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- The Press Gang, myth and reality...28:08Prize money and the Royal Navy's capture economyNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 233:33When the Royal Navy was best fundedQ&A
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality17:53Naval service could lead to merchant commandNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality19:35Debt protection could draw sailors toward naval recruiting partiesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality29:07Guard ships could insist on merchant wages before enlistmentChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality30:03Emergency manning left pursers responsible for sailors' unpaid wagesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality31:58Pay arrears discouraged sailors from bounty-hoppingNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality32:45The merchant marine was the Navy's peacetime reserveChapter
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:30The cost of giving America the 1812 Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:08Turning a naval windfall into permanent capacityQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...49:42Why Monarch's exact construction cost is uncertainNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live1:48:31A shorter war changes British debt and American naval growthChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:32British debt and naval spending after World War INotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:25Indian princely patronage and warship requirementsNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...10:04Dominion cruiser squadrons and imperial cost sharingChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...13:10Dominion self-government and local defence costsNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...17:16Lion and Indefatigable: comparing complete procurement costsChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...26:24Capital-ship ordering dates and all-up costsChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...33:42Tiger's price jump and the cost of choosing LionNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...42:30HMS New Zealand, range, and Dominion fundingChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...47:28The 1909 naval panic and a twelve-ship imperial orderNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...57:39Would a larger Lion order cut unit costs?Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:02:17German naval threat perception and the army budgetQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:40:36Could Germany trade battleships for more battlecruisers?Notable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:00:00Would the German army intervene sooner?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:01:50Cromwell's funding and the institutional Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I25:38Designing a fleet around a known budgetNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I42:26A fleet swap between early America and VeniceQ&A
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"23:00Privateering as privately financed sea powerNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...32:31Commodore command still depended on worthwhile prizesNotable Point
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?19:29Turning treaty allowances into a British building cadenceChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:34Why Britain could not keep its wartime fleet in peacetimeQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:44Canada funds rather than crews three Queen ElizabethsQ&A
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory2:12:36Prize money reveals the battle's commercial valueNotable Point
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario10:48Galley labor exposed the limits of early-modern state financeNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:35Why the Royal Navy rarely received privately donated warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:31How papal support helped finance William of Orange's fleetQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:47Why Germany, not Britain, curtailed the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:38A marble warship instead of more Beiyang ironcladsNotable Point
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:55How eighteen Japanese pre-dreadnoughts change Tsushima and HawaiiQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:58:58How prize money treated captured warshipsQ&A
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class59:17How the First Sino-Japanese War paid for the new fleetChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked42:25Edward Russell combines the Admiralty's commanding officesChapter
- How effective was the Russian Navy22:49Why Russia repeatedly funded the army before the navyNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him12:45Congressional limits on the early US NavyNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:09:50William May's task groups need speed, firepower, and radioChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:45:36Germany struggles to fund a qualitative responseChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:59:09A 24-knot standard would push America toward turbinesNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...2:09:40A small funding change could end the naval race earlierChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live10:54Ship money and the national cost of maritime defenceNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live49:05The Treasurer of the Navy controlled a separate pay machineNotable Point
- Battle of Elli2:15:47Could Greece and the Ottoman Empire afford balanced fleets?Q&A
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 918:22Why Tiger's cost encouraged smaller cruiser conceptsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...31:14How the Royal Navy argued for third-rate shipsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/452:37Why France could not match the Royal Navy ship for shipQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:34:54Why wartime governments fund armed forces more readilyQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...19:43Idle battleship yards made the class buildableNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:29:32The Anglo-German naval race was not a two-power vacuumNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 234:59The British Empire spreads shipbuilding capacity and costNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 21:09:00Political cost and industrial ceilings defeat the gambleNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:30:26Germany after Britain answers triple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:45:00How to build a credible naval counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:51:28Could postwar Britain afford more carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:39:21Warships carrying cargo in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:54Why G3 and N3 break later battleship predictionsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:48:01Which navies struggled most to secure government funding?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:38:05Why the G3 programme did not preclude cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:15:27A Washington treaty with two cruiser tiersQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:53:44Why naval manpower is a design and budget choiceQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!20:43How We Want Eight priced Germany outChapter
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:22:40Would a shorter war leave Britain with a larger Royal Navy?Q&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:07:17How naval reach shapes useful peace objectivesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:19:13Naval finance and the limits of game abstractionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:20:04Using fleet expansion to deter the next opponentChapter
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1012:00Debt, Admiralty courts, and convoys sustain Royal Navy powerNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:23:48Postwar Britain could afford several large carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...30:18Finance constrained Chile's battleship alternativesQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response36:52The G3-N3 program and British financesQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response52:21Affordability versus preference after 1918Q&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response57:36Why Britain avoided a larger Bolshevik breakthroughQ&A
