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Civilian-to-Military Ship Conversions

Also searchable as Civilian Conversions, Civilian Ship Conversion, Civilian Ship Conversions, Converted Merchant Ships, Cruise Ship Conversion, Cruise Ship Conversions, Liner Conversion, Liner Conversions, Merchant Conversion, Merchant Conversions, Merchant Ship Conversion, Merchant Ship Conversions.

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  1. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:53:41Turning a merchant ship into a peer warship means rebuilding itQ&A
  2. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:58:02An Olympic-class hull makes an expensive cruiserQ&A
  3. Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:19:57Could a trawler conceal mine-laying equipment?Q&A
  4. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    1:14:43Auxiliaries and adaptable merchant ships support larger fleetsNotable Point
  5. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    29:19Why German auxiliary-cruiser conversions stayed inexpensiveQ&A
  6. Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?
    42:24Escort-carrier thinking before the Second World WarNotable Point
  7. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    54:17Which ocean liners made useful carrier conversions?Q&A
  8. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    57:36How could a hybrid carrier recover seaplanes?Q&A
  9. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:39:22Converted drone carriers belong in a high-low mixQ&A
  10. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    3:01:30Small navies need purpose-built combat coresQ&A
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    6:28:32Falklands lessons for container-ship aviation conversionsQ&A
  12. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    3:00:24Why ocean liners make the strongest hospital-ship conversionsQ&A
  13. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:07:11How early escort-carrier conversion ideas beganQ&A
  14. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    2:23:33Disagreement over Iran's converted drone-support shipQ&A
  15. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    41:38What the Shahid Bagheri conversion can contributeQ&A
  16. Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:58:32Air groups for converted German ocean linersQ&A
  17. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    14:23Fast fleet oilers were traded against amphibious liftNotable Point
  18. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:17:19How a navy could regenerate carrier air power in World War IIIQ&A
  19. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    2:06:52Selecting expendable hulls constrained seaplane-carrier conversionsQ&A
  20. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    39:00HMS Hindostan turned an East Indiaman into a fourth rateChapter
  21. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    41:41Hindostan combined resilience, stores capacity, and prize earningChapter
  22. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    4:01:06Aquila's promise and conversion flawsQ&A
  23. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    2:40:39Why a fast ocean liner cannot become a battleshipQ&A
  24. HMS Ben My Chree(1908/1915): A Soaring Service with a Legacy of Fire Risk Managment
    23:05A fast steamer becomes a practical seaplane carrierChapter
  25. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:41:06Useful wartime roles for a side-dumping bargeQ&A
  26. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    9:50From cargo liners to Landing Ship Infantry (Large)Chapter
  27. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    15:35What a four-month conversion implies about prior planningChapter
  28. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    18:45Why MV Breconshire was not converted with her sistersNotable Point
  29. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    23:18How a cargo liner became an amphibious assault shipChapter
  30. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    24:20Were the Glen ships designed with wartime conversion in mind?Notable Point
  31. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    27:55Conversions competed for scarce fitting-out capacityNotable Point
  32. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    39:53The unglamorous ships that amphibious plans were built aroundChapter
  33. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    48:08Britain had plans before it had funded shipsChapter
  34. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    50:02The evidence for preplanned Glen conversions remains circumstantialNotable Point
  35. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    54:21Why cargo liners made effective amphibious conversionsNotable Point
  36. Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers
    24:32Europa and Giuseppe Miraglia comparedChapter
  37. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    3:00:27Peacetime standards make tiny carriers impracticalQ&A
  38. Twelve Odd Ships
    1:01:15Wolverine and Sable scaled carrier qualification safelyChapter
  39. Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.
