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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:51:14Indonesian crews for Dutch patrol vesselsQ&A
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:44:39Damage control combines people, redundancy and supporting systemsNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)43:04Crewing constrains the move to larger Finnish combatantsNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:27:36Galaxy and California classes as a redundancy analogyNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live27:53Jutland and anti-flash clothingQ&A
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings12:00Standardized ships helped the Navy absorb millions of peopleChapter
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:29When older Type 053 frigates should retireQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:16How more ships ease readiness and retention pressuresNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:24Why secondhand Burkes would be a poor Royal Navy fitQ&A
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program18:05Wakatake repeats the small destroyer formulaChapter
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program49:25Numbered destroyers and crew identityNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live45:37Port and starboard watches in the Age of SailQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...24:12What was at stake in the 1940 fleetChapter
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...29:42Naval capability and the collapse of French governmentChapter
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:09Choosing a naval posting in 1939 without knowing the war's outcomeQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:16Why a shore base can be a stone frigateNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:44:11Why more ships would not quickly transform the postwar Indian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:01:41Unpleasant naval jobs and automated maintenance in Azur LaneQ&A
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?57:37Crewing and self-defence for the enlarged carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live31:49Japan's big ships as a deterrentNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:50What a sudden Canadian fleet expansion would requireQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:59The Royal Navy's can-do strength and weaknessQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live31:52Russia's four-fleet logistics problemQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:31:02Why uncrewed systems may not shrink ship crewsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:10:51Why NATO does not need one standard surface combatantQ&A
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership4:15Why the peacetime US Navy retained surplus officersNotable Point
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership9:22USS Somers's disputed complement and understrength blockade serviceChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership11:54Somers capsizes during a blockade chaseNotable Point
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership24:24Alabama's endurance depended on an international crewChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership27:51From Galveston to CSS TuscaloosaChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...10:55Why the press sought experienced sailorsNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...11:18How disease losses increased recruiting pressureNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...17:18Pubs, pay, and the press serviceChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...21:03How officers recruited experienced crewsChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...49:56Charles Davis and a claim of American impressmentNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:08:22Why impressment gave way to professional serviceQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:11:17Foreign sailors in a British fleetQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:19:32Where untrained men fitted aboard shipQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:25:48Why ships could not rely on unwilling majoritiesChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:30:20Moving a trained crew to a new commandNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:31:25How recruiters identified useful seafaring skillsQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:43:12How captains kept a followingNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:49:18Desertion, debt, and incentives to enlistChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:50:39Forced separation and family life aboard warshipsNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...2:01:56Where powder monkeys came fromQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:39:37Doctrine fails when experts assume their own knowledgeNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)2:46:08Uncrewed systems may make each ship a task unitQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...0:46Why naval disputes could begin in governmentChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...3:37Why wartime food grievances were not mutiniesChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...6:59Demobilization and the promise of Baltic volunteersChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...11:19Vian and Cunningham's reciprocal loyaltyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...28:38Food, morale, and extended deploymentsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...38:34Naval service and household ambitionsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...41:26Why frigate prize money attracted sailorsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...51:05Cunningham on missed warnings and the late pay-cut letterNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...58:36HMS Warspite and Captain Wake's measured responseChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:00:28Training reform without a pastoral information systemChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:20:30Tomkinson's concessions and the pressure to settleChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:29:27Invergordon's legacy for personnel and retentionNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:33:44Uncrewed systems still depend on supported peopleNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:52Operating and loading a quintuple torpedo launcherQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:08Rebuild Canadian naval infrastructure before expanding recruitmentQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:38How much ship space an admiral's staff needsQ&A
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI8:29Isokaze gains fighting power with relatively few extra crewNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI18:43British Acorn-class destroyers ease Japan's wartime shortageNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:32How far Prince Philip might have risen in the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:18Why basketball fits a warship better than footballQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:00Why the America class is a poor Royal Navy fitQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:18Flag officers and their senior enlisted counterpartsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?33:57Housing and family pressures drive Royal Navy retention problemsNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:31:20Submarine expansion requires docks, manufacturing space and trained workersNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:55:08Cutting Type 45 numbers raised unit and readiness costsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:01:04Uncrewed vessels still need at-sea repair teamsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:05:31Uncrewed vessels still depend on operators and maintenance crewsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:12:44Personnel policy expands recall while support remains thinChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality0:34Press gangs targeted seafaring manpowerChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality2:28Wartime expansion drove emergency recruitmentNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality4:33Trafalgar illustrates British fleet depthNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality6:04War of 1812 impressment exposed conflicting citizenship rulesChapter
- 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
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality13:10Captain reputations and bounties attracted volunteersChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality15:32Officer retinues helped sustain long naval careersNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality16:39John Quilliam rose from impressed sailor to Victory's first lieutenantNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality17:23Pressed men carried a reputation for desertionNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality17:53Naval service could lead to merchant commandNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality19:35Debt protection could draw sailors toward naval recruiting partiesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality21:02The King's shilling and limits on recruiting abuseChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality26:36A fully rigged merchant ship could not lose its whole crew safelyChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality28:08Some merchant captains exploited fear of the pressNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality31:58Pay arrears discouraged sailors from bounty-hoppingNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:03Warhammer crews replace themselves across generationsNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy16:07River survey service and the barriers Katari had to crossNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy18:55River crews, religious differences, and social exclusion in KolkataNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy20:11Bengal pilot qualifications and the fight to admit Indian officersNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy25:35Black Swan sloops and specialist anti-submarine crewsChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy51:03Institutional memory and coaching in a navy under transitionNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:03:28Morale, communication, and democratic naval leadershipChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:05:50Division duties: daily conversations between officers and sailorsNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:06:56Medical services and family welfare as naval readinessNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?8:13StanFlex flexibility depends on personnel readinessChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?34:31How fleet size can affect naval career prospects and retentionNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...12:06Why new ships need sailors before commissioningQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...12:43Command-station chairs affect safety and alertnessNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...14:27Crew access checks change Type 45 firefighting arrangementsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...57:38Commissioning crews write the operating manualChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...1:01:14Major refits require revised operating manualsNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI45:07The final prewar classes gain range and carry larger crewsChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI46:53Cramped machinery increases maintenance manpowerNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15Irish Naval Service names and personnel constraintsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:18Human adaptability and computer response timesNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:06Reserve crews for laid-up shipsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:26How training changes the cost of a reservistQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:26The panel's interpretation of US amphibious-command rulesQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:46Why fixing RFA manning would not restore lost capacityQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:02The great medical threats of life at seaQ&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:53:36Does the Royal Navy have more admirals than ships?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:19:35Frigate-led uncrewed groups and future fleet commandersNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:30:01Oiler block buys and predictable shipyard workChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:40:39Shorter maintenance periods can improve readiness or fragment the fleetChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:46:07Maintenance authority and the sailors needed to use itNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:52:20Columbia delays and long deterrent patrolsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:50British procurement cuts and lost naval careersQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:13:34Everyday food routines as clues to naval service experienceQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:39:02Maritime dependence sets the need for a professional navyQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:39:28Type 83 crewing depends on more than shipboard automationQ&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima23:35Firepower depended on its supporting systemsNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima47:22Destroyer crews benefited from close cooperationNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?3:20New ships could replace old crews and compound fleet strengthNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?15:32Refits could release experienced crews for new shipsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:13:39A larger carrier force could improve Ark Royal's damage controlNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI21:38Mirabello's coal allowance, training, and Adriatic defensesChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI40:03Could reserve crews have closed Italy's destroyer gap?Notable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...14:47The crew and infrastructure bill for a Dominion LionNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:51:40Debating Nazi affiliation in German naval leadershipNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:11Divisional channels and the decision to give an orderChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)5:22Feeding a battleship and containing food disputesNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)8:59Why pay grievances differed in war and peaceNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)10:36How chief petty officer networks reveal organized mutinyNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)12:44HMS Kilbride and postwar Baltic resistanceNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)21:06First Destroyer Flotilla and volunteer wordingNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)25:00The 1919 unrest reshapes demobilization planningNotable 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)32:53Cowan's Baltic command meets a war-weary forceNotable 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)43:06Special meals, bad news, and naval moraleNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)49:17Why an unexpected lobster meal caused alarmNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)52:31Command authority and the chiefs' leadership networkQ&A
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)54:44Why naval pay differed by entry cohortQ&A
