Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Parsons Turbines

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  1. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    59:39German yard capacity and Parsons turbine sparesNotable Point
  2. Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...
    49:28Italian-built Tashkent: speed and endurance from an integrated designNotable Point
  3. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:05:17Queen Mary machinery and battlecruiser developmentQ&A
  4. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    33:03Queen Elizabeth's boiler and turbine combinationsChapter
  5. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    35:46An unpublished hypothesis about Warspite's steam surgesNotable Point
  6. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    37:36Lion and Iron Duke as machinery comparisonsNotable Point
  7. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    39:56Higher steam pressure and turbine blade efficiencyNotable Point
  8. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    44:23Thirty-two boilers and Parsons turbinesNotable Point
  9. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    53:05Higher speed with battleship-like accelerationNotable Point
  10. What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?
    40:29Machinery power and survivabilityChapter
  11. Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?
    5:46France's prewar destroyers and the unfinished third shipChapter
  12. Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?
    12:05From Argentina's Mendoza class to France's Aventurier classNotable Point
  13. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:00:12Brown-Curtis turbines and John Brown's refinementsNotable Point
  14. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:09:51Acasta-class turbine and framing experimentsChapter
  15. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:11:08Cruising diesels and Garland's semi-geared turbinesNotable Point
  16. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:15:57Laforey-class armament, geared turbines and new buildersChapter
  17. The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)
    14:17How British and American yards refined each other's turbinesNotable Point
  18. Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI
    42:14French turbine development draws on international exchangeNotable Point
  19. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    30:03How did the S90 compare with British turbine destroyers?Q&A
  20. 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 2026
    35:56Naval rivals still bought turbines and shell fuzes from each otherNotable Point
  21. Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...
    45:21Monarch's machinery, trial speed and cruising rangeChapter
  22. Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun
    35:54Shell defects and shared technology in the naval arms raceNotable Point
  23. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    18:27Philip Watts and serving officers refined the Bellerophon designNotable Point
  24. What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?
    10:26Parsons, Brown-Curtis, and turbine competitionNotable Point
  25. HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition
    27:03Queen Mary's machinery and Lion-family dimensionsChapter
  26. Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War
    11:08The Salamis design combines German, American, and British strengthsChapter
  27. Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force
    1:00:20Six-funnel HMS Viking tests speed and heavy gunsChapter
  28. Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview
    55:01Why published warship performance needs industrial contextNotable Point
  29. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    31:03Could American battleships keep pace with the Grand Fleet?Notable Point
  30. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    53:00The qualitative naval race ran on shared technologyNotable Point
  31. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    2:05:06Designing a German fast battleship in 1910Q&A
  32. SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 9
    26:45Parsons turbines and the international naval technology networkNotable Point
  33. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response
    38:15Parsons turbines, U.S. procurement, and German dependenceQ&A
  34. USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 8
    12:37A 1910 goodwill cruise despite first-generation turbine ageingNotable Point
  35. Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda
    38:14Foreign turbines and uneven shipyard capacityNotable Point
  36. Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 6
    6:13The industrial network behind an Italian fast battleshipNotable Point
  37. Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines
    39:19Parsons turbines and compact powerNotable Point
  38. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    11:55Brooklyn against Magami and the British Town classNotable Point
  39. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    14:00Brooklyn machinery, fire control, and protectionChapter
  40. Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina
    44:39Imported machinery constrained treaty deceptionNotable Point
  41. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    57:15British machinery exposes Italy's industrial constraintChapter
  42. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:15:08Trento trades protection for speed and displayChapter
  43. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:41:16Zara approaches a balanced heavy cruiserChapter
  44. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:52:49Bolzano restores speed under industrial pressureChapter
  45. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    8:35French turbines reveal the limits of industrial autonomyNotable Point
  46. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    1:13:22Emile Bertin exposed construction and machinery bottlenecksNotable Point
  47. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    8:57Machinery, speed, and the scout-cruiser labelChapter
  48. County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)
    15:28Spanish construction and the machinery behind 33 knotsChapter
  49. ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    11:24Why range mattered more than a small speed advantageChapter
  50. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June
    7:41Indefatigable follows a year of battlecruiser experienceChapter
  51. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1908
    21:58Small engineering gains turn horsepower into more speedNotable Point
  52. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    45:20Why Crown Colony range figures need careful comparisonChapter