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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:31:52French naval-architecture theory and British building experienceQ&A
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth0:04Why Korean and Indian mast designs can look alikeNotable Point
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth4:20Functional appearance and a recognisable Korean warship styleChapter
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?5:59Fisher's speed demands meet Watts's design disciplineNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?23:30Why light cruisers grew away from destroyer leadershipChapter
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:58Hood's refit and the space between her funnelsQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live59:48The hull and machinery cost of a 35-knot WarspiteQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:21:13Why STEM graduate totals reveal little about ship-design capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:24:36Where ship-design expertise is trained and employedNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:53:40German design committees and the Hipper-Baltimore comparisonQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...11:58Talisman design practice and the V and W classNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:14:22A reading recommendation for naval engineering and dragQ&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam1:26:43Checking warship claims across reports and languagesNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam1:30:00Comparing naval designs in their own contextNotable Point
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:29Why age-of-sail rigs could not optimize only for windward sailingQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:33:54What limits the number of missile engagements a ship can support?Q&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:35:48Could a very large missile ship justify its conversion cost?Q&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live14:34Giving William White the Nelson-class plans in 1895Q&A
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:49:39Gibbs & Cox from the Sims class to modern frigate workNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live12:39Why metacentric height is taught two waysNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:28:28Metacentric height without the equationsChapter
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live3:02:11How metacentric height works on a multihullQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:09:24Modern racing yachts through 1850s eyesQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:26:58A starting reading list for marine engineeringQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)55:55Did pressure for Hunt orders undermine design checks?Notable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:30:28Bathurst corvettes combine Australian ownership with British expertiseNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:52:22Tiger's design lineage leads toward the G3Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:25:44A treaty cruiser based on armoured-cruiser precedentQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:55:20Why classify a rebuilt Hood as a battlecruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:26The practical limit on ultra-large carrier proposalsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:38:41Why modern warships can outweigh older armoured shipsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:44:07How a single rudder can turn a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:52:42Ark Royal's heavier 1934 preliminary designQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:56:45Why aluminium hulls offer little to treaty-era warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:37:06Why carrier armour had to be designed in from the startQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:32:01Why early battlecruisers displaced an intermediate cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:57:10Comparing Type 45 and Arleigh Burke seakeepingQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:57:34If the Zumwalt programme had continuedQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:01:26Why a Skjold-class North Atlantic crossing would be punishingQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...15:03Why splashdown recovery needs maritime engineeringNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:01Could rocket recovery become a naval support mission?Q&A
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s36:26Reading naval priorities through ship designNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s50:40Hull form and the missing Italian destroyer firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:18The absurd logistics of a 500,000-ton YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:35If German armoured cruisers retained 24 cm gunsQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:57Why a 161,000-ton Queen Elizabeth carrier needs a missionQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:07Why four decks were not an absolute wooden-warship limitQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:53Why contra-rotating propellers rarely reach the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:39Why a surviving ship design may document an objectionNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:29A family holiday home that was effectively a submarineQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:14Designing Duke of Kent without Santisima Trinidad's instabilityQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:32Santisima Trinidad and the limits of repeated rebuildingQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:35:19Why the next battleship speed step could be 28 knotsNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:19Why Royal Navy constructors bet on G3 speedQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:24G3 appearance and a possible F3-style turret layoutQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:30Why naval hydrofoils remained a niche technologyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:12A 23-knot British battle line and German design pressureQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:30CODAG propulsion for endurance and high-speed interceptionQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:22Battlecruiser speeds after a 23-knot OrionQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:34From faster Orions to an early fast-battleship standardQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:58HMS Hood's cylindrical turrets and low freeboardQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:38Where the 23-knot Orion gained its extra speedQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:24Unbuilt capital ships with a path into the missile ageQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:31Other uses for a mile-long seasteading ship's dry dockQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:24Wave loading on a mile-long seasteading hullNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:57What remains of the Royal Navy's naval architecture departmentQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:37The 1959 Future Frigate studies and the path beyond LeanderQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:56A Lyon-class battleship with the Free FrenchQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?0:37Tiger's beam leaves room to consider larger barbettesChapter
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:32A rough hull comparison puts Tiger near existing 15-inch shipsNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?6:08Tiger's trials and stability suggest scope for an oil-fired refitChapter
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?14:59Internal supports determine how much armor a hull can carryNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?27:18Why battlecruisers traded protection for strategic speedNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?34:23Standard displacement hides Tiger's full-load scaleNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?38:00New boilers reshape Tiger's machinery layoutChapter
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?42:09Armor coverage matters alongside maximum thicknessNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:10:14Laser power demands keep conventional guns relevantNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:51Warship draft is set by harbours and canals, not a universal maximumQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:35Another Santísima Trinidad conversion would require a hull surveyQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?0:18What would a class of small Hermes carriers change?Q&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?21:23Hermes's first-generation features reveal where a successor could improveNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?18:58MEKO scales hulls and machinery while its stealth evolvesChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?33:22European crewing assumptions complicated American adaptationNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?44:32Hull changes and the inferred influence of Burke standardsChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:05:12Combined warfare systems, ship size, and fleet numbersNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:21:24Commonality collapsed as design changes accumulatedChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:26:03How equipment substitutions spread through a parent designNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:35:08Weight growth consumes capability reserved for the ship's futureNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...8:40Radars shape modern warship architectureChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...12:15Radar interference and missile exhaust constrain deck layoutNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...14:20Mission systems define the hull around themNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...36:40Stealth shaping changes hulls and topsidesChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...39:30South Atlantic seas drive hull choiceNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI27:52G96 and the late-war peak of the large torpedo boatChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI34:56S113 hull quality meets the 6-inch gun problemChapter
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:26Estimating the scale of King George V's funnelsQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:44Why a larger Type 83 hull need not drive the whole ship's costNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:27Why an armed unmanned surface vessel still needs a substantial hullQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:50Choosing between Spanish 203 mm cruiser proposalsQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:39Type 26 Mark 41 VLS capacity limitsQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:14Does VLS depth encroach on machinery space?Q&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:50What a larger 1910 Town-class cruiser would gainQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:18How Aegis drives warship superstructure convergenceQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:28Could a nuclear surface-combatant hull become a carrier?Q&A
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...1:53Build quality and class variationChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...3:36Range, efficiency, and metacentric heightNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...22:28Hull shape determines cruising efficiencyNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...27:37Machinery shock and quieting checksNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...53:53Full-ship shock trials expose structural weak pointsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...55:36Computer shock models need physical trial dataNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:00:59Was HMS Ocean built on an Invincible hull?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:08:49Why was Invincible's fuel management so elaborate?Q&A
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI0:00Aviso torpilleurs and France's destroyer starting pointChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI26:42Hull shaping explains range efficiencyNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI52:46Turtleback bows give way to an Atlantic-style shapeNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:30:27Capital ships as a moving spectrumNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:32:29Tiger, Hood, and the case for comparing subdivisionNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:34:35Why naval history needs both clean narratives and labeled hunchesNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:36:16Reconstructing the sixth Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)2:08:52Capital-ship design knowledge that never reached the paperworkQ&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:28Speed and manoeuvrability let destroyers screen the fleetNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development13:12Charger and Eden show how quickly destroyers grewNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development33:41Destroyer silhouettes advertise speed, status, and confidenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development52:21Haida and Vampire show destroyers becoming cruisersNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development55:22Battle-class armament reflects a wartime design pauseNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development56:52Daring-class destroyers become cruiser substitutesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:05:00A successful warship must fit and break the moldNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:39:03Cruiser-sized destroyers may become USV mothershipsNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....0:39What if HMS Warrior had been a two-decker ironclad?Q&A
- Ironclads go Two Decker....23:09A bigger benchmark could accelerate naval architectureNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....25:17Baldwin Walker narrows the choice to frigate or two-deckerNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....30:49How a two-decker Warrior might distribute roughly a hundred gunsChapter
- Ironclads go Two Decker....33:33Armor and machinery choices for a two-decker WarriorNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....36:12Why Duncan supplies the proposed armored two-decker's starting pointNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....41:33Two gun decks could bring armored decks forwardNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....45:03Two-decker ironclads could change turret layouts before DreadnoughtChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)22:27Requirements drive Type 83 toward a large combatantNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)33:23Type 26's ASW design sets limits on an air-defence conversionChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)38:27Heavy radar and the Type 42 stretch show how hull changes spreadNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)42:33Standard displacement excludes fuel, with the crew point left unclearQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)58:59Naval designers work on both current ships and future requirementsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:28:06A Type 83 mothership would support and rearm uncrewed escortsChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:58:26Distributed VLS banks preserve capability after damageQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:20:05Warship data spines use redundant transmission pathsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:27:08Very large carriers face diminishing air-wing returnsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:31:20Sixth-generation aircraft do not set a 100,000-ton carrier minimumQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:14:18Rebuilding maritime industry from CornwallQ&A
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?18:31Semi-private design work prepares a carrier procurement caseNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:04Panama Canal limits and US battleship hullsQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:28Reworking Ibuki after a carrier conversionQ&A