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:05:36Invergordon's 10 percent and 25 percent pay cutsChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:24:13Invergordon becomes a disciplined work-to-rule protestChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:30:29Officer sympathy keeps Invergordon from becoming a class fightNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:32:47The stoppage spreads as Tomkinson seeks specific pay concessionsNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:38:18Tomkinson and the return from InvergordonNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:40:52Len Wincott and the difference between spokesmen and organizersNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:43:36Fred Copeman's naval reputation and later causesNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:49:27Pay policy determines whom a navy can retainNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:54:52A limited purge, Cabinet concession, and the gold standardNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:02:24Counting ships' crews against 200 dismissalsNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:06:01Chiefs translate between sailors' committees and officersNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:10:17Personnel cuts create a naval training problemNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:11:57HMS Nelson's captain avoids forcing a formal mutinyNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:17:42Deployment records and naval infrastructureQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....7:51Small destroyers still need commissioning resourcesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:24:54Crew growth scales differently from training overheadQ&A
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...0:14Why destroyers were a difficult imperial investmentChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...42:32Capable multilingual crews still needed more destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:54Could a First World War crew operate a modern warship?Q&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:23Designing ships around multispecies crewsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:34Why cruiser duties can strain a destroyer-minded navyQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:07The industrial and crewing case for British nuclear surface shipsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)43:55A carrier programme preserves yards and creates an aviation cadreChapter
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:43:13Could ordinary cruiser yards build and crew light carriers?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:49:59How would Japan crew many more carrier air groups?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:50A hundred ships still need crewsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:11Destroyer commands as a window into Royal Navy family networksQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:01The panel's preferred roles in a World War II navyQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...28:35Surcouf's refit raises questions about crew cost and future useNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:00:37Draug's escaped crew supports the Allied fleetNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:09:50Sleipner's escort career ends with competing demands for crewsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)18:18Why D-Day bravery cannot be reduced to one roleNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)20:14How shipboard users shaped the marine chronometerNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)40:13Rattler's propeller trial was also a crew testNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:24:49Which families repeatedly supplied Royal Navy officers?Q&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:14:01How navies encourage crew-suggested improvementsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:23:40What nearly made the crew-innovation lists?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:49Why Stargate spacecraft need submarinersQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:52One Australian capital ship or several cruisers?Notable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:33Cylon attacks and fleet software safeguardsQ&A
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor2:14Early pilot selection reserves the best candidates for strike aviationNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:12:19The hidden cost of Japan's elite pilot systemNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:17:16Pilot shortages also slow Japanese aircraft developmentNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More6:33Why impressment claims are hard to verifyNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More14:34Rigging systems complicate undermanning comparisonsNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More17:18Nationality papers and competing estimates of impressmentNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More26:20Why taking a few topmen could cripple a merchant crewNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)32:05Why surviving U-boat crews headed for NorwayNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)34:53Propaganda, surrender, and U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:49:21Polish crews and a proposed Soviet route to trial dataNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:05:43Near-term Royal Navy investment prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:32How far back could a modern Royal Navy captain command?Q&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:41Petty officers as a bridge between shipboard languagesNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:22Duncan's response to the mutiny before CamperdownQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:50Why readiness figures need checking against crew experienceNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:56Steam specialists, Tiger reactivation and HMS BristolQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:05Military pay, retention and recruitment contractsNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:01On Killing and the voyage home after the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:18Why ancient warships avoided enslaved rowersQ&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:08:08Skilled personnel cost more to replace than their wages suggestNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:10:58Why are navies reluctant to risk crewed ships?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:13:42Ship names raised morale and made losses more visibleNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!0:01Why naval ranks reveal force structureChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!9:15Standardized ratings and the service identity carried by rank titlesNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!42:53National service as an explanation for France's many enlisted gradesNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!51:53Soviet ranks separated conscripts from professional sailorsChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!53:30Why engineering qualifications could send national-service recruits into officer trainingNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:54Why the fictional Franco-Soviet frigate needs a much larger hullQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:25Why naval computing jobs need competitive pay and promotionNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live27:46How harbor routines could expose German battleshipsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live56:43Who joined the Royal Naval Air Service?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:20:08German shipboard accommodation and Scapa FlowQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:23:48Why cold ships and holiday manning magnify the raidQ&A
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!21:47Amphibious ships need trained forces to become a capabilityNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!52:39Crew accommodation belongs in the power budgetNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?3:57Fifth rates, skilled crews, and the limits of impressmentNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?23:34Prize money and pay as recruiting incentivesNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?55:08Integrated combat systems reshape hulls and crewsChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?56:18Modern navies compete for transferable technical skillsNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:33:26Royal Navy expansion would recall expertise before new ships arrivedQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:45:41Volunteer navies still trade training and mobility for serviceQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:46:18Had the economic incentive for voluntary naval service disappeared?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:48:50Technical entry standards and the cost of training recruitsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:49:46Civilian mechanics, naval reservists, and ships kept in ordinaryNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:52:33American recruiting examples: aptitude, technical training, and service commitmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:30:07Rebuilding British forces by completing the formations already plannedQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:31:08Recruiting more personnel: pay, accommodation, and trainable fitnessQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:33:26Medical screening: personal experience, operational risks, and support rolesNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:37:33Different medical assessments across services and occupationsNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:03:00Submarine accommodation carries a personnel costNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:49:41Complex fleets need broadly educated sailorsQ&A
- Navy Food: A Beginning19:35A preference for the chiefs' barNotable Point
- Navy Food: A Beginning20:21Chiefs as keepers of shipboard knowledgeNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:32British debt and naval spending after World War INotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:00Did paying off ships mean dismissing their crews?Q&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?13:58How the Admiralty divided work among the Sea LordsChapter
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas6:00Recruit for ability and willingness to learnChapter
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series6:08Japan seeks more fleet lethality without more personnelNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...41:02Choosing a Star Wars ship to ownQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:40:10Rank and staffing in a mixed engineering organizationNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:25:57Starfleet's design horizon versus available shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:39Would Defence replacements remove the need for small cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:06Pearl Harbor: facilities, hardship and reluctance to change routineNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:38Crossing the line and the authority of naval traditionQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:34Mess customs, hygiene and changing service expectationsNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:18Exoskeletons as an alternative to replacing the damage-control teamNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:04Captain Coward and naval names that invite comparisonQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…2:53:31Could a modern navy replace skilled sailors after mass casualties?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon10:57A great-power fleet could bankrupt a smaller navyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon43:39Industrial depth decides who can replace a lost fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:04:47Matching French crews and older battleships to an Indochina defenseNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:25:33Sea power, expeditionary troops, and British force structureNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:21:20When festive warship decoration created a false distress signalQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:09:47Why nominal reservists may be unavailable in a national emergencyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:12:45Why reserve recruiting facilities have to exist before a crisisNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:32:16Civilian careers, service motivation, and Western recruitmentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:41:02Why the RNVR's yachtsmen mattered in wartime small-ship commandNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:58:36How the Royal Navy accommodates religious festivalsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:36:17How a carrier visit can overwhelm a naval port ashoreNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust10:10:20Temporary command and permanent rank in the early 1800sQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:30:18Why China does not fill every shipyard with warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:07:23Royal Navy commanders known for personal marksmanshipQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II4:26:53What a ship's crew does after an undamaging battleQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:51Which admirals would make effective inspectors generalQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy13:54First command, destroyer training, and the Soviet officer shortageNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception12:20Rebuilding trust through sailor welfareNotable Point
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:54How warships kept crews warm in cold weatherQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:18An optionally crewed warship still needs about eighteen peopleQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:13Why naval cooks resist automationNotable Point
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:36Space food and naval food solve different scale problemsNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?6:17Why a larger destroyer could need fewer engineersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?24:37Saving shipyards while rearmament consumed its plannersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?46:19Turreted secondary guns become a manpower reformNotable Point
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!5:34Carrier construction outran aircrew trainingNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...14:49Reading a president's naval record criticallyNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...15:46Operational command versus the staff path to senior rankNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft59:29Flag mobility is an operational capabilityNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:03:28Automation reduces crews without recreating mission breadthNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:22:31Crewing cuts can undermine force generationNotable Point
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold9:10The marathon duel with Olbing GalleyChapter
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold35:49Tordenskjold fought for his crews' rewardsNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:20Why damage control came before post-battle rewardsQ&A
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?4:25Carrier endurance comes with reactor-specific crewsChapter
