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- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:04:28Checking changing armament in warship photographsNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?44:53How to analyse a warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:30:49Books for studying naval guns and ship constructionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:50:09Bismarck and Tirpitz: reputation and operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:05:26Reading about the initial defence of the FalklandsNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:17:36Beatty's suppression of the Harper and Bacon reportsQ&A
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership0:00Why Raphael Semmes's writing matters to naval historyChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership16:50Why Semmes condemned privateeringChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership42:12The political and professional legacy of Semmes's booksChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s36:26Reading naval priorities through ship designNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...14:50Whose accounts of naval grievances survive?Notable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...56:32How location shapes memoirs of InvergordonNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:06The Swordfish air-combat claim over NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:47Competing accounts of Dreadnought's U-boat ramNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:12Why the HMS Duke of Kent proposal sounds fictionalQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:39Narvik as an accurately reported but underhyped naval battleQ&A
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality8:00Isaac Hull answered a British seizure by taking a sailorNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality9:20American impressment totals need a sailor-population comparisonNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?7:22Large carrier conversions expose the cost of using scarce tonnageNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:10:09Historical distance matters when interpreting interwar BritainNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy36:05Why small-warship officers disappear into fleet totalsNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI0:00Historical ambiguity and comparable warship dataNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...4:39Destroyer totals conceal differences in capabilityNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:54:55Ark Royal operations challenge her published enduranceNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:04:25Reading Vanguard's design lineage forwardNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:12:56Using N. A. M. Rodger's Royal Navy historiesQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:01:03Macintyre's books as a participant's view of naval warNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)29:28HMS Invincible, fresh paint, and keeping crews occupiedNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)36:29Class explanations versus food, bedding, and political voiceChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:00:45Tomkinson's career and a cautious Admiralty inferenceNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:26:35The disputed Q-ship rescue decisionQ&A
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...50:56Reading a Type 1936 armament-source conflictNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:05Fen Yang after Japanese disarmamentQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:12How battle outcomes distort warship reputationsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:55Why historical knowledge remains a balance of probabilitiesNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:11Mahan and Corbett emphasize different parts of sea powerNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:14Why the thirty-year rule is useful but elasticQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:11Destroyer commands as a window into Royal Navy family networksQ&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...6:13What the captured Akatsuki reveals about Japanese doctrineNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:08:40Why Tsushima's light forces faded from memoryNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:18:27Why a naval-history book cannot replace expert advice for a filmNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:20:42When operational evidence outruns the surviving paperworkNotable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:01Wage evasion complicates impressment narrativesNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:47:03Public ambiguity becomes part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:23How research funding shapes the naval-history books that appearNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:20:05Scuttling records and refloating for damage inspectionNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:32:36Could blank disposal records conceal weapons trials?Notable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:43:17Missing sinking records and the new-weapons hypothesisNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:51:55Checking a South American U-boat wreck claimQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:09:33Reciprocity and postwar submarine-warfare prosecutionsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:12:52A viewer separates two Argentine wreck reportsNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:30Finding reliable studies of Spanish naval doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:54A carrier-book listing illustrated with HMS NelsonNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:13Sources on Casto Mendez NunezQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:09How a desk reassignment would change Halsey's reputationQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:00If the US Navy refused Ballard's Titanic search supportQ&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?0:00Why Germany kept building torpedo boatsChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers46:23Destroyers shaped Jutland without dominating its historyNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!19:39Chamberlain and Churchill show how reputations shape blameChapter
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!23:10Canopus could not guarantee Cradock's safetyChapter
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!28:05Wolfpack avoids U-boat mythologyNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series0:47Expert contributors connect current fleets to naval historyChapter
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series11:04Regional surveys and notes create research trailsNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...8:18How early did Japan consider a carrier strike on Pearl Harbor?Chapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...14:05Genda's recollections and the limits of planning testimonyChapter
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 348:11Reading plans against engineering evidenceNotable Point
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-450:00Two carrier histories for comparative studyNotable Point
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-451:24Japanese carrier camouflage and reference appendicesNotable Point
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-4519:23Italian scholarship on the Japanese NavyNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:21:36Why successful late-war escorts receive less attentionNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:22:45Why surviving U-boats are an uneven sample of the wartime fleetNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:41:17Why minesweepers receive little historical attentionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…41:32Why the Kriegsmarine dominates popular naval historyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…53:38Why earlier governments escape scrutiny over maritime claimsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon4:55:09What Brassey's Naval Annual contributes to warship researchQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:29:50Does scuttling before an enemy arrives count as an action?Notable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:41:41Three naval books to take to the Admiralty in 1905Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:00:14Judging historical work by research qualityNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:09:05Using naval staff histories and Jellicoe to approach the original recordQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:48A detailed book on the Battle of TsushimaQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:38Mackensen, Ersatz Yorck, and the wonder-weapon mythNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...44:09Competing perspectives on Cape St VincentNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?24:40How large naval histories support deeper studyNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?49:06Chronicles carry the battle where archaeology cannotNotable Point
- 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
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age10:16Cruiser tradition explains shifting Royal Navy ship labelsNotable Point
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships8:35Civil War ironclads and the larger wooden warNotable Point
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:54Victory at Sea and the limits of television historyQ&A
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...13:45RDX history separates archival proof from inferenceNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:51Why Coast Guard combat service receives less attentionQ&A
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold31:19Roman quinqueremes as a warning about ship labelsNotable Point
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...53:41Why Vlieter's intelligence victory is easily forgottenNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:04How national framing narrows naval historyNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!2:32:13Starting points for reading naval historyQ&A
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence10:08Historical study sharpened Hornby's command judgmentNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:25Definitions that erase British carrier warfareNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:49Books for studying Italian battleshipsQ&A
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit23:27Reading Richardson's redacted Pearl Harbor memoirNotable Point
- Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...0:00Why a historian may omit a seminal workQ&A
- Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...0:53What makes a work seminal in naval historyNotable Point
- Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...1:29How differences of perspective become book controversyNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...8:48Why 'pre-dreadnought' hides how contemporaries understood battleshipsNotable Point
- Why do Historians like to Name things?1:04Dreadnought, ironclad, and sail as naval era labelsNotable Point
- Why do Historians like to Name things?1:34Why pre-dreadnought is a backwards-looking labelNotable Point
