Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Minesweeping

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:05:39What specialist minesweepers add to converted trawlersQ&A
  2. Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII
    10:00Fisheries patrol, minesweeping and convoy defenceChapter
  3. Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII
    29:37Why early escorts carried minesweeping equipmentNotable Point
  4. USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings
    37:07Why build Robert H. Smith destroyer minelayers?Q&A
  5. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    14:26Nine days of minelaying would advertise the invasionChapter
  6. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    19:45Why British forces were already watching for minefieldsNotable Point
  7. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    47:44Germany's worst case: the first wave caught at seaChapter
  8. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:49:14Destroyers for bases: alliance politics and escort valueChapter
  9. The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate
    21:43Admiral de Ruyter class: mine warfare, floatplanes, and torpedoesChapter
  10. Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?
    30:10Interwar sloops prepared Britain for mass escort constructionChapter
  11. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    36:17Flower corvettes: define the equipment, then find the hullNotable Point
  12. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    34:12Katsuragi survived to become a repatriation shipChapter
  13. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:15:22Why mine clearance continued long after both world warsQ&A
  14. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:49:27Why First World War mine clearance endedQ&A
  15. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:26:44Naval trawlers that still caught fishQ&A
  16. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    33:42What Plan Z could realistically send into the North SeaChapter
  17. Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII
    23:35The interwar sloop opportunity Canada missedNotable Point
  18. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    52:04Overlord answered coastal defence with engineering and massed firepowerChapter
  19. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    55:08Why Overlord used land-based aircraft instead of carriersNotable Point
  20. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    3:22:49Treaty-exempt sloops could have expanded escort capacityNotable Point
  21. Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!
    34:24Why minesweepers displaced heavy river artilleryNotable Point
  22. Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!
    47:57Shore artillery in Soviet river operationsNotable Point
  23. Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!
    50:32Reading modern river-force structuresChapter
  24. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    49:58Fremantle's routine service was deterrence workingChapter
  25. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    54:25Minesweeping gear consumed space but protected vital approachesChapter
  26. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    57:09An I-400 minelayer counterfactual tests national mine defensesNotable Point
  27. Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes
    58:43Warrnambool survived war only to strike a mine in 1947Chapter
  28. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    40:10Why Britannic's mine damage defeated her subdivisionChapter
  29. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    3:23:41The First World War Flower-class sloops established the commercial-yard modelChapter
  30. Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:47:17A 3,000-ton ASW destroyer runs out of weightNotable Point
  31. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:50:21Research links mines, screens, and fire controlNotable Point
  32. Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?
    52:11HMAS Protector serves from colonial defense to World War IIChapter
  33. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:03:00World War I exposed the need for purpose-built small escortsChapter
  34. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:05:23What navalized merchant construction actually meantNotable Point
  35. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:08:11Five Flower batches produced 120 wartime escortsChapter
  36. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:24:53Flower-class sloops as task-group security shipsNotable Point
  37. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:56:10Which famous officers emerged from sloop service?Q&A
  38. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:36:37Why Royal Navy sloops omitted torpedoesQ&A
  39. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:50:35Sandown minehunters continued the minesweeping-sloop roleNotable Point
  40. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    1:39Why the Acacia class began as minesweepersChapter
  41. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    33:13Why old sloops still mattered in 1939Notable Point
  42. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:28:54Hutchinson's pages move from bomb damage to carrier exercises and bombardmentChapter
  43. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs
    2:00:56Shared missions produced similar small-boat designsNotable Point
  44. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres
    19:29Why German R-boats were mistaken for SchnellbooteNotable Point
  45. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres
    23:06R-boat flotillas as an interwar officer training groundNotable Point
  46. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres
    25:15R-boat flexibility, postwar continuity, and Germany's industrial limitsChapter
  47. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...
    2:51:01Designing destroyers for close defence and mine warfareChapter
  48. Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class
    1:54:31Small ships, aggregate value, and modern OPV successorsNotable Point
  49. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII
    1:19:56How did sloops serve beyond the battle fleet?Q&A
  50. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII
    2:49:11Were PGMs only meant to escort PT boats near the attack area?Q&A
  51. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII
    2:52:00Gunboats and the small necessary functions of warNotable Point
  52. Bruships 88: Way of War
    2:37:34A cross-Britain canal as wartime infrastructureNotable Point
  53. Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)
    49:23Why unlimited sloops cannot replace destroyersChapter
  54. The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)
    34:49Bathurst corvettes and hydrography as naval logisticsNotable Point
  55. Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)
    1:26:55Grimsby trawlers and the future patrol serviceChapter
  56. So How Do You Do Archival Research? (Long Patrol)
    11:15Read catalogue results for institutional cluesNotable Point
  57. Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)
    26:16How fishing craft became multi-role war auxiliariesNotable Point
  58. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    1:58:11Could a sloop switch between depth-charge and mine work?Q&A
  59. A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea
    13:26The Basque auxiliary navy filled a Republican gapChapter
  60. Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class
    8:24Why sloops offered a low-escalation rearmament optionNotable Point
  61. Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response
    57:13The three jobs that justified an interwar sloop fleetNotable Point
  62. Four Random Books 34: A Special Place
    4:49The human strain of wartime minesweepingChapter
  63. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    1:18:27Port admirals ran active wartime area commandsQ&A
  64. Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-13
    36:28General Wolfe enters service and protects the net barrageChapter
  65. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)
    6:20Hunt-class mine countermeasures for NATO watersChapter
  66. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 1916
    2:20The 1916 Dogger Bank clash and its mismatched forcesChapter
  67. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 1916
    3:48Why the Arabis-class sloops were vulnerableChapter
  68. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 1916
    6:52Arabis covers the minesweepers' withdrawalChapter
  69. Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol
    29:58Why the Royal Navy built paddle minesweepers in World War IChapter
  70. Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol
    33:57Requisitioned paddle steamers in World War IIChapter
  71. Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol
    41:29Waverley and Glenavon classes remained useful coastal warshipsNotable Point
  72. Paddle Ships at War
    8:05The wartime Waverley behind today's namesakeNotable Point
  73. Paddle Ships at War
    2:02:34Racecourse-class paddle minesweepers in World War IChapter
  74. Paddle Ships at War
    2:08:11Ailsa Shipbuilding turns small-ship experience into minesweepersNotable Point
  75. Paddle Ships at War
    2:13:48PS Jeanie Deans turns from excursion steamer to minesweeperNotable Point
  76. Paddle Ships at War
    2:34:56Paddle minesweepers and convoy escorts in both world warsChapter
  77. Paddle Ships at War
    2:38:42How early sonar work avoided paddle and machinery noiseQ&A
  78. Paddle Ships at War
    2:45:18Why navies retained paddle warships into World War IIQ&A
  79. Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II
    9:57A destroyer screen in the 1941 Tripoli operationChapter
  80. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    2:14:44Coastal forces keep D-Day sea lanes openChapter
  81. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    2:25:45E-boats and R-boats serve different rolesQ&A
  82. P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)
    12:40HMS Codrington and the A-class leaderChapter
  83. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops
    8:01Why sloops set the escort standardChapter
  84. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    50:37How wartime minesweeping gear cleared a channelQ&A
  85. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    51:49Did assault sweeping justify the Admirable's armament?Q&A
  86. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    57:26Assault minesweeping followed every major landingNotable Point
  87. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    1:32:23Why trawlers became early Royal Navy minesweepersQ&A
  88. Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 1929
    2:19What the Royal Navy expected war games to teachChapter
  89. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    1:35:46Battleships, landing craft, and interwar amphibious experimentsNotable Point