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?6:55Surface ships can retain nuclear-trained personnelNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:35How Dominion flagships could consume budgets or build a naval workforceNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan10:59Japanese ranks reveal Mikawa's accelerated career trackNotable Point
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War45:15Reserve hulls could separate ship availability from peacetime crewingNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command54:31Enslaved rowers could reverse the boarding balanceNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command1:02:35Ammunition failure and rower mutiny delivered captured galleysNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command1:04:07Roman galley service did not follow the Ben-Hur imageNotable Point
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era47:39How the J-15 helped build China's carrier-aviation serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:58:36Legal safeguards and the Royal Navy's existing recruitment barrierQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:31The US Navy's tightening crewing constraintNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:01:26Dry-service rules and unofficial wartime alcoholNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:55:15Why demographics may not slow China's naval buildup soonQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:57:23Zumwalt boat handling and the limits of crew-saving automationNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:36:23Why Australia ended the naval rum ration earlyQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:50:57How habitability sustains combat effectivenessQ&A
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...18:02Elite seamanship cannot repair weak strategic institutionsNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:27Why the Perisher course can allow a second attemptNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:33:57Retired chiefs as mentors and institutional guardiansNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)22:56An improvised Canadian submarine boardingQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:16:01The RFA needs competitive civilian pay and reserve depthNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:16Why Royal Navy recruiting needs fluctuateQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:02Why Italian ships lead for crew comfortQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:40The captain's steward as a readiness safeguardNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:54Why U.S. ships keep larger crewsQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:27How U.S. military benefits support larger crewsNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft31:31Shipboard social spaces make diplomacy possibleNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:11:01Which major navy is in the worst shape?Q&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:13:46Russian naval renewal must extend beyond submarinesNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...37:59Vicksburg's view of Arkansas drives away replacementsNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:20:29Why did large sailing ships usually stop at three masts?Q&A
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort51:18Embarked troops strengthen Suffren's Cuddalore fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:19Which admirals would get along with Azur Lane's shipgirls?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:15Azur Lane's diverse characters and the Royal Navy's crewsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:46:51The best and worst eras for Royal Navy sailorsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:55:24Crews and bases for an imported game fleetNotable Point
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:52:22Could Britain crew a third carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:08Norway's frigate choice: manning, capability, and presenceQ&A
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose15:47How France lost naval expertise before the coalition warsNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:09:51Constitution-class frigates multiply Royal Navy commerce warfareQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:00:55Admiral Hipper becomes a museum in modern GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:01:14The Imperial German Navy appears in modern GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:03:00Scharnhorst becomes a museum with a difficult crew legacyQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:17:01Would an intelligence Sea Lord encourage departmental empire-building?Q&A
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!24:57King's naval-training reform struggled to change the bureau systemNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!54:03King's Bureau appointment required political sponsorshipNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:02:47Outspokenness sent King to the General Board's sidelinesNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?15:12Catherine II recruits Samuel Greig from BritainNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?17:05Why a conventional officer can win with a superior fleetNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?20:31Naval prestige can weaken professional selectionNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...7:01Did Royal Navy manning shortages help cancel CVA-01?Q&A
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...26:08The 4th Destroyer Flotilla revealed Vian's leadership contractNotable Point
- Isolationist America: What should Australia, Britain & Canada do if it happens in the next 5 years?46:03Expanding naval personnel without wasting experienceNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:15:44Patronage can reward or suppress capable officersNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:21:00Scheer was a capable leader more than an original strategistChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic17:59Why warrior ethos cannot replace command specializationNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:22When captains could take trusted officers to a new shipQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?3:28Narvik cost Germany the crews needed to rebuild its destroyer armNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina19:45Lissa valor extended below the quarterdeckNotable Point
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:09Fort Victoria and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary support gapQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:38Keeping RFA tankers available through reserve and charter workNotable Point
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:06Why infectious disease can disable a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:07If the entire 1939 Royal Navy arrived todayQ&A
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!57:15Why promotion from captain to admiral was never automaticNotable Point
- Admiral Kempenfelt: Communication Infrastructure in the Age of Sail,36:15Faith, welfare, and order in Kempenfelt's leadershipNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:52:07Naval Secretary and the Navy's senior cultureChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:17:50The seamen's welfare scheme turned leadership into personnel policyNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:12:38Fishermen, smugglers, and Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:22:07Manning an Incomparable-sized carrier in the 1920sQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?28:49A large capital ship can double as a training platformNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!24:41Did First World War destroyers hot-bunk?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!38:09Demanding high performance while looking after the crewNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:12:02The Royal Navy's ideal of a small-ship manNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:49:32Crew resilience on a modern battleshipQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:00:15Who might buy one, and why size should stop near 60,000 tonsChapter
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:12Town-class modernization and the postwar manpower transitionQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:45Why sailing navies could not economize by starving crewsQ&A
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras28:29Rigging systems reflected different manpower tradeoffsNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live1:23:32Manpower shortages and enslaved labor before sailingNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live1:37:38Shipboard replacements remove most American troops from the siegeNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:04:55Lezo lets time and disease finish the campaignChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live56:00First rates concentrate scarce skilled manpowerChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:37:30Could a first rate crew both broadsides?Q&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:41What powder monkeys did aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:24How Royal Navy prize money faded awayQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:40The minimum crew for a square-rigged shipQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?15:45Split Fleet Air Arm control obstructed a tender programChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?43:27Tender patrols could release fleet carriers for primary dutiesNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command14:35Laughton carries shipboard science teaching into GreenwichChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command56:09Dorsetshire's loss redirects Agar to GreenwichNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command57:27Unicorn work and commodore status keep Agar in wartime serviceNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked15:43How the Navy Board managed ships and dockyardsChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:08:33Career records created professional promotion gatesNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:14Black Sea Fleet losses and the effects of patronageNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'4:52Elizabethan crew pay creates a retention dilemmaNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:01:36Funding reform could reach beyond naval technologyNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live26:29Sea Lords, secretaries, and the distribution of Admiralty powerChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:04:27Warrant officers formed the sailing navy's technical middle tierQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:16:37Hood's working pace collided with dockyard costsNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:24:21Royal Marines appointments helped fund senior naval careersNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:30:15Skilled sailors made disciplinary reform a personnel problemNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1033:52How prize valuation could strengthen or weaken incentivesNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:55:55Funding the crews and support for forward presenceQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:57:11Naval writers and the burden of officer paperworkNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:33:03Was fifty-three unusually old for a naval commander?Q&A
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:06:24Blue-water service encouraged federal loyaltyNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:08:19How retained officers made the Union blockade possibleQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:51:20Buchanan's resignation closes the road backNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube20:18Roman Danube fleets and the demands of offensive warChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube30:49Why paid Roman oarsmen mattered when troops went ashoreNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:26:28Why new U-boats could not replace lost command experienceNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…28:29Why a battle fleet cannot replace convoy escortsChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:58:03Edwardian and modern navies face political and personnel pressureQ&A
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates33:30Shipboard maps helped wartime recruits find their wayNotable Point
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit2:43:27An oversized fleet competes for Sweden's limited personnelNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:08:14Kountouriotis takes command of Georgios AverofChapter
- Battle of Elli2:19:16New Greek warships disrupted crews across the fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:20:01Royal Navy reserve organizations were parallel systemsQ&A
- The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!6:32How peacetime navies lose their fighting focusNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!10:16New Zealand illustrates the population needed to sustain a carrier groupNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!12:03Stable careers and family support help sustain carrier personnelChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!13:48Modern communications change the strain of naval deploymentNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!56:44Technical education sets the carrier's systems ceilingChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:19:10Shore air bases sustain carrier aircraft and retain their crewsChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:23:20Experience turns training into carrier aviation capabilityNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:33:42Civilian and uniformed administrative roles need different career pathsNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:37:34Fleet scale creates resilience and sustainment economiesNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes43:23Reserve branches turned civilian seamanship into naval leadershipNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes45:14Merchant-service experience suited auxiliary warship commandNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes1:17:02Castlemaine entered service with a compact specialist crewChapter
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians19:49Dockyards alone cannot preserve naval capabilityNotable Point
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians22:19Roman galley rowers were usually professionalsChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/442:18Why Royal Navy submarines gained namesNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:54:45What limits modern surface-combatant construction?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:35:02Why protected cruisers are difficult starter shipsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:16:09How Napoleonic sailors chose a ship and captainQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:21:55Why one warship could hold hundreds of viewpointsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/417:31Why the WRNS was not fully integrated until 1993Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/437:13Did the Soviet navy use all-female ship crews?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:23:02Huguenot departures stripped senior expertise from the French NavyNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:47:16Did U-class crews receive extra danger pay?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:56:44How the Royal Navy's interwar reserves were organizedQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:59:03What happened to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:55:19Reservists concentrated in trawlers and Flower-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:31:08An uncrewed dream fleet first becomes a logistics crisisQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:50:52Why matching the Royal Navy of 1814 depends on the definitionQ&A