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort3:11Reading Suffren through John Knox LaughtonNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:58:32Leadership decides whether mass or skill prevailsChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō29:03Why Nagumo's prewar career is difficult to reconstructNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō47:07How ordinary aging became evidence against NagumoNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:19John Knox Laughton and modern naval historyNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:38Approaching politically sensitive naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:00A reading path into naval history and treatiesQ&A
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?0:00Queen Elizabeth historiography and selective evidenceNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?31:43Surviving design records preserve only part of the debateNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII16:04Why Percy Nelles remains difficult to studyNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:23Andrew Lambert's Admirals offers a route into modern naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:14:22Force Z did not instantly end wartime faith in battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:19How to read Royal Navy reports and ship-speed claimsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:24How marine archaeology reconstructs naval battlesQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:33Why naval historians still need archive research tripsQ&A
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)38:57Why Swedish naval history can be difficult to trace in EnglishNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:10Reading Ben Wilson's Empire of the DeepQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:41Using D. K. Brown critically on British warship designNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?0:00Dating the AA-cruiser idea before a hull existedNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:02:48Why successful air defense disappears from the storyNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley35:48From Quiberon Bay to Jutland: when strategic victory looked insufficientNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List8:28How to use Tameichi Hara's destroyer memoirNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List1:02:31The HMS Somali baked-bean story as destroyer oral historyNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:38:24Reconstructing the Imjin War requires source criticismNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:43:48Why naval historians must work as generalistsNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:31:03Comparative naval aviation became a Royal Navy thesisQ&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:45:44Sources behind the Imjin War lectureQ&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?49:55Scheer's memoir preserves his wartime pictureNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:26:30Wartime propaganda can still yield evidenceNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic0:02Reading Jellicoe beyond heroes and scapegoatsChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:18:32Critiquing command without creating a scapegoatNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership19:49Who won the naval treaties changes with hindsightNotable Point
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:32Where to start reading about the Belgian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:18Why even famous warships still have undocumented detailsQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:02:53Why dependable officers disappear from naval historyNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer0:00Reconstructing Dalrymple-Hamilton's elusive careerChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:38:33Why French and Russian naval designers remain underratedQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:54:40Missiles and Cold War asymmetry ended the battleship eraNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class21:00Why Japanese naval power cannot be read from formal titles aloneNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:20How national requirements distort warship and aircraft comparisonsQ&A
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:27:22Which Royal Navy ship model survives earliest?Q&A
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live3:25:43What happened to USS America in French service?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:13Sources for torpedo explosives and RDXNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth4:38Why naval fuel history needs deeper source scrutinyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth32:22Darkness shaped scouting in the high-speed steam eraNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth1:03:44Surviving archives shape historical perspectiveNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:28How naval terminology becomes online misinformationNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...34:05Why Tōgō's first command is difficult to dateNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...35:12Why translated sources need cultural contextNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:30:07How audience shapes the lessons in an official reportNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1012:43How the frigate became the symbol of the Age of SailNotable Point
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- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:02:01Chronology rules out Royal Sovereign as Brennus's modelNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:23:48Theodore Ropp and the continuing debate over the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
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- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:40:04Eric Grove modeled generous naval-history mentorshipQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:12:18Testing claims about the first naval smoke screenQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:32:59Suffren deserves wider recognition as an operational admiralQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:38:21Cherry trees refers to Japanese ships cut down by WashingtonQ&A
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- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:16:32Why is King George V's belt quoted as both 14.7 and 15 inches?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:12:08Imperial infrastructure and the limits of historical expertiseNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:01:23Orders not to risk ships constrain Ottoman commandNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:42:02Why the Battle of Elli has several namesNotable Point
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- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:18:21Why a contemporary error can remain valuable evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:45:25Why Rome needed a navy to connect its Mediterranean empireNotable Point
- Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules17:17Naval-history primers, archive access, and global coverageNotable Point
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers39:58Why successful sea control can look invisibleNotable Point
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers49:18How published primary sources guide archive researchNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...41:05Hood's battlecruiser label does not make her an early InvincibleNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII16:37Historical layers change interpretation, not eventsNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII1:42:22A Japanese verdict separates tactics from strategyNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:32:21Would Jutland work better as a film or miniseries?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:25:25Where to begin reading about the Battle of TsushimaQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!2:04Why thematic naval history can reveal more than strict chronologyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!5:38Why political naval history resists simple moral categoriesNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!30:32Researching naval counterfactuals without hindsightNotable Point
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?22:21Why written accounts cannot replace a surviving hullNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:45:53English-language starting points for German U-boat developmentQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:47:49Using chronology to test claims about naval-gun developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:26:07How to judge the prewar condition of Britain's old carriersQ&A
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:28:36Translation tools still require cultural and historical checksNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:57:51The Russian Navy in the Napoleonic WarsQ&A
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:34:18Independent research and borrowed conclusionsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:49Can the Royal Navy's 18-inch-gun tests be documented?Q&A
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:13Secret warship projects and the limits of surviving archivesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:37Battenberg's resignation and factional naval politicsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:17:03Why famous warships become overratedNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:04USS Texas: capability versus survival legendQ&A
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:23:30Lützow's loss shaped the myth of German battlecruiser superiorityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:58:16Yorktown's final salute and Walter Lord's accountNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign31:00A reference for Queen Elizabeth and Hood armor layoutsQ&A
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:45Single-ship battles as controlled design experimentsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:18:38Carrier history and false lessonsNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:58:41Grenada and the danger of unverified fleet intelligenceNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:09:21Mahan, French caution, and the purpose of a naval battleNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:28:03Why the wooden wall is a specifically British metaphorQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:38:13Did Britain's wooden wall come from Athens?Q&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:35:20The N3's 16.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:43:11Why Royal Navy ships are compared with later rivalsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:05:45English-language reading on South American battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!4:02:01The disputed second Tiger-class battlecruiserQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests2:30Evidence, audiences, and the historian's limitsNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests56:24Project B hardened air-power history into rival campsNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:28:21Using Operation Tiger to separate facts from causesNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 140:30Radar and layered defense completed the designChapter