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?0:44Warship size bands and presence missionsChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?16:05Why containerized VLS does not fit cleanlyNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?25:02Better sensors create more computing and crew demandsChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?27:34Protecting naval electronics from seawater, shock, and radarNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...13:38Armor coverage and the battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...40:41Why Tiger sits nearer the fast-battleship boundary than HoodNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...3:02Fuel distribution and weather helm in German torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...4:42Versailles and torpedo-boat displacement accountingNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...5:45Möwe, Seeadler and Wolf machinery trialsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...8:47Fleet torpedo boats versus escort workNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...11:51Type 1934 fuel ballast, bow spray and stabilityChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...27:08Hull testing and the limits of scaling designsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...29:14Type 1934A bow changes and lost design experienceNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...35:25Why more T1 machinery bought little speedNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...37:54T1 handling and Atlantic-bow improvementsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...40:57Reliable torpedo boats in Germany's small-destroyer roleNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...42:23Type 1936 construction lessons before sea trialsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...44:42Why destroyers need a steady gun platformNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...53:46Type 1936A stability and fuel-use improvementsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...56:49Why 5.9-inch guns overburdened the Type 1936ANotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:43:59Turbinia and the test beds behind DreadnoughtQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)10:57Why a similar air group does not make a light carrier a fleet carrierNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)27:20Designing a Hermes sister under 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)49:01Ranger shows the structural cost of a very light carrierNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:29:29Could a heavy-cruiser hull become a small carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:14Why an angled flight deck and well deck conflictQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:26A cautious estimate for Nagato's barbette widthQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:43Carrier missile launchers and the cost of deck spaceQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:11How Thornycroft might have rebuilt the LCS conceptQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:18Why a full Aegis-like system would enlarge an ASW frigateQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:36Why containerized missiles disrupt ship stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:11The two basic ways to sink a warshipNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:16:57Was self-righting available to older warships?Q&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:29:10Can a trimaran escape ordinary hull-design tradeoffs?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:50Modern warships with the elegance of HoodQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:19Zumwalt's hull form and the 1980s stealth studiesQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:16Viking raiding ships and maritime tradersNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:52French ebonite as supplementary torpedo protectionQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:35What removing Nelson's torpedoes could buyQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:47What does a submerged torpedo flat cost a battleship?Q&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service59:24A strong hull still has to be repairable through lifeQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:43:15Inclining tests measure the edge of a ship's stabilityQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...0:00Reed, Watts, and two generations of HMS MonarchChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...6:33Monarch's hull proportions and the uncertainty in length-to-beam ratiosChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...11:06Why Monarch survived where HMS Captain failedNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...37:09D. K. Brown and professional loyalties in naval historyNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...39:03Jellicoe's all-round view and the funnel-smoke problemChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...41:10Sighting hoods and the limits of rearranging a ten-gun broadsideNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...50:50How the Monarch design debate changed between 1868 and 1911Notable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:22Which historic ship should be reconstructed accurately?Q&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:42Rebuilding a quinquereme to test its rowing arrangementNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:07Jesus of Lübeck beside Victory: comparing sailing-ship developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:24A turbo-electric warship as an engineering reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:24Mounting vertical-launch cells along a ship's sidesQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:07Why yachts do not convert neatly into missile boatsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun35:54Shell defects and shared technology in the naval arms raceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun37:57Austro-Hungarian naval designs and prudent threat assessmentNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:13:51Computer-aided ship design still needs underlying expertiseNotable Point
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far14:56A battleship cannot solve the Arleigh Burke replacement problemNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:03A larger Panama Canal and American battleshipsQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?1:00:58Two meanings of 'battlecruiser' in this scenarioNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:25:02Why are warships harder to stretch than airliners?Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:37:39The displacement cost of a 30-knot fast battleshipNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping46:21Technical responsibility in earlier naval procurementChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping50:21Outsourced design and resident NAVSEA oversightChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:28:41Consultants and institutional memory in ship designChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:30:14Personal accounts of impractical engineering changesNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:14:14Engineering expertise on the government's side of a contractNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:18Why a slower Freedom-class frigate still does not workQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:49LCS retirements and a separate corrosion concernNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers32:26Large ships and VLS reload argumentsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers37:00Machinery density shifts the battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers40:00W. D. Forbes and British carrier design workQ&A
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers12:58How British carrier studies turned missions into compromisesNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers19:07French paper studies preserve interwar carrier thinkingNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers29:26Reference books for tracing carrier designNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers35:27Design slack makes warships easier to modernizeNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:27:35What World of Warships' dockyard animations show inside a shipNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:45:32Length-to-beam ratio, hull form, and capital-ship resistanceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon24:01Why warship designs cluster around recurring displacement bandsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:54:08Tracing Conqueror to Lion preliminary design 16E-38Notable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:40:21A rough quantitative test for warship densityQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:59:17Was there ever an era of unsinkable warships?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:59:02Why US and British warship speed figures are not directly comparableQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:18:01Why lighter guns did little to speed up a 74Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:19:14Why razing a ship did not remove its strength deckQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:46:36Why a fifth rate with 42-pounders would be inefficientQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:40:02How foreknowledge could accelerate the 1850 Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:45:39How Babbage's computing work could aid naval designQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:20:54Goodall's fully armored battlecruiser distinctionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida36:29How large a wooden warship could practical shipbuilding sustain?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:17:44Six specialists to modernize the Royal Navy in 1905Q&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:48Why an empire might use Singaporean or Qatari warship designsQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:21How a three-masted rig helps a sailing ship turnQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:25:31Crew size for a hundred-foot dugout canoeQ&A
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!28:59Aso reveals the efficient original hull formNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:46Why Australia designed Bathurst-class corvettesQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age2:02How documentary sources and design experience shape this historyNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:06What a captured North Korean spy vessel reveals in personQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:50Why Royal Navy cruiser studies used diamond turretsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:19What made suitable timber for sailing-ship mastsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:35An American ocean-going ironclad for the late 1860sQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P319:03Where to put extra generators during a dreadnought refitNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P320:36Why empty VLS weight does not determine a battleship conversionNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:31:51How thick could British foundries forge battleship armor?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:14:52USS Indiana as America's first battleship effortQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:22Were Russian circular warships an idea ahead of their controls?Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:52Hood's hypothetical refit depends on the work requestedQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:16How to weigh crew memories against ship-condition surveysQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:19When HMS Warrior might have become a two-deck ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:44:40Why fourteen guns make Super Hawkins growQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:05Locating a destroyer's center of massQ&A
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction0:00How Tennyson d'Eyncourt directed Royal Navy warship designChapter
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction4:52D'Eyncourt's own accounts of naval constructionNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction13:43Training constructors through extensive design studiesChapter
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction14:18All-or-nothing armour and convergent naval designNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction46:07From Armstrong Whitworth apprentice to national naval designerNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction1:09:21Why large light cruiser hulls constrained carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence46:43HMS Minotaur rewarded exceptional shiphandlingNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)5:15Why tumblehome hulls remain uncommonQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)8:10How heavier guns reshape a 7,000-ton designQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:09:10Museum ships preserve what plans omitQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:38Explosive shells made iron hulls inevitableQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:02Durand-Viel's heavier-gunned battlecruiser compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:39A postwar career across British naval architectureQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:38A faster four-shaft Nelson designQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:19:32Peacetime displacement and extra wartime ammunitionNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:25Three triple turrets in Drach's proposed Bismarck redesignQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:20When naval ships need ice strengtheningQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:21Why a warship refit cannot ignore the hull structureNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:40Why battleships developed pagoda mastsQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?23:37Range, volume of fire, and mount layout create competing choicesChapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:41Navies recognized metal-hull fatigue earlyQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:51Battlecruiser labels require contextQ&A
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion15:39Momentum theory and blade-element theory in propeller designChapter
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion16:22Engineering models test Italian cruiser performance claimsNotable Point
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion36:38Shipbuilders and turbine pioneers turn cavitation into a design problemChapter
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion39:08Using propulsive coefficient to test historical performance claimsChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...3:28:11Does ocean-going capability separate ships from boats?Q&A
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...55:45Why Yamato is not a fast battleship in this frameworkNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?11:49Rostislav and Russia's naval architecture schoolNotable Point
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!31:05Japanese ships optimized for transport and boardingChapter
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:43HMS Tiger as a treaty-era aircraft-carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:09Applying King George V-style belt armor to older battleshipsQ&A
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned20:03Grand Duke Alexei's strategy-free fleet buildingChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:30:29Different battleship designs complicated Russia's fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:41Using D. K. Brown critically on British warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:05Why teak endured in warship constructionQ&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:50:04Could a bomb pass through a ship before exploding?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:29:16Why Pom-Pom mounts stopped short of sixteen barrelsNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:32:19Why were earlier rotary anti-aircraft cannon not implemented?Q&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:42:57Why Europe did not adopt turtle-ship designsQ&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:52:17East Asian and European shipbuilding comparedQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:11How far can warship subdivision go?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:52Would HMS Edgar capsize when firing a full broadside?Q&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!45:51HMS Monmouth and the Ship of Theseus problemNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...4:10Naval architects' papers preserve X-lighter specifications and testimonyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...31:02Why naval design bureaus may keep battleship plans currentQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?0:03The design begins as a historian's thought experimentNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition19:39Power density, armor coverage, and subdivisionChapter
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:59How watertight subdivision developedQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:18Why an enlarged Town class could be easier to modernizeQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:01Why upper hull volume does not scale directly with displacementQ&A
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees8:15Why tonnage estimates could not settle safe loadingNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:09:19Hull form balanced speed, stability, and crew workloadChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:15:45Wood and metal gave shipbuilders different buoyancy problemsNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:18:12Evolutionary design made first rates useful experimentsNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:31:54The Pett family and the spread of shipbuilding skillsChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:54:00Victory embodied 250 years of national investmentChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...0:00Reading an admiral's priorities in a warshipChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...2:24How naval officers narrow the ship designer's choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!0:01Getting lost aboard museum ships and vessels under constructionQ&A
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!5:50Why HMS Tiger and HMS Renown were different battlecruiser designsNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!1:58:22Why missile-era survivability differs from battleship armorNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!2:08:06Armor and splinter protection on modern warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!2:12:29Why ships rely on compartmentation and spall protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:33How much larger is a Block V Virginia?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:17A 150,000-ton battleship can be built but may only be a showpieceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:36An Admiral-class carrier conversion could displace 37,000 to 40,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:54Battleship subdivision as a honeycombQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:45A 10-inch cruiser limit reshapes every treaty categoryQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:01:31Would a captured New Ironsides produce a British Gloire or Warrior?Notable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:51When navies adopted metal bracing in wooden shipsQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...23:49Hull stability had to work across changing seasNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:30:15Which ship designers would the panel question?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:04:38What an absurd Nimitz-class scenario says about stabilityQ&A
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1040:04Why HMS Warrior still fits the fifth-rate logicNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?42:11Hull experiments need a customer willing to payNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:44:05HMS Rodney and the fighting power of the Admiral-class ironcladsNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:34:29Eighteenth-century warships: refinement before revolutionQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!23:03Reconstructing an unbuilt Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!27:23Austria-Hungary's river-warship problemChapter
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:12:20Why French warship design worked best when practitioners controlled theoryQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:12:36Why multihull carriers lose too much internal volumeQ&A
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?17:27Subdivision and armor coverage separate battlecruisers from battleshipsNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?19:43F2 and F3 show how armament weight bought Nelson's missing speedChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?1:15:16The London treaty might answer the speed gap with scheduled capital-ship constructionChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?1:22:38Continuous batches could evolve F3 into a fast battleshipChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?41:51The human scale of pre-CAD warship designQ&A