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 745:19A larger carrier organization meets a manpower shortageNotable Point
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 751:05How flight organization limited senior naval-aviation experienceNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:57:52A victory of annihilation could consume Britain's future admiralsNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!5:16The two-deck 64- to 80-gun sweet spotChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!11:32Numbers create naval presenceNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!23:29Third rates for a global empireChapter
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...20:02Why retired nuclear carriers overwhelm a buyer's fleetQ&A
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut7:07Why the Chinese carriers are unlikely to share Kuznetsov's fuel problemNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut1:06:45Fujian's importance and Kuznetsov's uncertain successorChapter
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin1:12:02Why a supercarrier can overwhelm a smaller navyNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin1:19:00A carrier capability needs an industrial ecosystemChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage28:33Damage-control practice preserves institutional memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:14:53How transferable were sailors between naval gun crews?Q&A
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...9:00Carrier size pays for systems, stores, and peopleNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...20:52A reserve fleet must be ready to surgeNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...31:29Why postwar medium powers bought British light fleet carriersNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...15:21Flight-deck parking constrains sortie generationNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 12:58:15Scrapping obsolete ships to release trained crewsNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!32:51Education and officer recruitment as strategic bottlenecksNotable Point
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign7:42Crew training as the limit on fleet growthQ&A
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:11:15Canadian escort carriers and the growth of an escort navyChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:13:21How interwar Commonwealth navies shared personnelNotable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 531:26Survivability, rigging, and usable manpowerNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?38:07Rugged light carriers that outlived their planNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?40:48Melbourne and the limits of peacetime readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!19:03Why carrier crew savings must be designed inQ&A
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191224:11Elite pilot pipeline and carrier trainingChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191229:19Front-line experts were not recycled into trainingNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191231:20Reserve status created information barriersNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:05:13An indigenous structure defies Western equivalentsChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:25:11Expert pilots without an institutional voiceNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right59:14Ark Royal's personnel turnover weakened knowledge of the shipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:02:39The crew pool constrains fleet expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:01:27The personnel behind four hypothetical Finnish submarinesNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:01:24When the ideal naval officer diverged from operational needNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission31:19Promotion without broad sea commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission50:59Building the Kriegsmarine's officer corpsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission51:55Personnel policy, Nazi pressure, and destroyer identityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:28Plan Z and battleships for a Royal Indian NavyQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:18:36Port capacity, personnel, and submarine sea denialNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:24:24Mothballing old ships to crew new destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:32:03War Plan Red and the industrial-fleet balanceNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:04:02Reserve crews and coastal-convoy firepowerNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?39:07Competitive fleet exercises need freedom and real incentivesNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:49:48Why higher company pay did not empty the Royal NavyQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:17:39Crewing a cruiser-destroyer hybridQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:35:59Captain Edward Kennedy at Rawalpindi's last actionQ&A
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:26:02Ship count, tonnage, and crews tell different fleet storiesNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off53:07Why Royal Navy engineers often had Scottish accentsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:03:09The unrecorded tragedies of the age of sailQ&A
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast38:52Crew numbers become a submarine logistics problemNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast56:08A kidney stone tests submerged-command judgmentNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast1:06:50Promotions reveal crew quality and Beach's morale practiceNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:34:37British carrier escort plans lost ships and crewsNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems31:03Moffett builds the personnel system behind carrier doctrineChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:22:21King carries aviation reform into the personnel bureausNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:32:10Triton's large crew and the limits of spacious accommodationNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:26:21Edward Cabalo sees his Guam home through Triton's periscopeNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:05:19Sandblast's completion becomes a naval ceremonyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:14:02Imperial scale does not remove fleet constraintsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:16:51Scale habitability and services to deployment lengthChapter
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:53:44Why naval manpower is a design and budget choiceQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier36:15The specialist bottleneck behind airborne carriersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign59:39When honor gives way to crew survivalNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:13:42Training turns paper strength into combat powerNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built34:45Which Second World War submarines offered the best habitabilityQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built43:24Why the Royal Navy's change from hammocks was not a clean breakQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:39:49What fictional Australian super-cruisers would changeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:49:09Navies need sustained attention, not crisis spending aloneQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:21:36How drink traditions varied between naviesQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:09:11What Germany gains if von Spee returns before the warQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!21:43Cartel ships depended on agreements the belligerents never madeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!30:06Silver carrying rewarded Royal Navy captains and crewsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism30:24Could an English-speaking foreign sailor be impressed as British?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism33:24What stopped an impressed sailor from sabotaging the ship?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism39:19A full crew made HMS Victory feel claustrophobicNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:20:19Porter's patronage connects the cruise to David FarragutNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:56:26Why a larger Royal Navy begins with peopleQ&A
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:18:15Japanese expansion and the limits of forecastingNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:06:05How the Royal Marines handled non-Commando personnelQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:19:19Funding, housing, and local reserves are central Royal Navy needsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:12:56An officer may have commanded a ship named for an ancestorQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:15:55Recruitment shortfalls reflect policy and career conditionsQ&A
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines1:12:23What 809 Squadron's Fulmar song says about service reputationNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:08:32Commonwealth expansion still depends on budgets and crewsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign4:40Scapa Flow's wartime value and permanent basing are separate questionsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:28:35Leadership at ship, squadron, and theater level demands different skillsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:43:00Why could interwar navies give risky destroyer officers second chances?Q&A
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War32:27Why continuous shipbuilding beats splurge-and-starve procurementNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:01:38Why Japan needed the Katori training cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:43:13Why receiving more frigates does not guarantee a better fleetQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!1:09:59The HMCS Ypres ramming became a Halifax jokeNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:09:09What limits a starship that can manufacture another ship?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:12:51Crew scale must be judged against the mobile-base missionQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction4:02:03Daedalus needs a chief who integrates daily workNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!34:01Small commands develop officers for larger Royal Navy shipsQ&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign6:00What naval uniforms reveal about institutional prioritiesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:53Refits, crew shortages, and retiring obsolete shipsChapter
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:31:45Comparing fleets without ignoring the crew poolChapter
- 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 Answered1:13:37What nuclear warships require in reserveQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:30:35The training cost behind a nuclear navyNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:10:41How automation changes modern battleship crewingQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:09:52Why Britain's shipyards build below emergency paceQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:40:47Reserve squadrons preserve wartime fleet depthNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:19:27Making Royal Naval Reserve service easier to enter and understandQ&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.19:13What else could the hybrid conversion resources support?Notable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.53:20SBX's civilian crew and possible reserve tiesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:04:56Different warships reward different command personalitiesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:32:42A careerist officer system could not keep pace with Japanese fleet expansionChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI13:30A crew shortage need not end a ship's careerChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI25:17Ships in ordinary absorb refit delaysChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI34:28Presence duties and the World War II reserve shortfallNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI47:34How Britain sustained a broad naval reserveNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI50:35Army-navy competition shaped access to technical reservistsNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:15:28Italian naval professionalism beyond the stereotypeNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:18:47Reserve insignia made part-time service visibleNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?17:40How nucleus crews make a reserve flotilla mobilizableChapter
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?27:35Could wartime call-ups include civilian specialists?Q&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:00:23Could Echo-class survey ships serve in reserve?Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:39How Royal Navy exercise routines are organisedQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:45:19Why Royal Navy PT instructors were called club swingersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:06:28Royal Marines aboard Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:25:44Why Royal Navy writers carry unusual influenceQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:31:52What mattered most in the loss of USS HornetQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!32:28Successful frigate captains could earn modern-millionaire fortunesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:21:49Christmas meals at sea belong to a long naval traditionQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:15:19Smaller engine-room crews and simpler refitsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:54:20Sloops gave junior officers independent commandQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:03:55Why naval officers entered diplomacyQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:48:29Crew growth must precede faster shipbuildingNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 135:49The dual-rank system shaped who flew which missionsNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Most Battle Honours of the Tribal Class - KSS3 S5 Comment Response0:11Family records connect sailors to HMS NubianNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response9:30How Britain planned a 22- or 23-ship capital fleetNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:06:39Wartime promotion and command depthNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 245:45Why Pearl Harbor's personnel losses mattered more than hull lossesNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:45:00Counter-flooding caution was mistaken for prohibitionNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency18:59Navarino's long shadow over the Ottoman NavyQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response7:34Why the interwar Royal Navy inherited the Army's weakness narrativeQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response56:26The Invergordon Mutiny and pay harmonizationQ&A
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?34:19Why Ottoman naval reform needed outside experienceNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?38:16Russian firepower was more than a 722-gun totalChapter
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response9:46The specialist officers in a Victorian flagship staffNotable Point
