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- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:59:57Risks of military ownership in industrial enterprisesQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:15:13Prewar escorts need trained reserve crews as well as hullsNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:35:06British corvette contracts could encourage Canadian crewsNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:30:15Swedish sea control and status assetsChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:08:22Why impressment gave way to professional serviceQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:30:03U.S. task-force doctrine planned for rapid expansionChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:35:37Reserve officers gave Britain depth for wartime expansionNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:44:55How much of the 1914 Royal Navy survives to 1920?Q&A
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality4:33Trafalgar illustrates British fleet depthNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality24:14Press officers could become volunteer recruitersChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality32:45The merchant marine was the Navy's peacetime reserveChapter
- 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
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI40:03Could reserve crews have closed Italy's destroyer gap?Notable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:00:51Reserve fleets preserve hull life and readinessNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)31:21Reserve ships preserved a balanced Royal NavyChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)35:04Why prewar reserve destroyers depended on British crewsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)36:20The 1939 royal review brought reserve ships into serviceChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:34:43Building ships directly into reserveQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:37:14Civilian skills and simulators for a modern reserve fleetQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:39:26The cost of losing an older destroyerQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:39:59W-class reserve life if World War II had come laterQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:14What a usable Spanish reserve fleet requiresQ&A
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?23:37Keeping condemned warships available through other usesNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!3:38Converted liners enter commerce warfareChapter
- 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...3:49:46Civilian mechanics, naval reservists, and ships kept in ordinaryNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:00Did paying off ships mean dismissing their crews?Q&A
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII1:41Walter Hose preserved the naval serviceChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII5:24Hose built a reserve culture for wartime adaptationNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII10:03Victoria volunteers preceded the formal naval reserveNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII54:28Canada retained destroyers in postwar reserveNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII55:07Wartime readiness served a lasting trade needChapter
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:46How ships in ordinary could improve Royal Navy retentionNotable 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 Trust3:57:26Caracciolo-class battleships would push older Italian ships into reserveQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:16:03Nuclear-war assumptions and conventional reservesQ&A
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War45:15Reserve hulls could separate ship availability from peacetime crewingNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13:36Basing a global reserve patrol-vessel forceQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:44A postwar Ukrainian sea-denial fleetQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft25:44Reserve ships as readiness and deterrenceChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:55:44Would extra construction send more pre-dreadnoughts overseas?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:30A practical replacement for the Archer-class patrol boatsQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:54:51Could Type 45 destroyers become reserve arsenal ships?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:06:45The Nore reserve flotilla links people, ships, and dockyardsChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command34:37Frederic Fisher prepares all-round officers for wartime expansionChapter
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 91:14How a guard ship combined reserve readiness and port defenceChapter
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 98:23How guard squadrons differed and what mobilising one costNotable Point
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 912:39From ships in ordinary to guard ships ready within hoursChapter
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 924:23Reserve ships freed first-line forces for the decisive theatreNotable Point
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 926:13Why modern navies still need reserves for long warsNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:03:19Reserve fleets bridge the gap between regular forces and wartime expansionChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:06:51Reservists bridge the years before mass mobilisation maturesNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:09:55Older destroyers and frigates as reserve training shipsNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates1:01:26Teviot's short South African service raises a maritime-strategy questionNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:50:14Why reserve crews matter after the regular force absorbs the opening shockQ&A
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 444:30Merchant experience aboard Bathurst-class corvettesNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:01:30How HMCS Haida teaches an aggressive service traditionNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:20:01Royal Navy reserve organizations were parallel systemsQ&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 340:29Reserve activation turns readiness into combat powerNotable Point
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:45:35Reserve amphibious ships can preserve surge capacityNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!11:32Numbers create naval presenceNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin22:20Peacetime demand, reserves, and nuclear carrier upkeepChapter
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin27:20Zumwalt's medium carriers and the reserve problemNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...20:52A reserve fleet must be ready to surgeNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:13:38Britain: preserving numbers while expanding fast capital ships and carriersChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:38:39Why Britain and America gain most from the delayChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191231:20Reserve status created information barriersNotable 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
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!17:59Why a ship's launch date differs from her first commissionNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193816:46Royal Navy modernization and reserve depthNotable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 101:01:28How the A-25 Shrike lost its intended missionChapter
- 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 Answered4:15:55Recruitment shortfalls reflect policy and career conditionsQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:04:58Who may have carried a sword during the Altmark boarding?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:45:56Why more ships can improve personnel retentionNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI0:28How ships in ordinary gave navies more depthChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI6:02Why modern naval thinking discounts reserve shipsNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI12:42Bramble-class ships challenge modern ideas of old ageNotable Point
- 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 WWI37:31Old hulls become training infrastructureChapter