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 142:08Which lost carrier should have been preserved?Q&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote16:33Attributing Bismarck's fatal hit on HoodQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:39:16Why peace-time naval service disappears from historyQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:51:03Measuring navies by operations, not only battlesQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:24:11Reading official procurement reasons criticallyNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:48:58The carrier toilets that stayed classifiedQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:24:36The ships and fleets a naval historian would visitQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:27:11Who underestimated Japanese capabilityQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:26:10Researching naval aviation without hiding it behind jargonQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends5:15Why naval chronology should be checked before making a claimQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends22:02Naval abbreviations are often historian-made conventionsNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends46:16Matching historical sources to the research questionNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends56:35Why the Constitution class was not wholly revolutionaryQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:20:31Turning World of Warships' Cerberus into a real cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:17:21Where alternate-history predictions lose confidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:27:23The doubtful claim that America offered to buy German shipsQ&A
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:00:23Italian fleet strength receives less attention than German battleshipsNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:30:52Q&A: Did the Imperial Japanese Navy use HIJMS?Q&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:36:35Q&A: Using a ship prefix to distinguish Mikasa from a personQ&A
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!20:14Interpreting Cuddalore as a struggle for IndiaNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!42:24British praise for Suffren and the cost of punishing captainsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:11:45Reading Lyngør through Captain Stewart's dispatchNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons1:36An accessible survey of French naval historyNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons49:03Where to continue researching French naval aviationNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist16:03Why an aircraft's first reception can dominate its historyNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist52:19Why 1920 carrier elevator figures misleadNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:11:05Why Chatfield's memoir needs an archival checkNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:08:29Porter blamed dishonor while Hillyar praised his opponentNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:23:34Smoke and competing flags obscured Essex's surrenderNotable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers0:28Japanese carrier history lacks a single reference baselineNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:46:57What 'twenty years ahead' misses about the G3 and N3 designsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:07:56What surviving American carriers reveal about interwar naval aviationNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19385:45How AI repeats national naval stereotypesNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:50:31Why a small two-ship action still counts as a battleQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions34:44How wreck surveys overturn torpedo-explosion storiesQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:09:16Unresearched comparisons and naval exceptionalismQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:09:47Albacore and B5N strike range with torpedoesNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle31:16Read naval decisions forward, without hindsightNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:13:39A timestamp error exposes the limits of primary sourcesNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:11Why Blackett Strait remains a battle despite its one-sided resultNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait12:34Phone photography turns archive visits into efficient research sessionsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:16:11The coercive opening of Japan shaped later security fearsNotable Point
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War4:49Why World War I naval aviation disappears from general historiesNotable Point
- Carry on Invading Britain: The Battle of Fishguard (1797)4:32Why Fishguard became an awkward victory to rememberNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books7:14Checking the disputed Ersatz Yorck keel dateQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books55:37How far H-class construction really progressedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:08:49A battleship repair visit during a mining strikeQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:29:06Books for studying the Imperial Russian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:47:37Where naval alternate history becomes fictionNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:52:41How to read carrier-sale stories in budget seasonQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:38:25Reginald Custance beyond Mahan and CorbettQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:45:20John Jordan's older illustrated guideQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!12:46Reading navalism beyond an Anglo-German frameNotable Point
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!1:15:05Operation Medium bombards CherbourgChapter
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues8:58Using squadron insignia to trace naval-aviation identityNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues1:08:55Choosing sources for US naval-aviation squadron historyNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:31:13The research gap around German and Russian naval yardsQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:00:13Why the secret loss of HMS Invincible is impossibleNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:38:36Why Sheffield dominates modern warship-loss memoryQ&A
- Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History17:06Why "pre-dreadnought" is an awkward retrospective labelNotable Point
- Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History54:04Why the counterfactual stops in the 1920sNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 314:37How postwar institutional politics shaped the design recordNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 347:03Britain was short of ships, not necessarily ideasNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign57:50Why a balanced destroyer design anchors the fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered40:31How naval histories handle the hardships of ratingsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:09:50Why N3 gun performance cannot be predicted preciselyQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:31:50Why the ten-gun pom-pom was a poor bluffQ&A
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese17:15Counterfactuals expose procurement dependenciesNotable 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...2:54:51How to read Roskill on interwar naval policyQ&A
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began37:27Why Italy's exact 1914 air strength is hard to countNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:09:18Frederic Madden's large interwar carrier-force plansNotable Point
- 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 Ships28:30Veteran fiction can guide research without proving a claimNotable Point
- Twelve Odd Ships58:50Flags and rigging expose a misleading Seeadler illustrationNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.23:11Ark Royal's condition and damage-control decisionsNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.29:24Battle-carriers as an unresolved fleet compromiseNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō7:21Why archive access limited the book's scopeNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?1:05:11HMS Philomel becomes a foundation of New Zealand naval powerChapter
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:18:06Why use Royal Sovereign as a battleship dividing line?Notable Point
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War0:00The overlooked Dutch ferries that became landing shipsChapter
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:39:56Why the attacked ships' origins remain uncertainQ&A
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1058:02Ship counts and steam claims need source criticismNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:16Jutland's outcome is measured by sea control, not hulls lostQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:19:28The most influential admiral depends on the causal chain being measuredQ&A
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 68:20Archive papers behind the design interpretationNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 14:42The Tribal-to-Daring line shows how naval requirements evolveNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 19:19Why interwar battleship-bombing tests could misleadNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...19:04The Austro-Hungarian Navy is the underrated First World War pickQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...23:51A research library organized by use keeps active naval projects closeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...25:06Source language shapes access to China's Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...28:25Eastern Fleet is the suggested route beyond Mediterranean narrativesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...50:06The German capital-ship fleet was overestimated as a wholeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...54:18G3 and N3 promise brilliance or fundamental flaws, not certaintyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...58:22Andrew Lambert's books open the Victorian Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:16:48Understanding Jutland requires British and German accountsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:24:27Harper and Bacon published the early challenge to Beatty's JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:29:27Andrew Lambert's Admirals is the single-book favoriteQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:46:56Adriatic war studies are easier to find in Italian than EnglishQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:48:00The most numerous cruiser class depends on careful class countingQ&A
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response0:49Why Warspite's Operation Neptune reply remains uncertainNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 425:01How a historian keeps warship comparisons consistentNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 454:42Bismarck's fame obscures the German design sequenceNotable Point