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force54:17Denny's model testing and the balanced hull of HMS MaoriNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates16:32River-class design oversight after the Hunt-class scaling errorNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202438:22Why cutting a first-rate down rarely produced a superior third-rateQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202442:36Why Vasa warns against uniform heavy gun decksNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:31:00F3 machinery, two-shaft power, and the gap between peacetime and wartime speedQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:05:18Steam submarines, topweight, and other candidates for the worst wartime design mistakesQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:14:29Why USS Monitor's low freeboard made ocean passages dangerousQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:31:01Why Lion and Queen Mary sacrificed a superfiring turretQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:36:27What it would take to fix HMS Captain before launchQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:46:42What Japan gains by designing treaty ships around stabilityQ&A
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 49:15When unwritten naval knowledge disappearsNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:43:43What design organization changed between Scharnhorst and BismarckNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 90:00Why HMS Tiger approached the fast-battleship ideaChapter
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 929:21How to distinguish Tiger from Lion and Queen MaryNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 936:23How carrier-hull research led back to Tiger's machineryNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings32:07Machinery power density turns speed into a protection choiceNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings34:43Modernization can move a ship without erasing its lineageNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:32:02Why a clipper was unlikely to pitchpole bow over sternQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/445:27Neptune and Colossus as incremental dreadnought designNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:06:54Does Iowa's screening role make it a battlecruiser?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:53:12Assessing a player-designed super-battlecruiserNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:57:21Why battlecruisers made the best carrier conversionsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:22:27Choosing a new hull for a larger US cruiserQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:09:53Why a fourth Gearing turret was not a simple experimentQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/414:54Reading the design tradeoffs in Hawk and RookNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:35:31Ranger was a weak basis for an amphibious assault shipQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:27:09The Lexington essay turned engineering limits into a historical storyNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 714:43What separates a battlecruiser from a fast battleshipQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 721:49Vanguard's mixed battlecruiser and battleship qualitiesNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 723:45Lexington, Iowa, and the capital-ship spectrumQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 726:44Kongo reconstructions and HMS Tiger test the boundaryNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:00:11Reading Orel memoir claims with cautionQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:46:06Why length and beam cannot determine a 40-knot power requirementQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:03:49How wooden warships overcame limits on hull lengthQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:48:15World War I warship profiles are aesthetic rather than functional in spaceQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 110:19Cammell Laird's missing Admiral-class conversion studiesNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:27:01When refits move a battlecruiser toward a fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...48:08Brunel would need to balance durability with fleet numbersQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:29:00Brunel's advanced Warrior matters because the yards make it repeatableQ&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!55:34Could Germany build slow, heavily protected siege battleships?Chapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!5:16The two-deck 64- to 80-gun sweet spotChapter
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...8:23The spectrum from battlecruiser to battleshipNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...3:00:41A protected 9.2-inch cruiser designQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:45:21What nuclear propulsion would change in an interwar heavy cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:40:18Why lateen rigs did not scale cleanly to large warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song4:04:03Composite timber joints freed sailing ships from tree sizeQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:30:39A slower, more heavily armoured German fleetChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:55:04A multi-power gun-calibre raceNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:01:04A 14-inch, triple-turret British dreadnought pathNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!20:35Why technical expertise matters when judging espionage claimsNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:25:45What USS Langley inherited from a collier hullQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:34:25What a K25 design study is meant to showQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:20:13When is a missile launcher no longer vertical?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:28:07Why nuclear cruisers did not grow from the Alaska classQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:51:56Why outriggers do not solve a tumblehome hullQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:01:07Why a cruiser hull is more than a large destroyer hullQ&A
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?30:42Longer routes reward larger, faster warshipsNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:18:23A Tiger-derived Admiral class and the limits of redesignNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:28:56Could a larger Royal Sovereign-type battleship have been built?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!16:34Why an armoured flight deck can save weightQ&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage38:02The scale and machinery behind a 100,000-ton carrierChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage41:12Why public carrier specifications are the responsible baselineNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:33:43How length-to-beam ratio shapes speed and handlingNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:15:30A common carrier-battleship hull is only a theoretical possibilityQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:25:37Why HMS Eagle has several full-load displacement figuresQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:00:31Hood's late-war AA fit depends on stability marginsQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:06:40Lengthening HMS Unicorn is possible but expensiveQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?0:00Size imposed an unusual diving constraintNotable Point
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?18:24Three aircraft forced stability compromisesNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...2:35The armoured flight deck becomes the strength deckNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!38:32A compact battleship citadel needs reserve buoyancy and design marginQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments13:23Armour coverage and subdivision help identify capital-ship typeNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments26:20How wartime losses changed survivability requirementsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments28:50Why rebuilding an old battleship cannot be reduced to horsepowerQ&A
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!12:15Steam turbines and carrier handlingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!57:31How theater threats shaped carrier survivabilityNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:00Mirror carriers, pilot instinct, and port-island riskChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 526:35Treaty weight and Fourth Fleet lessonsChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 527:23Why a mirrored island required a different shipNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 530:08Tomozuru exposes the cost of excessive topweightChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 532:14The Fourth Fleet storm becomes an industrial crisisChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 537:32Treaty limits, paper ships, and design workaroundsNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:12:29Would mirror-pair carriers ever have become standard?Notable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 50:05Firepower, speed, and survivability as a design frameworkChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 527:19Gun power, hull rigidity, and ocean enduranceNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?6:45Carrier baselines before wartime shortcutsNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:29:18Why a Deutschland carrier conversion becomes a new shipQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!2:09:00Tiger's turret gap reflects machinery and hull balanceQ&A
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!33:51Range and repair capacity took priority over fleet-carrier speedNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:02Turret arcs turn layout into tactical flexibilityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:19:22Building a fast light cruiser inside a weight budgetChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:00Implacable's uncertain design recordChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 326:28Implacable versus Illustrious capacityNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 329:43The 23,450-ton displacement paradoxChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 335:30Reconstructing a 27,000-ton carrier from a broken treaty recordNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 347:37Armament, endurance, and wartime growth marginsChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:03:39Large air groups inside low armored hangarsChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:28:03The missed modernization choiceNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:36:37Speed-build choices and the final 27,000-ton reconstructionChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:22Why carrier damage control is differentChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right9:30Japanese design ambition and the limits of stabilityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:40:05Could British fuel management have saved Lexington?Q&A
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:07:52Protecting Eagle with bulges would have cost speed or availabilityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:10:27Treaty displacement limits and the known torpedo threatNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:36:50Wasp's falling aircraft and failed fire mainsNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:12:08Indomitable's boiler-room hit and immediate counter-floodingNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:14:30Electric drive gives designers more freedom to protect machineryNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:20:04Indomitable's survival depended on where the torpedo struckNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:39:15Could an interwar commitment to electric drive improve survivability?Notable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?49:43A five-turret Queen Elizabeth-class designQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:13:34The stability cost of a taller carrier hangarQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:23:13Enlarged Orions and a triple-turret battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:37:33How navies set battlecruiser speed targetsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:38:32North Carolina with an all-forward F3 layoutQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:02:58Could Bismarck fit triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:38:22Building improved R-class ships after JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:40:39Why a fast ocean liner cannot become a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:43:38Titanic's effect on naval subdivisionQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:37:34If Turtle had sunk Admiral Howe's flagshipQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:49:07Sextuple torpedo launchers on a large destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...6:02Baltic submarine design had several national lineagesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...15:00Modern warships still use localized armorQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...16:21The F3 design and a Royal Navy 15-inch/50 standardQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...20:24F3 secondary batteries and anti-aircraft additionsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...21:02What a warship carrying Schwerer Gustav guns would requireQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...26:22Why teak ships still favored copper sheathingQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...36:42The tonnage cost of four triple 15-inch/50 turretsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...38:48Fast Nelsons would enlarge Britain's mobile capital-ship forceQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...56:30Finnish Kilo submarine feasibilityQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:10:55Nagato's speed below the fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:27:25How sectional floating dry docks joined at seaQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:29:55Cruiser machinery in Unicorn and light carriersQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:58:51The estimated weight penalty of the 15-inch/50Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:04:02Labor cost drove shipboard automationQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:18:45Three British treaty replacements: battleships or battlecruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:26:39Hoche at the boundary between ironclad and battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:35:50Canadian Queen Elizabeths would not instantly create battleship yardsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:39:09Why cruisers still made sense after 1950Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:04:02British armored carriers and the reuse of design studiesNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:00:00Magazine flooding works best before fire takes holdQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:05:41Reloading limits in a hypothetical 20-inch-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:09:01Two forward turrets would improve Deutschland's layoutQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:12:11Integrating guns and missiles on a hypothetical post-Falklands battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:19:56Why Imperial Japanese Navy automation faced a skills limitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:21:04Mechanization aboard a Japanese battleship still needs supervisionQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:25:45A US Navy wartime frigate would look like a destroyer escortQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:41:15Dry-docking a hypothetical carrier with a wide flight deckQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:42:34Carrier lifts, sortie rate, and weather limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:45:35Why flooding could be preferable to a magazine fireNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:51:31Gun blast and missile placement in hypothetical Soviet refitsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:57:53Cruiser missions in modern frigates and destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:07:50A full 35,000-ton Nelson could trade weight for 28 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:18:13Why unrestricted British carriers might resemble ImplacableQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:23:36Turning a Type 45 into a task-force command cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:32:17Henderson and the Dido class's 5.25-inch compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:34:25Why hiding battlecruiser construction is an industrial problemQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:42:29Would a Howe testbed need Vanguard's 15-inch turret?Q&A
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 20:25How larger ships made the rating system grow upwardChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 23:57Broadside weight mattered more than gun count aloneNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 25:22Early first rates needed supply support and careful stabilityNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 27:07How earlier first-rate performance moved down the ratingsNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 212:26The Surveyor of the Navy and Royal George's changing designersChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 234:54Prince Royal and the rebuild path to first-rate statusChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 238:23Heavy handling and surprising first-rate speedNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 241:29Santisima Trinidad and the pursuit of maximum firepowerChapter
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class35:46Design compromise under the 1941 deadlineChapter
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class41:10Hiyo conversions and Taiho's different compromisesNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:05:12Not big enough for the doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:08:26Yamato and the 28-knot fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:13:44Design compromises reveal what a navy valuesChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:27:46Why carriers make poor battleship conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:51:17Why a submarine-battleship hybrid defeats itselfQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:58:56Why a 50,000-ton submarine carrier is a nightmareQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:48:16Hood as a post-Jutland adaptationQ&A
