Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Commonwealth Navies

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:13:24How Commonwealth navies ordered interwar shipsQ&A
  2. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:30:12Dominion naval growth depends on crews and infrastructureChapter
  3. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:30:28Bathurst corvettes combine Australian ownership with British expertiseNotable Point
  4. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:35:06British corvette contracts could encourage Canadian crewsNotable Point
  5. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:16:35When might Britain begin a light fleet carrier programme?Q&A
  6. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:00:04Building the fictional Type 46 export fleetQ&A
  7. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:26:01Common designs and Suez logistics in a fictional British EmpireQ&A
  8. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:44:06A 1970s Commonwealth battlecruiser would sell nuclear power and statusQ&A
  9. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    43:55A carrier programme preserves yards and creates an aviation cadreChapter
  10. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    54:11Small carriers become mobile aviation infrastructureNotable Point
  11. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:16:27Mission comes before the modern Commonwealth cruiserQ&A
  12. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:24:33Commonwealth patrol relief during the Falklands WarNotable Point
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    59:07Why Imperial Japanese warships did not need an HMS-style prefixQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    1:46:20If the Lord Nelson class had defeated GoebenQ&A
  15. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    2:13:28What Dominion battleships could have contributed in 1939Q&A
  16. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    2:17:17What national capability contributes to an allianceNotable Point
  17. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:17:27A 1930s building surge would redistribute older warshipsQ&A
  18. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:01:49British nuclear cruisers reshape the Commonwealth fleetQ&A
  19. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:56Transferred warships create options, not automatic growthQ&A
  20. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    1:56:06Would India become a Dominion in this timeline?Q&A
  21. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    3:01:00Would smaller navies buy light carriers?Q&A
  22. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:06:46Why Australia designed Bathurst-class corvettesQ&A
  23. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    49:39Modified Tribals become a wartime fleet backboneChapter
  24. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:30:09A Commonwealth fleet built around larger InvinciblesQ&A
  25. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:03Why a Commonwealth SSK would need exceptional rangeNotable Point
  26. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:42:46How a common Invincible hull could create LHDs and early warningNotable Point
  27. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    3:16:27The Royal Navy's Type 83 numbers problemQ&A
  28. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    22:22How archival limits shape Commonwealth naval historyNotable Point
  29. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    49:44Commonwealth navies operating as one wartime systemNotable Point
  30. Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 1
    32:03Sea Fury service reveals an integrated Commonwealth Fleet Air ArmChapter
  31. Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 1
    36:28Sea Furies in Commonwealth carrier operations over KoreaChapter
  32. Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!
    33:02Empire, free navies, and merchant fleets in world warNotable Point
  33. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    0:32Why middle powers operated Commonwealth carriersChapter
  34. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    2:21The Majestic class across Commonwealth naviesNotable Point
  35. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    13:26How light carriers outlasted their wartime briefNotable Point
  36. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    15:57Dominion carriers as a distributed naval networkNotable Point
  37. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    17:19Dominion self-government and the cost of empireNotable Point
  38. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    19:00A Hermes-style carrier counterfactual for the DominionsNotable Point
  39. What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!
    1:13:21How interwar Commonwealth navies shared personnelNotable Point
  40. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:45:32Mass-produced 12-inch British battlecruisersQ&A
  41. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:41:36Dominion cruiser programs and the London treaty balanceQ&A
  42. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    1:25:48Where South African destroyer construction was consideredQ&A
  43. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    3:09:48Where treaty politics would permit 18-inch coastal gunsQ&A