    2:17:53USS Wolverine scaled carrier-landing trainingChapter
  40. Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes
    1:07:20Why the Sperrbrecher was a difficult limpet-mine targetNotable Point
  41. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:05:54Why navies build specialized support shipsQ&A
  42. HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War
    5:10Why cross-Channel ferries suited amphibious conversionChapter
  43. HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War
    16:40Why a radical conversion could still beat a new buildNotable Point
  44. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    36:17The Royal Navy planned a hundred-aircraft carrier strikeChapter
  45. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    9:08Lake tankers become Maracaibo-class landing shipsChapter
  46. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    12:57Bachaquero from Madagascar to Sword BeachNotable Point
  47. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    4:16Should Germany have built a training carrier first?Q&A
  48. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    13:00Why an imperfect conversion could have taught Germany moreNotable Point
  49. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    28:39Could German liners become light or escort carriers?Q&A
  50. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    1:34:13Where torpedoes could fit on an armed merchant cruiserQ&A
  51. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 10
    2:05:19HMS Argus and the early escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
  52. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    3:04:13The machinery cost behind an Olympic carrier conversionQ&A
  53. First Fleet: Founding of Australia
    20:46HMS Sirius from Baltic merchantman to colonial warshipNotable Point
  54. 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
  55. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    31:41Do liners make sensible carrier conversions?Q&A
  56. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:41Why trade-protection carriers stalled before the warChapter
  57. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    5:25The fall of France opens the mid-Atlantic air gapChapter
  58. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    21:33HMS Unicorn signals a new prewar aviation directionNotable Point
  59. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    27:13Unicorn exposes the shipyard case for merchant conversionNotable Point
  60. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    36:10MAC ships bridge the gap to true escort carriersNotable Point
  61. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    38:01HMS Audacity breaks the Condor reconnaissance chainChapter
  62. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    44:20Winchester Castle shows the scale of a multi-role conversionNotable Point
  63. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:21:45Mass production makes escort carriers the dominant US typeChapter
  64. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:23:07Why no one inventor owns the escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
  65. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:24:36Essential wartime ships are hardest to justify in peaceChapter
  66. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    18:35Why the Board of Trade resisted merchant-carrier conversionsNotable Point
  67. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    1:10:43How MAC ships preserved cargo capacityChapter
  68. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    1:13:48From captured merchantman to HMS AudacityChapter
  69. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    1:33:29How Archer and Bogue differed within the C3 cargo-ship familyQ&A
  70. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    1:46:50Taiyo and Japan's escort-carrier shortageNotable Point
  71. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    2:03:56Could merchant carriers receive better subdivision?Q&A
  72. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1941
    8:19Expand Kido Butai with rapid carrier conversionsNotable Point
  73. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:00:20Auxiliary cruisers fill the Cuban blockadeNotable Point
  74. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:29:57Oceanic as a better carrier hull than ArgusQ&A
  75. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    40:26The limits of converting container ships into light carriersQ&A
  76. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    51:16Why recovery is harder than launch on an improvised carrierQ&A
  77. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:33:34Why modern cruise ships resist armed conversionQ&A
  78. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:35:50Where an Olympic-class liner could mount gunsQ&A
  79. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)
    12:10Washington Treaty rules for other shipsChapter
  80. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)
    16:12Could six-inch gun supports prepare merchant ships for torpedoes?Notable Point
  81. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    1:12:34Why a modern yacht is a fragile warship conversionQ&A
  82. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:42What USS Wolverine and Sable reveal about US carrier trainingQ&A
  83. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    1:55:05Convertible liners versus Japan's hybrid battleshipsNotable Point
  84. Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...
    1:00:46Why Great Eastern would make an accommodation ship, not a carrierQ&A
  85. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    2:57:51What purpose-built carrier design makes possibleQ&A
  86. A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 1939
    7:24Limits on converting merchant ships into armed merchant cruisers and escort carriersNotable Point
  87. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)
    3:48:15Why a supertanker is not a fast carrier conversionQ&A
  88. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory
    0:34Merchant hulls became mobile repair capacityChapter
  89. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory
    8:55A repair ship concentrates many industrial tradesNotable Point
  90. Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response
    17:41Why an escort carrier conversion took more than a hullQ&A
  91. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    36:31Akitsu Maru and army amphibious aviationNotable Point
  92. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy
    37:53Could laid-up trawlers reinforce mine countermeasures?Q&A
  93. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    16:55Captain Cook's exploration ship began as a collierQ&A
  94. Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol
    35:18Why Great Lakes paddle steamers became training carriersChapter
  95. Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol
    37:52The machinery behind USS WolverineNotable Point
  96. Paddle Ships at War
    2:16:49USS Wolverine and USS Sable train carrier pilotsChapter
  97. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    1:26:37Escort-carrier ideas before the warQ&A
  98. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    1:45:30Could modern VSTOL aircraft revive escort carriers?Q&A
  99. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    1:57:50Why civilian carrier conversions wait for a major warQ&A
  100. Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    39:59Why USS Wolverine's fierce name did not match her jobQ&A
  101. Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:50:10Unofficial support for convertible trawlersQ&A
  102. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:00:21How a passenger liner became HMS ArgusChapter
  103. Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    48:48Conversion trades technical difficulty for industrial speedQ&A
  104. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:05:57Paddlewheel carriers protected frontline training capacityQ&A
  105. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:45:18Pre-war cargo ships could provide escort-carrier conversion stockQ&A
  106. Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered
    21:09Why Falklands liners did not become landing shipsQ&A
  107. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)
    8:02Maracaibo tanker conversions prove the LST conceptChapter
  108. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)
    6:12Train ferries become stern-chute landing shipsChapter
  109. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)
    25:25Industrial adaptation for mechanized amphibious warNotable Point
  110. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)
    4:27Why interwar amphibious plans lacked landing shipsChapter
  111. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)
    9:16Glen-class landing-craft capacity and evolving davitsChapter
  112. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)
    20:48Small LSIs and the tradeoffs of converted ferriesNotable Point