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!16:15From the Town class to the Hawkins and County classesNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!24:58Oil firing, an Atlantic bow, and 30-knot machineryChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:02:01Why the rebuild favors a 4.7-inch upper-deck mountingNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:06:01Did the tests still provide useful damage-control data?Q&A
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:21:56The lost sequence of subdivision and ship-design evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote32:44How automated twin turrets make ships largerQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:16:13How fresh water changes warship preservationQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:25:31Reworking K3 into an all-forward F3 layoutQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193841:30Hull proportions and four shaftsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:57:30Designing a purpose-built cruiser-destroyer successorChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:15:47Building a Type 1936A opponent for the simulationChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:26:52Why the first cruiser-destroyer simulation failsChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:37:43Revising the cruiser around six twin 4.7-inch mountsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:49:51An unrealistically stable German destroyer modelNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:54:32Why six-inch guns do not suit a Tribal hullQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:56:38Changed assumptions reverse the game resultNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign53:59Why repeated shipbuilding improves naval designNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:02:27Why torpedo-room weight is more than its machineryQ&A
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1013:02Thomas Slade and the design systemChapter
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends31:27Why nuclear-warship refueling still opens the hullQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:23:36Building warships in dry docks and on slipwaysQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:37:52Ark Royal, counterflooding, and carrier stabilityNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:20:46Q&A: Why Triton's propulsion suited surface radar-picket workQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:30:35Q&A: The joke about Soviet icebreaker submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:11:14Turning a J-class destroyer into a fast luxury yachtQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:41:24Battle cruisers, fast battleships, and survivabilityNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!11:10Scaling a 90-gun design down to a 64Notable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!14:19Why Inflexible-class ships differed between yardsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:01:42Build command space into the carrier's missionChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:09:44Count the aviation costs of defensive weaponsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:43:02A twelve-gun fast battleship needs a larger hullNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed35:57Great Eastern as a Royal Navy ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:00:27A Great Eastern-sized Devastation classQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:03:08A seagoing casemate-and-turret ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:53:47Battleship autoloaders and elevation limitsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:04:10A four-quadruple-turret King George VQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:10:36Larger Panama locks and Iowa-class designQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:12:18Battlecruiser, fast battleship, or battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:43:54How pre-G3 studies could shape later capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:19:48A practical Royal Navy version of IncomparableQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier40:29How Akron's structure balanced strength and weightChapter
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:07:21Why gun count alone cannot determine warship sizeQ&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:19:37Akron's structure, lift, and endurance tradeoffsChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers28:19Argus tests the full-length flight deckChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers37:42Hermes establishes the purpose-built carrier layoutChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:27:47Hermes proportions suggest a 524-foot Furious hangarNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:08Setting the requirements for an 80,000-ton counterfactual battleshipChapter
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:40Trading range and speed for battleship stability and protectionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:03:48How battleship layout links firing arcs to hull balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?21:18Why rudders are optimized for working speedQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?31:16Why torpedo bulges usually cost speedQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?52:22How to recognize a glass-hammer warshipQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:15:05Why Titanic changed thinking about ship subdivisionQ&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193810:46Reading warship design as evidence of naval prioritiesChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193827:08Kriegsmarine design after lost institutional expertiseChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation0:00What Britain learned from German aviation ships after World War INotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation30:51The Ausonia flight-deck carrier proposalChapter
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions55:09How triple turrets saved crew and displacement in the Nelson classQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:07:59The hidden thousand-ton cost of Nelson's torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:24:21Why equal treaty limits push battleships toward convergenceQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 612:00Continuous design work preserves a navy's ability to respondChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 615:18The 1927 designs search for a minimum viable battleshipChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 622:37Missing sixteen-inch studies expose gaps in the design recordNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 632:38Fourteen-inch designs trade armor and weight for speedNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 650:31Design studies build institutional memory before the King George V classChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:23:35Littorio lines and recessed guns in an Italian Star DestroyerChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:55:34Italian ship individuality and missed production efficienciesNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:58:49Can an elegant fictional warship still be intimidating?Q&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:53:10Why displacement alone does not determine a ship's draftQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered14:21Scaling Scharnhorst for triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered32:30Bulges, machinery, and speed in a dreadnought rebuildQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:09:19A larger County trades deeper draft and turning circle for protectionQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:08:30Fishtailing depends on shafts, propellers, and ruddersQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:55:23Balancing armor on a 9.2-inch treaty cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:07:19Courageous cannot be enlarged into a 35,000-ton carrierQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:02:53Ships are lengthened by inserting a new midbodyQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:13:37A slower Deutschland gains only modest armorQ&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:19:34Why dimensions alone cannot determine cruiser displacementQ&A
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:01The Smoked Haddock class balances torpedoes, armour, and global escort demandChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:02:42Ballast is the missing control in the game's stability modelNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:47:14How fast should a 257,000-horsepower light cruiser be?Q&A
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 541:45From torpedo defense to civilian crumple zonesNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...42:12Space warships need more than one earthly analogyNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books40:11Sending HMS Victory back before the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!35:46Armor, machinery, and the speed tradeoffChapter
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:44Why a warship-design game needs ballastNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:49:24Robert Seppings is the route into short-timber ship constructionQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty5:21Shipyards and technology crossed national linesNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 315:35What a four-month conversion implies about prior planningChapter
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 318:45Why MV Breconshire was not converted with her sistersNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 323:18How a cargo liner became an amphibious assault shipChapter
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers6:24Italian warship design sharpens the carrier paradoxNotable Point
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers24:32Europa and Giuseppe Miraglia comparedChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...49:11Omaha's mixed battery hedges an experimental designNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:13:20Why technical exchanges still missed British armorQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:15:50British six-inch cruisers could use quads or five triplesQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:34:54Minimal carrier studies did not authorize constructionQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:37:04A longer F3-style hull separates magazines from machineryNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:41:10Roskill's source base leaves a gap around naval constructionNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:44:20Contingency plans do not prove a likely warNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:46:12Minimal carrier studies contribute to later practical designsNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:46:47An impractical Hermes replacement can still train designersQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:54:51How to read Roskill on interwar naval policyQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...3:03:15All-forward guns save weight but concentrate riskQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:37:07Turbo-electric drive for a fast assault battleshipChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:20:13How an F3 layout could produce a faster NelsonQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:38:52How to read a warship's mission from its hull formQ&A
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 28:08Why MAC ship origins require archival detective workNotable Point
- Twelve Odd Ships43:03Novgorod's circular hull favored sheltered watersChapter
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.4:50What makes an odd ship design workNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.32:13Ramform Hyperion's triangular seismic-survey hullChapter
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.36:52Is Ramform Hyperion a trimaran?Q&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:56:15Rebuilding the Renown class for speed, range, and protectionChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:17:04Standardizing older battleships around 28 knotsChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:29:18Cruiser refits expose speed and armament tradeoffsChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:24:06Designing the Bristol light cruiser to fill a fleet gapChapter
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:33:37Ballast versus armour as a ship-stability toolNotable Point
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?30:10Anglo-American industrial links keep helicopter designs convergentNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:15:45Helicopter height forces carrier redesignChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign28:41Why can a ship need thicker rear belt armor?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:17:33Transatlantic shipbuilding networks made G3 secrecy porousQ&A
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids2:42:56At what speed was the Revenge hull most efficient?Q&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō26:26Why the hybrid inherited both ships' weaknessesNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō36:37Ryūjō's treaty-driven design and stability problemsChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:11:35Surface ships can use submarine-like control finsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:31:27Draught trades resistance against stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:46:03How model basins test a warship's turnQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:49:07Iowa's quadruple turrets collide with canal and dock limitsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:34:31Names for a pointed battlecruiser sternQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War5:10Why cross-Channel ferries suited amphibious conversionChapter
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War8:04Heavy davits solved only half the LCM problemNotable Point
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War16:40Why a radical conversion could still beat a new buildNotable Point
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1051:19Independence adapts the transatlantic 74-gun design traditionChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence6:36Why five small ships do not equal one large shipChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence32:29Acacia-class dimensions, machinery, and powerNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!17:14Hull role matters more than ship size in choosing V or U formsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!33:44Why warship bows often separate during sinkingQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:24:33A broken keel need not mean a lost warshipQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19283:12:22Compact machinery concentrates warship protectionNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:05:23What navalized merchant construction actually meantNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:42:36Bomb-hit location shaped small-warship survivalNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...33:17Armor buys a carrier time, not suitability for surface combatQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:00Counterflooding instructions and damage-control judgmentNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 27:32Carrier strength decks and stability tradeoffsNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out20:30Capital-ship interiors also supported peacetime dutiesQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:03:35Royal Navy flagships used architecture to project authorityQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:05:51How a warship changes from sketch to constructionQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:40:48Alternative hull lines for British 13.5-inch-gunned shipsQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response25:21Why G3's paper turret layout might have changed in the yardNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response34:28Rearranging the K3 turrets for stabilityNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:12:32Why G3 and Iowa look similar on paperQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response13:26Why Graf Zeppelin's raw specifications misleadQ&A
- New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response7:35Could New Ironsides have been rebuilt?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy23:36Subdivision reveals a capital ship's design balanceNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:28:19Why G3's armor did not automatically make it a fast battleshipNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:39:30Why all-forward guns suit a modernized battleshipNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:17:50Why high speed consumed so much displacementQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:21:21Reconstruction cannot ignore hull structureChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:54:06Liquid loading in torpedo-protection systemsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:01:16Why American awareness of British liquid loading laggedQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:03:47Why Hood repeatedly gained and lost aircraft facilitiesQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:38:08Why the 15-inch gun remained the practical choiceQ&A
- Building A British Super Battleship!27:07How seriously should the game's naval physics be taken?Q&A
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response2:14Why semi-submersible battleships found no roleQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:31:49Sketching a 2023 missile battleshipQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response12:24Why the first purpose-built naval ram is hard to identifyQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers25:46Soryu and Shokaku make the common-hull carrier credibleChapter
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:04:36Cruiser trials expose a research-gated stability problemChapter
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:30The automatic torpedo-boat design confirms the stability problemNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 215:49Belfast and Edinburgh hinted at an unbuilt 9.2-inch cruiserNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 225:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:37:28How treaty accounting could conceal extra fuel capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:13:10Could Nelson be refitted with triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:42:40Could a better-armored Renown keep its speed?Q&A
