Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Hunt Class Destroyers

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  1. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    21:22Why destroyer escorts and frigates overlapNotable Point
  2. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    50:04Signals warning and British fleet concentrationNotable Point
  3. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    53:01The 1939 shipbuilding pause and its competing prioritiesChapter
  4. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    55:55Did pressure for Hunt orders undermine design checks?Notable Point
  5. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:15:13Prewar escorts need trained reserve crews as well as hullsNotable Point
  6. 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
  7. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    1:22:43Later escort gains do not outweigh the major-ship delaysChapter
  8. HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)
    1:47:20W-class destroyers and Black Swan sloops had similar displacementQ&A
  9. France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII
    55:21La Combattante's Hunt-class service at NormandyChapter
  10. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    6:17Escort construction was already under way before the pauseChapter
  11. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    38:17The Royal Navy had already applied the First World War escort lessonNotable Point
  12. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:18:06How postwar memoirs reshaped memory of the construction pauseQ&A
  13. The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII
    47:22Fleet-destroyer generalists and Hunt-class specialistsNotable Point
  14. Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order
    9:42Why ASW officers valued pairs of Hunt-class escortsQ&A
  15. Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?
    30:10Interwar sloops prepared Britain for mass escort constructionChapter
  16. Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?
    32:09One sloop lineage produced Black Swans and HuntsNotable Point
  17. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:27:31How German surface raiders complicated British convoy defenseNotable Point
  18. Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII
    23:15Flower corvettes followed a mobilization timetableChapter
  19. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    2:04:03Churchill repeated a World War I shipbuilding pause in 1939Notable Point
  20. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    4:06:13An early escort program changes the U-boat warChapter
  21. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    8:18:00How the Bittern hull led to different escort rolesNotable Point
  22. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    2:37:46The production tradeoff between specialized escorts and fleet destroyersNotable Point
  23. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    20:58Henderson's carrier doctrine and rearmament portfolioChapter
  24. What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?
    35:41Cruiser submarines accelerate British ASW constructionChapter
  25. 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
  26. Torpex: A Short History of it's History...
    19:51British rearmament plans assumed a later warNotable Point
  27. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:21:17Matching destroyer orders with interwar sloopsQ&A
  28. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:22:58Could the Hunt class count as sloops?Q&A
  29. #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
  30. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:13:04Why high-pressure boilers would not refit the whole Royal NavyQ&A
  31. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:02:24The leading destroyer-escort candidatesQ&A
  32. Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?
    39:15Hunt-class errors show the cost of a broken apprenticeshipNotable Point
  33. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    57:53Why Bay-class frigates could scale World War I convoy defenceNotable Point
  34. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:57:48Destroyer experience and the Royal Navy's carrier programmeQ&A
  35. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    3:34:21Why interwar submarine danger did not guarantee escort fundingQ&A
  36. Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...
    41:21The Hunt-class stability problem in contextQ&A
  37. The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea
    1:19:52Treaty concerns delayed destroyers whose designs were already availableNotable Point
  38. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    41:51The human scale of pre-CAD warship designQ&A
  39. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    16:32River-class design oversight after the Hunt-class scaling errorNotable Point
  40. Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates
    20:50The River class between corvettes and Black Swan sloopsChapter
  41. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    20:20Churchill, escort construction, and managing upwardsNotable Point
  42. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    2:56:57How a scaling error compromised the Hunt-class designQ&A
  43. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    4:09:38How the Hunt-class scaling error passed reviewQ&A
  44. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    3:49:23How Churchill's construction pause disrupted rather than accelerated escortsNotable Point
