Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Merchant Ships

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  1. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    31:29A merchant hull for a diesel Kriegsmarine store shipQ&A
  2. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    1:55:44Small escorts, drones, and the return of armed merchantmenQ&A
  3. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    2:07:52Could containerized aircraft replace escort carriers?Q&A
  4. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    3:23:24Did the Royal Navy choose survey ships instead of spy ships?Q&A
  5. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:53:41Turning a merchant ship into a peer warship means rebuilding itQ&A
  6. Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:01:09Why a modern Liberty ship mobilization would be difficultQ&A
  7. Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:56:25Why bulk commerce travels by seaQ&A
  8. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    58:31Practical limits on a disguised merchant minelayerQ&A
  9. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:18:00The overlooked work of sloops, cutters, cogs, and carracksQ&A
  10. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    1:05:07Would retired merchant ships become Azur Lane war assets?Q&A
  11. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    33:29An armed container ship has capacity and concealment limitsNotable Point
  12. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    39:20Compact self-defence containers for merchant convoysNotable Point
  13. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:42:05A container missile ship can be strategic signalingQ&A
  14. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:42:43Ferries offer useful shallow-draft wartime liftQ&A
  15. Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet
    12:17Why early modern fleets mixed warships and privateersNotable Point
  16. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:40:47Immaculate as a ship nameQ&A
  17. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    3:59:31When land artillery was pressed into naval serviceQ&A
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    5:01:43Gross register tonnage measures internal volumeNotable Point
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    7:00:16Civilian nuclear propulsion and Russian icebreakersQ&A
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    7:20:07Which cargo can be carried on an exposed deck?Q&A
  21. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    2:55:05How would disguised surface raiders develop?Q&A
  22. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:41:51How modern commerce raiding might workQ&A
  23. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    45:01Merchant-marine roots of Dutch rating titlesNotable Point
  24. Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?
    21:41Compare the Bofors L/60 with the contemporary Mark VIII pom-pomNotable Point
  25. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:15:28Choosing a North Atlantic storm over Lake SuperiorQ&A
  26. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    1:03:53The tender counterfactual still needs a budget sourceNotable Point
  27. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    1:13:37Merchant-hull dependence exposes the preparation gapNotable Point
  28. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II
    30:42Why Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships are not armed merchant cruisersQ&A
  29. William de Leybourne: The First Admiral
    8:31Commissioning and returning merchant ships for royal serviceChapter
  30. Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership
    3:47:02When warships came too close for their main gunsQ&A
  31. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    2:21:27Why a nuclear cargo ship might still avoid pump-jet propulsionQ&A
  32. Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall
    3:08:53Why containerized ship air defence stalledQ&A
  33. Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall
    3:35:59Why more nuclear merchant ships would not solve acceptanceQ&A
  34. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:29:40How turbines and diesels displaced expansion enginesQ&A
  35. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:28:14Designing a disguised auxiliary cruiserQ&A
  36. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:52:59Concealing 6-inch guns in a cargo raiderQ&A
  37. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    2:40:39Why a fast ocean liner cannot become a battleshipQ&A
  38. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:49:36Armed merchant ships and the economics of convoy raidingChapter
  39. Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions
    56:23Warship availability depends on numbers and operating stressNotable Point
  40. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:14:05Old sailing-warship types faded through changing rolesQ&A
  41. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:23:14The difficulty of recommending an East India Company ship historyQ&A
  42. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:37:41Could a merchant ship secretly land a large raiding force?Q&A
  43. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    56:53The interwar path toward purpose-built escort carriersQ&A
  44. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer
    1:07:18What HMS Victory's broadside could do to a container shipQ&A
  45. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    3:15:22Canadian yards and the size of wartime merchant shipsQ&A
  46. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    1:02:26Operation Pedestal and convoy command frictionNotable Point
  47. Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak
    2:44:42Why large wartime merchant ships rarely survive as museumsQ&A
  48. Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-65
    49:19Gun standardization still has legacy limitsQ&A
  49. Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"
    1:03:51Treaty rules reached merchant conversions, foreign orders, and Pacific basesChapter
  50. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    54:58Why auxiliary-cruiser guns did not equal cruiser gunneryQ&A
  51. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    2:56:42Converting a merchant hull into a missile arsenal shipQ&A
  52. Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat
    28:16Liberty ships and scaling a proven designQ&A
  53. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    10:46Rawalpindi before conversion: a P&O mixed linerChapter
  54. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    13:19Elsie Mackay, R-class interiors, and a risky aviation careerNotable Point
  55. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    18:01What an armed merchant cruiser could actually doChapter
  56. The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol
    42:12A coin toss on Rawalpindi's final patrolNotable Point
  57. Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol
    34:01Turbine design follows the ship's missionNotable Point
  58. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    2:04:22Columbus and the blurred merchant-warship boundaryQ&A
  59. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    3:28:06Mary Celeste and the limits of a plausible explanationQ&A
  60. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    2:08:57Could fast liners have preserved German shipbuilding skills?Q&A
  61. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    19:15Why a modern fireship is a poor convoy weaponQ&A
  62. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    1:09:19Why a wartime Atlantic round trip could take two monthsQ&A
  63. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory
    0:34Merchant hulls became mobile repair capacityChapter
  64. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory
    11:26Repair ships were a wartime programme in their own rightChapter
  65. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    2:08:54Pre-war plans for escort-carrier conversionsQ&A
  66. Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.
    21:37Arming modern freighters would make piracy more costlyNotable Point
  67. Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.
    22:14Commissioned paintings are not convoy manifestsNotable Point
  68. Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.
    2:02:48How different did an ordinary merchant ship look?Q&A
  69. Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.
    2:11:58Where can a reader learn about Blackwall frigates?Q&A
  70. Bruships 48: Reading History
    3:27:18The Millennium Falcon as an East Indiaman rather than a ship of the lineQ&A
  71. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    1:17:15What a modern merchant escort carrier would requireQ&A
  72. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)
    9:17The high-low fleet balance behind the Type 23Chapter
  73. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    2:17:10Balancing high-end warships with simpler ASW hullsChapter
  74. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    16:55Captain Cook's exploration ship began as a collierQ&A
  75. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:16:20The vulnerable logistics behind Japan's carrier strikeChapter
  76. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:19:32What Maru conveys in Japanese ship namesNotable Point
  77. Bruships 26 - The Random Collection
    2:33:47When a standing English navy becomes recognizableQ&A
  78. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    27:49The scale of the Anglo-French task forceNotable Point
  79. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus
    2:26Why a small merchant-ship silhouette matteredNotable Point
  80. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    27:48Why a cruiser would not tow the merchant awayQ&A
  81. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    34:13Why merchant tonnage and warship displacement differNotable Point
  82. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    44:41A British flag on a complicated merchant shipQ&A
  83. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:09:45What a blockade would do to Japanese merchant shippingQ&A
  84. Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:35:05Container ships can hide weapons but not replace warshipsQ&A