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response35:21Why the G3 saint-name story fails a source checkChapter
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response50:41Why Stanley Goodall's carrier evidence mattersNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?42:36Ottoman losses despite shell guns on both sidesChapter
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response17:28How a plausible Dreadnought gun story became a mythNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response20:16Comparative admiral history demands multilingual researchNotable Point
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response1:18Why the pre-dreadnought label looks backwardQ&A
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response10:27Why familiarity does not rescue the pre-dreadnought labelQ&A
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response13:55Steam battleships as a name for the transitional eraNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response55:32Why call pre-dreadnoughts Sovereign battleships?Notable Point
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett1:45A strategy reading list for technological transitionNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat8:02Reading Royal Navy Far East strategy through shipsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 252:16What Royal Navy paperwork reveals - and concealsNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore3:55Counterfactual naval history begins with grounded leversNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:33:40Spending delays and the limits of a funding explanationNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?11:05How disciplined counterfactual history tests naval choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:02:59Testing declinist claims against a longer historyQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:00:44Why '31-Knot Burke' has competing origin storiesNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:19:32Finding historical sources through Wikipedia referencesNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:21:31Osugi's war-crimes sentence and a disputed death accountNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:23:48Sentaro Omori's command background and reliefNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:38:33How to use Combined Fleet as a historical sourceQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:41:37Captain Hara's role at Empress Augusta BayQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:57:28Readable naval history still needs visible sourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:59:35Windfall Battleships and the limits of a single sourceChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty13:26Why Anglo-American war plans did not make war likelyNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...53:03The uncertain names of the G3 and N3 classesNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 12:29Why a wartime history chose ScyllaNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series7:00How a naval-history quiz can manufacture a misconceptionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series8:37Why a capital-ship article may omit HMS HoodQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series12:41Why day of infamy is not a unique historical labelQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:22:58Norman Friedman's destroyer history is a technical starting pointQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:33:06Why naval reporting can flatten specialist knowledgeNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 92:27:15How doomed battles become heroic narrativesNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:34:58A Franco-Prussian War reading lead with a naval caveatQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 81:41:23Did Seydlitz sink if her crew brought her home?Q&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!34:12Where to begin beyond English-language naval historyQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!50:48Why no naval source is reliable by reputation aloneQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:02:25A practical shelf of strong naval-history sourcesQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:08:55Starting books for twentieth-century admiralsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:18:45Why Fleet Tactics remains worth readingNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:13Why torpedo counts can misjudge the Tribal classNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:58:46Why the Baltic was not a quiet theatreQ&A
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 83:11How completed ships can upset the paper comparisonNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits33:22Reconstructing Argincourt from archives and simulation limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:05:41A qualified assessment of Sumida's naval-history booksQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:10:41Capital ships underserved in English-language historyQ&A
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 10:34Technical histories and Chatfield's selective memoirNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:17:59Reading Hood through crew memory and Prince of Wales's damageNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:37:20Choosing between narrative and technical battlecruiser historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:22:03How to judge a wartime engineer's eyewitness accountQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:24:16The unresolved Glorious decision matters more than its rumored missionQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 91:04:54Why historians separate proof from beliefNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:49:46Prince of Wales slips outside the simple Denmark Strait storyQ&A
- HMCS Haida Comment Response4:44When personal meetings complicate a commander's public imageNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response8:29Why write a new history of the Tribal class?Notable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response10:00Pronouncing Tribal-class ship namesNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response25:15Why did the Royal Navy pronounce Athabaskan differently?Q&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney8:49Reading Buckley and Scheer as starting points, not final authoritiesNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney30:55Why one government position paper does not prove adopted policyQ&A
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 47:21Why official carrier speed figures need cautionNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)34:11Testing a theory of HMS Hood's lossQ&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:21:31Thomas Troubridge watched the campaign as a prisonerNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:48:11The accusation that Roger Curtis stopped the pursuitNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:51:44Why the French casualty total remains approximateNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon56:42Alternate history works by preserving constraintsNotable 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 editon1:47:20Ship plans can hide important material gradesNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:52:25Prize-taking brought Gneisenau within reach of RodneyNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:44:40Did Lindemann say he would not have his ship shot out from under him?Q&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 20:25Australia's overlooked naval collections and museum shipsChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 210:12Corbett's contemporary study of the Russo-Japanese WarNotable Point
- Saint Names for G3s & N3s8:06How a naming story can harden into factNotable Point
- Saint Names for G3s & N3s13:25What evidence would settle the Saint-name questionNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power21:04Legal advocacy made historical arguments harder to dismissNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power22:55From novels to memorable naval historyNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power41:00How Corbett acquired authority in naval affairsChapter
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History33:44D. K. Brown, Ark Royal, and testing historical inferenceQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History52:50Testing accounts of Hood against engineering evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:26:27Reviewing books written by friends fairlyNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:28:32The Glorious First of June through contemporary lettersChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)43:34Would a carrier battle reshape British naval memory?Notable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 149:53Why German raider doctrine wanted a carrierChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:02:39Why carrier duels are a poor test of carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War0:35Finding South American naval-history sourcesNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?49:27Carrier-history books to start withQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:43:28Why wartime practice can exceed peacetime manualsNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:54:32Why "pre-dreadnought" is a retrospective labelNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?2:11:05Testing claims that Britain was bankruptNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?2:12:03Reading a Cold War naval book as historical evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation27:24Distinguishing the books titled Find, Fix and StrikeQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation1:23:59Why the Battle of Denmark Strait remains compellingQ&A
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19800:45Why Australian naval collections merit field researchChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198014:11When archival access is not permission to publishNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:09:20Why Mahan and Corbett addressed different audiencesChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:22:32How institutions made Mahan and Corbett seem opposedNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:50:36Reading Mahan as a theorist and naval educatorNotable Point
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent30:20Reading Mahan's history with historical cautionNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition49:02Why naval technology periods have debatable boundariesNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)3:13Remembering Admiral James GoldrickNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:12:44Q&A: Why early Western Squadron command is disputedQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:18:19Readable history and academic standardsNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:21:27Assessing Barfleur-La Hogue's strategic effectNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:25:12Q&A: What counts as a Trafalgar-level victoryQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:27:34Why British warship armour remains hard to studyNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy30:19Collingwood, Duncan, and models of admiralshipNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy1:17:02Remembering naval historian James GoldrickNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword53:46Modern sea-power reading should combine Australian and strategic studiesQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:59:11Yamen fleet totals require source criticismNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:53:33British naval weapons have better introductions than naval armourQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword4:19:58A reading route into the Royal Navy submarine campaignQ&A
