Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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HMS Nelson

Nelson-class battleship of the Royal Navy.

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  1. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    38:34Why mines posed such a serious destroyer threatNotable Point
  2. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    47:44Germany's worst case: the first wave caught at seaChapter
  3. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:03:16How Invergordon spread ship by shipChapter
  4. The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...
    1:09:08The refusal to put to sea at InvergordonChapter
  5. Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development
    10:59The uncertain HMS Nelson anti-aircraft anecdoteNotable Point
  6. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:24:21Historic warships as models for Space Battleship YamatoQ&A
  7. What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?
    1:09:39Choosing a night air strike or a radar-assisted surface actionChapter
  8. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    26:54A carrier-book listing illustrated with HMS NelsonNotable Point
  9. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    11:13:49Victory with a gun from the battleship NelsonQ&A
  10. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    19:55The uncertain arrival of hollow propeller shaftsQ&A
  11. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:24:18Where preserved Rodney and Nelson might goQ&A
  12. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:16:43Why Rodney received unusually frequent hull cleaningQ&A
  13. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    54:15Nelson-class armour came at the price of speedNotable Point
  14. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    57:07Why a speed-obsessed destroyer officer received HMS RodneyChapter
  15. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    1:07:43Hull cleaning, speed, and the limits of inferenceNotable Point
  16. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:17:31Modernizing Nelson and Rodney as missile battleshipsQ&A
  17. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:22:24Nelson and Rodney: gun blast, firing arcs, and machinery protectionNotable Point
  18. What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?
    0:00The choice between gun caliber and speed was political as well as technicalChapter
  19. What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?
    19:43F2 and F3 show how armament weight bought Nelson's missing speedChapter
  20. What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?
    31:47F3's forward firing arcs change the risks of a bow-on approachNotable Point
  21. What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?
    1:29:45The final choice was 16-inch firepower or another 5.5 knotsNotable Point
  22. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    7:24:50Nelson and Rodney as the pinnacle of the traditional dreadnoughtQ&A
  23. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    1:20:45Lion gun development could improve Nelson and RodneyNotable Point
  24. Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier
    1:26:13How armour handling and yard capability shaped warship constructionNotable Point
  25. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    15:32Nelson and Rodney carried rockets above their main gunsNotable Point
  26. Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more
    19:42Why SM.79 sinking totals need operational contextQ&A
  27. Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...
    1:33:13Accounts of Nelson's 16-inch shells destroying aircraftNotable Point
  28. Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!
    25:50Nelson's main guns against aircraftNotable Point
  29. The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...
    2:00:47Gibraltar could force a U-boat back to the surfaceNotable Point
  30. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    15:27Nelson and Rodney as the wrong ships for a mobile fleetQ&A
  31. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:10:40Could turbo-electric drive have helped Nelson and Rodney?Q&A
  32. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    59:45Exercise MZ demonstrates repeated carrier torpedo strikesChapter
  33. Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?
    1:23:18Britain blocked the Iceland route but still depended on patrol disciplineNotable Point
  34. Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?
    1:32:35Tovey reinforced the Iceland blocking forceNotable Point
  35. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    52:16What Royal Navy paperwork reveals - and concealsNotable Point
  36. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    1:28:48Which British warship should have been preserved?Q&A
  37. Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 1960
    1:08:29Ship stability was a gunnery requirementChapter
  38. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:05:02Capital ships secured sea areas as well as fighting fleetsNotable Point
  39. Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion
    20:07British 16.5-inch and 18-inch work was more credible than a 20-inch leapChapter
  40. Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology
    43:52How Lissa encouraged forward-firing gun layoutsNotable Point
  41. HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 9
    33:39A false sinking claim made Ark Royal a marked shipNotable Point
  42. Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?
    2:04:24Could new boilers have made the Nelson class much faster?Q&A
  43. Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?