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies50:11Missile development outpaces a return to battleship armourNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies50:51Subdivision protects ships but competes with habitabilityNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1134:10Introducing Eagle's heavily armored capital-ship designChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1154:38Spending saved gun weight on shells, protection, speed, and radarChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:20:30Designing the Glasgow-class light cruiser within a tight weight marginChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:18Why 11-inch guns did not make Scharnhorst a battlecruiserNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...38:55G3 and N3 at opposite ends of the capital-ship spectrumChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...44:07When more armour can make a shell more destructiveNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...45:35Hood, G3, and the meaning of battlecruiserNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 118:37Why completed ships miss their design displacementNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 920:59Balancing a fast heavy-gun battleship designChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty45:53Speed and the capital-ship spectrumNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:13:17Balancing a destroyer’s weight, shells, speed, and stabilityChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:28:21A capital-ship refit is a weight-budget exerciseChapter
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 58:46High-mounted guns for torpedo-boat defenceNotable Point
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 511:29Triple-expansion engines, speed, and rangeChapter
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 514:50Armour protection versus DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:41Naval gunnery depended on more than the gun barrelChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:08:29Ship stability was a gunnery requirementChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:10:56HMS Agincourt's broadside tested battleship stabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics43:16Shared magazines versus survivable ammunition stowageQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:06:27A better-protected Renown at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:08:23Designing armor for machinery accessQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:47:14Pairing the K3 battlecruiser with the L3 battleshipQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 90:38From HMS Shannon to a distant-station flagshipChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 755:26Bulkheads improve survival but cost weightNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:26:16Balancing a super-battleship designChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:58:34Designing a fast battlecruiser within a weight limitChapter
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!19:36Why racing sailing boats do not translate directly into warshipsQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!46:23What can be said about Kort-nozzle steering experimentsQ&A
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 323:12The cost of a heavily armed German battlecruiserChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos42:22Balancing the Ersatz Monarch's range, protection, and stabilityNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos54:01Andrea Doria’s unusual turret arrangement in a virtual reconstructionNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:26:46A fast Royal Navy treaty-capital-ship responseChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:49:00Modelling Francesco Caracciolo within the game's design limitsChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built17:07Warship design, stability, and state directionChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built32:10HMS Victory's lower gun-deck freeboardQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built41:36From shipwright apprenticeship to naval architectureChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:06:12How early turreted light cruisers could escalate designQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:32:39How Britain made the three-decker work againChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:35:52Santísima Trinidad and the limits of upward growthNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:08:24How far HMS Victory influenced later shipsQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:25:54Adapting the G3 to a 45,000-ton treaty limitQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:34:56Why a 200-gun ship of the line had little valueQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:54:16Four battleships under a 100,000-ton class budgetQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:57:02Designing one 100,000-ton battleshipQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:05:30Balancing a 61,000-ton fast battleshipChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:28:05What modern design tools might have meant for FisherQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 95:35Béarn's lifts and the danger of paper solutionsNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough10:00HMS Newcastle and the evolving fourth rateChapter
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough19:59How razees offered a stronger cruiser alternativeNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 727:00An attrition fleet built to fight before it is lostNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 622:39Hiraga's design lineage from Nagato to Number 13Notable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 623:55Treaty interruption between Number 13 and YamatoNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 44:12The shipbuilding base Germany had lostNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 415:48Bigger hulls require bigger yards and docksNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 431:13Atlantic and Baltic demands pull the hull apartNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 450:42Why H-44's displacement is not simply fantasyNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?44:15Royal Navy constructors as civilian naval architectsNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:51:04F3 speed and protection within the treaty limitChapter
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?3:05:12Eight guns or nine in a Nelson successor?Notable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:00:22Why building in a dry dock eases launch stressesQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:02:46Why a shorter, heavier cruiser is not automatically fasterQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:40:27Why Great Lakes bulk carriers invite structural concernQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:46:00Why lengthening an existing carrier is rarely economicalQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:18:38Deck armour, belt armour, and the protected citadelChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:30:19Battleship-thickness armour is not battleship protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:34:09How a third propeller shaft could fit the Nelson classQ&A
- What Cannon is right for this ship?30:53Weight distribution and the carronade trade-offChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?35:04Hull curvature and gun-deck placementNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:18:25Which battleships were probably the tallestQ&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock9:14Invincible's turret layout and manoeuvrabilityNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock57:26Battlecruiser labels and the capital-ship spectrumNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:38:27G3 and the road to fast battleshipsChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 243:54Drawings preserve competing secondary layoutsNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD36:22Building a 36-knot battlecruiser around its missionChapter
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:05:47Armour distribution affects stability as well as protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:43:03What the extra displacement bought in Lion and VanguardQ&A
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...19:23Why the first Soviet silhouette looks wrongNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...26:47Why a British G3 hull fits the Soviet conceptNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years52:53The prewar design timeline of the Hunt and Flower classesNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:42:35Without treaties, battleships could pass 100,000 tonsQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 921:02Why a structural flight deck matteredNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 611:12Virginia was built to break the Union blockadeChapter
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 616:58Why the rotating turret outlived MonitorChapter
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 617:58The armoured citadel as a survivability coreNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 619:08Why VLS escaped the firing-arc problemNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response7:36Why aluminium lost favour in warship structuresNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response9:33How shipyard vocabulary carries professional historyNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney44:52Bathurst-class design in a Sea Power Centre bookNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?20:08French constructors inside British dockyardsNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:21:19Better shell tests also drive better armourNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:35:22Why British armour comparisons remain difficultNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:40:34Warspite shows the limits of armour at close rangeChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:43:56Warspite survived through architecture and local controlNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...1:40:38Why pre-dreadnought superfiring turrets needed the right hull formQ&A
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...2:42:45A gun mount can rise to fire and lower behind armour to reloadQ&A
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?30:33Escaping wing turrets on an early dreadnought hullNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:02:16Building a 15,000-ton large cruiserChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:10:03Layered belt armour and where shells detonateNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:12:10A French all-forward capital-ship conceptChapter
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 219:40Sissoi Veliky, overload, and TsushimaNotable Point
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 246:35Virginia’s superimposed-turret trade-offNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland39:42Nassau established a persistent German design languageNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done13:36Why game damage can overstate capital-ship survivalNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done49:09Reading Tribal and Fletcher destroyer silhouettesNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:48:24Why a twelve-gun armored treaty cruiser does not fitQ&A
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)0:13Reading the Imperial Fleet as a naval systemChapter
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 38:24Wartime experience returns to the design officesNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 315:06An alternate G3 layout for balance and maintenanceNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War34:54Blanco Encalada’s central-battery ironclad designChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War37:01Hull proportions for coastal manoeuvreNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada15:47Would a rebuilt Tribal-class destroyer be historically exact?Q&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada56:45Blanco Encalada's broadside ironclad designChapter
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:13:25Why early steam warships often had two shaftsQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...14:35Dreadnought hull balance, roll and persistent pitchNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:11:38A high-speed cruiser shaped by the Panama CanalNotable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)15:07Inflexible and the armoured-citadel experimentChapter
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)32:23Victoria class: armour, rams, and Italian competitionChapter
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)47:53Steam battleships as iterative naval designNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation2:06:01USS Texas in dry dock reveals the ship behind the plansNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...3:34Turning Thunder Child into an 1890s warship designChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...11:53Using HMS Renown as a Thunder Child referenceNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...28:02Torpedo rams and the engagement-range problemNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...37:13A light cruiser built around massed 5.5-inch fireChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:10:41Designing a cruiser for an HMS Agincourt worldChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:12:24Heavy-cruiser superstructures and the HMS London comparisonNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:28:38Computer tools still need naval design judgementQ&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:31:39The cost of a 21-inch-gun battleshipChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:57:21A super-battleship cannot ignore pitch and draftChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:26:41Building a French answer to the Tribal classChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:32:38Destroyer air defence is limited by space and arcsNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:34:26Building a German counterpart to the Tribal classChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)18:21Balancing battleship armour, guns, and speedQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus37:21Why an age-of-sail frigate was more than a gun countQ&A
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:31:57Naval constructors designed around treaty accountingNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 721:48Angamos matched rival ironclad designs built in BritainChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:35:30Successive scout carriers refine the Hermes designNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:39:48Why deck-edge lifts remain a difficult tradeoffQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:41:51Why later British carriers retained lifts near the centrelineQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:43:33More small carriers create a stronger fleet-carrier benchChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:50:41A construction drumbeat accelerates welding experienceQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:53:31How scout carriers change the path to UnicornNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:57:08A higher carrier ceiling gives foreign navies different choicesNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:00:48How closely would the new fleet carrier resemble Implacable?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:08:56Why scout carriers stay within 12,000 tonsQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:04:34Why angled flight decks stay outside the scenarioNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:09:16Why battleships remain broadly recognisableQ&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck29:52Rebuilding beam, topweight, and fire control after the first duelNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:45:37Designing Conqueror as a twelve-gun 18-inch fast battleshipChapter
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck2:16:38Why a floating battleship may no longer be a fighting battleshipNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:11:09Postwar design ripples from a different JutlandChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:12:46Shell testing also raises the standard for armourNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:16:48Completed fast battleships could force higher treaty limitsChapter
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:11:02What would an alternate Admiral class look like?Q&A
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you5:24Turret selection as a whole-ship design problemChapter
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you12:11Why maximum turret redundancy becomes a very large shipChapter
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you18:59The systems needed to make a huge battery usefulNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you33:59Triple turrets against the Iron Duke weight benchmarkNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you52:33Designing a battleship to keep fighting after damageChapter
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:05:22Bretagne: revised hull design and alarming Cherbourg diplomacyChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:29Inspecting the Queen Elizabeth MaximusChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas5:01Building Germany's maximum 1912 counterpartChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas12:19Why is the German design heavier to port?Q&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas20:57Scaling speed and armour for a maximum Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas50:44Preserving main-battery arcs around the secondariesNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:32:44Giving Agincourt a Warspite-style modernizationNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:31:12Four twin turrets or three triples?Notable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response15:23Oil firing, Welsh coal, and fleet infrastructureQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response42:56Small-tube Queen Elizabeth and the fast battleship pathQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:10:42Coal-conversion weight, conservative machinery, and the 25-knot resultQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:22:41How to read battleship belt-armor figuresQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:45:27Comparing Queen Elizabeth and Revenge displacement figuresQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:53:21Which hull length is used in the Agincourt reconstruction?Q&A