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century6:06Why sinkings alone distort submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century8:59Why isolated ship losses do not settle the battleship-versus-aircraft debateNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century54:30Convoys, ASDIC, and the real objective of anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:59:03PNS Ghazi and the difficulty of attributing a submarine lossNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books16:28Why historians must keep each navy's class distinctionsNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:31:24How Nelson's testimony corrects the HMS Glasgow rescue storyNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:37:29Naval conspiracy claims and a proposed Mary Celeste explanationQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:42:09Prize money and the Bridport-Pellew disputeNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:29:56William Brown’s merchant success and a biography full of puzzlesChapter
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response7:07What supports the claim that British designers considered American reactions?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response9:28Six 18-inch guns, twelve 15-inch guns, and the spare-turret evidenceQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:35:26How personal correspondence informs the gun-policy interpretationQ&A
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History23:01What the evidence can and cannot say about Diesel's disappearanceNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?39:30Propaganda, blockade claims, and naval source criticismNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response35:41USS Maine: accident before exploitationNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:08:03The uncertain 18-inch Agincourt hypothesisNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:10:33Finding USS Albacore is only the first archaeological stepNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:42:30Specialists for Japanese naval history and journal researchNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:01:20Yamato's size and the case for big-gun deterrenceQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:08:37Folkestone's passage challenges its published speedNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:18:03The missing incident that changes interwar threat perceptionNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine8:21Fred T. Jane's public account softened British judgmentsNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...12:24Published warship figures protect sensitive performance dataQ&A
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service57:18Tribal ASW loadouts and the limits of official figuresNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:05:42Could Tribal destroyers carry spare torpedoes?Notable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:15:01Gaps and assumptions in Soviet naval history booksNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:17:26Judge warships by their geostrategic compromisesNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?32:18Keeping an alternate-history fleet inside evidence limitsNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:25:50Checking a claim about British defence spendingQ&A
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style1:20Using Polmar as a source open to challengeNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style26:01Admiral Zozoulia's long working careerNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy7:47Reading Gorshkov's rhetoric against procurementNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy49:05Was Kynda a naval genesis design?Notable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:16:51Reading Japanese Destroyer Captain as a personal sourceQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII46:51Late-war success distorts the history of US fire controlQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:46:37Bayern was a better battleship for its era than BismarckQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response20:28G3's battlecruiser label and disputed block coefficientQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response38:08How certain is a second explosion aboard HMS Hood?Q&A
- Admiral Hipper Class0:09Reading German warship reputations criticallyNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response54:11John Jordan as a starting point for treaty-era fleet developmentQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books24:22Could HMS Hood have exploded a second time?Q&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:12:30Why the channel discusses only books it recommendsQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:53:33Gangut modernization and conflicting reference drawingsChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:14:12Why Western sources call them the Gangut classNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response0:28Sverdlov and the limits of reading later doctrine backwardChapter
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response43:28Did British naval planners dismiss Soviet naval capabilities?Notable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response47:00The 1954 Indochina claim and the question of declaring warQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response48:05American pressure and the pace of the Suez operationNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:29:52Three authors for a broad naval-history starter shelfQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)42:23Naval history as continuing source workNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:43:01Why Washington Naval Conference politics needs several booksQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:44:53The missing joined-up history of the Italian fleetQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:05:38A Harry Bennett naval-history reading guideNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:27:45Using document collections before visiting the archivesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:35:58Where to study interwar Royal Navy exercises and war gamingQ&A
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response29:50How a military historian discusses war's human costQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"17:39A starting source for HMS Tiger in 1913Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"25:40Was there a comparable French capital-ship conversion?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:08:58Naval designers worth studying firstQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:23:52A photographic reference for County-class cruisersQ&A
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 418:34The cruiser classes missing from headline battle historiesNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 231:24Testing Roosevelt's claimed naval ultimatumNotable Point
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 127:50How to reconstruct an uneventful warship careerNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?26:28What newspaper art gets wrong about Amphion's lossNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:26:30Early carriers belong to the pre-combat design eraNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?0:02Why Navarino slips from popular memoryNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?46:14The French squadron and the problem of partisan sourcesNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino (1827)1:38:47Why is HMS Hind's commander uncertain?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:04:06Reconstructing the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet is difficultChapter
- Battle of Navarino (1827)3:10:28Britain celebrated Navarino while sidelining CodringtonChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers1:36:20Screen production limits technical interpretationNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:20:34Abruzzi displacement figures and visible mistake learningNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina37:37Data and bias shape naval-history judgmentsNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina39:17Why the Regia Marina and Cape Matapan resist simple storiesNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video36:16Calibrating criticism of warship designsNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:23:07Why no one inventor owns the escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France9:18Reconciling conflicting French fleet-location sourcesNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:45:14Churchill did not rule out war with JapanNotable Point
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace41:06The Cold War lens understates early Soviet cruiser valueNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:03:49Finding usable histories of the Soviet Navy at warQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4230:01Finding English-language sources on the Norwegian NavyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out45:19Why finding Pacific destroyer wrecks mattersQ&A
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation2:42Testing the battleship-centric argument through source criticismNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:32:23Simon Harley and the Dreadnought Project recover naval careersNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:55:13Why the Spanish-American War is difficult to researchQ&A
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina1:13Published operational reports open the Royal Navy archiveNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times9:09Why Graf Spee eclipsed Admiral Scheer in public memoryQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:11:53Reading beyond Shattered Sword on MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:15:10Why the Revenge class is remembered less than its workloadQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.18:12Reading the history of British military infrastructureQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:45:03Where to research proposed High Seas Fleet allocationsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:11:38Why cancelled capital ships resist confident rankingsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:26:48Why top-trumps naval debates misleadQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:34:08How the myth of universal German equipment superiority spreadQ&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:14:47How naval historians build and debate interpretationsNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:00:37Official battle summaries for the Pacific WarChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:16:20Why war dominates naval-history publishingQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:56:48Reading the Admiralty's Pacific battle historiesChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:02:46What classified staff histories can preserveQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:02:42How to spot a history book padded for lengthQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:34:32Why French cruiser projects disappeared from memoryQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:39:44When naval historians were public celebritiesQ&A