- 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 WWI1:21:53Reserve fleets make wartime mass possibleNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?13:21Reserve ships preserve fleet depth and construction continuityChapter
- 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?20:23Older escorts still matter in secondary theatersNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?26:26Reserve fleets need exercises and realistic readiness ratiosNotable Point
- 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?1:14:24A reserve fleet depends on training and support infrastructureNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?1:51:02Old ships fill essential roles that new construction cannot coverNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?1:55:42When is a reserve ship no longer worth keeping?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
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:03:57G3 and N3 construction could feed a rotating capital-ship reserveNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:05:19HMS Renown shows the cost of scrapping an intermediate warshipNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:07:11Would G3 and N3 immediately push the R class into reserve?Q&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:26:56A treaty reserve could rotate old capital ships into new constructionNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:31:17Reserve ships widen the fleet's sensor and presence networkNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:33:38Reserve modernization sustains yards and carrier depthNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:36:59Could a US carrier reserve change the Wasp design?Q&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:37:49Judge reserve ships by the depth they addNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:43British armed merchantmen used naval gun parties rather than a separate Armed GuardQ&A
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 48:02How Britain could mass-produce submarine escortsNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 229:06Laburnum loses mobility for a headquarters roleNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:13:38Montanas would likely survive into the Cold War reserveQ&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
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:08:18How an interwar sloop programme transforms convoy defenseQ&A
- HMS Benbow 1885: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 315:17A brief active career and long guardship serviceNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:23:59Bearn lagged behind other navies' secondary carriersNotable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class52:34Training ships, reserve drill ships, and inherited namesNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:03:11The enemy fleet and German command Plan Z would meet in 1948Notable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)41:12Niobe rebuilds a crew and corners Prinz Eitel FriedrichChapter
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)22:27Andromache links reserve readiness to wartime mine warfareNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)25:22HMS Apollo moves from reserve to wartime minelayingNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)1:11A fifth scouting group made from obsolete training cruisersNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 420:35Reserve cruisers as a mobilization and training assetChapter
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 115:14HMS Mersey as a reserve and manoeuvre shipChapter
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1239:36Reconstruction could not make Gefion useful in 1914Chapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p923:58Why new warships spent years in reserveNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p929:10Sfax in France's maneuver and reserve cycleChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p420:54From cruiser to Warrior's tenderChapter
- Town Class (1911): Chathams12:37Chatham serves at Gallipoli and later with New ZealandChapter
- Town Class (1911): Chathams45:20Melbourne cycles between reserve and Australian flagship dutyChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments20:43The training burden behind a useful naval reserveQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.36:32How a guaranteed sloop order could anchor a shipyardNotable Point
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:58:38Reservists, qualifications, and wartime naval expansionChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video50:17Museum visits build visible support for preserved shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?25:07Where a Royal Navy expansion could find sailorsQ&A
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)11:11How reserve ships gave the Royal Navy personnel depthNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)31:01War Plan Red exposes the gap between paper strength and readinessNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"38:08Why swords at Altmark remain plausible but unverifiedNotable Point
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol5:00Why one minelayer could remain in reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...44:34Should Type 23 frigates remain in reserve?Q&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:57:41Why older warships remain useful in reserveQ&A
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol38:00Building a fighting ship from reserves and merchant sailorsNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol24:41Half pay as leave, education, and a mobilization reserveNotable Point
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:12:05The Cressy losses and the cost of stopping for survivorsNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions50:27Commonwealth manpower and shipbuilding supportNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19072:00How a fleet reserve preserves wartime capacityNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland24:21Why HMCS Uganda's crew voted against continued Pacific serviceNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s12:07Why reserve ships did not equal ready reinforcementsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)1:38Royal Navy Reserve wartime rolesChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)3:43Naval housing and the reserve shortfallQ&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)4:25A reserve air branch for fleet depthChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result9:19Parliament proposes armed ocean liners as naval auxiliariesChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context6:12Reserve fleets made wartime expansion possibleNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard2:15:56How escort scarcity encouraged German submarine investmentNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)4:15A useful class in varied Royal Navy rolesNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)8:36Why Fisher could scrap the OrlandosQ&A
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus1:17Saxifrage survives as HMS PresidentNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era18:29What did a temporary petty officer rank mean?Q&A
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/39:02Reserve crews turned corvettes into crew projectsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:32:40River-class hulls as reserve and industrial insuranceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:24:34Amphibious capability cannot be judged by routine use aloneQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:36:45Keeping selected escorts and amphibious ships in reserveQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:39:11Reserve warships can use wet berthsQ&A
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy36:27Distributed amphibious forces and the scale of deterrenceNotable Point
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal23:56Mobilisation and maintaining capabilityChapter
- 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?16:00Using coast-guard service to preserve destroyer capacityQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?52:52Commercial contracts as an escort reserveQ&A
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan23:03Hold the fleet and bargain for reinforcementsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan27:17Ceylon keeps the fleet distant but still responsiveNotable Point
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