Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Crown Colony Class Cruisers

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  1. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    1:12:37Wartime availability and the cost of sustained speedNotable Point
  2. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:11:23Tracing an uncertain Polish 8,000-ton cruiser proposalNotable Point
  3. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    49:21Henderson treated the York class as a design warningQ&A
  4. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    7:38Cruiser build times lengthen despite protected shipyard laborNotable Point
  5. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    1:05:17Earlier cruisers could give Force Z a proper screenNotable Point
  6. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:01:38Which British light cruisers were the better missile-conversion candidatesQ&A
  7. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    10:04Simplified cruisers still took longer to buildChapter
  8. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    15:36Restart priorities stretched a six-month pause into longer delaysNotable Point
  9. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    1:22:56An 800-day cruiser assumption changes deliveries and later programsNotable Point
  10. Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!
    19:02How much larger could Type 83 become?Notable Point
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    7:21:33Why Crown Colony cruisers could be named for protectoratesQ&A
  12. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    3:30:27Turning Crown Colony cruisers into modern mission shipsQ&A
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:15:09An Alaska-Azuma battle group assembled from game favoritesQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:31:44An Alaska-led battle group in the Java SeaQ&A
  15. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:33:45What protects the hypothetical Alaska group from submarines?Q&A
  16. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    5:39:17More Arethusas in place of LeandersQ&A
  17. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    6:41:18Arethusa, Dido, and the cost of fitting more into a smaller cruiserNotable Point
  18. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:55:59A Crown Colony-sized Dido needs fewer heavy mounts and more light AAQ&A
  19. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:01:46Crown Colony cruisers belong with the battle fleetQ&A
  20. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:01:51How new cruiser classes released older ships for other rolesQ&A
  21. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    46:07Did Dido replace the C- and D-class cruisers?Q&A
  22. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    27:18When a cut-price cruiser becomes a false economyNotable Point
  23. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    3:24:43If Town-class cruisers carried sixteen 6-inch gunsQ&A
  24. Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...
    2:00:01Crown Colony cruisers as wartime TownsQ&A
  25. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    1:54:53Why treaty pressure produced the Crown Colony cruisersQ&A
  26. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    1:42:32Treaty limits shaped the Crown Colony cruisersQ&A
  27. Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    6:36Why Crown Colony cruisers used triple turretsQ&A
  28. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    2:41:40How many 1941 Admiral-class heavy cruisers Britain might buildQ&A
  29. The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies
    31:19Postwar automatic guns outran their development baseChapter
  30. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    54:12Gas turbines could ease the Crown Colony class's tonnage constraintNotable Point
  31. Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 1928
    1:27:17Gas turbines ease the Crown Colony cruisers' topweight problemNotable Point
  32. Bruships 130: Battleships
    2:26:39The Crown Colony class as a wartime Town designQ&A
  33. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    14:04Treaty limits reshaped the Town into the Crown Colony classNotable Point
  34. Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 6
    12:12Wartime cruiser lines and Neptune's design ancestryChapter
  35. From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos
    1:20:54Why shrinking a Town-class cruiser created a poor compromiseQ&A
  36. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:04:17Order dates determine the Crown Colony subclassQ&A
  37. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:06:01A thirty-six-ship Crown Colony program in peacetimeQ&A
  38. Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!
    23:20Crown Colony cruiser conversions were a funding choiceQ&A
  39. Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...
