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- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!19:38River-class frigates bring sloop capability to more shipyardsChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII16:53Why an initial depth-charge allowance can misleadNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII22:19Canada's escort fleet as a comparison of available numbersNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII23:04Comparing Japan with Britain's early-war escort positionNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII29:37Why early escorts carried minesweeping equipmentNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII32:00Ukuru and the difference between reserved space and fitted weaponsNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII35:05Available guns and the practical equipment of escortsNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII44:09Type C and the use of prefabrication to expand outputChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII1:05:25How a subsidised fishing fleet could prepare escort conversionsNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:36Why a submarine-only fleet could simplify British defenceNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?50:04Signals warning and British fleet concentrationNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live54:20British labor transfers between carriers and corvettesNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous53:01The 1939 shipbuilding pause and its competing prioritiesChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars55:06Atlantic patrols and the 1945 stand-downChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:15:13Prewar escorts need trained reserve crews as well as hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:58:12When revived warship names signal mobilisationQ&A
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)32:24Why an all-submarine fleet is a one-dimensional threatChapter
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:53:21Why a submarine-only threat is easier to counterQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:20Sustaining a Flower-class corvette before TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:07Rewiring a Flower-class corvette in a time-travel scenarioQ&A
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...32:31Mine warfare shaped the Flower class's originsNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans33:46Why warship yard labor was not interchangeableNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?9:45Prewar escort orders complicate the emergency-building rationaleNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:14:51Continuing major ships need not weaken British ASWNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?41:38How a submarine-only German fleet would change British deploymentsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:05:45Mine warfare can misdirect escort productionNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:08:53Dedicated escorts free destroyers for fleet dutiesNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?38:57A proposed lower tier of large uncrewed escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start40:10Why the First World War Flower-class sloops are overlookedQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live6:17Escort construction was already under way before the pauseChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live38:17The Royal Navy had already applied the First World War escort lessonNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:18:06How postwar memoirs reshaped memory of the construction pauseQ&A
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:08:01Flower-class corvettes favored fitness over perfectionNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?30:10Interwar sloops prepared Britain for mass escort constructionChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?31:18How merchant standards made the Flower class scalableNotable Point
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare49:30Uncrewed convoy escorts must keep pace with the fleetChapter
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far33:16Crewed warships as leaders of uncrewed mini task groupsChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:31How German surface raiders complicated British convoy defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:04:50Unfinished battlecruisers sold to Denmark and the NetherlandsQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:26:44Flower and Fletcher illustrate different escort expectationsNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII23:15Flower corvettes followed a mobilization timetableChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII25:02Snowberry's construction, transfer, and forecastle refitNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII26:05Snowberry moved where escort pressure was greatestChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII29:32Flower corvettes became a multinational escort typeNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII31:00Snowberry and guided-weapon target prioritiesNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII32:49Snowberry and experienced escorts sank U-536Notable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?36:17Flower corvettes: define the equipment, then find the hullNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:34:26Lend-Lease as an exchange of Allied interestsNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:04:03Churchill repeated a World War I shipbuilding pause in 1939Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates5:22Constellation's mission and the cost of a smaller combatantQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates8:24Why Fletcher-scale capability needs large ordersNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi20:23Fletcher and Flower: different ideas of a cheap warshipNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:25:16Flower-class names, propaganda, and naval moraleQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:09:38The scale of Royal Navy small-escort productionNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:28:53The utility-versus-complexity test for convoy escortsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:32:03The Flower-class corvettes that served the US NavyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:01:05The treaty loophole for interwar escort fleetsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…4:06:13An early escort program changes the U-boat warChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:35:28Deliberate and Reciprocity as Royal Navy namesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:43:02How class themes make warship names memorableChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:32:16Civilian careers, service motivation, and Western recruitmentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:41:02Why the RNVR's yachtsmen mattered in wartime small-ship commandNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:40:04A better gun constrained by Flower-class availabilityQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?20:58Henderson's carrier doctrine and rearmament portfolioChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:02:01Sloops turned ASW experiments into Flower-class requirementsChapter
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:46Why Australia designed Bathurst-class corvettesQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?35:41Cruiser submarines accelerate British ASW constructionChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?37:00Bittern and Egret development leads toward Black Swan and Hunt escortsChapter
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:24Revenge, flowers, and supposedly cursed ship namesQ&A
