Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Essex Class Aircraft Carriers

Also searchable as Essex Class, Essex Class Carrier, Essex Class Carriers.

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:00:08How much of Essex would survive an Ace Combat rebuild?Q&A
  2. USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings
    5:06Simpler construction can support quality and maintenanceChapter
  3. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:03:48Delaying Midway gives the Essex program time to matureQ&A
  4. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    50:21Yorktown as the starting point for Essex and MidwayNotable Point
  5. ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future
    7:44How the PS-1 and US-1A handled rough seasChapter
  6. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    2:12:15Why the United States would not build Design D for StalinQ&A
  7. Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:31:43How a post-war Essex would move toward MidwayQ&A
  8. Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans
    1:48:11Would British carriers face range problems in the Pacific?Q&A
  9. Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans
    1:51:18Would early-war oiler shortages restrict British carrier substitutes?Q&A
  10. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    31:04HMS Unicorn could extend carrier air-group enduranceNotable Point
  11. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:02:19Why ten Essex-class carriers cannot replace modern CVNsQ&A
  12. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    29:09Larger carriers balance air groups, protection, and survivabilityNotable Point
  13. The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII
    27:42Why prewar destroyer numbers shaped the whole warNotable Point
  14. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:31:25Essex refits and the limits of wartime carrier modernizationQ&A
  15. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    2:34:28What a US warship production swarm really meansQ&A
  16. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    23:15Why a restored Kidō Butai still loses the production warQ&A
  17. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    4:16:41Essex as a first-rate carrier designed for mass productionQ&A
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    7:27:09Could 1942 American carriers use Bearcats and Skyraiders?Q&A
  19. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:17:40Why US destroyers delayed permanent helicopter facilitiesQ&A
  20. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    7:20A common design with major machinery differencesChapter
  21. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:53:17How US warship transfers helped and constrained alliesQ&A
  22. The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!
    2:31:47American fast battleships and carriers strengthened Roosevelt's handQ&A
  23. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:14:02Completing Reprisal, Iwo Jima, and the canceled MidwaysQ&A
  24. Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?
    28:40How an even Battle of Midway could reshape US carrier buildingQ&A
  25. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:22:25Earlier carrier orders change the need for the Essex classNotable Point
  26. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:09:02Ernest King pushed the Essex-class carrier programQ&A
  27. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:57:35Carrier construction as a response to stronger battleshipsNotable Point
  28. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    1:31:38A case for pairing Atlantas with every EssexNotable Point
  29. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:45:04What an early 5-inch/54 gun would change in the wartime US NavyQ&A
  30. Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:14:10How the United States would answer World of Warships SatsumaQ&A
  31. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    20:59When did the US Navy expect to be ready for war?Q&A
  32. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    1:58:19The unbuilt armored-flight-deck EssexNotable Point
  33. An Indomitable Force Z
    3:21Construction pauses delayed the Royal Navy's carrier programChapter
  34. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:27:17Centaur and Essex as amphibious assault conversionsQ&A
  35. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:15:21Which late-war ship class would matter most at the start of World War II?Q&A
  36. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:25:02A delayed Essex surge lengthens rather than reverses the Pacific WarQ&A
  37. Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5
    1:43:11A fleet under construction changes a commander's optionsNotable Point
  38. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:19:46An Alaska-class conversion would be nearly a fleet carrierQ&A
  39. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    1:33:09A later US entry preserves Montanas and most of the prewar programQ&A
  40. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    1:35:09The likeliest outcome: withdrawal and a rearmament raceChapter
  41. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:27:12Essex and British light fleets offered different jet-conversion advantagesQ&A
  42. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    0:33Essex construction changed the cost of carrier lossesNotable Point
  43. Vought F 8 Crusader: The Cold War Corgi! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 9
    36:18VF-51 and Essex-class carrier adaptabilityNotable Point
  44. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    1:11:46Rebuilding Franklin and Bunker Hill in 1965Q&A
  45. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    2:04:12If Spain had received an Essex-class carrierQ&A
  46. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    3:41:27Could Essex carriers operate F/A-18s?Q&A
  47. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:01:24Why a Japan-first strategy still needs new shipsQ&A
  48. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    4:06:29Replacing every Essex with a Midway-class carrierQ&A
  49. War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion
    25:13Ticonderoga's long-hull Essex improvementsChapter
  50. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    57:20United States: industrial scale changes the carrier raceChapter
  51. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    54:40More Midway-class carriers trade Essex longevity for growthQ&A
  52. The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 3
    29:43The 23,450-ton displacement paradoxChapter
  53. What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 1