  45. Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s
    1:25:08Designing sloop hulls for rapid destroyer conversionNotable Point
  46. War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?
    28:29Colossus class after the British carrier pauseChapter
  47. USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World
    16:20Earlier U-boats would provoke earlier British escort buildingNotable Point
  48. Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions
    1:15:34Reserve warships bought mobilization timeChapter
  49. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:32:06Why the Type IV Hunt destroyers stopped at twoQ&A
  50. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:37:12The conditional Type IV Hunt follow-on batchQ&A
  51. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:52:05Why V and W destroyers were converted into escortsQ&A
  52. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    4:07:01How larger destroyer limits enlarge Hunts and sloopsQ&A
  53. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    1:47:43Prewar escort construction would favor Hunt-type destroyersQ&A
  54. Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 6
    36:57The Avenger replacement effort started too lateChapter
  55. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:32:34The World War I Flower pattern shaped later escortsChapter
  56. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 2
    24:44German yard intelligence brought British escorts forwardNotable Point
  57. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    8:02How Britain could mass-produce submarine escortsNotable Point
  58. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    50:20Could Graf Zeppelin's guns stop destroyer attacks?Q&A
  59. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    39:03Why HMS Blencathra straddles two Hunt-class batchesQ&A
  60. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:20:59Why wartime depth-charge loads exceed the handbookQ&A
  61. The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII
    4:05Why the Merchant Navy and Merchant Marine are remembered differentlyChapter
  62. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    0:37Why the Hunt class were escort destroyersChapter
  63. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    5:00Could earlier Hunt orders have changed 1940?Notable Point
  64. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    10:10HMS Berkeley and the Type I fitChapter
  65. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    21:38Type II Hunts: more guns and depth chargesNotable Point
  66. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    25:10Hunt and Egret machinery raise a treaty-speed questionNotable Point
  67. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    28:23ORP Ślązak: a Hunt in Polish serviceChapter
  68. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    30:54Why aft-heavy guns could suit an escortNotable Point
  69. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    37:18Type III: trading a gun mount for torpedoesChapter
  70. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    40:15Hunt destroyers supporting Yugoslav partisansNotable Point
  71. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    42:17Why two torpedoes were a weak destroyer weaponNotable Point
  72. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    49:02Type IV: Thornycroft's heavier HuntChapter
  73. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    54:22The Type IV trade-off: torpedoes for escort enduranceNotable Point
  74. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:00:03The unexplained range gap between Brecon and BrissendenNotable Point
  75. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:05:28Eighty-six Hunts across five Allied naviesNotable Point
  76. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:06:05Why designers still wanted torpedoes on Type III HuntsNotable Point
  77. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:07:03How crews adapted the rugged Hunt designChapter
  78. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:09:31Hunts and Black Swans as generalists and specialistsNotable Point
  79. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:11:36Why routine escort presence matteredNotable Point
  80. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    1:15:50The wider question: escorts ordered a year earlierNotable Point
  81. Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 2
    11:22Operation Torch drains escort strength elsewhereNotable Point
  82. Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 10
    1:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
  83. Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 1
    1:20:23A 1935 Royal Navy rearmament scenarioNotable Point
  84. Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years
    52:53The prewar design timeline of the Hunt and Flower classesNotable Point
  85. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    1:23:46The Hunt programme revealed Britain's shipyard reserveChapter
  86. Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)
    6:26Coastal convoys and the escort raceNotable Point
  87. Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)
    40:21The limited escort cost of keeping carriers under constructionNotable Point
  88. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    1:10:19A mass submarine programme would trigger a responseNotable Point
  89. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:07:52Escort growth could outpace German U-boat expansion before 1942Notable Point
  90. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:08:58Wolf packs versus the Atlantic escort systemChapter
  91. Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?
    3:29:14Would Pacific mobilization weaken a later convoy war?Q&A
  92. Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-65
    55:59Dual-purpose 4.7-inch guns and escort survivalQ&A
  93. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:34:57Black Swan and Hunt classes fit low-threat trade protectionQ&A
  94. Bruships 90: Books From the Road
    3:03:31The Hunt class was Britain's overlooked mass-produced light destroyerNotable Point
  95. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    45:45PQ 18 integrates an escort carrier into the convoyChapter
  96. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    43:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
  97. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    42:05Type 054A trades global range for affordable fleet massChapter
  98. Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)
    45:39Black Swan capability on a common hullChapter
  99. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    20:20Camouflage and the adaptable Flower-class corvetteNotable Point
  100. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    3:07:39British Escort Destroyers is a guide to Hunts, Towns, and conversionsNotable Point
  101. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    3:13:54The Hunt class was a true escort; US ships remained light fleet destroyersQ&A
  102. 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
  103. A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    49:25Specialists, generalists, and fleet compositionChapter
  104. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    3:48:14Escort, fleet, and large fleet destroyersQ&A
  105. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    3:27:12The overlooked U-class submarines and Hunt-class escortsQ&A
  106. ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    29:53Hunt-class destroyers in escort and carrier defenceChapter
  107. 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
  108. Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars
    2:01:15The Hunt class turned ASW into a primary missionChapter
  109. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    7:11Family losses at sea and the Nuremberg verdictNotable Point
  110. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response
    24:23Escort designs still take time to deliverQ&A
  111. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/7
    2:39Escort orders and the 1938 answerNotable Point
  112. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    2:49:53Operation Harpoon and the fight to supply MaltaChapter
  113. Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War
    2:52:05Harpoon's close escort faces air and surface attackNotable Point
  114. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 3
    34:56Coastal craft in the St Nazaire raidChapter
  115. 50th Live Special: Thank You
    1:21:30Hunt-class escorts and adapted V and W destroyersNotable Point
  116. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    8:35Hunt-class destroyers as dedicated escortsChapter
  117. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    9:06The unresolved escort-destroyer labelNotable Point
  118. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    28:07A familiar hull made the Hunt design easier to trustNotable Point
  119. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates
    22:38Hunt destroyers and adapted V and W escortsNotable Point
  120. An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 2
    18:32Why useful cruisers missed their overhaulChapter
  121. A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 1
    1:03:41Did Henderson also shape the Hunt-class destroyers?Q&A
  122. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    39:50Bittern design linked peacetime needs to wartime escortsChapter