  44. The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!
    1:38:32Minor powers and dominion fleet contributionsNotable Point
  45. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:15:30Why Australia was the likeliest Surrey-class buyerQ&A
  46. HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 1
    55:50The Korean War restores Unicorn's replenishment roleChapter
  47. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:02:50Sixteen Commonwealth Unicorns transform the 1941 carrier balanceQ&A
  48. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    58:53British yard capacity for an imperial cruiser programQ&A
  49. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    2:18:18HMS Ladybird as an afloat command and logistics shipNotable Point
  50. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    3:56:37One treaty delegation could strengthen Commonwealth naval unityQ&A
  51. Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty
    1:10:24Renown and Repulse as Commonwealth fast-capital-ship forcesNotable Point
  52. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:19:01Why a different empire would need different naval equipmentQ&A
  53. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:55:44How a stronger Commonwealth might organize naval procurementQ&A
  54. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    26:43Nine sloops a year offered a treaty-era escort alternativeChapter
  55. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer
    38:21Canadian Invincible-class carriers and Commonwealth capacityQ&A
  56. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    32:34How a treaty-free imperial battlecruiser programme might developQ&A
  57. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    56:48A shared Commonwealth destroyer cultureQ&A
  58. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    1:24:20Commonwealth shipbuilding needs machinery and timeQ&A
  59. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:04:17Order dates determine the Crown Colony subclassQ&A
  60. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:06:01A thirty-six-ship Crown Colony program in peacetimeQ&A
  61. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane
    10:46A destroyer officer's service memoirNotable Point
  62. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    1:28:21Distributing County-class cruisers across the DominionsNotable Point
  63. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    1:40:07The wider cruiser programme behind forty CountiesNotable Point
  64. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:45:11Postwar designs and the foundations of nuclear submarinesChapter
  65. Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts
    46:25Royal Navy personnel geography and Commonwealth crewingNotable Point
  66. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    21:35Surviving armored cruisers under the Washington TreatyQ&A
  67. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    55:20An Australian battlecruiser replacement would reshape treaty fleetsQ&A
  68. HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service
    2:19:21Nootka in Korea and Hudson BayChapter
  69. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    1:03:11The enemy fleet and German command Plan Z would meet in 1948Notable Point
  70. Bruships 88: Way of War
    2:35:05HMS Ladybird as a Commonwealth command and logistics hubNotable Point
  71. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    54:38The case for a continuous Empire sloop programNotable Point
  72. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    19:31Carrier construction, Commonwealth manpower, and retained experienceQ&A
  73. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    25:47Why Canada could support an old capital ship more readily than South AfricaQ&A
  74. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    2:02:00The single Royal Navy fix: build more sloops from 1930Q&A
  75. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1941
    30:49Match Commonwealth expansion to useful force mixesChapter
  76. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    9:01Why wartime remedies shrink for minor powersNotable Point
  77. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    34:19Commonwealth cruisers and Canada's expansion modelChapter
  78. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    36:25Machine tools underpin Commonwealth naval growthNotable Point
  79. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    27:18Building escorts and submarines across the CommonwealthChapter
  80. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    30:45Fast oilers designed for escort-carrier conversionNotable Point
  81. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    43:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
  82. Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    18:27A practical shipbuilding ladder for the DominionsChapter
  83. Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    26:16An interwar sloop program could have transformed convoy defenseChapter
  84. Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    34:57Industrialising India could have produced a stronger wartime partnerNotable Point
  85. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    10:30Could Commonwealth dockyards have accommodated HMS Hood?Q&A
  86. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    47:19Why interwar sloops were industrial training shipsNotable Point
  87. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    50:55Why Commonwealth yards built few cruisersQ&A
  88. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:45:00A Commonwealth sloop programme transforms convoy readinessChapter
  89. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:58:23Would more colonial yards repair capital ships?Q&A
  90. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    2:10:25New Zealand could sustain one useful naval yardChapter
  91. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    22:19Fleet economies in an imperial federationQ&A
  92. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    3:03:46A 1935 Royal Navy rearmament blueprintQ&A
  93. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    44:08Where surplus Neptune-class cruisers might goQ&A
  94. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    56:19Ragnar Colvin served Australia after leaving commandChapter
  95. Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)
    8:21A Commonwealth escort industrial baseNotable Point
  96. Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)