- Bruships 130: Battleships36:37Lower-deck promotion and the Victorian exceptionQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers41:16Treaties, crews, and Göring constrain the fleetNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update14:16A small navy cannot maximize every budgetChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare44:57A balanced Canadian combatant inside a much larger fleetQ&A
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion31:18Crew accommodation can make an old class untenableNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1128:37Commissioning new capital ships through a crew bottleneckNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:27:54Retiring old battleships as the fleet's standards riseNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:45:19Separating game victory values from operational fleet valueNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 97:22When fleet growth outruns crews and shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 623:32A cruiser with capital-ship dimensions and crewNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 89:24Modernizing a fleet means retiring old hullsChapter
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 422:25Commissioning by transferring an entire trained crewNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 438:53Nucleus crews and the fragility of engineering knowledgeNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres23:06R-boat flotillas as an interwar officer training groundNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:16:40Why small coastal boats could be reconfigured so readilyNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:41:29Who crewed motor gun boatsQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 923:24Northampton’s overseas, reserve, and training careerNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 74:53Crew capacity before expanding the submarine forceNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:07:40Fleet renewal depends on the crew poolNotable Point
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)31:41Blockade, disease, and the people who powered the fleetChapter
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)1:09:20Counting Actium's warships, transports, and survivorsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 659:25When a battlecruiser label outlives combat valueNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 61:37:51Crew pools determine which ships are readyNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1015:48Sloop assignments show deliberate prewar ASW specializationChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1018:57Shikari showed where Johnny Walker's skills layChapter
- Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 617:03Flagship staffing and uneven machinery resultsNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1014:27The navy as an Austro-Hungarian melting potNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:52:35What decides whether an old capital ship becomes a targetQ&A
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough15:07The rating system began as a pay systemNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough36:31The procurement problem of the fourth rateNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough42:27HMS Leopard and the Chesapeake affairChapter
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough48:31Dutch fourth rates and the Battle of CamperdownChapter
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties52:19New Zealand cruisers and the Geddes Axe opportunityNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?48:08How the Royal Navy retired admirals without waiting for a deathQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:39:18Could France overcome its naval manpower shortage?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:41:33Naval service and political integration in British IndiaNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:46:51Why early submarine losses could matter beyond hull numbersNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:12:10New Zealand's naval contribution and skilled migrationNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...9:24New Zealand's naval protection and manpower limitsNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:38:28The unrealised dominion cruiser bargainNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:46:06Why New Zealand relied on Salmond's diplomacyNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?2:03:04Sastri links naval capacity to Indian nation-buildingNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure30:20Merchant seamen as the Navy's reserveNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:16:04Britain and the colonies misjudged each other's strategic valueNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 233:56Crew pools turn hull numbers into deployable strengthNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:21:54Duke of York and the Home Fleet's manpower crisisChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:24:16Duke of York's final western Atlantic cruise and a disputed crew transferNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:27:32Anson and Howe train the fleet under fuel and manpower restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:41:48The crew constraint on small marine reactorsNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail51:45The Nore mutiny changed personnel managementNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail57:33Sea power rests on infrastructure and peopleChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:26:24Spithead: a fleet-wide demand for fair conditionsChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:33:59Why longer blockades intensified sailors' pay grievancesNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:36:01How impressment actually shaped Royal Navy manningNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:44:32Impressment's political impact exceeded its numbersQ&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:46:29The Nore mutiny becomes a strategic crisisChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:47:55Who really led the Nore mutiny?Notable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:54:07HMS Galatea's crew rejects treason and returns to PlymouthNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:17:04How service injuries shaped the appointment of ship's cooksNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:24:42Why postwar warships centralized their messingQ&A
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology18:07Ironclads demanded skills sail-era fleets lackedNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...25:06Why Soviet naval NCOs matteredQ&A
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?31:01Autoloaders trade manpower for ammunition enduranceNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:07:55Automation cannot quickly solve a personnel shortfallQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:15:46Promotion systems must create experience for the next officerQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:23:33Why experienced personnel leave in their thirtiesNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:36:27Pay and the retention of experienced personnelNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:46:07Closing recruitment creates the next personnel shortageQ&A
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)49:40Why trained crews can matter more than hullsNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)15:14How sailors endured tropical heatQ&A
- How to Build A Navy10:43Skilled labour is a naval capabilityNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy13:27Retaining sailors and specialistsNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy14:49Patriotism does not replace the service bargainNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:44:48Royal Navy small-arms use extended beyond the official inventoryQ&A
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda57:14Ersatz Monarch class: the 14-inch battleships that never sailedChapter
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response17:00How the post-Cold War drawdown shed nuclear expertiseNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)27:52Why the most powerful destroyer may be the wrong shipNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)30:48España: a dreadnought sized for Spanish limitsChapter
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response4:02Naval reactors as a civilian nuclear workforce pipelineNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)20:24WATU matched diverse skills to tactical problemsNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole9:48Britain's maritime economy supplied naval strengthNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane1:16:14Why ship's cats rarely appear in official casualty totalsQ&A
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 38:27Invergordon turns naval pay into a fleet crisisNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 21:14:23Fifty days at general quarters off OkinawaChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...9:31How a 'hero ship' identity shapes crew performanceNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...13:45The crew culture behind Tribal destroyer doctrineChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...23:55Boarding Altmark and freeing 299 prisonersChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...33:04Eskimo keeps fighting after losing her bowNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet31:47The Geddes Axe and the loss of Royal Navy experienceNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet50:12Tech-priests, Navigators, and Astropaths enable the fleetChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet55:30Warrant officers keep enormous starships runningChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet59:01Section-bound crews and forced labour shape shipboard lifeNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?17:17War origins, reconnaissance, and émigré expertiseChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?25:51Why soldiers served as marinesNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?46:04Fleet generation before French institutional attritionNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?49:45Prizes traded time for intelligenceNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:25:40Carysfort recaptures CastorNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:16:42Disabled prizes drift between the fleetsNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:17:47Why Howe could not take every disabled shipChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)51:17Army troops, boarding actions, and prize moneyNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:55:28Similar fleet strength concealed unequal experienceChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:55:52Promotions and pensions after the battleChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?54:53Could the Reichsmarine have given Lütjens more sea command?Q&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:33:14Why the Royal Navy did not copy the Arleigh Burke classQ&A
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:39:30Ships were easier to replace than experienced crewsNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...3:11:34Australia’s navy was too British to switch sides cleanlyQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 22:43:20Damage-control manning and the value of the night shiftNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett24:53Why the Royal Navy would not keep TakaoQ&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)30:10A fleet refusal creates the Ezo RepublicNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 38:24Wartime experience returns to the design officesNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 325:47A single K3 could make an old fleet too costly to retainNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?22:30Carrier force priorities: radar, aircraft, and escortsNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:28:06Congress had a fleet while Balmaceda improvised oneNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:44:10How two affordable ironclads sustained a permanent navyChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:08:40How quickly could reserve warships return to service?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus35:55Defining the first naval officer to reach a poleQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:33:28Could the Royal Navy crew six converted carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:51:01Defining a naval officer's first transatlantic flightQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:09:38Women as essential naval wartime personnelQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:46:10Why modern navies need people in every roleQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7637:12Keeping the naval aviator officer pipeline intactQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:07:56Avoiding divided ranks and divided carrier crewsNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:43:33More small carriers create a stronger fleet-carrier benchChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:24:40Why the extra carrier hulls matter mostNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat8:54Why finishing Seydlitz would not solve German shortagesQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:20:36Canadians serving in the American Civil War naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:24:37Why automated ships still need peopleQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:04:46Why navies build very large warshipsQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:20:14Why the Western Squadron drew senior commandersNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:10:53Q&A: What Admiral of the Yellow meantQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:14:26French manpower and logistics in 1759Notable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron20:59Blockade service as a school of experienceNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover13:10People, logistics, and protection costsNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover21:08Rickover's safety system and personnel controlChapter