    3:05:54Would 6-inch Yorks become Crown Colony cruisers?Q&A
  40. Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power
    1:00:16Availability favors adaptable warshipsNotable Point
  41. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:05:27A 1942 war opens with more new cruisers and more AA conversionsNotable Point
  42. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    27:25Royal Navy light-cruiser production tradeoffsNotable Point
  43. Soviet Navy 1918-1991
    4:21:18Slava cruisers filled gaps beneath the KirovsChapter
  44. Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 4
    18:34The cruiser classes missing from headline battle historiesNotable Point
  45. Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    41:35Fast enough, armored enough, and hard to outmatchChapter
  46. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    1:31:45Brooklyn's balance carries into the Cleveland classChapter
  47. UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)
    28:05Could Britain maintain Baltimore-class cruisers?Q&A
  48. Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)
    48:01How quadruple turrets could have reshaped British cruisersNotable Point
  49. Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)
    47:24County-class weight and the York-class compromiseNotable Point
  50. County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)
    20:09La Argentina and the impossibility of a perfect treaty cruiserNotable Point
  51. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    5:00Why the Royal Navy retained six-inch cruisersNotable Point
  52. ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    29:20A role-focused design and a possible Crown Colony precursorNotable Point
  53. County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)
    17:02London's rebuild reveals a shared cruiser design lineageNotable Point
  54. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    1:32:42Far East cruisers used oilers and forward basesQ&A
  55. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    5:18:58The cruiser as a modern counterpart to the numerous third rateQ&A
  56. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    1:04:00A quadruple-turret cruiser counterfactualNotable Point
  57. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out
    12:38Inherited cruisers and Tiger-class test bedsNotable Point
  58. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    4:31:34Crown Colony cruisers as war-build TownsQ&A
  59. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    1:43:27A convoy screen offered the wrong targets for big-gun submarinesNotable Point
  60. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    57:21Minotaur rearranged the Crown Colony formulaQ&A
  61. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    2:17How technology forecasts shaped Crown Colony cruiser designChapter
  62. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    9:05HMS Ceylon from the Eastern Fleet to KoreaChapter
  63. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    11:46Ceylon's economical modernization and Suez gunfire roleNotable Point
  64. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    15:51HMS Uganda at Salerno and the Fritz X strikeChapter
  65. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    21:17HMCS Uganda with the British Pacific FleetChapter
  66. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    39:47HMS Newfoundland from Sicily to Japan's surrenderChapter
  67. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda
    0:42Why the Royal Navy built Trinidad at DevonportChapter
  68. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya
    0:50HMS Fiji's treaty-era design and real displacementChapter
  69. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya
    39:04Crown Colony cruisers were prewar designs, not emergency shipsNotable Point
  70. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    1:44The Crown Colony class in the crisis year of 1936Chapter
  71. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    41:43Fiji and Ceylon compressed Town-class capabilityChapter
  72. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    45:20Why Crown Colony range figures need careful comparisonChapter
  73. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    48:28Crown Colony guns, torpedoes, aircraft, and wartime crewChapter
  74. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    2:03:51Why primary-source status does not settle cruiser performanceQ&A
  75. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    9:09The unstable 1936 setting behind the Crown Colony classChapter
  76. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    40:36Did Crown Colony cruisers work better with three or four turrets?Q&A
  77. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    41:36Crown Colony specifications and doubts about displacementChapter
  78. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    45:19Fiji and Ceylon armament comparedNotable Point
  79. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    47:02Did Town cruisers have more room for anti-aircraft additions?Q&A
  80. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    47:56Why the Crown Colonies' displacement figures invite scrutinyNotable Point
  81. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    55:12Crown Colony speed figures and the effect of a transom sternNotable Point
  82. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    57:21How cramped was the Crown Colony X-turret arrangement?Q&A
  83. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    1:08:05Did the rangefinder position disappear with X turret?Q&A
  84. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    1:39:15How were Crown Colony cruiser torpedo tubes intended to be used?Q&A
  85. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    2:21:53Did Colony names belong to frigates as well as cruisers?Q&A
  86. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    3:24:44Would more Edinburgh-class cruisers have been a better choice?Q&A
  87. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    3:28:58Why favor the larger Town class over the Crown Colonies?Q&A
  88. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    3:40:32Did Crown Colony living conditions improve after the war?Q&A
  89. Bruships 29: Best Seller History
    3:54:24Why the Royal Navy favored six-inch cruisersQ&A
  90. Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy
    0:59Edinburgh and Belfast's quadruple-turret design pathChapter
  91. Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction
    18:05Why twelve 6-inch guns beat fewer 8-inch guns in the studyChapter
  92. Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction
    24:22The unbuilt quadruple-gun Super TownChapter
  93. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:25:30Quadruple turrets could have reshaped the Crown ColoniesQ&A
  94. Town Class; big impact with a light footprint
    2:30:00Why the Crown Colony class followed the TownsQ&A
  95. HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/4
    21:09Crown Colony cruisers on a tighter Town-class budgetNotable Point
  96. Four Random Books 6: War At Sea
    5:47Treaty limits turn design into a chain of compromisesNotable Point
  97. Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car
    1:11:36Why build Crown Colonies instead of more Towns?Q&A
  98. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    17:56Cruiser construction, treaties, and long-term choicesNotable Point
  99. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...
    57:56Cruiser design choices shaped by treaty hopeChapter
  100. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    8:04The cruiser pipeline cannot be redesigned overnightNotable Point
  101. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    46:01A Pacific-first war changes the ships Britain buildsChapter
  102. Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-43
    2:02:46Why the Crown Colony class became a wartime Town-class derivativeQ&A
  103. Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-43
    2:06:55Why three triple turrets suited the Crown Colony designQ&A
  104. Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-43
    3:19:09Crown Colony cruisers served across every major maritime frontQ&A
  105. An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 2
    27:48Durban's final role as a Mulberry blockshipNotable Point
  106. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    45:51Crown Colony cruisers were stripped-down Town derivativesQ&A
  107. HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile
    18:00Why spare space distinguished the Town classNotable Point
  108. HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile
    40:43Operation Halberd against air and surface threatsChapter