Q Ships

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1. Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...17 May 2026
   3:22:52Why containerized Q-ships are hard to concealQ&A
2. Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)19 Mar 2026
   2:26:35The disputed Q-ship rescue decisionQ&A
3. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16 Nov 2025
   2:03:30Q-ships against pirates and uncrewed attack craftQ&A
4. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7 Sept 2025
   5:24:00Why armed merchantmen struggled with U-boats inside convoysQ&A
5. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10 Aug 2025
   1:41:51How modern commerce raiding might workQ&A
6. Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview12 Dec 2024
   19:04Q-ships, convoys, escorts, and radio monitoringChapter
7. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates29 Nov 2024
   16:38Fourth rates multiplied deterrence on foreign stationsChapter
8. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/423 Nov 2024
   3:23:41The First World War Flower-class sloops established the commercial-yard modelChapter
9. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?21 Dec 2023
   1:08:11Five Flower batches produced 120 wartime escortsChapter
10. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 21 Dec 2023
    24:54Laburnum at Galway and on Atlantic rescue missionsChapter
11. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases29 Oct 2023
    4:35:06Why Britain had no direct equivalent to SMS WolfQ&A
12. Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare12 Sept 2023
    40:41Britain's escort response was already buildingNotable Point
13. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19393 Aug 2022
    2:54Merchant depot ships for Polish submarinesNotable Point
14. Ruse de guerre23 Jul 2022
    14:04Warships repeatedly borrowed merchant identitiesNotable Point
15. Ruse de guerre23 Jul 2022
    38:05Flower-class sloops bridge Q-ships and escortsChapter
16. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare21 Jul 2022
    2:54:24Q-ships change the submarine warning calculusChapter
17. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...8 May 2022
    4:20:34Could superyachts become modern raiders?Q&A
18. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...8 May 2022
    4:30:33How a dispersed yacht raider network could operateQ&A
19. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff21 Sept 2021
    33:50The U-boat war in ships and livesNotable Point
20. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff21 Sept 2021
    39:30Operational tempo wore down the U-boat campaignNotable Point
21. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI8 Sept 2021
    11:04HMS Bryony links First World War Q-ships to NarvikNotable Point
22. An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean26 Aug 2021
    8:42Why Mediterranean geography limits raidingNotable Point
23. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...15 Aug 2021
    1:38:15Escorts and Q-ships narrowed the deck gun's roleNotable Point
24. Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-4514 May 2021
    1:48:06Q-ships among coastal convoysQ&A
25. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2 May 2021
    39:18How Q-ships used apparent damage as baitQ&A
26. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books29 Nov 2020
    4:02:33Why write another history of Q-ships?Q&A
27. Flower Class Shorts no 5: HMS Coreopsis14 Oct 2020
    0:31Coreopsis as a concealed-armament Q-shipChapter
28. Flower Class Shorts no 5: HMS Coreopsis14 Oct 2020
    2:02From Flower-class vessel to modern sloop conceptChapter
29. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus13 Oct 2020
    0:04HMS Polyanthus in Q-ship guiseChapter
30. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus13 Oct 2020
    0:57From convoy sloop to disguised submarine trapNotable Point
31. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus13 Oct 2020
    1:17Saxifrage survives as HMS PresidentNotable Point
32. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus13 Oct 2020
    2:07Guns and depth charges behind the disguiseNotable Point
33. Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus13 Oct 2020
    2:26Why a small merchant-ship silhouette matteredNotable Point
34. Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol13 Oct 2020
    15:20Flower-class sloops built as Q-shipsNotable Point
35. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war4 Jun 2020
    1:41:21How Q-ships changed submarine risk calculationsNotable Point