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas54:58Structural integrity, flotation, and the damage modelNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:00:35King George V alternative without Chatfield's choiceChapter
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:07:31Armor weight and compact turret placementNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:15:24German battleship design and Kiel Canal constraintsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:25:12Quadruple 18-inch Armageddon designNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:38:05Goliath heavy-gun layout tradeoffsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:56:45Funnel smoke deflectors and visibilityNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:11:42Giving the German opponent fifteen main gunsNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?4:03Queen Elizabeth design questionChapter
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?9:27Speed bought through machinery weightNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?20:38Bayern class and the German quality answerNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?57:06The Queen Elizabeth Maximus counterfactualNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?32:51Baseline armor, machinery, and 15-inch broadsideNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?59:29Were the Revenge-class ships planned with five turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:06:26Why was the Maximus Q turret not superfiring?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:11:27Could three after turrets form a superfiring stack?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:25:56How much hull change would six 18-inch guns require?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:27:02Could the oil conversion alone make 26-knot Queen Elizabeths?Q&A
- Ship Design0:00Institutional memory behind ship shapeChapter
- Ship Design6:46Buoyancy, density, and stability basicsChapter
- Ship Design14:32Requirements-first design versus fixed constraintsNotable Point
- Ship Design21:25Uluburun wreck and outrigger buoyancyChapter
- Ship Design26:03Early shipbuilding methods and hull formChapter
- Ship Design30:52Shipwrights, drafting, and full-scale loftingNotable Point
- Ship Design32:35Timber supply and the wooden-ship industrial baseNotable Point
- Ship Design36:02Drafting, calculations, and a culture of challengeNotable Point
- Ship Design41:49Iron, steel, and the shipyard land trapNotable Point
- Ship Design44:08Queen Elizabeth carriers and looking rightNotable Point
- Ship Design46:33What judging a ship by eye can revealNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII8:31When welding replaced riveting in warshipsQ&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII3:11:35Four or five turrets for a later County-class cruiser?Q&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts50:33Flower-class whaler ancestry and precise vessel termsNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response21:49French aircraft limits and carrier-system coevolutionNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response29:46How twin-engine aircraft could reshape British carriersQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response41:17Joffre displacement and twin-engine aircraft feasibilityQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?57:07Bearn's handling system and carrier learningNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?49:58Was Bearn dangerously top-heavy?Q&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class5:03Comus sailing speed depended on hull and screw dragNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class11:07Naval missiles need shipboard design workQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class19:48A hydrofoil escort trades speed for hull strainNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class57:18Kresta's hangar balanced stability against shipyard limitsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:42:35Warship stanchions carried uncertain dynamic loadsChapter
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions2:37:47Interwar Germany lost naval design memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:33:45Cruiser evolution shaped interwar policy claimsChapter
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:51:59Small ships exhaust upgrade margins soonerQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:53:39Warship overengineering buys survival and growth marginNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine3:46Konigsberg and Leipzig expose design governanceQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine7:38Battlecruiser labels describe a design spectrumNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine23:49German redundancy inflated ships without equal combat valueQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine32:56Armour without firepower only delays defeatQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine39:31Interwar brain drain eroded German naval design expertiseQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain30:18An 18-inch Vanguard needs a different hullQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...22:45A fast 12-inch capital ship for a smaller navyQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...26:03Triple turrets could trade one Queen Elizabeth turret for speedQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...48:55A modern 16-inch autoloader needs a much larger shipQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:15:12A large interwar cruiser hull could remain a useful testbedQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:18:03A modern Haida would grow into a first-rate escortQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:34:30T-class hull changes balanced extra torpedo tubesQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...2:09:17The trimaran form was not the Littoral Combat Ship's central flawQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...2:10:26The Alaska-class hull could support a modern guided cruiserQ&A
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...0:01Long Beach as a nuclear cruiser with light-cruiser limitsChapter
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...5:00Why hull growth margin mattered to Long Beach's futureNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...11:00The futuristic missile cruiser missing a helicopter facilityChapter
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...44:47A Canadian design echo in the Aegis conceptNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:06:38Paper battleships were not ready answers to the G3 and N3Notable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class17:12Length between perpendiculars and safe load linesNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:28:26Shared design faults and sister-ship modificationsQ&A
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style13:35Conservative procurement changes one risk at a timeNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style23:54Stern volume arrives before a towed arrayNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style31:25Weapon placement reveals the Kresta's prioritiesNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style50:09The retractable Kresta II helicopter hangarNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers12:20Protection and numbers instead of a fleet of first ratesNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers17:01A straight bow on a recurring patrol-ship scaleNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers20:20A compact sail-and-steam cruiser with varied gunsNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers24:41Making an iron hull last on distant stationsNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers43:20Sponson guns and a practical second batchChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:05:04Why torpedo nets lost their appealQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:28:15Transom sterns and Jutland timingQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:13:51From Nelson to King George V hull formsQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:36:42A 28-knot Colorado would be a different battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:25:17Turbine blades as a warship-building bottleneckQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:35:18A modern wooden sailing warship becomes a larger WarriorQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response5:43Why liquid layers matter in underwater protectionNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response20:28G3's battlecruiser label and disputed block coefficientQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response42:39Would removing Nelson's torpedo-defense spaces save weight?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response45:47Why machinery order changes capital-ship survivabilityQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:34:17What an old warship needs before receiving missilesQ&A
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships0:18Nelson as the product of Britain's capital-ship research programChapter
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships22:11Britain's constructor bench tackles the treaty tradeoffsNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships34:56How Nelson's all-forward layout saved weightNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships39:39Nelson's compact machinery and disputed top speedNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships41:57Nelson's water-filled underwater protectionNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships43:15Chatham trials put Nelson's torpedo defense under full-scale blastNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships50:56How treaty battleships traded belt armour for torpedo defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:13:34F2 and F3: the fast designs behind Nelson's all-forward layoutChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:27:27Was Nelson's Queen Anne's Mansion designed against gas?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:37:24Why Nelson concentrated its main guns forwardChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:41:37Can one capital ship combine battleship protection with cruiser speed?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:43:42The firing-arc penalty of Nelson's compressed turret arrangementNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:54:50Nelson's water-filled protection and full-scale torpedo testChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:57:20How Nelson's machinery was squeezed under the treaty limitChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:01:43Why is deck armour usually thinner than belt armour?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:25:54How Queen Anne's Mansion made Nelson a fleet flagshipNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1214:14Cressy at the turn from Victorian to modern cruisersChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1236:45How the Admiralty enforced class standardizationNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...24:07What trimaran warships gain and give upQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:07:07Could a nuclear aircraft carrier exceed 40 knots?Q&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:26:58How barbettes became part of a warship's armoured structureQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)20:41Layered armor and subdivision make Asama hard to disableNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)12:28Why sixteen six-inch guns suited the Diadem roleChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)19:41Trials, vibration, and the value of an adaptable hullNotable Point
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)15:23Why Châteaurenault's liner disguise had limitsChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)20:18Gun arcs, Harvey steel, and three-shaft redundancyChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:22:49Murmansk embodied the final refinement of the Sverdlov hullChapter
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)16:13Apollo armament and protection support group tacticsNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)51:32Indefatigable shows the cost of sustained overseas serviceNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)58:23Mine capacity exposes variation in early marine steelNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:14:25Why some British designers called carriers three-deck cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:08:58Naval designers worth studying firstQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:17Firepower, speed, and armour define the warship design bargainQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:39:41A no-treaty G3 follow-on combines eighteen-inch guns, speed, and protectionQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:20:40Hood's as-built displacement is not the same as the Admiral-class design figureQ&A
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)4:09Heavy armament, high gun positions, and protected decksNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)8:45Hull dimensions, machinery, and the transition to salvo fireChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 56:10William White and professional naval constructionChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 58:28The royal-yacht crisis and White's leadership burdenNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 510:16William White's 245-ship construction recordNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 511:56Why delegation was a naval-construction problemNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 22:21An Elswick cruiser derived from EsmeraldaChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 28:01Design evolution for an Italian presence cruiserNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 215:10Aetna-class successors carry the design into Italian yardsChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 216:57A cork belt tests an experimental approach to survivabilityNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 433:51Converting a Centaur-class carrier into a heavy-lift shipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 434:32The later Admiral-class deck layout remains uncertainQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:16:08Prefabricated escorts met established shipyard practiceNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:23:07Why no one inventor owns the escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:29:19Modern escort-carrier versatility limits availabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations29:38Could an Alaska-class cruiser become a carrier?Q&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:32:17Where a flush-deck escort carrier put its bridgeQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:33:29How Archer and Bogue differed within the C3 cargo-ship familyQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:03:56Could merchant carriers receive better subdivision?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 326:20Where to find an accurate plan of HMS AchillesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:38:38How an unsupported hull can break its keelQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:27:04Adapting 24-inch torpedoes for submarinesQ&A
- Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p813:32The sailing rig that disappeared before serviceNotable Point
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p70:05Esmeralda and the first Elswick protected-cruiser formulaChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p727:43Esmeralda and the gradual transition to modern warshipsNotable Point
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers8:23Dimensions, propulsion, and stability under heavy gunsChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p412:35Belt, deck, teak, and coal protectionChapter
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4058:28Nelson's stern flow made a Bismarck-style rudder hit unusually difficultQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:17:32Why heavy-cruiser hulls make better carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:01:24The case for a third Queen Elizabeth-class shaftChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:08:49What Vikrant may reveal about Indian maintenance designQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:11:46Why cross-connected shafts do not replace propulsion redundancyQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches29:06Why do images exist of the unbuilt G3 battlecruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again18:48Why an Italian battleship carrier conversion was possible but unattractiveQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again42:25When lengthening the O3 hull would be practicalQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:23:00A naval architect learned the whole shipyardNotable Point
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today11:06Why a Spanish cruiser hull did not make a good light carrierQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today28:02Doug Clarke's aircraft-carrier design workQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today39:06Doug Clarke's theoretical battlecruiser drawingsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today43:05Why USS Enterprise's eight reactors bothered Doug ClarkeQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today43:40Doug Clarke's books and the 1934 naval-architect transactionsChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today50:37An Austro-Hungarian carrier modeled on HMS HermesQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today54:44How a 1934 paper defined the aircraft carrierChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:30:13Early Condottieri behave like enlarged destroyersChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:59:01What fuel penalty bought four more knots?Q&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:44:48Were Tribal-class destroyers structurally overbuilt?Q&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:45:17Did Algérie's superstructure look unfinished to save weight?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 24:44Where to research Warspite's 1930s refitQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 247:56Why a battleship might float after a drop but never fightQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:33:34Why modern cruise ships resist armed conversionQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:01:48Why a machinery-space torpedo hit doomed HMCS AthabaskanQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:05:44Why a steel battleship could sail only after a major redesignQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)54:20Hermione reconstructed as an eighteenth-century frigateNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)59:01Different approaches to warship standardizationNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:10:23What stands out aboard a Tribal-class destroyer?Q&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:23:56Had sailing frigates reached perfection?Q&A
