft carrierChapter
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response6:22How repeated experiments produced viable light carriersNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 253:11Dale-class tankers as carrier conversionsNotable Point
- The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response14:39Why Amagi may have made the better carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out46:049.2-inch Courageous-class cruisers reshape treaty fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out47:21Cammell Laird carrier expertise suggests earlier design workNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out50:14Lion and Princess Royal as carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out58:58A converted Lion would have only a small survival advantage against U-29Q&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:31:06A G3-sized carrier could handle twin-engine aircraftQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response13:00Why an imperfect conversion could have taught Germany moreNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response28:39Could German liners become light or escort carriers?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:50:48Could Iron Duke have returned to wartime service?Q&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:42:33Why purpose-built Courageous-sized carriers would be betterQ&A
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 31:10Fisher, Churchill, and wartime construction powerNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 91:30An Admiral-class hull behind Ark Royal's designNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 515:06Why Kaga replaced Amagi in the carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat28:04What could have made Hood a carrierQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?49:58Was Bearn dangerously top-heavy?Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?58:45Why France did not start with a civilian training carrierQ&A
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?6:50Furious put superstructure and exhausts in the aircraft's pathNotable Point
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?8:15Argus and Langley as useful experimental carriersNotable Point
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?18:53Bearn carried battleship compromises into carrier serviceChapter
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?35:05Courageous and Glorious repeated a flawed flying-off deckNotable Point
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 6531:41Do liners make sensible carrier conversions?Q&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 6535:20Furious and the dead end of a split flight deckChapter
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:26:21Was an Admiral-class carrier conversion considered?Q&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 652:00:33Would Admiral-class conversions have displaced Ark Royal?Q&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 652:16:23Would a Nelson-class carrier conversion make sense?Q&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War42:20German pre-dreadnoughts were poor carrier-conversion candidatesQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:13:34Six Lexington conversions would not be identicalNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:19:21A French battlecruiser would make a better first carrier than BéarnQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:15:43Renown and Admiral hulls beat Revenge for carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:18:42American conversions supply the case for three Admiral carriersQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:20:20G3 carriers cost more and complicate funnel trunkingQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:23:35Lexingtons were the best conversions, but arrived slowlyQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video56:15An Admiral-class carrier conversion counterfactualQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video32:26Béarn as France's early carrier experimentQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video34:12Admiral-class conversions and a Navy-controlled Fleet Air ArmQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video35:43Why Béarn became an aircraft transportNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers40:35The Brooklyn hull becomes a wartime design foundationNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations29:38Could an Alaska-class cruiser become a carrier?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 29:55Why the Emerald class could not simply be redesignedQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:17:32Why heavy-cruiser hulls make better carrier conversionsQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193930:45Fast oilers designed for escort-carrier conversionNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:12:06Would Italian carriers change British planning?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:47:21Why the Admiral-class hulls made better carriersQ&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)32:26Carrier tonnage, conversions, and the transition to new buildsChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)35:20A carrier-conversion loophole and the treaty's enforcement gapNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century12:54The peaceful exploration label and wartime conversionChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century56:01One Galaxy hull can fill several wartime rolesChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:00:31Abraham Lincoln turns Galaxy space into a carrierChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:07:31Three Galaxy carriers lead to a componentised fleetNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:09:11Peacetime labels conceal a cruiser-based mobilization planNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:10:19Danish frigates and the LCS clarify Galaxy modularityNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:12:57A layered fleet needs both Galaxy and Defiant typesChapter
- Why the Galaxy Class are Cruisers in 12 minutes...5:13Reserve capacity makes the Galaxy adaptable in warNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)2:03G3 conversions and the Royal Navy's strike-carrier gapChapter
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:13:03G3 conversions versus the Lexington hullNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:19:25A seven-carrier British conversion program with hindsightQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:50:34Why a G3 made more sense as a carrier conversion than HoodQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:14:14Why one Incomparable carrier would not be enoughQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:15:26Using treaty leverage to build a larger carrier fleetQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:32:16How more conversions could accelerate Fleet Air Arm controlQ&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:24:14Q&A: What could an Izmail carrier conversion have changed?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:05:03A four-battlecruiser allowance changes Britain's carrier hullsQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?53:35Furious demonstrates the wartime value of an old conversionChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:17:31Q&A: extra Admirals at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?20:50Treaties shaped the carrier fleet that emergedChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:03:29Would Béarn have helped Germany as a reparations carrier?Q&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:55:02How carrier size constrained twin-engine naval aircraftQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:44:20How larger battlecruiser conversions could reshape British carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:51:52How many aircraft could Admiral and Incomparable conversions carry?Q&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different18:50From carrier conversions to fleet programmesChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:26:54Where Furious's 18-inch guns wentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:12:45Fisher's battlecruisers and Admiral-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response17:41Why an escort carrier conversion took more than a hullQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-76:33Why Admiral-class hulls might have made better interwar carriersNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:11:04Converting Hood's sisters instead of Courageous and GloriousNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:18:46Why didn't Britain convert more light-cruiser hulls into aircraft carriers?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response9:24G3 conversions and a larger treaty carrier normNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response15:35Japan's carrier options after the Amagi lossQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response22:38G3 blind arcs and concentrated turret firepowerQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response31:11Names for additional Lexington-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response41:15G3 design lessons and carrier-conversion potentialNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion23:13An Admiral-class alternative to the Courageous conversionsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 32:05Argus bridges experiment, training, and ferry workChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 318:39Furious briefly becomes the leading carrierChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s1:55:24Admiral-class conversions could have rivaled Lexington and SaratogaQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:30:38Lexington and Saratoga made speed and air-group size decisiveChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:35:25Why the G3 battlecruisers were not converted into carriersQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:39:57Why battlecruiser conversions remained fast carriersQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:52:46Glorious and Ryujo show the scale of interwar carrier experimentsChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:20:32Treaty survival through an Incomparable carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation29:09Could Admiral-class hulls have become carriers?Chapter
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation32:48Would spare aircraft and workshops fill an Admiral-class carrier?Q&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:31:35Why Iron Duke was unlikely to return to combatQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:34:30Kongo versus Kaga as a carrier conversionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A17:50Why HMS Furious is a memorable carrier conversionQ&A