Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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HMS Argus

Unique converted aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:40:27Argus as a drone carrier in 1938Notable Point
  2. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:11:17Light carriers could release tonnage for a larger Ark RoyalChapter
  3. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    17:06Cuckoo production runs ahead of carrier readinessNotable Point
  4. Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?
    42:24Escort-carrier thinking before the Second World WarNotable Point
  5. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    54:17Which ocean liners made useful carrier conversions?Q&A
  6. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    55:11Britain's carrier force before the Washington TreatyQ&A
  7. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    5:01Queen Bee and HMS Argus place naval drones in an interwar lineageNotable Point
  8. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:11:23A minimum fleet carrier for eighteen SwordfishQ&A
  9. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    6:59:39How a TDR-1 available in 1942 could have supported carrier strikesQ&A
  10. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:13:44Where HMS Argus photographs may be filedQ&A
  11. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:55:30Furious and air cover for a Dutch-led forceNotable Point
  12. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    6:50D'Eyncourt's 1919 survey of carrier conversionsNotable Point
  13. Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s
    22:37HMS Argus became an experimental drone carrierChapter
  14. Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s
    25:29Why Argus was worth investing in through 1942Notable Point
  15. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:13:02HMS Argus transferred to ItalyQ&A
  16. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    56:31Uncrewed naval weapons long before modern dronesNotable Point
  17. How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?
    1:56:40HMS Argus and the older history of drone carriersNotable Point
  18. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:21:23British interest in armed drones during the Second World WarQ&A
  19. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:07:11How early escort-carrier conversion ideas beganQ&A
  20. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    2:41:47HMS Argus as an early drone carrierQ&A
  21. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:30:00The carrier debate is also an air-wing and maintenance debateChapter
  22. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 3
    1:00:18HMS Argus and the drone-carrier precedentNotable Point
  23. @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 1
    21:51A layered interwar carrier fleetChapter
  24. @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 1
    26:39Argus and Queen Bee target dronesNotable Point
  25. Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier
    18:54Queen Bee target drones and HMS ArgusChapter
  26. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    2:26:07How to judge the prewar condition of Britain's old carriersQ&A
  27. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    2:33:24HMS Argus was a useful auxiliary, not a pristine combat carrierQ&A
  28. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    2:45:38Which old British carriers might survive into a war delayed to 1942Q&A
  29. War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?
    1:36Escort carriers were planned before the emergencyNotable Point
  30. Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!
    56:30Operation Rocket repeated the carrier ferry runNotable Point
  31. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    32:30London Treaty rules squeeze useful small carriersNotable Point
  32. The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers
    28:19Argus tests the full-length flight deckChapter
  33. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    3:33:56Why losing a small carrier costs less fleet capabilityQ&A
  34. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:00:04Larger carriers and the prospect of twin-engine torpedo bombersQ&A
  35. MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 2
    12:10Treaty limits squeezed out the cruiser-carrier roleChapter
  36. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    17:38Argus turns limited carrier strength into a laboratoryChapter
  37. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    54:10Six carriers support a globally distributed fleetChapter
  38. What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?
    55:10Helicopters force taller carrier hangarsChapter
  39. Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s
    47:21Argus and Langley as helicopter testbedsQ&A
  40. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    4:03:19A 12,000-ton cruiser limit reshapes guns and carrier loopholesQ&A
  41. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    15:14Why the Royal Navy rejected very small carriersNotable Point
  42. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    32:08Production, torpedo training, and carrier embarkationChapter
  43. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    36:17The Royal Navy planned a hundred-aircraft carrier strikeChapter
  44. British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    2:17Courageous showed the cost of ignoring carrier ASW doctrineNotable Point
  45. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 10
    2:05:19HMS Argus and the early escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
  46. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    39:28Argus was only one step in the search for the next capital shipQ&A
  47. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    56:53The interwar path toward purpose-built escort carriersQ&A
  48. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!
    52:32Why Argus kept single 4-inch gunsQ&A
  49. HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 9
    31:30The risk of using fleet carriers as submarine huntersNotable Point
  50. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    16:31How Graf Zeppelin could change British carrier constructionNotable Point
  51. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    1:23:59Bearn lagged behind other navies' secondary carriersNotable Point
  52. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    8:15Argus and Langley as useful experimental carriersNotable Point
  53. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    16:42Argus and Langley as practical pioneer carriersChapter
  54. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:10:44Demand for flight decks repeatedly saved Argus from retirementQ&A
  55. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    3:22:18Argus messes managed their own food accountsChapter
  56. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    3:23:28Eyewitnesses aboard Argus and Eagle describe carrier lifeChapter
  57. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    8:08HMS Argus as an interwar escort-carrier precedentNotable Point
  58. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    17:26Treaties and budgets narrow the small-carrier opportunityChapter
  59. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    27:13Unicorn exposes the shipyard case for merchant conversionNotable Point
  60. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:23:07Why no one inventor owns the escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
  61. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    8:21How Argus might have served before the First World War endedQ&A
  62. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    9:28Why relabeling carriers did not create treaty tonnageQ&A
  63. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:29:57Oceanic as a better carrier hull than ArgusQ&A
  64. Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)
    31:12A lost flight helped shape British carrier layoutNotable Point
  65. Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII
    1:24:24The Gloster Nightjar and the beginnings of carrier night flyingQ&A
  66. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    1:01:29Why carrier islands preserve hangar spaceNotable Point
  67. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:55:24880 Squadron works up aboard HMS IndomitableChapter
  68. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    39:02Escort-carrier doctrine before HMS AudacityQ&A
  69. Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 3
    7:49Anti-piracy raids double as amphibious demonstrationsNotable Point
  70. Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 2
    26:05Bias Bay becomes a live combined-operations rehearsalNotable Point
  71. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    52:12Why did smaller carriers remain on the China Station?Q&A
  72. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    1:28:16The Yat Shing raid brought combined arms to Bias BayChapter
  73. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    1:35:55Who controlled carrier aviation in 1927?Q&A
  74. Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys
    8:51Fleet Air Arm dispositions across five carriers in 1939Notable Point
  75. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 3
    2:47HMS Glorious and the cost of risking fleet carriersChapter
  76. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 3
    2:05Argus bridges experiment, training, and ferry workChapter
  77. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...
    10:55The Blackburn Blackburn as a dedicated fleet spotterNotable Point
  78. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    14:45Island and flush-deck carrier design tradeoffsChapter
  79. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    23:42Royal Navy carrier numbers built early operational experienceNotable Point
  80. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    1:53:02Argus and Langley reveal the cost of funnel arrangementsChapter
  81. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    1:26:37Escort-carrier ideas before the warQ&A
  82. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:00:21How a passenger liner became HMS ArgusChapter
  83. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:01:14A new officer scrambles aboard HMS ArgusNotable Point
  84. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    8:35Japan's incomplete 1939 carrier forceChapter
  85. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    32:01Concentrating British carriers in the Far EastNotable Point
  86. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    32:42Moving fighters and bombers to SingaporeNotable Point
  87. Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 1929
    50:19Exercise OA tested mixed battle fleets and divided screensChapter
  88. Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 1929
    57:20Submarines overloaded the fleet before they scored a hitChapter
  89. Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!
    49:42HMS Argus and the escort-carrier ideaChapter