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover24:22Rickover's control of submarines and carrier captainsNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover38:30Education and public investment behind nuclear fleetsNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:00:31Why early submarine service carried an exceptional human costNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books12:25Why foreign flag rank did not carry back into Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books18:24When Britain might leave an officer in an allied navyQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books25:01Why staff service did not guarantee a plum naval appointmentQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:35:51Why Nelson's promotion to post-captain at twenty matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:37:29Lord Keith's request for an English peerageNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:40:23Why experienced captains stayed in frigate commandsNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 237:03Transport policy that strained the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!51:29Steam changed more than propulsionNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:02:57Marine engineers held authority over machinery no one else understoodNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources55:05How a Commonwealth superpower changes Royal Navy resourcesQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:54:13Carrier gaps and institutional memoryNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:56:13How large a crew would Queen Elizabeth Maximus need?Q&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak27:05Why the Drinkwater novels suit a naval television seriesQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:17:27Lifeboats, Carley floats, and whole-crew survivalQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:19:29Louis XIV's purge of Huguenot naval expertiseQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:52:05Reading an international Boxer Rebellion uniform photographNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response39:49Submarine habitability beyond the screenNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response47:26Exeter work-up and crew readinessNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia8:49Transportation policy and the colony's skills shortageNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia1:32:01Critical mass, skilled settlers, and the missing engineersNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites27:21An Imperial Federation as one integrated navyQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites54:33Anson's depleted crews: care, prize money, and naval disciplineNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites1:36:34Instant warship production and the remaining crew requirementQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:09:41Royal Marines aboard battleships and modern warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:12:41Experienced NCOs in Britain's Napoleonic army and navyQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts41:33Sackville, Flower-class manning, and convoy valueChapter
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts46:25Royal Navy personnel geography and Commonwealth crewingNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)36:09How shipwrights judged unfamiliar timberQ&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:19:31What limited severe punishment aboard Royal Navy ships?Q&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:23:54Royal Navy promotion before Victorian rigidityNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)2:19:31How Arthur Phillip entered the naval officer trackChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century36:50Guard ships after the Dutch War shocksNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century43:02Pepys's reporting network against naval fraudNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century47:02The rating system as budget controlNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century52:05Carronades and rating distortionNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century58:02Who commanded rated and unrated vesselsNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century58:59The descending command ladder for prize crewsNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:01:00Post captains, the London Gazette, and seniorityNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:02:05Flag captains and flagship managementNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:15:05The 'sea in their blood' myth and wartime naval professionalismChapter
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:39:13How warships carry clothing for changing climatesQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?45:55Carrier doctrine needed critical massNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:56:13Bearn's 875-person complementQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine9:36Warship fuel and drinking-water systems resist mistakesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine12:30Russian command culture limited RozhestvenskyQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine34:00German naval rearmament needed Two-Ocean Navy scaleQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine39:31Interwar brain drain eroded German naval design expertiseQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine59:08Prestige weakened Russian naval professionalismNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:24:59Crew economics shape whether a large cruiser is affordableQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-199114:14Tsushima deprived the future Soviet Navy of ships and experienceChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-199132:24Shipboard problem-solving and confinement could feed mutinyChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-199138:46Long deployments make the ship's cook central to moraleNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-199148:09Rumours about the captain's food can undermine trustQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-199158:20Submarine crews combine officers and highly skilled sailorsQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-199158:42Eating with the crew is part of a captain's personal leadershipQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:00:46Kuznetsov reached Soviet naval command at thirty-fourChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:27:48Untrained recruits raised paper strength without equal capabilityNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:54:42Alfa-class speed collided with Soviet personnel structureChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?13:06Warrior's liftable propellerNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:01:02Ammunition identification and gun handlingNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:10:00Fighting core and crew enduranceNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:13:50Shared living spaces and watertight divisionsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:15:24The captain's suite and command supportNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:17:34Cutlass drill and close-quarter fightingNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:19:23Laundry, kit lockers, and separate crew identitiesNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:23:33Royal endorsement and Warrior's public toursNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:23:58Cost, trials, and early correctionsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:26:36Presence missions and readiness balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat47:15Why HMS Puncher was not transferred to CanadaQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:55:05How continued war could complete and crew the Malta classQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?30:32Alpha-class speed and the all-officer crewChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?51:31How conscript personnel shaped Soviet naval equipmentNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:04:48Gorshkov's succession and the programs that continuedNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.2:15:49Send construction trades, not generic astronautsChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.2:26:15Water recycling still needs practical logisticiansNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.2:32:21What a very large Irish fleet would require ashoreQ&A
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:06:11Work and escape inside Sackville's engine roomNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:39:41Sackville's replacement crew and later survey workNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:53:37Why Flower-class crews mattered more than the kill countNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?9:06Mount geometry, stability, and an experienced gun workforceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6520:39Submarine attrition and purges destroyed institutional learningNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:20:05The November class paired prestige with early nuclear riskChapter
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers3:47Presence depends on readiness as well as appearanceNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers36:05Gun handling turned personnel into part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat26:27The Steep Atlantic on convoy life and wartime careersChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:46:54Admirals on Samuel Hood's path to commandChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine0:14The capable cruiser tradition Germany failed to inheritNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine27:49Versailles disarmament and the Reichsmarine personnel systemChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine31:09Retained pre-dreadnoughts as a personnel burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine41:49From cruiser rules to wolf packs - and the escort responseNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19390:49Tsushima's logistical feat and damaged naval inheritanceChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19395:35Tsushima stripped experience from the Black Sea FleetNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19397:28Potemkin turned bad food into a command crisisChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193911:13The fleet response to Potemkin exposed mixed loyaltiesNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193924:58Submarine crews paid for shortages in seals and sparesNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193937:31Why the new state still needed naval specialistsNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII53:46Unified secondary guns save more than mount weightQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:09:55Why boarding a modern warship is room-to-room combatQ&A
- Admiral Hipper Class20:36Crew pride can outlive a ship's design faultsNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:22:41A Royal Navy ship as home, community, and weaponNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:25:35Royal Navy submariners entered war without a precedentNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:45:29Which navies gave crews the harshest accommodation?Q&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:36:34How officers and institutions shaped shipboard cultureQ&A
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1220:28Coal endurance depended on fuel and shipboard expertiseNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:00:43Bacchante's Mediterranean flagship handoverChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:03:39Bacchante's officers and the wartime command bottleneckNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...23:51Which navy prioritized crew accommodation before 1940Q&A
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)39:10Niobe's grounding exposes command and readiness failuresNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)52:50Europa moves crews, serves at the Dardanelles, and finds a civilian afterlifeChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)55:06Argonaut links shipyard safety, discipline, and wartime conversionChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)58:39Amphitrite and the personnel logistics of a global fleetChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)34:27UC-38's single hit and the rescue of both crewsChapter
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:46:39Privacy, law, and wartime routine constrained same-sex relationships at seaNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 420:55Cold-weather ships sometimes made room for hot-water comfortsQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)45:12Technical services depend on educated military professionalsNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video37:00Sailor pay as a recurring readiness problemQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:40:26Why Royal Navy officers could not simply refuse promotionNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response18:18Why the Royal Navy needed its Falklands veteransNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response20:02Why mixed crews change ship design and recruitingChapter
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response22:39Royal Indian Navy accommodation and separate messesNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:50:49Warspite's sailors and the Invergordon pay crisisChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:55:43Jacky Fisher, the lower deck, and naval modernizationChapter
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video22:47French crews for British light fleet carriersQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers27:25The Philadelphia protest exposes naval segregationNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)6:53Fisher's concern over losing old shipsQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:35:31How wartime crews kept Taffy 3 fightingNotable Point
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1239:36Reconstruction could not make Gefion useful in 1914Chapter
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4223:38The crew burden of recovering casualties from a damaged shipNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p923:58Why new warships spent years in reserveNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4019:31Carrier construction, Commonwealth manpower, and retained experienceQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:16:30What boarding a moving Bismarck at night would requireQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading3:03:24Why navies repeatedly face manning shortagesQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments3:00Why veteran personnel mattered more than replacement hullsQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches45:19Ship losses could erase entire engineering departmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again57:03A fighter pilot commands Avalon by relying on shipboard specialistsNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:05:22Would future warships still need ranks and specialties?Q&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:25:35Technology may widen who can serve aboard warshipsNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19421:36Australia and New Zealand lacked naval-industrial depthChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19426:27Norway's merchant fleet became its main wartime leverageNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194218:35Replacement ships also require yards and skilled crewsChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19422:58Preserve veteran Japanese aircrew for a longer warChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194214:10Escort production and crew survival defeated U-boat qualityChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19428:27How earlier carrier losses could weaken damage controlNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194210:11Global commands outnumbered trusted British admiralsChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194217:05The case for Canadian escorts over prestige cruisersChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194113:56The Free Polish Navy's scarce personnel problemChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194110:31The Royal Navy's depleted command benchChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194113:13Carrier losses consume irreplaceable experienceNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194119:20Consolidate duplicated Far East headquartersNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194122:11Can staff colleges preserve mobilization experience?Notable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments14:49British-built warships for the NetherlandsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments20:43The training burden behind a useful naval reserveQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments30:24Why Germany could not build a war-winning fleet by 1939Notable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:23:00Sloop and destroyer officers shared a small-ship command cultureQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions21:49Why Canada declined HMS Enterprise in 1944Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions43:44Why shipyards limit fleet expansion before training doesQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)26:06How Catholic personnel served despite discriminatory rulesQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)30:20Released French sailors become an improvised support poolNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)41:15Perrée rises from merchant service to French flag commandNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)3:01:52How the Royal Naval Reserve could man a larger sloop forceQ&A
