Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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HMS Formidable

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  1. What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?
    58:08Why the Dutch East Indies pulls Allied carriers togetherChapter
  2. The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII
    50:08Kimberley's Red Sea and Mediterranean escort dutiesNotable Point
  3. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    4:00:23Carrier damage-control lessons reach the captainNotable Point
  4. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    55:39Two plausible routes to a four-carrier forceChapter
  5. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    44:04The invasion becomes a Mediterranean fleet battleChapter
  6. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    1:02:19Crete changes fleets, North Africa, and Force ZChapter
  7. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    1:34:44Salerno's escort carriers had little room or speed for repeated flying cyclesNotable Point
  8. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    1:46:43Pacific carrier flagships linked staff space to command effectivenessChapter
  9. Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...
    1:54:22Formidable resumed flying six hours after a kamikaze hitNotable Point
  10. What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?
    58:18A carrier is a support node, not a substitute for its escortsNotable Point
  11. An Indomitable Force Z
    1:07:30A surviving Singapore would attract Allied fleet reinforcementsNotable Point
  12. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    1:45:19How Force Z's survival could transform the Battle of the Java SeaNotable Point
  13. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:53:17Formidable breaks the French line at the SaintesChapter
  14. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    2:55:36Rodney times fire near de Grasse's flagshipNotable Point
  15. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    1:43:24Formidable's 4 May 1945 kamikaze hitNotable Point
  16. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    2:41:34U-331's surrender lost in the communications chainChapter
  17. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    48:44Formidable and the floating-moving-fighting testNotable Point
  18. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:04:27An early Barracuda at Cape MatapanQ&A
  19. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    15:20Formidable and Unicorn used carrier guns in surface actionsQ&A
  20. Fairey Albacore: Oh bring back my Stringbag to me, to me - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 3
    42:18From Channel patrols to HMS FormidableChapter
  21. Fairey Albacore: Oh bring back my Stringbag to me, to me - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 3
    44:45Carrier maintenance made the Taurus reliableNotable Point
  22. Fairey Albacore: Oh bring back my Stringbag to me, to me - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 3
    48:01Albacores strike Vittorio Veneto at Cape MatapanChapter
  23. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    44:02Formidable, Crete, and spare-parts logisticsChapter
  24. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    46:58Formidable's bomb damage and rapid air-patrol recoveryNotable Point
  25. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    1:28:00Neglected British carrier cases drive new researchNotable Point
  26. Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response
    45:18British carrier roles joined combat doctrine to global repair logisticsChapter
  27. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    30:29How Graf Zeppelin could accelerate British carrier constructionQ&A
  28. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    36:13When carrier gunfire does not prove a design needQ&A
  29. The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore
    1:21:00An Australian repair base changes Force Z before war beginsNotable Point
  30. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    0:42HMS Formidable as incremental battleship developmentChapter
  31. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    4:54Why call Formidable a sovereign battleship?Notable Point
  32. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    8:21Formidable’s twelve-round gunnery trialNotable Point
  33. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    14:19Protection, machinery, and endurance in the Formidable designChapter
  34. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    20:38Portsmouth yard capacity and rapid class successionNotable Point
  35. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    22:25Commissioning by transferring an entire trained crewNotable Point
  36. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    24:23Mediterranean exercises as naval diplomacyNotable Point
  37. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    25:25Royal-yacht escort and a year-long Malta refitNotable Point
  38. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    26:40Refits explain why fleet size is not fleet availabilityChapter
  39. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    33:46Fleet names, invasion fears, and home defenceNotable Point
  40. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    38:53Nucleus crews and the fragility of engineering knowledgeNotable Point
  41. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    44:52Formidable’s Channel Fleet duties in 1914Chapter
  42. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    49:17U-24 sinks HMS FormidableChapter
  43. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    57:24The Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue warning before FormidableNotable Point
  44. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    59:48Fleet strength depends on integrated screeningNotable Point
  45. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    1:01:46Judging naval decisions without hindsightNotable Point
  46. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:30:22Illustrious-class timelines show how delay accumulatedNotable Point
  47. Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock
    1:25:26Formidable at Matapan and the limits of carrier gunsNotable Point
  48. Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy
    3:47:41Type 31 names revive varied Royal Navy historiesQ&A
  49. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    23:03Why carriers should avoid surface actionNotable Point
  50. HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 3
    43:47Matapan combines carrier reach with battleship destructionChapter
  51. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    3:29:26Narvik, Force Z, and Matapan offer different battle viewpointsQ&A
  52. Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 4
    11:14Medusa's Dürr boiler purchase and the Formidable debateChapter
  53. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1942
    3:09Crete and Ark Royal constrained carrier support for Force ZChapter
  54. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    10:20How Illustrious-class carrier delays accumulatedChapter
  55. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    26:16Japanese expectations of British armored carriersQ&A
  56. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z
    0:19Force Z and the carrier availability problemChapter
  57. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z
    8:19Illustrious-class build delaysNotable Point
  58. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z
    13:22What faster armored-carrier construction could changeNotable Point
  59. A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...
    1:38Ark Royal and the Mers-el-Kebir attackChapter
  60. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    1:00:33Why did HMS Formidable have two captains?Q&A
  61. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    4:09HMS Formidable and the armoured-carrier tradeoffNotable Point
  62. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    7:30The 1936 London treaty constrained an expected rearmamentNotable Point
  63. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    1:12:02Aircraft carriers did use their surface gunsQ&A
  64. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    30:34Air power and radar at Cape MatapanNotable Point
  65. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    36:48Mediterranean carrier attrition drained the Far East planNotable Point
  66. Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II
    9:57A destroyer screen in the 1941 Tripoli operationChapter
  67. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    2:52:58How an available Formidable might have changed Force ZQ&A
  68. Amphion Class Cruisers
    37:04Air attack on Formidable after MatapanNotable Point
  69. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    0:01'Armoured carrier' as shorthand for a protected hangarChapter
  70. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    2:31A diversion to an Eastern Mediterranean short of carriersChapter
  71. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    58:55Illustrious collides with Formidable after their repairsNotable Point
  72. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    1:04:41Two one-ton bombs strike FormidableChapter
  73. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    1:09:52Why one-ton bombs changed the armour calculationNotable Point
  74. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    1:13:47How investigators identified Formidable's one-ton bombNotable Point
  75. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    1:28:49Withdrawal, repair, and the cost of remaining in actionNotable Point
  76. Introduction to Crete 1941
    36:03HMS Formidable reveals the fleet's supply strainNotable Point
  77. Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean
    1:06:29Alexandria's 1st Flotilla and the Far East trade-offNotable Point
  78. Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-43
    1:49:42HMS Formidable's early 1941 Indian Ocean deploymentNotable Point
  79. An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)
    39:58What Formidable reveals about Indian Ocean carrier scarcityNotable Point
  80. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    17:44Formidable follows the Crete-to-Norfolk repair routeNotable Point
  81. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    18:50Australia converts Formidable for carrier-squadron commandNotable Point
  82. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:59:18Why risking Formidable off Crete could be strategically rationalNotable Point
  83. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    24:14Operation C and Somerville's missed night battleChapter
  84. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    1:15:32How British carriers operated in wartimeQ&A
  85. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    1:19:19Formidable at Crete: resilient ship, exhausted air groupNotable Point
  86. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    1:45:19Why British carrier history remained hard to seeChapter