Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Floating Dry Docks

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  1. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:43:01Astute availability and the dry-dock bottleneckQ&A
  2. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:37:49Floating dry docks as deployable naval infrastructureQ&A
  3. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:38:27When the US Navy sold its floating docksQ&A
  4. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    7:30:17Preserving shipyards and building larger, movable dry docksNotable Point
  5. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    7:59:02Sectional floating dry docks and lost repair capacityQ&A
  6. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:38:27Dry-dock length limits practical carrier sizeNotable Point
  7. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:57:51When World War II submarines needed dry dockingQ&A
  8. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:24:30Yavuz demonstrates the value of a floating dry dockQ&A
  9. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:16:33Floating dry docks as mobile strategic infrastructureQ&A
  10. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    1:42:12Why capital-ship dry docks mattered more by location than ratioQ&A
  11. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    1:38:44Floating docks would move forward with the fleetNotable Point
  12. HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?
    1:31:13Bermuda floating dock and global supportNotable Point
  13. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    2:01:14Floating dry docks were a critical early-war vulnerabilityQ&A
  14. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:49:35Why carrier drydocks lose political funding battlesQ&A
  15. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:18:17Why Bermuda became the Caribbean station's durable dockyardChapter
  16. Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    31:54Floating dry docks as protected forward repair basesQ&A
  17. County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)
    31:14York reveals the limits of overseas dockyardsNotable Point
  18. The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)
    34:49Bathurst corvettes and hydrography as naval logisticsNotable Point
  19. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    28:22Why would Vladivostok not solve the basing problem?Q&A
  20. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    1:08:10Could Ulithi still support a fleet?Q&A
  21. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    1:17:40Floating docks offered a higher-value targetNotable Point
  22. Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World
    1:04:32How a floating dock lifts a battleshipQ&A
  23. Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)
    14:07What wartime dockyard expansion might have changedNotable Point
  24. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    12:18Swan Hunter's yard machinery moved from the Tyne to IndiaQ&A
  25. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    48:07A global network for keeping ships operationalChapter
  26. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:22:30Bermuda's floating dock as strategic mobilityChapter
  27. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:24:25When a floating dock can lift a battleshipQ&A
  28. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:32:47How a floating dry dock balances and maintains itselfNotable Point
  29. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:37:31Star Wars and Star Trek illustrate mobile repair logisticsNotable Point
  30. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:37:58Japan's fleet lacked enough mobile repair capacityNotable Point
  31. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:48:20Floating docks for forward fleet supportChapter
  32. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:52:48Who commanded and worked an Admiralty floating dockQ&A
  33. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:58:35Can a floating dock service another navy's ship?Q&A
  34. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:59:14Why the modern Royal Navy lacks a large floating-dock fleetQ&A
  35. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    3:01:13Why most floating dry docks were not self-propelledQ&A
  36. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    52:15Floating docks were critical missed targetsQ&A
  37. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    1:14:34Operational damage and the missed repair facilitiesNotable Point
  38. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    1:27:42Singapore as a repair triage centerChapter
  39. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    1:59:52Admiralty floating docks outlived their original serviceQ&A
  40. The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?
    39:00Close-range damage and the pursuit of Graf SpeeNotable Point