    2:21:02Would a third shaft for Nelson and Rodney have required thinner armour?Q&A
  44. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    1:50:12What more power could have done for Nelson and RodneyQ&A
  45. A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?
    1:09:23Pagoda masts and the logic of visual identificationNotable Point
  46. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    2:01:48Trading shell weight for interwar gun rangeNotable Point
  47. Bombardment of Ellwood
    2:57:06Yamato and British battleship retention in a delayed warNotable Point
  48. If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response
    31:31Blockade changes the 1939 fleet problemQ&A
  49. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    2:50:25Nelson and Rodney were treaty products, not pre-treaty survivorsNotable Point
  50. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    49:31Scharnhorst's battleship role and cruiser-caliber gunsNotable Point
  51. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    1:09:20H-class scale, range, and the raiding contradictionNotable Point
  52. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:29:11Which heavy ships could form the Eastern Fleet?Notable Point
  53. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    14:48Why Nelson and Rodney were the best postwar retention candidatesQ&A
  54. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    1:57:40A 1948 war leaves few old British capital shipsQ&A
  55. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    1:56:47Introducing Nelson and Rodney twenty years earlyQ&A
  56. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    29:26The Nelson class was strong but too slowQ&A
  57. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    20:31Modernizing the Royal Navy's available capital shipsChapter
  58. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    1:12:34Yamato against Nelson and Rodney in 1942Q&A
  59. Bruships 80: Books From Travels
    17:43Nelson and Rodney against a depleted German surface fleetQ&A
  60. Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)
    12:56North Carolina shows what 35,000 tons could deliverNotable Point
  61. Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    15:35Hood's 5.5-inch guns and alternative cruiser weaponsQ&A
  62. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    0:48Treaty limits and the grey areaChapter
  63. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    23:41The steady drumbeat of naval ordersChapter
  64. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    21:52Why propose a 40,000-ton treaty limit?Q&A
  65. Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)
    45:57Nelson's flagship prestige and design compromiseChapter
  66. Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)
    52:56When Britain concentrated both 16-inch battleshipsNotable Point
  67. Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)
    59:29Why Renown and Rodney became the famous sistersNotable Point
  68. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    2:57:48Nelson as a scarce heavy striking forceChapter
  69. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    2:59:41Nelson, Rodney, and the Invergordon pay crisisChapter
  70. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    3:11:55Q&A: how Nelson's flagship role changed her accommodationQ&A
  71. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    3:12:52Q&A: what would the capital ships do during Sea Lion?Q&A
  72. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    3:40:40Q&A: why Rodney wore out faster than NelsonQ&A
  73. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    2:09:32Q&A: four Admiral-class battlecruisers reshape later namesQ&A
  74. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1915
    24:53Nelson, Rodney, and the value of all-round fireNotable Point
  75. Bruships 44: Strategy
    2:16:46What if HMS Nelson appeared at Trafalgar?Q&A
  76. Bruships 44: Strategy
    2:20:14A displaced battleship brings an engineering workforceNotable Point
  77. Bruships 44: Strategy
    2:26:23Could 1805 Britain reproduce HMS Nelson's ammunition?Q&A
  78. Bruships 44: Strategy
    2:49:12Could alcohol keep HMS Nelson's boilers running in 1805?Q&A
  79. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    21:55Why HMS Rodney had no practical postwar futureQ&A
  80. Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 3
    23:24Percy Noble brings equipment and fleet-command experience to ChinaNotable Point
  81. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    6:34Treaty tonnage rules and Britain's need for hull numbersNotable Point
  82. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    12:22Nelson displacement and the N3 speed estimateQ&A
  83. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    32:15All-forward main guns versus the G3 and N3 Q turretQ&A
  84. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    41:15G3 design lessons and carrier-conversion potentialNotable Point
  85. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:17:46Eight British capital ships for the Pacific fleetNotable Point
  86. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    42:40The remaining Mediterranean capital shipsNotable Point
  87. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    24:27Portsmouth can still repair Nelson early in the warNotable Point
  88. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    25:03Nelson moves from emergency bow repair to American overhaulNotable Point
  89. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    26:48Nelson and Rodney show how sister ships can age differentlyNotable Point
  90. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    14:50Why Nelson and Rodney fall short of the top tenQ&A
  91. HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile
    40:43Operation Halberd against air and surface threatsChapter