Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

HMS Swift

Unique large destroyer and flotilla leader of the Royal Navy.

Related time notes

  1. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    5:59Fisher's speed demands meet Watts's design disciplineNotable Point
  2. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    8:02How future contracts gave Watts leverage over design deadlinesNotable Point
  3. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    9:21Swift's speed, command space and the fast fleetChapter
  4. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    11:33Swift's trials expose the cost of extreme speedNotable Point
  5. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    13:34Swift's advertised speed and mechanical limitationsNotable Point
  6. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    15:17Arthur Wilson's doubts about an expensive leaderNotable Point
  7. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    16:49How destroyer leaders could release cruisers for global dutiesNotable Point
  8. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    19:39The choice of comparison changes Swift's valueNotable Point
  9. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    41:07Useful leaders and short postwar service livesNotable Point
  10. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    51:19Why adopting destroyer leaders required institutional riskNotable Point
  11. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    47:29HMS Swift, an expensive destroyer-leader experimentChapter
  12. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    50:52HMS Swift and HMS Broke in the Dover StraitNotable Point
  13. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:21:38What if HMS Swift had become the standard flotilla leader?Notable Point
  14. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    48:37The V1 class sacrificed capability for cheap massChapter
  15. Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force
    1:00:20Six-funnel HMS Viking tests speed and heavy gunsChapter
  16. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    59:48Swift and Broke attack at the 1917 Battle of Dover StraitChapter
  17. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    1:10:44HMS Swift and the experiment with a six-inch destroyer gunChapter
  18. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    1:11:46HMS Swift finds survivors from the torpedoed HMS HawkeNotable Point
  19. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    1:13:12Swift and Viking as a challenge to Type 83 gun armamentNotable Point
  20. Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?
    1:38:15HMS Swift, larger destroyers, and earlier Flower-class sloopsChapter
  21. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    1:01:10Why HMS Swift needed sisters to become a capabilityQ&A