    38:24River-class performance was treaty-compatibleChapter
  97. Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)
    53:42Commonwealth destroyers and peacetime influenceNotable Point
  98. Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)
    33:24Why separate Dominion quotas were rejectedNotable Point
  99. Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    24:21A continuous light-frigate line as a shared foundationNotable Point
  100. Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    1:37:16How HMS New Zealand might have retained an RNZN linkQ&A
  101. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    28:39Commonwealth demand for Battle-class destroyersQ&A
  102. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    42:31A well-funded postwar Commonwealth fleetQ&A
  103. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    3:18What would extra Commonwealth carriers change?Q&A
  104. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    3:18:24A Pacific-first war could reshape the CommonwealthNotable Point
  105. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    1:48:35Distributing surplus capital ships across the CommonwealthQ&A
  106. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    1:41:42The turbine bottleneck behind Commonwealth shipbuildingQ&A
  107. Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars
    2:25:37British exercises included Commonwealth forces but not FranceQ&A
  108. Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII
    47:34Routine exercises kept night fighting from becoming a specialist trickNotable Point
  109. Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII
    2:08:36Commonwealth navies learned night fighting from the same instructionsQ&A
  110. Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)
    5:38MB8 assembled a large Commonwealth task organizationNotable Point
  111. Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…
    37:11What Commonwealth Queen Elizabeths would changeQ&A
  112. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    33:13Commonwealth capital ships challenge treaty arithmeticQ&A
  113. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    42:35Capital ships could build Canadian refit capacityNotable Point
  114. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    51:44An Indian-funded battleship and the birth of a navyQ&A
  115. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    58:18Dominion fleets could acquire their own carriersQ&A
  116. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    17:16Plan Z meets industrial capacity and escort productionChapter
  117. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)
    1:48:01Using Star Trek to compare Second World War fleet culturesQ&A
  118. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    1:56Regional backgrounds among British admiralsQ&A
  119. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    11:52How Commonwealth sloops could reshape Far East defenceQ&A
  120. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/7
    13:15A later war strengthens British ASWNotable Point
  121. Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail
    3:33:02A Commonwealth fleet would require shared political commandQ&A
  122. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    35:10Why older ships remained in the Far EastNotable Point
  123. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    1:00:08HMCS Ontario became Canada's fleet cruiserChapter
  124. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    2:14:54Unfinished Tigers were offered across the CommonwealthNotable Point
  125. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    1:18:10Treaty-exempt sloops offered a route to fleet numbersChapter
  126. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    11:28Walrus procurement, Commonwealth logistics, and rugged designChapter
  127. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    56:04Commonwealth navies operated as one professional systemNotable Point
  128. The Fairey Story Anew...
    50:16The Fairey III evolves around carrier handling and payloadChapter
  129. The Fairey Story Anew...
    1:00:13The Fairey III D proves itself in worldwide service and the Cape flightChapter
  130. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    1:01:06A Commonwealth navy in a global warNotable Point
  131. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    1:04:13Manning a French fleet in 1940Q&A
  132. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    1:11:15Who could absorb French warships in 1940?Q&A
  133. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    3:52:06The Far East war and the limits of 'betrayal' narrativesQ&A
  134. Amphion Class Cruisers
    19:22From HMS Amphion to HMAS PerthChapter
  135. Amphion Class Cruisers
    51:21From HMS Apollo to HMAS HobartChapter
  136. Amphion Class Cruisers
    54:28How Australia selected British cruisersQ&A
  137. Amphion Class Cruisers
    1:24:15Why the Australian and New Zealand navies were smallQ&A
  138. 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-16
    18:11The Commonwealth burden behind Britain's naval totalsChapter
  139. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:19:54Canada's escort-and-cruiser navy in a Pacific warQ&A
  140. P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)
    5:07Destroyers as an imperial presence forceNotable Point
  141. An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.
    33:42Korean geography made naval support indispensableChapter
  142. An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.
    51:33Sea control let the Commonwealth set the paceNotable Point
  143. 50th Live Special: Thank You
    12:51HMS Unicorn as aviation support infrastructureNotable Point
  144. 50th Live Special: Thank You
    23:07Why the little ships mattered in massChapter
  145. Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?
    22:20A Commonwealth coast-guard fleet as prewar capacityQ&A
  146. Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?
    10:45Coast guards as imperial escort reservesNotable Point
  147. Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:45:23Royal Navy culture in successor fleetsQ&A
  148. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 4
    42:04A thousand little ships sustained the Royal Navy and Commonwealth war effortNotable Point
  149. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:05:27British plans for expanding Commonwealth navies in a major warQ&A
  150. A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck
    28:52Royal Navy and allied destroyers as one fighting systemNotable Point