Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Kiel Canal

Also searchable as Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Nord-Ostsee-Kanal.

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  1. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:15:55A limited Baltic lodgement near the Kiel CanalChapter
  2. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:22:56What a Baltic blockade would do to GermanyChapter
  3. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:39:50Why Fisher could not readily dismiss JellicoeNotable Point
  4. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:47:16Buying Danish silence with Schleswig-HolsteinNotable Point
  5. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:58:25The Kiel Canal dilemma and Wilhelmshaven's minefieldsNotable Point
  6. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:01:19Could Britain trap German ships inside the Kiel Canal?Q&A
  7. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:53:24Could capital ships ram each other in the Baltic battle?Q&A
  8. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:56:53Could aircraft direct fire into the Kiel Canal?Q&A
  9. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:44:34Modern-sized Panama and Kiel canals before the warQ&A
  10. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:29:22If all Schleswig joined Denmark after World War IQ&A
  11. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:04:37Could a torpedo attack close the Kiel Canal?Q&A
  12. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    1:06A position over the Elbe and Kiel Canal approachesChapter
  13. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    11:06Heligoland as a North Sea chokepointChapter
  14. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    49:08A wartime threat, not a peacetime economic blockadeChapter
  15. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    1:36:07Why pre-dreadnoughts regain value at HeligolandNotable Point
  16. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    2:25:34Would Britain need to block the Kiel Canal physically?Q&A
  17. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    5:01Kiel begins as a coastal-trade canalNotable Point
  18. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    28:14Kiel is a poor substitute for Suez's precedentNotable Point
  19. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    33:29Kiel's economic gain is Baltic accessChapter
  20. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    35:34Kiel and the Anglo-German naval balanceNotable Point
  21. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    39:01Denmark becomes a strategic solution and flashpointNotable Point
  22. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    35:39Carrier strike against WilhelmshavenChapter
  23. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    42:46Carrier aviation makes the Baltic plan less impossibleNotable Point
  24. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    47:49Minesweeping, Denmark, and the route into the BalticChapter
  25. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    59:04How a 1916 carrier strike could displace the High Seas FleetNotable Point
  26. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    1:56:46The Kiel Canal as a warship draft constraintQ&A
  27. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:51:17Fleet balance points toward the Kiel CanalChapter
  28. Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI
    59:50Could Denmark receive the Kiel Canal after the war?Q&A
  29. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    40:30Even an imperfect raid could displace the High Seas FleetNotable Point
  30. The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri
    1:35:33The ideal answer carries fifteen 14-inch gunsChapter
  31. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    50:20Could Graf Zeppelin's guns stop destroyer attacks?Q&A
  32. Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?
    55:52Sightings and delays gave Britain time to reactChapter
  33. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    7:02Why Operation Berlin could not simply use the Kiel CanalQ&A
  34. Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?
    3:27:53An early revisionist story linked Dreadnought to the Kiel CanalChapter
  35. Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett
    21:04The Danish Straits constrain access to the BalticChapter
  36. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    45:42A North Sea barrier constrains U-boats and raidersChapter
  37. Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...
    3:00:18Mining the Kiel Canal from Norwegian basesNotable Point
  38. Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)
    10:25Why Graf Zeppelin would avoid the Channel and Baltic narrowsNotable Point
  39. Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1
    41:54Machinery and bow units for a hard-to-handle carrierNotable Point
  40. HDMS Danmark: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 2
    13:21Straits tolls and the strategic logic of KielNotable Point
  41. Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters
    1:01:01Could an 1800-era state build the Kiel Canal?Q&A
  42. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    5:01Building Germany's maximum 1912 counterpartChapter
  43. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    15:08Fire control and the Kiel Canal shape the German maximumNotable Point
  44. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
  45. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:43:40Testing Bismarck's speed, range, and canal limitsNotable Point
  46. UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas
    1:15:24German battleship design and Kiel Canal constraintsNotable Point
  47. UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas
    2:11:42Giving the German opponent fifteen main gunsNotable Point
  48. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    28:02The liner fleet as a Channel landing optionNotable Point
  49. Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide
    19:45Nottingham from the Kiel display to Dogger BankChapter
  50. SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 12
    21:15From cruiser to imperial yacht escortChapter
  51. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    31:40USS Columbia shifts from prestige cruiser to convoy escortChapter
  52. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    5:26Poland's fleet is trapped by geographyChapter
  53. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:43:05Engineering reputation did not guarantee German infrastructure investmentQ&A
  54. NMS Elisabeta (Romanian Navy): A Cruiser's Purpose (Long Patrol)
    13:33Cruising diplomacy and the Potemkin episodeChapter
  55. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    59:05Why Yamato could not pass through the Kiel CanalQ&A
  56. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    57:54How a larger Bismarck would escape the BalticQ&A
  57. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    2:51:42British plans to mine the Kiel CanalQ&A
  58. Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol
    4:00Nautilus on the Kaiser Wilhelm CanalNotable Point
  59. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    10:19Fisher's Baltic strategy shaped the shipsChapter
  60. WW2 in the Mediterranean up until November 1940: p2 Taranto Long Patrol
    13:17Why the Regia Marina became the immediate targetChapter
  61. The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol
    3:08Fisher's Baltic scheme and forcing a fleet outChapter
  62. The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol
    5:19How Britain might block the Kiel CanalNotable Point
  63. The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol
    7:16Heligoland and the approach to WilhelmshavenChapter
  64. Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol
    1:18:41Fisher's First Sea Lord programme and Kiel Canal warningChapter
  65. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    1:56:51Why wartime canal transits are dangerous for carriersQ&A
  66. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:09:00RAF mining attacks on the Kiel CanalQ&A