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video46:24Large destroyers displace light-cruiser rolesNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:50:46Why Starfleet needs a reserve systemNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)2:45:23Why advanced starship crews still need pressure suitsQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN45:42Civil nuclear experience and submarine skillsNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:26:25Why three powerful ships do not provide three deployable shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:30:22What dual crewing can and cannot solveQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:37:16How HMS New Zealand might have retained an RNZN linkQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:57:30A sustainable Hobart-class forceNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:25:35Why Britain cannot simply borrow a spare American carrierQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:35:45The case for a shared submarine programmeChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN3:27:35Dual crewing for continuous at-sea deterrenceQ&A
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:46Why an exploration cruiser needs exceptional volumeChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century30:45Officer careers imply a Starfleet of thousands of shipsNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century52:11Enterprise-D as the self-sufficient cruiser modelNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature2:06:34Sub-lieutenant emerged as ships needed more junior officersQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)32:03Sveaborg's surrender handed Russia Sweden's critical fleet baseChapter
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)17:33Operating costs undermine the cheap-cruiser caseNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)38:33Wars use operational ships and worked-up crewsNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol1:55Ancient fleets as human-powered systemsChapter
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol54:45Ecnomus as an invasion operationChapter
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol1:08:20Ship captures and personnel losses at EcnomusNotable Point
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)25:16Capital-ship losses also destroy decades of experienceQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:27:47Why Royal Oak's exact wartime complement is difficult to pin downQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...33:17How the Royal Navy exposed phantom crewsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:20:34How a hostile posting could punish an age-of-sail officerQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?25:07Where a Royal Navy expansion could find sailorsQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:02:25Purser and writer roles in naval administrationQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)11:13Oarsmen as trained combat powerNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)10:49Ben-Hur and the problem of enslaved fighting crewsQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)13:36Did armour make drowning more likely?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)31:37Were galley oarsmen slaves or elite crew?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)39:36When were enslaved galley rowers plausible?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)54:17Did galley crews live aboard?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:34:18How large was Ptolemy IV's 'forty'?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:45:05Did slavery prevent a Roman industrial revolution?Q&A
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol53:17Köln's Australian visits and a naval football matchNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:55:46Why Starfleet security cannot replace specialist ground forcesNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:58:19Why Ushakov sought soldiers instead of spending sailors ashoreNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today3:02:23The cost of using Chief O'Brien as an infantry leaderNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)10:37Dorsetshire and leadership during the Invergordon mutinyNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:09:39Crew confidence as part of naval presenceNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:34:57Why retired Hamilton cutters went to navies rather than NGOsQ&A
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)11:11How reserve ships gave the Royal Navy personnel depthNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)16:31Prestige ships still depend on human decisionsNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney49:02Q&A: did sister-ship crews compete?Q&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:59:41Nelson, Rodney, and the Invergordon pay crisisChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:11:55Q&A: how Nelson's flagship role changed her accommodationQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:23:29Where Fisher and Beresford agreedQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:30:01Seeking support for A3 victims' familiesNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:52:41Why warship losses and maritime disasters use different categoriesNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:41:19What fifty 16-inch battleships would do to the naval warQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:00:30Polish commitment and the Tribal-class experience barrierQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:14:26Religious diets in the Royal Indian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:30:18Why Invergordon remained the Royal Navy’s last major mutinyQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:03:44Almeida promised status, pardon, and freedomNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:12:24Deleting a turret also deletes a large crew burdenNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)39:12Why a return to coal failed the manpower testQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)40:59The limited protection available to exposed gun crewsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:13:20Conscription, volunteers, and wartime naval officersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:22:14How senior ratings preserve a ship's institutional memoryQ&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)14:18Carrier survival preserves people as well as flight decksNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 919:27A small wartime crew covered every action-station roleNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 942:00Officer cabins became casualty-care spacesNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 946:46Command spaces packed into M33's compact hullNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)31:09Why realistic night exercises were politically costlyNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:25:03Observers as navigators and ship-recognition specialistsNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:48:50The Geddes Axe also shaped who commanded interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:25:17Night fighting did not create a separate Royal Navy watchkeeping serviceQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:11:31Carrier crew size reflects the operating modelQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:19:21Invergordon was a pay mutiny, not an ideological revoltQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)35:55Three destroyer generations are also three generations of crewsNotable Point
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:25:59Ranger branding does not solve force scarcityNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:11:46Turning naval engineering skills into civilian credentialsQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:23:09HMS Tiger's rushed wartime commissioningNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:38:13From warrant surgeons to commissioned medical officersQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary38:29Experienced Swordfish crews after carrier lossesQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:12:51Why navies kept obsolete ironcladsQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:15:39A research route for Royal Navy pensionsQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol14:57Continuous war as a professional filterChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol35:05Readiness was more than the number of shipsChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol39:48Allied command friction and naval experienceChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol41:39Spanish quality and French officer attritionChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol53:00Patronage, reputation, and officer developmentNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:06:09Huguenot migration and naval talentNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:28:49Why Napoleon could not simply build past TrafalgarQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:29:17Could injured naval commanders remain in service?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:06:40Beatty's responsibility for Seymour's treatmentQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:41:38How Trafalgar gutted French and Spanish experienceQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)4:00:39What became of children born aboard warships?Q&A
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign2:09French command after Latouche-TrévilleNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign9:03British mobilisation and sea-going experienceChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign10:56Yellow admirals as an unused reserve of captainsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign16:06Villeneuve's command nightmareNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign38:23Nelson overtakes the combined fleet across the AtlanticNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 175910:29Blockade, manpower, and fleet readinessChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 175915:17Prize money as a naval incentiveChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 175917:49Why crews fought and what prize money promisedNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol5:48Why an Admiral of the Fleet did not truly retireNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol24:41Half pay as leave, education, and a mobilization reserveNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)21:52Charles Knowles and sailor welfareNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:54:25What happened to captured sailors in the First World WarQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:18:09Who served in Commonwealth and Dutch crews?Q&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…40:53USS Texas crew identity and state prideQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:29:25Royal Navy expansion depended on volunteersQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/415:10Would Reinhard Heydrich have risen as far in the navy?Q&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:42:42Five turrets did not mean five effective target channelsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz7:11Family losses at sea and the Nuremberg verdictNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:28:40The personnel problem behind a restored wartime fleetQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory5:36Crew size and lifting gear made mobile support practicalNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea1:37Republican naval command under political suspicionChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:14:06Combat cohesion and sexuality in the armed forcesQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books8:10The staff work behind a destroyer flotillaQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books11:45Why different shipboard jobs expose crews to different stressesNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books23:49Individual support after combat traumaQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books24:28Gun crews, control, and the trauma of losing comradesQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books25:23Severe combat trauma among submarinersQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books32:08Moving casualties through a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books59:37African sailors and local troops in British naval serviceQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books1:03:05English-language equipment and Royal Indian Navy recruitingQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:18:32Why Warspite normally carried Royal MarinesQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:43:36Ashmore's boarding orders at TsingtaoNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:47:59Why Ashmore's selection involved more than language skillsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response41:01Merchant seamen's pay and the reserve poolQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:59:19Class barriers shaped Imperial Japanese Navy careersQ&A
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol11:25The Tribal-class elite-standard analogyNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/78:42The fleet-breakout gambleNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident4:23Senior-officer scarcity and overworkNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships21:10What did shell impacts sound like inside USS Monitor?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:59:27Why were so many pre-dreadnought-era warships painted white?Q&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:24:13Jack Cornwell's age was normal for his service worldQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books15:12Prize capture as a naval manpower incentiveNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:52:34Uncrewed aircraft do not eliminate personnelQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:09:27Why not sacrifice old battleships against the Dardanelles mines?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI3:03:39Why were sailors often more literate than soldiers?Q&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)25:29Experienced officers at the center of the collisionChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron43:00Naval-constructor training as procurement protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron57:46Could naval-constructor training hinder an officer's career?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron59:16Engineer officers and command in the ironclad eraQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:48:23Why early destroyers missed their trial speeds at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:07:19Why crews and officers belong in warship design historyNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:25:11Possible First World War uses for old ironcladsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron4:03:09Why six hulls may mean two deployable shipsQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune9:41Riou's hard discipline and preventive cleanlinessNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune11:17Why Quilliam was placed in AmazonNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune18:56Baltic draught limits and Amazon's Danish sailorsNotable Point
