Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Pre-Dreadnought Battleships

Also searchable as Predreadnought Battleships.

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  1. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    41:03Battleship totals versus fleets that can concentrateNotable Point
  2. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    44:44King Edward VII preferences and the earlier Admiral classQ&A
  3. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    27:44Japan and British pre-dreadnought exportsQ&A
  4. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:41:34Pre-dreadnought service lives and rapid Royal Navy constructionQ&A
  5. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:57:33British pre-dreadnought export reachQ&A
  6. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:55:13Continuing Brandenburg's three-turret layout into later battleshipsQ&A
  7. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:22:45Why the Iowa counterfactual uses an approximate British fleet countNotable Point
  8. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    53:44HMS Africa on the eve of HMS DreadnoughtChapter
  9. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    1:01:12Why stronger guns encouraged fleet concentrationNotable Point
  10. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    35:18Gallipoli's command problem and the price of forcing straitsChapter
  11. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    45:01Preparing old battleships to absorb mine damageNotable Point
  12. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:10:54Assembling roughly 300 warships for a limited Baltic operationChapter
  13. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:49:59Why either outcome wrecks both battle fleetsChapter
  14. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:51:35Would every British pre-dreadnought be lost?Q&A
  15. US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...
    2:28:44How the meaning of battleship changed with technologyNotable Point
  16. Ironclads go Two Decker....
    45:03Two-decker ironclads could change turret layouts before DreadnoughtChapter
  17. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    6:26:54Two extra pre-dreadnoughts and wartime availabilityQ&A
  18. #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update Last Day Aboard Mikasa!
    1:53Mikasa's unusual preservation under the Washington Naval TreatyQ&A
  19. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    8:48Why 'pre-dreadnought' hides how contemporaries understood battleshipsNotable Point
  20. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    19:12Why can Royal Sovereign identify two different battleship generations?Q&A
  21. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    2:02:30Why Hoche looked so visually complicatedQ&A
  22. 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
  23. Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI
    30:30Why "pre-dreadnought" is a retrospective labelNotable Point
  24. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:52:55When British 10-inch guns were a useful choiceQ&A
  25. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:27:20Naming pre-dreadnought turretsQ&A
  26. Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    5:16An early battleship exposes stability and armament tradeoffsChapter
  27. Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 8
    0:02Asahi and the capital-ship spectrumChapter
  28. Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 8
    7:07Why Asahi carried fourteen six-inch gunsNotable Point
  29. Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    2:17:34The dangerous breakthrough battleNotable Point
  30. HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 5
    2:43HMS Lord Nelson as a late pre-dreadnoughtChapter
  31. HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 5
    9:37A treaty-era replacement path for old battleshipsNotable Point
  32. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    4:54Why call Formidable a sovereign battleship?Notable Point
  33. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    1:04:09Could naval treaties have preserved sovereign battleships?Notable Point
  34. Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 2
    0:00Why "pre-dreadnought" can obscure the shipsChapter
  35. Building the Fleets for Jutland
    8:20Reading Jutland’s fleet types before counting shipsChapter
  36. Building the Fleets for Jutland
    41:38Why Germany accepted slow pre-dreadnoughts at JutlandNotable Point
  37. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 1
    1:23Why HMS Dreadnought marks a new battleship eraChapter
  38. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 1
    7:46Speed plus range changes the engagementChapter
  39. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    31:09Retained pre-dreadnoughts as a personnel burdenNotable Point
  40. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    36:29Warning and half-measures cripple the Dardanelles campaignNotable Point
  41. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:11:30Why Britain built so many pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
  42. Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)
    39:32The Virginia class's turret-on-turret arrangementQ&A
  43. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    15:40Lord Nelson and the transition from casemates to turretsQ&A
  44. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    50:45The naval understanding that deepened the ententeNotable Point
  45. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    38:36Why Dreadnought did not make every older battleship useless overnightQ&A
  46. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    1:46:11Why Britain preserved no pre-dreadnought battleshipQ&A
  47. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers
    0:21Duke of Edinburgh as a late armoured-cruiser benchmarkChapter
  48. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream
    5:27Why the Great White Fleet went around the worldChapter
  49. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream
    7:34Pre-dreadnought strength during the dreadnought transitionNotable Point
  50. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream
    34:15A world voyage as a fleet-wide engineering trialNotable Point
  51. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream
    35:02White paint and the visual language of naval powerChapter
  52. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction
    20:14HMS Hibernia shows the institutional cost of aviation trialsNotable Point
  53. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    26:23Dauntless and the pre-dreadnought model in spaceChapter
  54. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships
    8:52Royal Sovereign-class firepower and protectionChapter
  55. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships
    16:38Centurion-class battleships for distant stationsChapter
  56. Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-1921
    32:41The Sempill Mission transferred knowledge and assessed JapanChapter