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)28:23Naval Staff Monographs for Home Waters operationsNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)37:45The small-ship battle hidden by Jutland mapsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 232:37Why Bismarck's final battle was not named for UshantQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:04:21Why Enterprise sinking totals remain disputedQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:34:01Sybil Matthews and the wartime reach of the WRNSChapter
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)0:00A routine capture with strategic consequencesChapter
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)25:51Junon from French frigate to British veteranChapter
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)52:45Why contemporary gun and crew counts disagreeNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)5:35Avoid anachronistic, zero-sum fleet rankingsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)52:20Primary-source limits shape Commonwealth coverageNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)33:30Why computer simulation belongs in historical researchNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)49:14The case for a new David Beatty biographyQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy53:42Where to begin reading Royal Navy hydrographic historyQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy59:43The missing history of Britain's paper warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy3:03:50Why missing archives should limit a naval history bookQ&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)21:42Starting research on Washington Treaty cost savingsQ&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)27:50Could a future book explore cruiser design?Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...17:05How national memory reshapes medieval and 1812 warsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...43:17Why Admiral-class histories should not begin with Hood's lossQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:35:17A reading guide to Admiral Bertram RamsayQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:38:57Why balanced war histories take longer than twenty yearsQ&A
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol13:47What does "largest naval battle" mean?Notable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)3:22Polybius's experience and history of Rome's riseChapter
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)11:37Q&A: Were ancient naval manpower totals inflated?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)28:57Q&A: Could a larger ancient battle have been lost to history?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)37:49When quinquereme becomes a general word for warshipNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:53:17Later battle art imports the wrong ships into EcnomusNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)15:38A long-serving cruiser with a surprisingly thin written recordNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:10:48Separating warship fame from design qualityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:37:03Why Denmark and Portugal deserve more naval attentionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:52:14Why a Carthaginian naval chronicle would transform ancient historyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:58:58How historians test claimed military capabilityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:09:49How to avoid hindsight in naval historyQ&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?44:47Are there English-language sources on Yonai?Q&A
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion1:12:22John Jordan's naval-treaty historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:36:28An annotated bibliography as a map of Royal Navy scholarshipChapter
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:29:03How to test myths about famous warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:26:31Why historical method matters beyond memorizing eventsNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:34:07Reading the Harper and Bacon reports on JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:42:17Why Holland should not be reduced to another BeattyQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:47:40Reverse the outcome before declaring the lessonNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today27:28Why Corfu disappears from maps of the Second CoalitionNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today54:17Why Corfu's fleet lists remain uncertainNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today1:07:25The source gap around the Ottoman squadronNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:39:27Corfu's strategic importance and its small place on campaign mapsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)53:47Class history reveals a navy's fleet conceptsNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:00:39Why Bismarck's reputation exceeds the paper matchupQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:57:07Why Hood dominates the memory of Britain's battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:36:16Matthew Wright's route into HMS New Zealand's storyNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:01:13Finding ship-by-ship history of the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:21:02Revisionism should add evidence, not impose present standardsQ&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books13:29Fleet Air Arm operations and usable source notesChapter
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:55Reading design evidence against surviving paperworkNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"34:27An apocryphal shipyard boast becomes a source-criticism lessonNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:01:57Why battle-honour counts underrate destroyer combatQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:59:36Reading Jellicoe, Beatty and Percy Scott criticallyQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:06:21Why John Roberts's older British warship reference remains usefulChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:19:54Why new archival work belongs in later book editionsNotable Point
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol7:05When identical reference figures hide real ship differencesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:12:59Why Princess Royal is overshadowed in battlecruiser historyQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:04:54How dogmatic online groups damage historical debateQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:31:41Recognizing national stereotypes in naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:34:43What a master's degree adds to historical researchQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered4:15:43Why mass media repeats familiar crises and specialist outlets matterQ&A
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)17:55Reading the 1947 beacon paper as historical evidenceNotable Point
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)40:20Wartime evidence inside a postwar beacon paperNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:47:58How museums reveal national perspectives on naval historyNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat23:22Why SC 122 and HX 229 need not be a turning pointQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat34:30Assessing The Royal Navy and the War at SeaQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat37:47Why historical vocabulary needs contextNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:37:29Why call them White-style battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat1:11:56Why Nelson and Rodney suffer from unfair comparisonsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:00:01Journalism and history as forms of public accountabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:18:38Historical expertise does not require a doctorateNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:42:23Why Nicholas Rodger's next naval history is such a large taskQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:48:04The destroyers hidden behind capital-ship narrativesNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore49:31Reading on Pacific naval logisticsQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:55:21RFA loss totals depend on ship statusQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:11:08How to read a Trafalgar battle mapQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:21:03Why claims of one hundred Royal Navy wrecks need checkingQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:59:03Why single quotations distort naval institutionsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:10:29Why reassessing British submarines can look like overcompensationQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 17590:20A reader's guide to Nicholas Tracy's Quiberon Bay studyChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol16:15The uncertain action behind Tromp's dismissalNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol26:19How obscure references reconstructed the English fleetNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 811:45Testing the claim that Erebus armed VanguardNotable Point