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...19:51British rearmament plans assumed a later warNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:17World War II escorts worth saving as museum shipsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:14Why Princess turbines would not suit Flower-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:22:39How surfaced U-boats used deck guns inside convoysQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:24:00Why armed merchantmen struggled with U-boats inside convoysQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:24:39How later radar tactics can obscure the original purposeNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:29:24Why a corvette had the advantage in a U-boat gun duelQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:00:48Why Flower-class corvettes did not need 3.7-inch antiaircraft gunsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:28Science-fiction equivalents of Flower corvettes and PT craftQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:37:31An American program of improved Flower-class corvettesQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?30:32Fleet standardization changes weapons available to escortsNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?5:50Why British-built warships survive far from BritainNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:23:08Britain's escort orders assumed a later start to warNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:27:20How uncrewed vessels can extend presenceChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:26:59Torch escort priorities and British ships for the US NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:04Why high-pressure boilers would not refit the whole Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:23Flower names for the Royal Navy's Type 9X vesselsQ&A
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII33:39Nelles and the RCN's unprecedented wartime expansionChapter
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:00:33Why wartime fleets kept using obsolescent gunsNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty1:28:51A Royal Navy without London construction limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:14Ship names worth reviving in Britain and CanadaQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:10An optionally crewed Flower-class ASW picketQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:48Destroyer experience and the Royal Navy's carrier programmeQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:34:21Why interwar submarine danger did not guarantee escort fundingQ&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea53:41Why more U-boats were not a simple substitute for battleshipsNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:16:03JW 51B's mixed close escort and war-emergency destroyersChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:33:56Bramble fought alone while Achates kept making smokeNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…40:37The continuing demand for specialized escortsChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:12:41Lend-Lease escorts also flowed to American watersNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates20:50The River class between corvettes and Black Swan sloopsChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?8:38Submarine minelaying shaped Royal Navy escortsChapter
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 420:20Churchill, escort construction, and managing upwardsNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 443:16How Australian industry produced the Bathurst classNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 459:44Museum ships preserve more than hardwareNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes6:32The Commonwealth Naval Board designed for Australian capacityChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes9:29ASDIC and production capacity set the corvette's size limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...46:57Why Britain needs deeper naval and military reservesQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:57:12The Flower corvette and Bofors gun as naval workhorsesQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:04:59Global basing made repairability a Royal Navy priorityQ&A
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:13:55Black Swan and Stonecrop destroy U-124Notable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:58:18What to tell Admiral Henderson in 1937Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:38:39HMS Dianthus made certain a U-boat could not escapeNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:23:41The Flower-class design was ready before the war emergencyChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:36:03Why prewar sloops could not simply replace Flower-class CorvettesChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:43:53Reginald Henderson translated escort experience into the Flower designChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:49:23How Churchill's construction pause disrupted rather than accelerated escortsNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:51:46How Flowers gained weapons, sensors, and endurance during the warChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:53:11Corvettes, frigates, and sloops used different construction standardsNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:00:19Why Flower-class names mattered to small-ship crewsNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:02:01Flower-class hulls served navies and civil operators around the worldChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:03:25Flower-class Corvettes filled an urgent US Navy escort gapChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:12:03HMS Buttercup's multinational wartime and postwar careerChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:16:32French-built Flower corvettes completed for German serviceChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:21:56How HMCS Sackville survived to represent the classChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:26:23A Flower Corvette fought a surfaced U-boat at point-blank rangeNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:32:12HMS Coreopsis combined rescue work, Greek service, and a film roleChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:34:56Why a modern 3-inch gun would not necessarily arm the FlowersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:41:52Why the Atlantic needed Flowers before Tacoma-class frigatesQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:50:43Could commercial yards build sloops instead of Flowers?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:04:27A modern Flower as an optionally crewed escort nodeQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:12:32Why a Flower could not carry a spinal 4-inch gunQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:47:46Modified Flowers, Castles, and Rivers formed an escort-design progressionQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:55:19Reservists concentrated in trawlers and Flower-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:55:36Gun availability favored 4-inch escort armamentQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:55:55A Flower-class corvette at Trafalgar is limited by ammunitionQ&A
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s36:01Shipbuilding capacity as rearmament insuranceNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier11:41German raiders improvise around a thin supply baseChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier0:20Modernisation plans do not stand stillChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:11:25Colonial escorts and joint imperial fleetsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:18:16Britain's two-tier destroyers and global escort networkChapter
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign59:29Mine warfare as a driver of escort constructionNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?28:29Colossus class after the British carrier pauseChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:22:07A wartime Napier Deltic production lineQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World16:20Earlier U-boats would provoke earlier British escort buildingNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:15:34Reserve warships bought mobilization timeChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:08:54Why River and Loch frigates could not simply appear before the warQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:52:05Why V and W destroyers were converted into escortsQ&A
- Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 636:57The Avenger replacement effort started too lateChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:24:25An extra year strengthens Britain and may delay U-boatsNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence44:04A proposed interwar sloop reserve for 1939Notable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:28:11Turboshaft helicopters reshape convoy anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:56:28Gas turbines redirect wartime factories and skilled laborChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:32:34The World War I Flower pattern shaped later escortsChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:04:13Could steady interwar sloop building have changed World War II?Q&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:12:08Eight sloops a year could reshape the early U-boat warChapter
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:19:30Foreknowledge of U-boat numbers accelerates British escortsQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 224:44German yard intelligence brought British escorts forwardNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 48:02How Britain could mass-produce submarine escortsNotable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response11:23Flower-class output depended on slipways and fitting-out capacityQ&A
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?35:13Surface raiders created an escort dilemmaChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?39:11HX convoy statistics challenge the popular Atlantic narrativeNotable Point
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:44:19The fastest American response to a submarine raid on New YorkQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...3:04:32Naval research priorities in Canada's national archivesQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series34:55How quickly Flower-class corvettes could be completedQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:37:20Why a Flower-class book began with SackvilleQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs39:18Torpedo scarcity made gun armament essentialNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres28:13The Schnellboot's torpedo-focused flexibilityChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII4:05Why the Merchant Navy and Merchant Marine are remembered differentlyChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 33:23The Royal Navy's seven-layer escort ladderNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:15:50The wider question: escorts ordered a year earlierNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 101:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1027:42Which Flower class was the wartime emergency design?Notable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...45:23South Africa and the neglected Cape sea routeNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:40:03Would Canada preserve a treaty-era battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture33:03Why mass-produced escorts used flowers, rivers, bays, and lochsQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:09:53Why anti-submarine escorts still needed deck gunsQ&A
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:20:23A 1935 Royal Navy rearmament scenarioNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:38:50River-class frigates as an earlier Flower replacementQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years52:53The prewar design timeline of the Hunt and Flower classesNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:31:40Interwar yard closures reduced escort-building depthQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:54:28What a two-shaft Flower-class corvette would costQ&A
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)6:26Coastal convoys and the escort raceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney51:41Why Bathurst corvettes were not merely enlarged FlowersQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane58:26Estimating motor power for a 20-knot Flower-class escortQ&A
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?14:10A convoy memoir for corvette historyNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)40:21The limited escort cost of keeping carriers under constructionNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:29:53Escort carriers and the Atlantic air gapChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:10:19A mass submarine programme would trigger a responseNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:16:38Could mass minelaying submarines close British waters?Q&A
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:21:35Minesweeping requirements shaped escort fittingsNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century52:15How coastal convoy geography and shipbuilding shaped the submarine contestNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:08:58Wolf packs versus the Atlantic escort systemChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response0:48Hood and Royal Navy preservation habitsNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:17:14Reading about daily life aboard a Flower-class corvetteQ&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class46:41Sloop capacity, anti-submarine cover, and Far East readinessNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:24:36Were Flower-class corvettes converted fishing vessels?Q&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:43:31Instant ship production and continued design developmentQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts41:33Sackville, Flower-class manning, and convoy valueChapter
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts42:51Sackville's Scotch boilers and railway industrial skillsNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts44:17Triple-expansion engines were smooth, not silentNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts46:25Royal Navy personnel geography and Commonwealth crewingNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts50:33Flower-class whaler ancestry and precise vessel termsNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts57:15Why the Flower's 4-inch gun was not dual-purposeQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts57:46The Flower class as a minimum viable convoy escortNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:06:46Sackville's ventilation turbine and original equipmentQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:12:54A provisional Flower-class submarine boarding storyNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:07:31Hunt and Flower escorts show yard tradeoffsQ&A
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class0:00See preserved Sackville in Halifax HarbourChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:52Why convoys needed Flower-class critical massChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class7:03From First World War sloops to the 1939 Flower classChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class8:47Why a coastal escort still needed ocean-going seakeepingNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class20:12Henderson and Goodall turn escort demands into a shipNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class32:19How U-boats penetrated the center of a convoyNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class36:18Mine warfare and the Bittern escort templateNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class39:58How Southern Pride became the Flower-class hullChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class42:09How boiler delivery times shaped the Flower designNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class45:49Scotch boilers and triple-expansion enduranceChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class53:05How Sackville's triple-expansion engine reused steamNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class58:49Why the Royal Navy revived the name corvetteNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:04:31How familiar machinery kept Flowers useful after the warNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:06:11Work and escape inside Sackville's engine roomNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:11:11Four-inch gun, Hedgehog, and depth-charge patternsChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:11:11Why