Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

English Channel

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:40:45What a 70-kilometre drone range means at seaQ&A
  2. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    8:44Why Norway offered an uncertain amphibious precedentNotable Point
  3. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    24:23Coastal artillery and its limited success against shippingNotable Point
  4. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    26:56River barges facing Channel weatherNotable Point
  5. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:57:41Could Germany strike Britain while the Grand Fleet was away?Q&A
  6. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    29:24Channel and Biscay forces combine sea denial with escort workNotable Point
  7. The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More
    1:13:03Germany's commercial routes and the force needed beyond the North SeaChapter
  8. Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics
    36:27The Royal Navy's planned attack on Sea Lion logisticsChapter
  9. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:53:57Belgian ports and Britain's Channel securityNotable Point
  10. William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?
    29:51The Mora led a scattered fleet across the ChannelNotable Point
  11. Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?
    22:43Sluys and English raids hollow out the French Channel fleetNotable Point
  12. Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?
    31:36A hired Castilian fleet turns to piracyChapter
  13. Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?
    47:25Victory leaves the commerce war unresolvedNotable Point
  14. Battle of Winchelsea(1350)
    1:01:35A truce leaves the Castilians operating as piratesNotable Point
  15. Battle of Winchelsea(1350)
    1:05:14Edward turns idle forces into coastal defenseChapter
  16. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    1:23:48The RNLI rescues first and leaves policy to governmentNotable Point
  17. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    53:19Why the German Navy left the BEF crossing aloneNotable Point
  18. Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?
    1:43:06Germany lacked the force for British-style raids against the United KingdomQ&A
  19. Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?
    3:12:22Possible British and German cross-Channel gun duelsQ&A
  20. Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...
    1:00:25Isle of Wight and Essex landing optionsNotable Point
  21. Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'
    1:29:25Maritime families as schools and command networksChapter
  22. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    1:00:57HMCS Stormont became the yacht Christina ONotable Point
  23. Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?
    23:46The Spider's Web flying-boat patrolChapter
  24. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    0:00Tripwire forces and the meaning of victory in the ChannelChapter
  25. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    5:05Why a High Seas Fleet dash through the Channel risked entrapmentNotable Point
  26. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    6:42The Dover Barrage as an adapting anti-submarine barrierChapter
  27. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    9:44The lost interwar surveillance opportunity in the ChannelNotable Point
  28. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    14:19Dover Patrol, Harwich Force, and layered Channel defenseNotable Point
  29. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    34:19Why English Channel control sustained the Western FrontChapter
  30. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    2:49:15Coastal Forces fought a close-range convoy warQ&A
  31. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:48:37Five years of concentrated English Channel mine clearanceQ&A
  32. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    1:11:08Britain's thin coastal defenses before the First World WarQ&A
  33. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:51:50Mining the English Channel from both shoresNotable Point
  34. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 3
    6:10Map maritime trade and cable chokepointsNotable Point
  35. Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    59:59Submarine concentration changes the balance in the English ChannelChapter
  36. Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:58:14Port deployments close both ends of the English ChannelChapter
  37. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    1:12:26French warships and the threat of Sea LionChapter
  38. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:06:56Minelaying submarines support a Channel denial strategyChapter
  39. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:34:03If the Channel Islands sat in the middle of the English ChannelQ&A
  40. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    50:20Could Graf Zeppelin's guns stop destroyer attacks?Q&A
  41. Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett
    21:04The Danish Straits constrain access to the BalticChapter
  42. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    20:58The RP-3 finds useful naval and anti-submarine rolesChapter
  43. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    56:36U-boat endurance makes the North Sea a strategic choke pointChapter
  44. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    13:47Sea control was local, not absoluteChapter
  45. Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail
    45:40Where Britain did and did not lose sea controlNotable Point
  46. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    22:15Toulon and France's three naval theatresNotable Point
  47. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    42:20RNAS patrols against U-boats in 1917Notable Point
  48. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    53:40Emergency aircraft spares cross the Channel by destroyerNotable Point
  49. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    2:36:52If Britain were larger and 34 miles farther westQ&A
  50. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    24:13Why Brest threatened BritainChapter
  51. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    24:36The Western Squadron's early coastal roleChapter
  52. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    40:14Archimède and the operational value of an attack that never happensNotable Point
  53. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    46:35The French Navy's First World War serviceNotable Point
  54. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    10:51Why Belgium mattered to British sea securityNotable Point
  55. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    54:10A Channel battle of annihilationNotable Point
  56. Bruships 90: Books From the Road
    1:15:38Overlapping territorial seas turn narrow waters into negotiated boundariesQ&A
  57. Bruships 80: Books From Travels
    2:26:43Hubert de Burgh and the Battle of SandwichChapter
  58. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment
    2:55:07Why the Royal Navy would resist owning the French Channel coastQ&A
  59. Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)
    16:26The earlier Pluton-class minelayersNotable Point
  60. How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)
    22:00The Harwich Force's sacrificial Channel missionNotable Point
  61. How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)
    1:18:24Turning starshell into concealment in the ChannelNotable Point
  62. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    3:03:16Choiseul's invasion plan fails before the crossingChapter
  63. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:18:48Moving Britain to test climate and invasion geographyQ&A
  64. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion
    43:24A French fleet junction would not solve invasion logisticsNotable Point
  65. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p1: Strategy & Some Priniciple Personalities
    11:35Why six hours of Channel control was not enoughNotable Point
  66. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    4:04Channel patrols and the limits of tidy war planningQ&A
  67. A Book or Two to Review (6): Plantagenet Princes
    20:50Henry secures Aquitaine before crossing to EnglandNotable Point
  68. Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI
    54:11Piver sent French light forces to secure the ChannelNotable Point
  69. Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI
    1:33:28Why did French light ships struggle in the Channel?Q&A
  70. Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI
    2:30:13British-built sloops gave French ASW forces better Channel shipsNotable Point
  71. Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)
    32:53Destroyer patrols on the Dover frontChapter
  72. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    25:00Norwegian control opened a reliable North Sea routeNotable Point
  73. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)
    42:21Outsourcing can buy availability without presenceNotable Point
  74. Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"
    32:52Why invasion fleets gathered in the Low CountriesChapter
  75. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    17:37Channel geography sets the small-craft problemChapter
  76. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    50:27Vosper designs for a night in the ChannelChapter
  77. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 3
    6:38Making the Channel a no-go area before D-DayChapter
  78. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 3
    3:46Why coastal convoys mattered to BritainNotable Point
  79. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 3
    24:19The Channel Dash and Britain's strategic geographyChapter
  80. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 3
    41:03Command frigates, radar control, and a Channel no-go zoneChapter
  81. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 3
    4:24Channel geography creates a command problemChapter
  82. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 3
    12:03The Channel gives E-boats room to use speedNotable Point
  83. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 3
    24:13France's fall reshapes Channel securityNotable Point
  84. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:23:08How naval forces could support Channel border operationsQ&A
  85. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:29:28The Border Force capacity gap behind naval assistanceQ&A
  86. An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)
    32:27Rescue buoys and flying-boat recoveryNotable Point
  87. An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)
    26:22German air-sea rescue stations in the ChannelNotable Point
  88. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    54:35Why a Vosper could handle rough Channel seasQ&A