- Blockade18:41Trafalgar, experienced personnel, and French fleet recoveryNotable Point
- Blockade30:52Contraband searches, cargo seizure, and impressmentNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”58:19Joubert linked maintenance, weapons, and ground crewsNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:45:53Crew size becomes a two-year logistics problemNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class39:22Personnel quality turns flawed ships into usable capabilityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19072:00How a fleet reserve preserves wartime capacityNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:11:29Why Eric Brown did not become a rear admiralQ&A
- 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity9:55How hindsight distorts early submarine technologyNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval22:08Requisition placed a heavy burden on merchant shipownersChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:08:11Why sea-going officers leave as command posts shrinkNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy37:03How Flower-class corvettes mixed reservists and wartime crewsQ&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:36:27Did Lord Louis Mountbatten arrange Philip's wartime postings?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:18:38Petty-officer training at HMS Royal Arthur in CorshamQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:14:54Tiger served as an interim air-defense cruiserChapter
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:49:03Battlestar Galactica and the workload of a carrier crewQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:56:02Foreign personnel in British naval serviceQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:21:34A larger Type 83 need not require a larger crewQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans58:49Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and wartime recognitionNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland20:53Uganda traded aircraft hangars for electronics and crew spaceNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland24:21Why HMCS Uganda's crew voted against continued Pacific serviceNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland31:32HMCS Quebec's Korean War reactivationNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers50:55Why did Gloucester-subclass cruisers carry larger crews?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers51:05Why cruiser crews expanded sharply in wartimeQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:07:46Uganda's Canadian crew and uneven preparation for the PacificChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:10:22HMCS Uganda's Pacific re-volunteering voteChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:27:52Why did HMCS Uganda keep her colonial name after transfer?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:33:41Why the Royal Navy removed cruiser torpedoes after 1945Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:40:32Did Crown Colony living conditions improve after the war?Q&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)5:23HMS Invincible and confidence across the naval serviceChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)6:42Royal Marines recruiting success versus force cutsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)9:17The high-low fleet balance behind the Type 23Chapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)23:17Recruitment, retention, and the demographic troughChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)25:51The WRNS expands into technical and operational rolesNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)26:39Integrated naval nursing, pay, and family separationNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)27:27Retaining experience and accelerating promising naval NCOsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed44:37Britain's uncrewed undersea vehicle as an industrial shortcutChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment29:11Midshipmen as messengers and combat leadersQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment32:05Grog and working routines aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment35:31Children aboard fighting ships in the age of sailQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment2:32:15Professional expertise inside the Royal MarinesNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan58:29Where emergency naval crews would come fromQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:24:28Retention and the Royal Navy's specialist shortagesChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:26:22Widening women's technical and nursing roles in the NavyChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:27:26Pay, family separation, and moving between regular and reserve serviceNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:30:58Could redundant naval housing support service families?Q&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191534:36Ship names give crews identity beyond hull numbersNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191552:04Blücher's loss in burial honors and wartime filmNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:23:20Why prejudice and bullying weaken military unitsChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:29:29Ship names build identity and fighting spiritNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:14:36How Britain and America expanded trained wartime crewsQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:19:12Older veterans as technical instructorsQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:20:39American neutral trade and Britain's need for sailorsNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword1:54:27Charles Lamb's relationship with Implacable's flight-deck partyNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword1:59:13Batmen, naval stewards, and carrier batsmenQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:07:23Who else watches the captain's welfare?Q&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:08:12Knowing what a captain will eat during a busy watchNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:14:40Steward service could become a route to a naval commissionNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:17:09Captains could maintain their weight through demanding deploymentsQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:17:34Stewards protect the critical people who keep a ship functioningNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:18:58Stewards give captains an informal view of shipboard lifeNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:34:33Royal Navy officers were not uniformly aristocraticQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:44:08Royal Navy commissioning from the lower deck did not use a fixed quotaQ&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:06:18Did wartime exhaustion weaken the postwar officer corps?Q&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:23:23When grooming standards stop serving operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:36:08Do women in the armed forces lower standards?Q&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:44:17Engineering officers and the gatekeeping of commandNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...24:42Voyage lessons reshaped US Navy training and retentionChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)10:00Why the Messina revolt drew Dutch and Spanish fleets togetherChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)22:41A de facto British fleet predates the 1707 UnionNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:38:18How could a navy turn landsmen into capable sailors?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:39:33Complex systems can replace judgment but concentrate failureNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...18:14Dauntless's captain takes the guns after fire-control casualtiesNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:03:36The Nelson Touch: pilot discipline under the pressure of royal statusChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:16:55Triton: promotion policy and resistance to younger officersNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:38:51Warrior's convincing NCOs and disposable shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:43:44Protecting subordinates and projecting composureNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:54:45Wong's victory and the burden of genocideNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:56:41Why the chain of command must not be bypassedNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:57:53An upside-down book projects calm under depth-charge attackNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:58:16Why officers should listen to senior NCOsQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:00:48Senior NCOs preserve institutional memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:01:11An invitation to the chiefs' messNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:02:17Dunmoore's battle memories return at action stationsNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:13:40How captains check food quality across a shipQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:20:14Fractured Horizons: sidelining the only pilot of a captured warshipNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:45:00Crew survival measures at space action stationsNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:50:35Kingship: a new captain gets to know his officersNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:51:37Kingship: fitting science officers into a survey shipNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:07:14Specialist officers and watchkeeping trainingNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books3:14:47Mountbatten as an example of patronage and rapid promotionQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History8:46COVID-19 and naval force readinessQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History25:36Captain's stewards as operational supportQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History31:28Stewards as an informal command feedback channelNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War21:00Large crews make the Towns imperial-policing shipsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction16:10Aircraft spares and the Gloucester crew penaltyNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint49:17Why the Gloucester group carried larger crewsQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:47:30Hugh G. Singer's survival report after HMS GloucesterNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:58:14Life aboard Royal Navy cruisers in tropical watersQ&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:09:23Type 32 frigates, defence spending, and crew capacityQ&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:25:16What a larger Royal Navy could and could not coverQ&A
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark2:03:16The command careers that followed TarantoNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)1:05The Orlando class as foreign-station cruisersChapter
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)13:51Crew size and the surprisingly young ships Fisher scrappedQ&A
- HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/47:07A uniform reform improves life aboard ArethusaNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:46:27Why the wartime Royal Navy doubled in manpowerQ&A
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson2:47Diverse crews and Nelson's protection of fugitivesNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:23:20A multinational Royal Navy built around sea skillChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:29:54What made a topman an elite sailor?Q&A
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle24:00Multinational crews and the hierarchy of seamanshipNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle27:18Command depth after revolutionary disruptionNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle28:59Villeneuve and the Royal Navy's family networksNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 3: HMAS Geranium1:47Geranium's larger Australian crew and gun fitNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:07:44Fred Jane's British Battle Fleet as institutional historyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:50The Royal Navy's post-1918 officer demobilization problemNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol38:39Why getting the crews home matteredNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:40Master-at-arms and regulating petty officerQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era22:49Why wartime naval expansion runs short of NCOsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era26:03Why navies need NCOs on every kind of shipQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:44How long William Stone served in the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:01:14A new officer scrambles aboard HMS ArgusNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/35:34HMS Ayrshire and wartime reserve commandNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 232:49State finance constrained mobilizationNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)5:07Destroyers as an imperial presence forceNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians31:24Zumwalt's Z-Grams and professional developmentChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:30Institutional memory is a naval capabilityChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:37:14Reserve ships can protect the active fleet's maintenance cycleNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?11:49A stored cruiser hull still needs machinery and crewsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?51:28How the First World War changed the RNVR's standingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:53:54The post-war Royal Navy's manpower crunchQ&A
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister22:11Personnel growth as the cost of a larger fleetNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...13:55Adapting and mass-building Flower corvettesNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 313:54Rapid expansion can leave naval experience trapped at the topNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 313:15Venetian galley strength carries a manpower burdenNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 1 of 338:49Midshipman Ashworth and controlled escalation at TsingtaoNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:53:03Regular, hostilities-only, and conscript naval serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered17:21Recruiting crews for the landing-craft flotillasQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)11:31Glen-class armament, personnel load, and enduranceNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)16:01Medium LSI speed, capacity, and launch gearChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:08:18Small crews kept a dispersed sloop force affordableQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:31:00The Second Sea Lord handled people and trainingQ&A
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video6:00The boat and officers behind the boardingChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video39:25German merchant sailors become strategic manpowerChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video41:51SS Columbus adds to Germany's stranded sailorsNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)18:26Esprit de corps as an operational capabilityNotable Point