Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Castle Class Corvettes

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  1. Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII
    22:19Canada's escort fleet as a comparison of available numbersNotable Point
  2. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    1:21:00Was Guadalcanal the Pacific War's turning point?Q&A
  3. HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars
    55:06Atlantic patrols and the 1945 stand-downChapter
  4. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    2:55:50The Type XXI faced a 1945 anti-submarine systemQ&A
  5. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    1:22:43Later escort gains do not outweigh the major-ship delaysChapter
  6. Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates
    8:24Why Fletcher-scale capability needs large ordersNotable Point
  7. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:03:36Why the Royal Navy built Castle-class corvettesChapter
  8. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:09:38Castle-class corvette design and anti-submarine fitChapter
  9. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:09:38The scale of Royal Navy small-escort productionNotable Point
  10. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:17:07Portchester Castle's postwar film careerNotable Point
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:19:05HMS Denbigh Castle survives a U-boat torpedoChapter
  12. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:21:36Why successful late-war escorts receive less attentionNotable Point
  13. Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…
    40:37The continuing demand for specialized escortsChapter
  14. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    20:50The River class between corvettes and Black Swan sloopsChapter
  15. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:47:46Modified Flowers, Castles, and Rivers formed an escort-design progressionQ&A
  16. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    1:18:16Britain's two-tier destroyers and global escort networkChapter
  17. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:32:06Why the Type IV Hunt destroyers stopped at twoQ&A
  18. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:43:47Thunder Child and Pendennis Castle as unused Royal Navy namesQ&A
  19. Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s
    2:23:06Mature helicopters change postwar escort choicesNotable Point
  20. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    41:45How quickly OPVs could follow the First Cod WarQ&A
  21. The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII
    4:05Why the Merchant Navy and Merchant Marine are remembered differentlyChapter
  22. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    3:23The Royal Navy's seven-layer escort ladderNotable Point
  23. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    1:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
  24. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    1:31:40Interwar yard closures reduced escort-building depthQ&A
  25. Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites
    2:43:31Instant ship production and continued design developmentQ&A
  26. Bruships 80: Books From Travels
    3:33:44Corvettes, frigates, and sloops by construction standardQ&A
  27. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    22:20Escort production separated Britain from Japan in submarine warNotable Point
  28. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/7
    6:39Type VIIs versus escort massChapter
  29. The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/14
    13:45Flint's later uses and naval namesakeNotable Point
  30. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:37:51A visual guide to British wartime sloops and frigatesChapter
  31. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:26:17Castle-class corvettes ship by shipChapter
  32. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:30:37Dumbarton Castle's officers and a disputed propeller improvementNotable Point
  33. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:32:58Monkey Stephenson's working-up drills demanded initiativeNotable Point
  34. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:35:27Operating ASDIC and Squid aboard Dumbarton CastleNotable Point
  35. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:40:43Why do Castle-class corvette totals look inconsistent?Q&A
  36. The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/3
    15:05Why a simple escort still took almost a yearNotable Point
  37. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...
    17:13Castle corvettes and the speed problemNotable Point
  38. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 4
    31:51Castle-class corvettes paired long range with SquidChapter
  39. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    2:28:45Why River frigates displaced Castle corvettesQ&A
  40. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    38:46Warship classes with punishing seakeepingQ&A