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?20:31Debt, military cuts, and Ottoman fleet readinessChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update0:34An Austro-Hungarian campaign starts from scratchChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update14:16A small navy cannot maximize every budgetChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update33:24Standardizing four-ship battleship divisionsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update41:42Export orders finance domestic constructionNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update53:19Forty-eight torpedo boats become the interim denial forceChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update1:45:10Scrapping surplus ships to stabilize the budgetNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:16:51Why using war debt against the G3 and N3 programs could backfireQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:20:40How debt coercion could delay the naval treatiesNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:25:00Far-Flung Lines and the economics of imperial defenceChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:27:37The Dominion fleet-unit concept and its costsChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:38:49How unpaid bills crippled the Commonwealth navyChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 61:44:15Economic growth, naval funding, and wartime reservesNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 830:45Malta and the constraints on a global US NavyNotable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era18:50Britain's postwar economy and battleship affordabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!13:04Could Brazil have operated two Riachuelo-class battleships?Q&A
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure8:38Ship money and the state behind naval policyChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:57:57Why territorial states and merchant centres used naval forceChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:59:17London's commercial institutions and British sea powerNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:25:44Why Bismarck cost figures need cautionQ&A
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail59:26Why financial power encouraged global naval policingNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology23:07Geography made naval power central to Italian securityNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy4:47Coastal protection supports political legitimacyNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy9:52Domestic naval spending circulates at homeNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy21:51Alliances and economic spheres can share naval costsNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy23:26Naval power requires renewed political consentChapter
- How to Build A Navy25:04Public spending needs repeated strategic justificationNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda47:43Tegetthoff class: a leap to triple-turret dreadnoughtsChapter
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda1:08:47Shipyards borrowed ahead of naval budgetsNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 88:44Why Tillman first opposed naval rearmamentNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 35:13Infrastructure, not aesthetics, drove the compact layoutChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:58:04The Bank of England, public finance, and naval powerQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:10:47Spending earlier to shorten the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)2:11:01A navy's cost in a trade-based empireNotable Point
- Blockade!!17:09Coppering, prize money, and blockade financeNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)1:46:52Fleet upkeep, trade income, and IndiamenNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:25:39Early-modern sea power beyond battleship countsChapter
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course29:07The 1708 Cruisers and Convoys Act reshapes fleet designChapter
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course48:51Private fleets eventually justify national naval taxationNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine0:14The capable cruiser tradition Germany failed to inheritNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:05:31Why Australia and New Zealand received battlecruisersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:03:58Poland's age-of-sail navy illustrates the limits of state capacityQ&A
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 127:23Infrastructure, not Trafalgar alone, sustained Royal Navy dominanceChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today34:04Why Greece chose the French battleship offerQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack13:14Royal Navy spending before the First World WarQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)22:23The Washington cruiser loophole and industrial capacityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)27:40Political choices behind post-1918 Royal Navy retentionQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)18:01Rome finances a final blockade fleetChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment31:10Why revenue enforcement gave the cutters institutional strengthNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:31:42A fee-based alternative to Washington Treaty ship limitsQ&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:14:36Charles I's ship money and the politics of fleet designNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:13:23Why inheriting two great-power fleets could bankrupt SpainQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)23:44Could Britain have waited out the American naval programme?Q&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)7:11Fleet geography changed the Anglo-American balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:58:32How surrendered warships counted toward reparationsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)22:50Japanese treaty parity could become a fiscal trapQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:17:31Q&A: extra Admirals at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:20:21Q&A: fiscal choices shaped the Washington settlementQ&A
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol47:57Efficiency reform before the German naval surgeNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol51:37The Hague conferences and Britain's affordable naval burdenNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:29:54Reorganizing the fleet to hold production within budgetNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:22:47Why winning Tsushima alone would not prevent the Russian RevolutionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:34:35Why the Royal Navy retained old capital ships while building new onesNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)25:52A republic where maritime power was unevenly fundedChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)37:26Five admiralties, local interests, and convoy moneyChapter
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...39:12Public subscriptions financed Ottoman battleshipsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...39:12Public subscriptions make ships politically difficult to sacrificeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...51:25Public donations made Mutsu hard to sacrificeQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...51:44An Indian-funded battleship and the birth of a navyQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:00:40Why navies kept buying slow battleshipsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/420:11The Reichsmarine’s failed film-company coverNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:47:23How did battleship cost compare with a ship of the line?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:32:12Why is a third rate's cost difficult to state?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:25:22Why an East Indiaman's cost is hard to calculateQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class11:26Maritime trade links slavery, naval funding, and suppressionNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:23:47Parliamentary funding helps the Royal Navy overtake its rivalsNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result6:14The Act's budget and imperial dockyard legacyChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result10:40Annual political intervention could drive up warship costsNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result21:27Twenty-five years of deterrence for the Act's investmentNotable Point
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"10:00Wartime carriers underpin Britain's early Cold War naval-air positionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy22:22Coalition war and Britain's maritime advantageChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:20:48Dominion financing of cruisersQ&A
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?6:35The first generation of new 1930s light cruisersChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?20:05Private ownership does not solve capital-ship costsQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:08:18Small crews kept a dispersed sloop force affordableQ&A