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:30:56Why naval histories foreground commandersQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:34:40Undeclared confrontations leave a thinner literatureQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?5:39The thin English-language record of Japan's wartime leadersNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:08:16Where British constructors recorded their doubts about Japanese cruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:19:29Where to start on paper Japanese light-cruiser designsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda6:07The sources behind Toyoda's historical recordNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence57:21Why lost Japanese records limit claims about wartime technologyChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:29:50What the surviving record can say about Japanese naval radarQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa12:43Richard Fuller and the limits of Oikawa's English-language biographyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada14:33The limited book source behind this account of ShimadaNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:17:31Why Japanese naval chiefs disappear from battle historiesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany14:26Reading an overview alongside specialist historyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:18:21Why The Cruel Sea is a credible ASW filmQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea0:30What Michael Alpert's naval history offersChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI19:18Why fleet actions must be studied from both sidesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)5:02Researching shipbuilding trends and overlooked naval leadersNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:22:51Reading the Jutland naval staff appreciationNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean37:44Later French armoured cruisers grow largerNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class11:11Propulsion shortages and uncertain monitor recordsNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class39:48Bacon's technical strengths and the Dover Barrage blind spotNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)53:05Why Bismarck's last action has no single battle nameQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194115:07Learning from naval paths not takenNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol59:28Finisterre's legacy against the Trafalgar standardNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant16:27Counterfactuals as a naval-history methodNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:10:41Who scuttled Peder Skram during Operation Safari?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:29:33Did Bouvines use Krupp or Harvey armor?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships3:07:43Where can researchers find Imperial German naval records?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships3:18:23How should readers approach Samuel Eliot Morison?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber3:47Peter C. Smith on Tribal and J-class destroyersNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber18:02What the Skua book reveals about naval aviationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber21:00Blackburn development and the limits of surviving evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:05:38Thresher records involved safety, capability, and family trustNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:19:46D. K. Brown's Grand Fleet is the ship-design starting pointQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:54:35Brassey's 1939 shows the Tribal class as a prestige programNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail3:16:37Learning frigate history through family memory and booksQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail3:21:53Would removing Napoleon have prevented the same wars?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)24:28Corbett on naval warfare in the Seven Years' WarQ&A
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol39:53Orders of battle and Russian ship-identification headachesNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:12:28Improvised command at La PalliceChapter
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:26:32The missing tank train and uncertain lossesNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:21:17Why the World Wars crowd ironclads out of general historiesNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.3:35A source for the Napoleonic War in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.22:14Commissioned paintings are not convoy manifestsNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.51:07Why can Arniston's voyages be followed in detail?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.2:54:21John Knox Laughton's biography of Nathaniel DanceNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:46:31Why a history of technological warfare needs naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:04:48The under-documented destroyer action off JerseyQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:13:12Three starting books for Operation Neptune and NormandyQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:21:05Books for tracing how warship classes evolvedQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:37:31Separating German naval design from Nazi ideologyQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:48:17Why the Atlantic Wall still matteredQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:53:13Why combat damage claims should be discountedQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:01:29A measured assessment of Karl DonitzQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”8:12Acoustic mirrors and the danger of hindsightNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”26:30Why histories shifted blame onto the Royal NavyQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:38:09Hornfischer's destroyer history captured the tin-can sailorsNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)51:02Conflicting sources for the Lyon-class layoutQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:51:02The global dreadnought race beyond GermanyNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:01:56Searching for a three-sided naval battleQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)3:16:41Research sources behind the dreadnought comparisonQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19147:26An unbuilt Brazilian capital-ship designNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191421:43A six-gun 18-inch capital-ship alternativeNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:20:52Why the First World War was not simply a gentlemanly conflictQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:34:22John Clerk, line-breaking theory, and tactical controversyChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:05:26Why Bismarck's final action lacks a separate battle nameQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-457:44Why handwritten ships' logs can be difficult sourcesQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:34:00Why raid, battle, attack, and operation overlapQ&A
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 123:13Identifying Operation Irregular's Japanese landing shipNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?37:16Why the Battle of the Atlantic is really a theaterQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?43:13How Britain initially understood JutlandQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:07:47How historians reason when the archive is incompleteNotable Point
- Four Random Books 34: A Special Place12:18Why the review chooses a second-to-last chapterQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:46:28Why practical experience belongs in naval historyNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:50:11How a source network recovered Dickie Cork's lifeChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:24:56How to assess Prince Philip's wartime naval serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:32:11Why Second World War records disappear from viewQ&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval31:36Are Nicholas and Andrew Lambert related?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval4:09:00Which periods and subjects are covered by this research and teaching?Q&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:43:35What naval historians learn from commanders' familiesQ&A
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:32:44Can editing Wikipedia build historical skills?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:29:47Book quality and a historian's willingness to recommend itQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:01:43A twentieth-century naval history can narrow around one warNotable Point
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War3:34A prolific historian's source base shapes recurring emphasisNotable Point
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War10:52Broad fleet history gives readers a starting frameworkNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...2:46:01A caution about using The Audit of WarQ&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...3:15:24German destroyer refinement versus Tribal-class combat performanceNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda0:55Trinidad's loss is not a simple verdict on her designNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...15:33Why a historian may deliberately keep duplicate specialist booksNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...40:32The Jutland Scandal joins two admirals' suppressed criticismChapter
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...49:28Does The Jutland Scandal still hold value for modern readers?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...51:44Bacon challenges Churchill's account of JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:16:11When to stop drilling through bibliographiesQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:34:03Can one ship provide a lens on an entire war?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:58:51Believe memoirs within limits, but never trust them aloneChapter
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...2:03:51Why primary-source status does not settle cruiser performanceQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...2:59:28Using a contentious book to sharpen the opposing caseChapter
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...3:00:42Can a book arguing the opposite case motivate historical writing?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...3:49:28A shortlist of outstanding naval memoirsQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...3:56:01Academic naval historians recommended for further readingQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...4:07:22Reevaluation is useful; cherry-picked history is notQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1315:40Bacon challenges how official naval history was writtenNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1318:03Jellicoe defends the Dover Patrol's unseen workNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1341:34Why the Dover Patrol's monitors matteredNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-90:22Conflicting chronologies of Western Front naval supportNotable Point
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"31:23Why Adriatic accounts are hard to reconcileChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:19:52Conflicting sources on Szent Istvan at AnconaNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments13:53Using Castles of Steel for First World War naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment18:15Michael Partridge on Victorian politics and naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment40:45Fleet reviews as a long view of Royal Navy changeNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:03:09Elizabeth's Sea Dogs as a guide to Drake's warNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 191611:49Why the German order of battle remains uncertainNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191621:41Where to start with Roman naval historyQ&A
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today16:35Why Guadeloupe's ship count may be three or fourNotable Point
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 11:28Reading marine paintings as technical naval evidenceNotable Point
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 16:57Why Whitcombe's biography remains a research problemNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet1:08:46A provisional answer about an Italian 17-inch battleshipQ&A