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)9:36Treaty-era designs after WashingtonChapter
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol20:08From triremes to the quinqueremeChapter
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)17:48Why the Hawkins class made a poor treaty templateNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)5:25A wide-beam, fast 1914 British battleship experimentChapter
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)36:18All-forward armament and battleship weight distributionNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)40:36Funnel placement, weight offset, and armour distributionNotable Point
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)0:55Safety design meets commercial pressureChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)24:24Compartmentation had to buy evacuation timeChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)45:49Design beyond the minimumChapter
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)15:04Speed hull, machinery, and the range penaltyNotable Point
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)18:49Compartmentation, cruising turbines, and a wide turnNotable Point
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)41:11Why all-forward armament saves treaty displacementNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)0:46When all-forward armament makes senseChapter
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)2:43Why an aft-heavy battery can create a vulnerabilityNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)10:11Ocean range and canal limits in a cruiser designNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)24:46Armour distribution and presenting the stronger endNotable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:12:57How would a warship have been subdivided?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:24:51Do modern cruise ships need stronger stability rules?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:26:06Would extra bulkheads have made Titanic too heavy?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:29:44What remained uncertain about Titanic?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:38:37What separates a bulkhead from armour?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?2:19:12What allowed warships to grow longer?Q&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)31:40Why larger carriers gain hangar efficiencyNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)33:44British deck-edge lift studies - and their limitsNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)5:03Philip Watts as both warship constructor and artillerymanNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)1:38Efficient layouts existed beyond cutting down a CountyNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)6:48Arethusa showed that a smaller cruiser could be coherentNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)22:53Exeter improved York without rethinking the conceptNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:50:15An alternate treaty split between six-inch and nine-inch cruisersQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)7:10H-class battleships and the risks of paper designNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)32:52Bathurst corvette bridge design and the radar transitionNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)33:50Balancing firepower, armour and speedNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:24:39A workable ceiling rewards naval constructorsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)51:17What a 350,000-ton battleship would demandQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:20:44Who turned Tillman's demands into battleship drawingsQ&A
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)12:09Ersatz Monarch design trade-offsChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)17:01Francesco Caracciolo as a fast battleshipChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:02:05Using simulation to test fleet-design argumentsChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:08:42Why identical ship plans do not produce identical shipsNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:15:38Software as a tool for naval-history analysisNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)40:55All-forward layouts can simplify hull designNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion5:02From treaty tonnage to a full-load warshipNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion15:14Testing the design's weight trade-offsNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion38:23Why quadruple turrets impose a hull penaltyNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue18:39Why an extreme Tillman turret still needs a much wider hullQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:59:03Reading ship design as forensic reconstructionNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)48:22The enormous crews of Hellenistic giant galleysNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)53:20How were five quinquereme rowers grouped?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:14:21Roman quinquereme weight and ramming tradeoffsNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:34:18How large was Ptolemy IV's 'forty'?Q&A
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion3:28A Town-style light cruiser below 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion5:08Why the simulated Deutschland battery is approximateNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion7:01Why published displacement figures misleadNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion9:27The vulnerability of a concentrated main batteryNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion24:44County cruisers and conservative treaty designChapter
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion41:11Battle-class destroyers: arcs versus wartime weight demandsNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion43:55What the all-forward cruiser experiment suggestsChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol5:02Mines, shells, torpedoes, and the crowded sternNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol10:51Modern hybrid machinery inside a dated cruiser hullNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol29:52Karlsruhe's training cruises and welded-hull weaknessChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol49:07Köln and the cost of lost institutional memoryNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)23:47Speed, armour, and turret layout in an alternate designNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:58:14The hull extension needed for faster NelsonsNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:29:03Why Nelson's third turret was not superfiringQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:43:00Why quadruple 16-inch turrets create punishing design tradeoffsQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:44:09A treaty-compliant redesign of the Nagato classQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:06:26Why battleship designers adopted triple turretsQ&A
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)0:43Rebalancing Tiger's speed, protection, and weightChapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament6:22Why put every heavy gun forward?Chapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament26:07Would a transom stern save much weight on Nelson?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament26:24Why not move the third turret aft?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament28:00Earlier precedents for separating guns and machineryNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament35:02Why wing turrets would not cure G3's aft blind arcQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament37:10Did Japan copy N3's tower structure?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:12:04Could superstructure sit over a main-battery turret?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:29:29What did the British tower superstructure offer?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:37:11Why place fuel between Dunkerque's boilers and magazines?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:51:28Could Tone raise both B and D turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:56:13How 18-inch guns would change Agincourt and HoodNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion37:17Why cross-deck firing was costlyNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)3:38Nelson's all-forward armament compromiseNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)23:03The Renown class between battlecruiser and fast battleshipNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)45:57Nelson's flagship prestige and design compromiseChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:09:58Framing distinguishes battleships from battlecruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:23:12Q&A: how crushing tubes absorbed torpedo blastsQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:22:33Q&A: why Renown and Repulse began from the Revenge designQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:51:41Q&A: would a Nelson-type Royal Oak have survived?Q&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...7:59Alaska's hull form and high-speed trade-offQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...26:00Water and air in Hood's torpedo-protection experimentsQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...36:30Why Tiger's amidships three-inch turret was usefulQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...49:55Why an effective ironclad ram required a purpose-built hullQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:17:30The design penalty of mandating six-inch turrets on destroyersQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)36:09Why some complaints about HMS Research were justifiedNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)24:00From counterfactual design to historical possibilityChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)25:11Triple turrets balance concentration against hull widthNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)26:43Capital-ship design records a navy's theories and decisionsNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:28:19What were the coalition's war boats?Q&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:29:47Mediterranean galleys met Atlantic shipbuildingNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:44:56Were Portuguese ships like Spanish galleons?Q&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:31:01Diu cleared the way for a Portuguese trade networkChapter
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:43:47What distinguished Portuguese ships and overseas support?Q&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)58:19Admiralty dockyards as procurement cost benchmarksNotable Point
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)6:16Weight, funnels, and the price of speedNotable Point
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)13:18A gun's position trades firing arc against motionNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:53:31The Tribal design combined cruiser layout with a destroyer hullQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:04:07Why a battlecruiser might keep smaller guns to preserve speedQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:05:01How Tribal structural ideas returned after the Type 42Q&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:19:15Why Royal Navy destroyers stepped down aftQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:26:07Why a warship cannot accelerate like a dragsterQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:33:51Why pressurized-air drag reduction remains difficult for warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:35:44Why warships moved away from tripod mastsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:04:46Could Titanic's iceberg sink a Second World War battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:26:40How junk-rigged ships compare with Western sailing warshipsQ&A
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol31:25Reading a purpose-built minelayer from stern to draftNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:30:24A heavier Hawkins-class cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:33:24Why a 10-inch cruiser gun falls between useful categoriesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:49:35Why battleship guns encounter a practical ceilingQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)4:00:40How Brunel might enlarge Britain's naval infrastructureQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)5:56Protection and displacement pressureNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)22:17Deck space and the value of triple turretsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)15:04Checking beam and power against historical battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...49:05Timber quality sets the practical length of an eighteenth-century warshipQ&A
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?44:22Doctrine and unbalanced Japanese cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions31:04Oil tankers as a foundation of modern naval logisticsChapter
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books57:15A slower path to a 14-inch DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books1:10:45Why 14-inch wing turrets would be transitionalQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:54:52Flying boats at the boundary of naval and aeronautical engineeringQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat5:08:52Admiral-class carriers compared with LexingtonQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:17:12Fast-oiler size balanced risk and capacityQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:39:51Why standard and full-load displacement differQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:17:51Why underwater hull paint can differ from the topsidesNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:18:46Estimating Warspite's speed from a photographQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)37:56How battlecruiser hulls traded breadth for speedQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:43:06Would triple 8-inch turrets require a wider hull?Q&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence22:02HMS Warrior combined battleship firepower with a frigate roleQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence31:35Victorian ironclads produced many celebrated false startsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:14:36A 16-inch Gatling gun would become a thousand-ton installationQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:40:21Project Habakkuk's scale created its own engineering problemsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:26:13Why an inserted hull section will not solve Burke growthQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s49:57Did turtleback bows mean destroyer design had stagnated?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:10:00Nelson's compact layout and its operational costChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:17:37Why Nelson did not stack all three turretsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different4:21Ark Royal's protection without an armoured flight deckChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different5:12Ark Royal emerged from a long procurement path and fixed dock limitsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different6:48Displacement and power reveal Ark Royal's structural weightNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different20:33Why Yorktown retained an islandNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:32:30The Francesco Caracciolo class's turret-spacing trade-offNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?8:27Why tons burthen is not displacementNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?9:34Why generic Age of Sail diagrams can misleadNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?28:50Recognizing ships of the line and frigatesChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:47:44A larger cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:52:22Could light and heavy cruisers share a hull?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW28:05Could Ise have received a longer angled flight deck?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW246:43Why a flight deck cantilevered over gun turrets is troublesomeQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW258:46Ryuho shows the difference between conversion intent and carrier qualityNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:31:05Why raising a periscope did not replace elevated submarine scoutingQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:07:13Ise's six-turret layout constrained both modernization and conversionChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:12:33Could Japan have designed Ise around triple turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:14:04Triple-turret alternatives for Renown and the R classNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:24:02The 70-meter deck and catapults compromised both halves of the hybridNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:40:09The British armored-hangar battlecarrier proposalNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:57:11The hybrid-carrier idea was not uniquely JapaneseQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)31:08A wider Panama Canal and US warship designQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)47:14Treaty cruisers at 12,500 tonsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)48:57Why naval damage control could not save TitanicQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:43:12Richelieu versus BismarckQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:56:17Why aircraft carriers place the island to starboardQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:30:41What the British armored flight deck coveredQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:16:12Why Alaska is a large cruiser, not a battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:44:51Inclined armor follows the expected battleQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:09:37Why submarines keep weapons inside the pressure hullQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:10:43Why an old hull design can limit a young warshipQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions6:21R-class hull margin and refitsNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/76:28Gun-mount weight and waterproofingNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...14:18Treaty tonnage and armoured carrier air groupsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...20:43How extra treaty tonnage points toward ImplacableNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions22:44Modernizing the Nelson class meant choosing prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions42:07Eighteen-inch guns push capital ships toward battlecruiser logicQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:03:49French quadruple turret tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:46:29Why heavy naval guns moved into turretsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail27:56How a navy specified a new frigateQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail31:12Gun-deck height, stability, and seakeepingQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail40:31Why frigates were not simply enlarged pinnacesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail3:16:37Learning frigate history through family memory and booksQ&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)20:18Hull form, speed, and turning circlesNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:26:05Flooding forensics and watertight integrityNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:30:41Majestic-class survivability and career consequencesNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron43:00Naval-constructor training as procurement protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:23:02Medieval cogs and raised fighting platformsQ&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.53:10Did concrete reinforce Chinese junk hulls?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.54:07Cargo loading shaped stability in stormsNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:02:31Were East Indiamen's timbers as thick as a warship's?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:10:57Were all Chinese junks subdivided?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:17:49Could a traditional junk cross the North Atlantic?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:06:24Replicas reveal an earlier East Indiaman design traditionNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword39:52Why a sailing ship could not use a dreadnought gun layoutQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class11:25Compact dimensions hid enormous torpedo bulgesNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class13:01Armament arranged for a fjord fightNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class29:01How Glatton’s magazine fire exposed construction failuresChapter