    1:24:25Strike carriers, armored fleet carriers, and air-group sizeChapter
  54. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    25:31Treaty-free carrier size and growing aircraftNotable Point
  55. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    43:42From Yorktown to Essex: designing for rapid constructionChapter
  56. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    44:39Essex's belt armor, protected decks, and machineryNotable Point
  57. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    46:32Essex survivors and the meaning of a modern carrierNotable Point
  58. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    50:27Essex class mass production and deck-load strikeChapter
  59. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    52:38Essex's endurance for an advance across the PacificNotable Point
  60. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    53:58Pearl Harbor as an ambush before the Essex buildupNotable Point
  61. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    56:33American carrier raids and the need for HMS VictoriousNotable Point
  62. USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 1
    0:58Midway followed an American carrier philosophyChapter
  63. USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 1
    4:51Midway as the US Navy's dream carrierNotable Point
  64. USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 1
    42:08Which lost carrier should have been preserved?Q&A
  65. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    52:20Yorktown and Midway express doctrine, Essex emphasizes rapid constructionNotable Point
  66. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:51:27Essex production scales the doctrine while exposing its limitsChapter
  67. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    3:17:33Why British and American carriers optimized for different warsNotable Point
  68. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    10:25How raid success strengthened the Essex priorityNotable Point
  69. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    1:01:10Why the US Navy kept imagining new Essex-class rolesQ&A
  70. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    4:16:00Would all 24 Essex-class carriers still be built?Q&A
  71. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:23:08Bare Essex hulls are more plausible as helicopter assault shipsQ&A
  72. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:30:03Essex turns Yorktown experience into faster productionQ&A
  73. British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    1:27North Atlantic weather changes the carrier air-group comparisonQ&A
  74. CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 1
    7:16Fleet carriers, strike carriers, and the arsenal-ship comparisonNotable Point
  75. Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 2
    1:26:54A faster successor for carrier cooperationChapter
  76. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:25:04Essex and Implacable: construction timing and air groupsNotable Point
  77. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    16:01From Yorktown to the Midway classNotable Point
  78. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    42:19Guadalcanal, Rennell Island, and a carrier firstChapter
  79. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    44:41The 1943 overhaul and a multiplying carrier fleetNotable Point
  80. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    2:11:49The Royal Navy admired the Essex class without wanting to copy itQ&A
  81. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    1:07:31Why a Skyhawk can roll off an Essex flight deckQ&A
  82. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 4
    2:28:07Modern air groups overwhelm Second World War carrier fleetsQ&A
  83. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:54:57What later carriers learned from the interwar experimentsChapter
  84. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:56:08Could an Essex simply receive an armored flight deck?Q&A
  85. New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers
    47:00Philadelphia Naval Shipyard's heavy-warship traditionNotable Point
  86. Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack
    14:54A wartime carrier group against modern anti-ship missilesQ&A
  87. Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)
    50:51How many carriers were planned before Pearl Harbor?Q&A
  88. The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound
    47:01Big Blue Blanket and carrier damage resilienceNotable Point
  89. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    41:54The hit on USS Randolph and its limited resultChapter
  90. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    46:21Range, payload, and carrier survivabilityNotable Point
  91. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    1:24:40American carrier production exposes the scale mismatchNotable Point
  92. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    43:49USS Shangri-La and fictional place namesQ&A
  93. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)
    2:06:36How the Essex programme expanded after Pearl HarborQ&A
  94. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    2:48:48Midway-class protection versus Essex-class numbersQ&A
  95. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    2:51:54Why British and American carrier designs divergedChapter
  96. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    2:42:28Midway-class carriers instead of EssexesQ&A
  97. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    2:02:41Using Norman Friedman to follow Essex design changesChapter
  98. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers
    39:20Graf Zeppelin's launch trolleys and catapult bottleneckNotable Point
  99. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    1:13:20Larger jets forced carrier hangar rebuildsQ&A
  100. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    14:37Wartime carrier orders for a postwar U.S. fleetChapter
  101. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    42:24Essex-class carriers from wartime fleet to jet eraChapter
  102. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    44:50SCB-27A adapted Essex carriers for heavier jet aircraftNotable Point
  103. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    49:24Essex production reflected invasion-loss estimatesNotable Point
  104. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    50:18Carrier design depends on the navy's problemQ&A
  105. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    52:29Marriott's photographs make naval history accessibleQ&A
  106. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    56:57An Essex-class carrier as a sea-launch platformNotable Point