- The Great White Fleet1:30:33A viewer raises the Italia class as a 17-inch counterexampleNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response32:46Books for studying interwar treaty warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations35:15An 1880 naval chronicle close to the age of sailChapter
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations1:08:10Theodore Roosevelt judges the naval War of 1812Chapter
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations1:23:15Does Roosevelt's naval War of 1812 still hold up?Q&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes43:35The Jutland report and distorted postwar lessonsNotable Point
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:44:01Why North Sea evidence could distort conclusions about aft fireNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream4:01Henry Hendrix and the argument about naval presenceNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered48:58Why primary sources still require interpretationQ&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)56:43How did the research on Duquesne begin?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:12:16Do many historians of this period work effectively in several languages?Q&A
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys0:17Sampling a decade of Brassey's Naval AnnualChapter
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys23:47The 1946 annual turns wartime experience into lessonsChapter
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys35:10Combining quantitative and qualitative samplingNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion25:12From naval-history hobbyist to professional historianNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 30:37Contemporary data needs a warship-modification caveatNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:48:18Axis vendettas against famous Allied warshipsQ&A
- Four Random Books 16: It's A Question of Dates0:06Four books for studying naval history by periodChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:10:03Use Wikipedia to find sources, not as the sourceNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:31:13Capability planning is not the same as predicting a warNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books4:02:33Why write another history of Q-ships?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard33:02How theatre changes the Orlando obsolescence caseNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review52:29Marriott's photographs make naval history accessibleQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:07:43Sources for an assessment of returning Belfast to serviceQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:12:24Where Roskill fits in interwar readingQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:44:37Whitley's World War II Cruisers is useful but needs checkingQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:19:49Boyd's naval-intelligence history and crowded notesQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:48:31Why the Later U-Boat War Fades from the StoryQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:51:24Cold War Questions Shaped Carrier HistoriesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk11:22Correcting the Royal Navy's 1940 destroyer distributionNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)14:48How specifications and unit histories are used togetherNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:11:55Shark combines multirole performance with catapult serviceChapter
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 217:42Why Operation Menace disappears from amphibious historiesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design5:21Specialist design histories and the archival recordNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul32:37Why fifty-boat attacks were exceptionalQ&A
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 312:11An unverified ramming story from convoy fightingNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style18:18Sea control without a famous victoryNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style34:04Why Royal Navy surface raiding is easy to overlookNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?16:30HMS Leander and a cruiser built for distant stationsNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:08:17Why the Leanders work so well in naval fictionNotable Point
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers55:17Why Crete's carrier-covering operation is easily forgottenNotable Point
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers1:13:47How investigators identified Formidable's one-ton bombNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era10:16Three books that frame the lectureNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:49:24Testing Napoleon's view of naval commandNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:59:39Recommended reading on nineteenth-century naval diplomacyQ&A
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)0:42Source bias and the memory of TexelNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)6:21Internal alliances and shared memoryNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)10:30British rather than EnglishNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)18:44Battle paintings and the memory of TexelNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)25:42De Ruyter, Tromp, and BanckertChapter
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)38:55Judging seventeenth-century command by later standardsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...42:35Why Far East incidents vanish from familiar historyQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...49:27How later wars shape the sources historians followNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:02:44A reading route into the Battle of the Java SeaQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 447:21The historical escape under trained gunsChapter
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 223:25Why Royal Navy submarines vanish from broader historiesNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 225:48Why the Mediterranean submarine war faded from memoryNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 235:27Amphibious headlines and continuous interdictionNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:03:38Why the Indian Ocean campaign disappears from popular memoryNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)1:25Why the Indian Ocean war disappears inside other campaignsNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A58:42A survey starting point for the Spanish-American WarQ&A
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)30:28A 1949 view of the Sovetsky Soyuz classNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)17:59A cautious theory about the heavy mountsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates7:32River frigates as an evolution of the wartime sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates19:36Why the frigate, sloop, and corvette labels need contextNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates22:38Hunt destroyers and adapted V and W escortsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops10:25The Bittern class as a multi-role sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops27:42PQ 18 measures success by merchant arrivalsChapter
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 226:04Books behind the D-class overviewNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 444:47Capital-ship narratives hide the work of escortsNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 446:19Escort quantity becomes an operational qualityNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 20:51Researching naval lives when the archives are out of reachNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A8:46Choosing naval histories by scale and purposeChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A15:26Reading Jackie Fisher's memoirs against his egoNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A20:36How the Tribal-class book balances three historiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A21:57Reading Royal Navy in Eastern Waters criticallyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A22:47What to expect from French Armoured CruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A29:04Why the Tribal study centers Royal Navy shipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A47:12Using naval fiction as historical contextQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:53:03Why submarine war-crime judgments require legal contextQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history4:35How research librarians recover obscure naval sourcesNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history33:44Stephen Roskill's Leander connection and official historyNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:25:03Why the interwar naval period mattersNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:29:03A source for Swordfish and Albacore historyNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:34:17Why does Operation C receive less attention?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:45:19Why British carrier history remained hard to seeChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A40:42Comparative sea-floatplane doctrine remained a research gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:28:44Naval reference books beyond Jane's Fighting ShipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:56:30HMS Nubian was a leading destroyer combat-record candidateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered5:42Reconstructing the amphibious support fleetChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered27:30Why a four-ship Tribal-class listing misleadsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered45:48Why The Battle of the River Plate stands out as a naval filmQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!44:00The missing biography of Reginald HendersonQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck25:56Why the destroyers' claimed torpedo hits remain unresolvedNotable Point
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck36:16How cautiously to treat the destroyers' torpedo claimsQ&A
- January 6th Asama Maru leaves San Francisco - An AsamaMaru80 video4:12HMS Liverpool connects Asama Maru to the Town classNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video23:32Wartime accounts and biographies behind the River Plate historyChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video25:13Clear questions guide historical writingNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video41:42Different raider doctrines produce different campaign mapsNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:24:28Langsdorff trades timing for extra prizesNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:41:30Reading the River Plate diplomatic recordNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video0:19Reconciling the battle's competing clocksNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video29:20Graf Spee takes disabling damage from the cruiser forceNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video53:49The threat of night action drives Graf Spee toward portNotable Point
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video3:52A familiar Langsdorff quotation needs geographical contextNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video0:04Why Harwood's preparation belongs in the River Plate storyChapter