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- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:33:20One frigate label can cover Germany's different naval missionsNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?39:19Geography sets a warship's range and seakeeping needsNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:47A surviving Kalmar Union and the North Sea balanceQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:20Middle Eastern oil was already part of naval fuel planningQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...32:55Operation BB and the limits of submarine huntsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:13:40Destroyer range and preparation for future conflictsNotable Point
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...22:56Oracle rams a submarine disguised with a sailChapter
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...31:05Opal's loss in severe weather and a navigation errorChapter
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?17:06Deck-edge lifts and the Royal Navy's protected hangarsNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:11:15Could U-boats ambush the damaged fleet on its way home?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 231:23The case for thirty-two Poseidons and eight WedgetailsNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:26A united Netherlands and Belgium in the First World WarQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:17:18Why was the Royal Navy slow to adopt deck-edge lifts?Q&A
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI31:02Hit-and-run attacks versus longer screening fightsNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:36:42Deck-edge lifts compete with North Sea experienceNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:13:03Germany's commercial routes and the force needed beyond the North SeaChapter
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:30Distinguishing 8-inch and 16-inch shell splashesQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:50Unexploded shells in shallow seasQ&A
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- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?59:24Altmark exposed the limits of Norwegian neutralityChapter
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:26A Dogger Bank earthquake could postpone the First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:30Why a Nordic navy might need carriers beyond the BalticQ&A
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- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:33Cold-water mangroves reshape North Sea coastsQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:17The recalled North Sea losses of the RNASQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…27:15The North Sea as the Royal Navy's permanent opponentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon29:22North Sea endurance versus fleet-keeping speedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:06:07The naval geography of a Germany unified by AustriaQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut56:49Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands join Germany in 1915Q&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:46Why Scapa Flow suited the Grand FleetQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?33:42What Plan Z could realistically send into the North SeaChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:22:28Tsushima's logistical logic in later warsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:24:44German battle planning and the distance to repairNotable Point
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- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?3:16Geography decided whether attrition strategy could workNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?48:07Scheer's 1916 plan tried to force Britain forwardChapter
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- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:29:25Maritime families as schools and command networksChapter
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:58Repairing Germany's World War II destroyer designQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:46German destroyer range and the problem of reaching the AtlanticNotable Point
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- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:16:59Ships used by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes to reach BritainQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:47:58How Danish ships of the line fit Baltic watersQ&A
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…37:17Why Grand Fleet destroyers could not simply escort convoysNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…44:53The modern convoy force-structure problemChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:34:40German warships in Norway did not impose an exceptional British burdenQ&A
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- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians48:57Small patrol squadrons change a pirate's calculationNotable Point
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- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:17:38Italian destroyer speed and the demands of the operating areaNotable Point
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- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 130:24A compact deck-edge lift for an enclosed hangarNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!1:06A position over the Elbe and Kiel Canal approachesChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 10611:06Heligoland as a North Sea chokepointChapter
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- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:37:49Could Royal Navy submarines ambush German raiding forces?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:23:51Would Battenberg raid the German coast?Q&A
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- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 740:39Sea Lion's attacks on ships and submarinesChapter
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- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response2:51Fisher's battlecruiser preference meets North Sea limitsQ&A
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...11:19Mackensen, Ersatz Yorck, and Germany's battlecruiser problemChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:39:34British global commitments and the Lion classChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:49:20Aircraft spotting and the declining battlecruiser roleNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:27Why Norway matters more than its military sizeChapter
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...10:08A failed invasion strips away German naval optionsNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...14:19Narvik trade could make neutral aircrew internment porousNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...15:39North Sea patrols could shrink German Atlantic reachNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...45:42A North Sea barrier constrains U-boats and raidersChapter
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...56:36U-boat endurance makes the North Sea a strategic choke pointChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...29:56Denying Norway's bases to German air and sea powerChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:27:56The North Sea as a barrier against U-boatsChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:52:20The Atlantic convoy war without Norwegian U-boat basesChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:00:40Could U-boat milk cows sustain Atlantic patrols?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:57:53Could German auxiliary raiders still get to sea?Q&A
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 457:24The Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue warning before FormidableNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:57:34Book watch point: convoys in the Napoleonic maritime systemChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre45:43Schnellboot design: fast, fine, and torpedo-centredChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 318:57HMS Holderness on the East Coast convoysChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:14:18Using naval concentration to pressure an economyNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland24:08If Germany failed to invade NorwayQ&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:12:01Setting the May 1980 limited-war scenarioChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7642:20RNAS patrols against U-boats in 1917Notable Point
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- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas24:33Why British and German capital ships divergedNotable Point
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- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:09:47Early North Sea oil would reshape British coastal defense and alliancesQ&A
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?19:56Amphion catches the minelayer Konigin LuiseChapter
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?23:16Konigin Luise's minefield destroys HMS AmphionChapter
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?27:18Fearless hunts German cruisers with the Harwich ForceChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:56:07Lider's decades-old concept ancestryNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)12:04From a worldwide fleet to a North Sea fleetNotable Point
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)43:56Enterprise combines inshore survey work with port presenceNotable Point
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- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)9:18Why Scapa Flow matters in a North Sea warChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:03:27Why the Grand Fleet needed Scapa Flow in 1914Chapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)30:42Why the Royal Navy avoided routine deck parkingNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:10:49Norway's destroyers could not shield its coastal-defense shipsNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion34:48Battlecruiser value depends on the theaterNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)1:24A pre-dreadnought North Sea matchupChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:06:09How a 1941 Franco-German naval war might unfoldQ&A
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)33:21Where the simulation overstates destroyer durability and long-range fireNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)41:10Deep-trap minefields against U-boatsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol28:45Britain's dispersed blockade networkNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:26:18Was the First Anglo-Dutch War a world war?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol0:30Where Kentish Knock was and why the battle has two datesNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?16:33How a Sopwith Cuckoo raid could have forced a German sortieQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder8:39The 1932 fleet plan for Baltic and North Sea defenceChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class10:01Why the Archer type gave way to specialised shipsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:02:02A German carrier war in the North SeaQ&A
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- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)53:42A neutral Netherlands complicates the North Sea warQ&A
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident16:32Norway, Arctic convoys, and the North Sea ASW barrierNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune16:21Amazon watches invasion ports on the Dutch coastNotable Point
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- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190715:07Proximity and fleet range sharpen the British-German rivalryNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19059:49Mission and geography shaped dreadnought designChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease25:00Norwegian control opened a reliable North Sea routeNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments19:15Why monitors operated without heavy escorts near minefieldsQ&A
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- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191517:00A false trawler theory leads into a British ambushNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P3/6 19042:31Why fishing fleets worked Dogger BankNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 16961:47Using Dogger Bank to trace centuries of naval changeChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 16965:48Why Dogger Bank repeatedly became a naval battlegroundChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191645:00Why fleets repeatedly met around Dogger BankQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:33:07Dogger Bank preserves a submerged human landscapeNotable Point
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 116:23Comparing Whitcombe's seas at Camperdown and the SaintesNotable Point
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- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers39:20Graf Zeppelin's launch trolleys and catapult bottleneckNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:02:21When battlecruiser speed encouraged strategic misuseNotable Point
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:05:57Why did chaining ships fail at Sluys?Q&A
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:42:03Cogs suited the North Sea better than galleysNotable Point
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- Flower Class Shorts no 3: HMAS Geranium3:04A North Sea design in tropical survey watersNotable Point
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