Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Naval Terminology

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  1. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:32:25Why science-fiction destroyers can dwarf cruisersQ&A
  2. Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?
    7:32Age-of-sail ranks and fashion shape naval formation namesNotable Point
  3. Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?
    13:37Task forces assemble the units required for a particular missionChapter
  4. Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?
    18:40Task groups are built around functions, while battle group is often brandingChapter
  5. The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI
    23:39MiG-25 language and the assumptions behind the F-15Notable Point
  6. The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI
    26:42Destroyer language and torpedo-boat prioritiesNotable Point
  7. Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...
    4:14Japanese destroyer terms and Russia's torpedo-boat fearsNotable Point
  8. Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...
    6:13What the captured Akatsuki reveals about Japanese doctrineNotable Point
  9. Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...
    56:15Why an 80 mm Type 41 gun could still have a 76 mm boreNotable Point
  10. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    3:20:05Why the US Navy calls design batches flightsQ&A
  11. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:13:31What the Amphibious Ready Group name communicatesQ&A
  12. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    1:00:58Two meanings of 'battlecruiser' in this scenarioNotable Point
  13. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:33:30When naval batteries became weapon systemsQ&A
  14. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    35:42Why Rosario was captured but San Salvador was salvagedNotable Point
  15. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft
    2:20:52What type means in naval terminologyQ&A
  16. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    3:24:24Why are submarines called boats rather than ships?Q&A
  17. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    3:28:11Does ocean-going capability separate ships from boats?Q&A
  18. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    3:29:08Does carrying submersibles make USS Jimmy Carter a ship?Q&A
  19. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    3:30:31Typhoon displacement depends on whether the submarine is surfacedNotable Point
  20. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    3:32:30A warship's grammatical gender can change between naviesNotable Point
  21. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    1:07:23How battlecruiser naming blurred the intended roleNotable Point
  22. How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...
    1:56:57Private ships and the changing meaning of stag shipNotable Point
  23. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!
    2:04:23Why missile-era naval power is harder to visualizeNotable Point
  24. William de Leybourne: The First Admiral
    21:09Competing origins of the word admiralChapter
  25. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    8:10:58Why TSR means different things in naval and RAF usageNotable Point
  26. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    1:56:39Why historical naval language can mislead modern readersNotable Point
  27. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    2:40:08How NATO standardization reshaped naval terminologyQ&A
  28. V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 105
    2:23:01Would 'fast dreadnought' clarify battleship terminology?Q&A
  29. V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 105
    2:27:24Were Austria-Hungary's faster pre-dreadnoughts 'fast Royal Sovereigns'?Q&A
  30. Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:04:56Pre-dreadnought is a retrospective labelNotable Point
  31. Battle of Blackett Strait
    3:11Why Blackett Strait remains a battle despite its one-sided resultNotable Point
  32. Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    16:17The Royal Navy meaning of a fair fightNotable Point
  33. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    1:14:39Royal Navy designations before NATO-style abbreviationsQ&A
  34. What kind of Carrier do you need or want?
    0:31Why carrier labels depend on missionChapter
  35. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:06:23The heavy aviation cruiser label served passage through the BosporusQ&A
  36. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:50:32The N3 might reset the dreadnought label instead of becoming a super-super-dreadnoughtQ&A
  37. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    21:37Germany's own name for the Scharnhorst classNotable Point
  38. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    0:28Churchill, Scharnhorst, and the politics of naval namesNotable Point
  39. Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 1
    16:09Why British 18-inch torpedoes measure 17.72 inchesNotable Point
  40. Huáscar: KSS1 S7 Comment Response
    6:20What a hurricane deck meansQ&A
  41. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:08:39Wrens and the burden of standardized naval acronymsQ&A
  42. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    43:34Why carrier launch gear was called an acceleratorNotable Point
  43. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs
    1:27:28Why naval horsepower and speed figures need contextNotable Point
  44. Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 2
    31:01Could “sloop” have survived after 1945?Notable Point
  45. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    1:57:17Why pre-dreadnought is a retrospective labelNotable Point
  46. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    1:04Why wartime guns still used pounder namesQ&A
  47. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    1:04:20Rescue tugs and battleships used different naming criteriaQ&A
  48. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    2:49:05Why English accounts use MN and KMSQ&A
  49. Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...
    1:53:06Why "pre-dreadnought" can misleadNotable Point
  50. Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters
    2:39:12What does "Copenhagening" mean?Q&A
  51. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    48:37The destroyer name records a shift from defence to attackQ&A
  52. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    5:23Why turret letters were never completely standardQ&A
  53. Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response
    49:25Why use 28 knots as the fast-battleship threshold?Q&A
  54. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    27:40Second rate, third rate, and naval languageQ&A
  55. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    38:17What paid off and in ordinary meanQ&A
  56. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    41:32When an 11-inch ship stops looking like a battleshipQ&A
  57. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    2:29:39How the through-deck cruiser became a light carrierQ&A
  58. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    3:22:37Protected cruisers lead to light and heavy cruisersQ&A
  59. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    19:18The submarine nickname Jimmy has competing origin storiesQ&A
  60. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    3:01:10Pounder names do not convert neatly to caliberQ&A
  61. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    58:11A cruiser definition beyond national labelsQ&A
  62. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:14:09Why mission codes do not solve classificationQ&A
  63. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    2:46:01How wartime sloops became modern frigatesQ&A
  64. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    3:04:04Armour is central to the battleship definitionQ&A
  65. Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart
    4:43Why the title says sailed rather than mastedNotable Point
  66. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    32:27Warship type names carry political as well as technical meaningsNotable Point
  67. The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)
    4:25Why the Deutschland class were heavy cruisersNotable Point
  68. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    10:50When frigates became cruisersQ&A
  69. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    1:22:49When does a cruiser-killer stop being a cruiser?Q&A
  70. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    3:05:50Modern navies distribute cruiser work across other namesNotable Point
  71. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    1:17:04What the poop deck did aboard sailing shipsQ&A
  72. Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...
    1:52:11Why gun magazines and periodicals share a nameQ&A
  73. Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?
    11:15Reading masts, sails, and riggingChapter
  74. Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?
    23:42Third rates as the line-of-battle backboneNotable Point
  75. Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?
    32:02Pounder guns and muzzle-loading practiceChapter
  76. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    15:01Did frigatebirds take their name from sailing frigates?Q&A
  77. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    59:02How brig became a naval word for prisonQ&A
  78. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    2:23:58Why the upper level was called a spardeckQ&A
  79. The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol
    24:50How 'admiral' preserves Arabic maritime historyNotable Point
  80. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    1:50:10Enterprise was the first CVN, Nimitz the first classQ&A
  81. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    2:23:27Why Panzerschiffe became pocket battleshipsQ&A
  82. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    26:12Why leading seamen are called killicksNotable Point
  83. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    2:39:00The historical distinction between a boat and a shipQ&A
  84. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    8:40Why British sources say E-boatChapter
  85. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    21:39Why the stream uses the British E-boat labelQ&A
  86. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    2:25:45E-boats and R-boats serve different rolesQ&A
  87. An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.
    17:41"Cruiser" began as a role before it became a ship typeNotable Point
  88. Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    30:39Why knots measure speed, not distanceNotable Point
  89. Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:40:13Why Japan calls helicopter carriers destroyersQ&A
  90. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    34:22Why Kriegsmarine ships should not be given KMS prefixesQ&A