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)32:46Turret size, working room, and stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:05:08Why early dreadnoughts retained wing turretsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:41:34When 18-inch guns make speed more valuableNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:59:51A 28-knot Iron Duke rebuildQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December0:17How the Colossus class refined HMS NeptuneChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December12:02Why the compact España class made wing turrets workChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190821:58Small engineering gains turn horsepower into more speedNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers8:21Battlecruiser subdivision trades survivability for speedNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers9:23HMS Hood provides the built battlecruiser baselineChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers45:24Lexington's turbo-electric drive pushes capital-ship technologyChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers53:44G3 trades Lexington's speed for a ninth 16-inch gunChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:14:21Learning a Tribal-class destroyer's interior from plans and accountsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers43:55Minotaur design balanced endurance and air defenseChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:06:36Tiger traded gun numbers for automationChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:11:04What full-load displacement addsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:23:28Tiger's turret placement protected its firing arcsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:25:01Fast automatic turrets reshaped the whole shipChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:49:38Conversion changed Tiger's stability problemQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers3:01:02Type 83 points toward a cruiser-sized hullChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers3:09:21Railguns impose power and cooling penaltiesNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation58:27Why a carrier's navigation bridge stays high and aftQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)2:42:19Missile capacity for a proposed large warshipQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:09:48Why a Type 45 successor might need a different hullNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:13:58Can a modern tumblehome hull handle demanding seas?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:27:51Could an escort's sonar sit well aft of the bow?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from22:12Standard displacement excluded fuel and reserve waterChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from41:43Fiji and Ceylon compressed Town-class capabilityChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:22:21How did the Royal Navy calculate a cruiser's official displacement?Q&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class8:58Monitor weight distribution traded speed for gun stabilityNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class16:00Harland and Wolff adapted its building dock for broad monitorsChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"2:12:04Why Dante Alighieri resembles the Gangut classQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 19154:59HMS Lion and the battlecruiser's cruiser roleChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:52:26The 1919 naval architects' record of the wartime fleetsChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:02:33Boiler working pressure versus test pressureQ&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:43:13British naval architects inspect SMS BadenChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:47:20How Baden coordinated underwater damage controlNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:24:07Could old dreadnoughts become battlecruisers?Q&A
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today13:25Builder's Old Measurement and sailing-ship tonnageNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:55:46Why did County-class refits cut down the quarterdeck?Q&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:59:48Why did the K3 design mix quadruple and twin turrets?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History2:04:40How the Landing Craft Assault balanced beaching, protection, and troop movementChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:08:18LCA steering, armour and machinery arrangementsNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History2:13:12Were troops protected inside a Landing Craft Assault?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response12:22Nelson displacement and the N3 speed estimateQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response33:51Could the X Kiwi design fit a 35,000-ton limit?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:54:08Dreadnought design evidence in the 1922 naval architects' transactionsChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:04:00Design debate and displacement margins behind battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:55Comparing real and science-fiction ship designChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s1:17:52Why the island layout became the carrier standardNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:21:51Why a Canadian carrier would probably follow Royal Navy designQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:22:50Furious used a bumped flight deck to shape airflowNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:01:50Hull framing reveals battleship and battlecruiser prioritiesQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:10:45How World War II hull framing compares with modern warshipsQ&A
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy0:47Norman Friedman's books as Royal Navy design referencesChapter
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy4:44Fold-out design plates in Friedman's submarine historyNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books45:10Why naval-architect transactions matter as primary sourcesChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:08:43Why later naval histories underuse professional transactionsQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:12:53David Taylor, propeller trials, and US Navy design practiceChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:16:19David Taylor's lasting influence on US naval designQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:22:10Why the US Navy's model basin bears David Taylor's nameQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:29:50Choosing shipyard cranes for workload and construction methodsChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:57:41D'Eyncourt's role on both sides of Nelson's construction contractNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:34:50Testing a 70,000-ton battleship's speed claimQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:48:29Foreign contracts as experiments in British warship designNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:17:17Hood's influence on HMS VanguardQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:36:11The doubtful logic of US Navy cage mastsQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:59:41A King George V redesign for a drier bow and heavier gunsQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:13:06Suez did not impose a Panama-style cruiser constraintQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…2:11:12What it means to break a steel warship's backQ&A
- Part 3 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"5:50What did the angled deck counterbalance?Q&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:19:23Why light carriers mixed naval and merchant standardsQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:59:34An angled deck was not chiefly a counterweightQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol12:13The Leander baseline and its growth problemNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection3:36:04Computer-aided ship design across naval and merchant fleetsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II2:30A pencilled bow curve and Commonwealth Tribal constructionNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II12:41Cossack plans reveal Tribal-class design trade-offsChapter
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/255:41Choosing which backups a warship needsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)9:38A balanced hull and all-round fire layoutNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 5: HMS Coreopsis0:55Coreopsis's dimensions and stated carrying marginNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus0:18A simple minesweeper built to survive a blastNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus1:41Speed and the limits of coal enduranceNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol9:11Naval standards versus wartime escort productionNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 1: HMS Foxglove0:30Foxglove's compact hull and proportionsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design0:40A Grand Fleet design reference worth browsingChapter
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design2:27Why underwater-protection trials can misleadNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design5:21Specialist design histories and the archival recordNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design9:55Rivets, fracture modes, and structural balanceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design12:13A technical history of British warship designChapter
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?12:03Speed, range, armour, and guns in the Leander designNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?55:18HMS Orion and wartime air-defence modernisationNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:10:03The Leanders as a middle tier between Arethusas and TownsChapter
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers0:01'Armoured carrier' as shorthand for a protected hangarChapter
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers1:20:18Damage control keeps the carrier flyingChapter
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car51:49From cogs to fighting castles: why height matteredNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:46Why TOG II looks like a land monitorNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 29:14Re-rating captured Danish ships for Royal Navy serviceChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...34:13Why merchant tonnage and warship displacement differNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...53:54Why welding saves more weight on complex warshipsQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 416:33Could E-class cruisers carry a mixed battery?Notable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 423:00Why heavier turrets strain a Leander conversionNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 424:48Hawkins hulls offer room for a heavier conversionChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:03:04How small hull changes could improve VanguardQ&A
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise5:02Why the E class were large light cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise23:18Building and balancing Enterprise's experimental turretNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:08:39Panamax limits and aircraft-carrier designQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:27:21Can a modern tumblehome hull remain stable?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:42:42Container ships as modern escort-carrier conversionsQ&A
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN2:24The cost of building small for numbersChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN9:48G- and H-class leaders: Grenville and HardyChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN12:03H-class growth and treaty reportingChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN15:06Brazilian H-class orders and HMS InglefieldNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN19:21From First World War lessons to new destroyer generationsChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)10:34Stanley Goodall and destroyer design continuityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:48Where tumblehome hulls might be worthwhileQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:22:13The claimed advantages of a tumblehome hullQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:10:12Engineering history in naval-architecture transactionsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:54Doug Clarke's work across naval architectureQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:17Why different ships mattered to Doug ClarkeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:46Why a noisy engine could ruin a fisheries survey vesselNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:09Doug Clarke's work on automated ships and future designNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:49:25Redesigning Type 23 flight-deck strength for MerlinNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:53:56Why later flight-deck subframes do not explain the Type 23 problemQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You4:13Why warships need growth marginNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:07:54A built-up bow made the D class global cruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:17Deck-edge lifts for armoured carriersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:17:23The practical limit of World War II armourQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:35:47Armour works best with compartmentationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:47The promise and complexity of spaced sloped armourQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:52:21Why sloped armour can still matter against descending shellsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:53:56Internal armour against modern missile damageQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class13:27Rejected changes to gun arcs and deck heightNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class15:54Bridge geometry and the Mk VI gun mountNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A10:33John Lambert drawings as warship research toolsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A16:00Using naval architects' transactions for design historyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:08Wartime design papers reveal the work behind a warshipChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A39:35Naval architects learned shipbuilding from shop floor to drawing officeQ&A
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction1:49Checking feet-to-metre conversionsNotable Point
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction3:47Recalculating the cruiser lengthsNotable Point
- An Introduction to "D" Class Cruisers: Part 3 A correction5:54Hull form, power, and the speed questionNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 27:47A broader hull bought eight hundred more nautical milesNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 322:39Nathaniel Barnaby builds a naval-construction institutionChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 327:35Designing warships with space to growNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 229:34Stanley Goodall turned naval policy into ship designsChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 232:27Goodall on aircraft, protection and capital-ship displacementNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 234:49Goodall tied personal honors to recognition for his staffNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 137:09Remembering naval architects behind modern ship designNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A58:43How torpedo-bulge compartments changed in serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:24:40Why modern warships still need strong decksQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:26:38Strength decks and armor in British battlecruisersQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie56:03Were British armoured carriers dangerously top-heavy?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 13:03Reading landing-craft history through its engineersNotable Point
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!52:17How much prewar thought lay behind MAC shipsQ&A