the Flower's four-inch gun targeted surfaced submarinesNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:28:50What the two-pounder Pom-Pom could deterNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:36:22How Flower-class corvettes moved between naviesNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:36:35Candytuft becomes USS TenacityNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:37:36Buttercup moves from Belgian to Norwegian serviceNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:42:12How Coreopsis became Compass Rose in The Cruel SeaNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:43:00How ASDIC and Type 271 divided the submarine searchChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:53:37Why Flower-class crews mattered more than the kill countNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class2:01:58How museum access changes a preserved warshipQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine41:49From cruiser rules to wolf packs - and the escort responseNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:00:00Plan Z and the Allied industrial responseNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:03:11The enemy fleet and German command Plan Z would meet in 1948Notable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:50:24How corvettes, sloops, and destroyer escorts differedQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:03:31The Hunt class was Britain's overlooked mass-produced light destroyerNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:00:15Living conditions aboard a Flower-class corvetteQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out11:33Why South American navies bought old gun cruisersQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:16:00River frigates and Flower corvettes served different stages of the escort warQ&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams24:07Replacement cost shapes which warships commanders riskNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193943:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
- Ruse de guerre38:05Flower-class sloops bridge Q-ships and escortsChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)18:01Constellation and the US Navy's frigate dilemmaQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)42:05Type 054A trades global range for affordable fleet massChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:59:21Why drone-defence lasers reinforce a high-low fleet mixNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:00:01The missed opportunity to mass-produce treaty-exempt sloopsChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)24:07A destroyer-sized hull optimized for ASWChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)33:17ASW needs hulls for contact and attackChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:25:24How survey ships informed Flower-class merchant-hull thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy3:27:17Why a Flower-class corvette might carry a chickenQ&A
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)20:20Camouflage and the adaptable Flower-class corvetteNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN24:33An uncrewed Flower-class concept for future convoy escortQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:47:56When ASDIC exercises met a different warQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:54:13Was ASDIC fitted for but not with?Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...33:46HMS Buttercup's Flower-class identityQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?48:30How Britain prepared escorts before the U-boat warQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:54:18A 1939 Anglo-Japanese war reshapes fleets and alliancesNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)22:20Escort production separated Britain from Japan in submarine warNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:12:09Block building as dispersed wartime ship productionQ&A
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)43:10The escort programme was built for a later warNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:05:55What a Second World War convoy could change before TrafalgarQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:06:13How late did Flower-class construction begin?Q&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response47:49The Flower-class mast was changed for naval serviceQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response24:23Escort designs still take time to deliverQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response37:29Flower-class timing and the convoy-planning disputeQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol16:21Flower construction speed and the early-war shortfallNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/72:39Escort orders and the 1938 answerNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/76:39Type VIIs versus escort massChapter
- Prince Philips Navy37:03How Flower-class corvettes mixed reservists and wartime crewsQ&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA13:13Destroyers for bases expands Atlantic securityChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:27:33Why a navy fights first with the fleet it hasNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:58:16Which ship class had the greatest impact on the Second World War?Q&A
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol1:12:44From refined sloops to mass-produced escortsChapter
- 2 Minutes: Dog Boats - The Fairmile D's2:06A modern Fairmile D or Flower-class corvette?Notable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/31:36HMS Lotus on PQ 17 and HMS Ayrshire as a trawler escortChapter
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/37:09Flower corvettes: slow but handy convoy escortsNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/39:02Reserve crews turned corvettes into crew projectsNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/311:51How small escorts accumulated firepowerNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/315:05Why a simple escort still took almost a yearNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...53:54Why welding saves more weight on complex warshipsQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 447:52Canada and Germany's uneven naval mobilisationNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You23:07Why the little ships mattered in massChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:11:58The opening years of war are fought with the prewar fleetNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?4:49Stockpiling complete light-gun systemsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...12:10Flower-class endurance and refuellingChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...13:55Adapting and mass-building Flower corvettesNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...16:13Measuring Flower-class success by cargo deliveredNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 218:32Why useful cruisers missed their overhaulChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 442:04A thousand little ships sustained the Royal Navy and Commonwealth war effortNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 420:20Sackville, Haida, and Vampire preserve Commonwealth ship typesNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 421:16Flower-class corvettes served thirteen navies on both sidesChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 422:38Dispersed Flower production created a propulsion smorgasbordNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 425:43Mass-produced Flowers made Atlantic convoy coverage possibleChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 427:30Each Flower developed its own fittings and visual identityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A38:46Warship classes with punishing seakeepingQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?39:50Bittern design linked peacetime needs to wartime escortsChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?44:08Black Swan experience underpinned wartime escortsChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:08:53Sloop trials shaped Flower-class corvettesQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:16:20Sloop seakeeping depended strongly on sizeQ&A