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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:23:26The Royal Navy if war began over Czechoslovakia in 1938Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:32:45Henderson, Backhouse and wartime carrier employmentQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:36:00Extra guns on ships and unbuilt designsQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:07:33Henderson and Mountbatten as political operatorsNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:29Henderson, Jellicoe and Cunningham in a modern naval thought experimentQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:49Henderson's personal networks and the politics of naval constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:05Publicity for carriers and Henderson's case for the Fleet Air ArmNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live20:12Royal Navy admirals and the loss of the Third Sea LordQ&A
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:02:01Admiralty leadership losses and Churchill's influenceChapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous3:40:13Which later admirals merit warship names?Q&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars47:03How air exercises overlooked attacks on destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:30Henderson's larger British carrier design alternativesNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:44Maintainability should shape a warship before equipment is fittedQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:08:38Employment politics can protect an interwar carrier programmeNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)49:21Henderson treated the York class as a design warningQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:12:18The light-carrier hull could lead to an aviation support shipNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:49:03Would an independent Fleet Air Arm accelerate fighter development?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:32How Henderson-style admirals might have changed the modern Royal NavyQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live45:01Could Reginald Henderson have stopped Churchill's pause?Q&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live52:53Mrs Henderson retained influence through the naval wives networkQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live53:43Why Bruce Fraser was poorly placed to resist ChurchillQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:00:48Multiple carriers balance armor, air groups, and maintenanceNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:58Admiral Henderson survives into the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:39Henderson's possible influence after retirementQ&A
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII8:55The J class compromise was industrial capacityChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII24:31Why prewar air exercises understated the danger to destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:52Henderson, Fisher and the discussion of Admiral King's roleQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)46:35Larger machinery spaces can reduce maintenance labourNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:10:05Convoys required escorts, funding, and political supportChapter
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:49Holding new capital-ship ideas for the next pairNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 346:14Henderson challenges confidence in fleet air defenseNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers12:58How British carrier studies turned missions into compromisesNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers13:56The 1931 carrier's larger lifts and flagship accommodationNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers42:49Chatfield and Henderson reveal power inside naval administrationNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers43:57Chatfield's treaty strategy favored many small carriersChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:35:35Henderson facing postwar demobilization as prime ministerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:03:58Could Henderson have narrowed the pause in capital-ship construction?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II28:15How Admiral Henderson might reform today's Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:49:39Why Britain's preferred dual-purpose guns still complicated supplyNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception2:36Restoring Reginald Henderson to the rearmament storyChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception35:16Cunningham challenges wartime ship designsChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:30Admiral Henderson takes on US Navy procurementQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:30Historical rescue choices test adaptation as well as achievementQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?0:00Why retained knowledge changes the Fisher-Henderson swapChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?6:17Why a larger destroyer could need fewer engineersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?19:32How HMS Unicorn passed as an aviation support shipNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?20:58Henderson's carrier doctrine and rearmament portfolioChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?24:37Saving shipyards while rearmament consumed its plannersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?26:53Why Henderson stockpiled designs before warNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?33:56Henderson arrives on the technological cusp of 1892Chapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?41:23Carrier operations help define Dido and Tribal requirementsNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?42:11Turrets, turbines, and fire control reshape the Victorian fleetChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?46:19Turreted secondary guns become a manpower reformNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?47:17Convertible tanks exploit treaty displacement rulesNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?48:13A second Warrior moment through science and deterrenceNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?53:50Henderson overlaps the start of his own naval careerNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?54:25Henderson's credit-free method of naval reformChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:27:28Town-class cruisers connect rearmament with employmentNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft29:49Henderson's small ships spread deterrent presenceChapter
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy50:49Admiral Henderson preserves a balanced but undersized fleetNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age4:43Daring class as the peak Royal Navy gun destroyerChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?5:52Coral Sea logistics and the fast-tanker shortageChapter
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:17Why prewar escort-carrier studies did not produce ships soonerNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why24:54Britain's 4.5-inch path to a true dual-purpose gunChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...1:26Henderson and British multi-carrier doctrineChapter
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:11:36Henderson challenges the wartime construction pauseQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?7:03The alternate history requires a 1935 service-ready gunChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?14:34Henderson's carrier experience challenges a false exercise lessonNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:52Historical figures whose private judgments remain elusiveQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:45Admirals worth accompanying at seaQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:12The admiral most disappointed by today's Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:38:49Prewar admirals suited to modern naviesQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:23How the Royal Navy might have handled Mark 14 failuresQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?30:41Peacetime exercises produced a false picture of air attack prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:04If HMS Lion exploded at JutlandQ&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:20:39Exercise bias shaped the Tribal class's anti-aircraft tradeoffsChapter
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:29What the Royal Navy learned and missed in interwar exercisesQ&A
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic38:44Short tenure, fast battleships, and armaments pressureNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:25:12Henderson carries analytical command into the next fleetChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?54:55Reginald Henderson represents institutional admiralshipNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!46:26Daring's ancestry in a larger prewar L-class designNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:10:04Why naval colleges produce political officersQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:43:34An unresolved illness pattern among senior Royal Navy officersNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live16:04Battleships turn naval presence into diplomatic leverageChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:00:15Who might buy one, and why size should stop near 60,000 tonsChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?0:52Using Henderson and Fisher to test which decisions matteredChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?3:23Reginald Henderson built the Royal Navy's wartime fleetChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?8:07Archives recover Henderson from Chatfield's selective memoryNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?18:52Bruce Fraser inherited a Henderson-sized institutional gapNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?24:53Where Henderson might have served after leaving the AdmiraltyChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?33:53Fisher and Henderson favour the larger L-class destroyerChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?37:30Treasury yard closures collided with naval rearmamentNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?39:15Hunt-class errors show the cost of a broken apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:28:00Henderson at Force H changes diplomacy as well as operationsNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:29:40Henderson could tighten amphibious command in NorwayNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:30:54A Far East posting would create a carrier demandNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:13How Henderson and Fisher might redirect British carrier aviationNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:20:55Henderson's carrier concept under treaty limitsChapter
- An Indomitable Force Z23:47Tom Phillips, doctrine, and layered fleet air defenseChapter
- An Indomitable Force Z29:41Reginald Henderson linked carrier command to procurement politicsNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?31:01Tom Phillips's destroyer career and decision to sortieNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:03:53The tender counterfactual still needs a budget sourceNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command47:12Ragnar Colvin teaches command decisions through integrated staff workChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...52:53The Blackburn Skua illustrates discreet Admiralty sponsorshipNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:30:15Which ship designers would the panel question?Q&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?35:59Why advocacy does not guarantee strategic commandNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea22:07Senior-officer losses disrupted naval command continuityNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 415:26How Jutland turned Royal Navy learning inwardNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview23:06Jellicoe, Henderson, and the return to convoyNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...7:43Henderson links carriers, aircraft, and fleet defenseNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:58:18What to tell Admiral Henderson in 1937Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:42:04Admiral Henderson's unannounced shipyard inspectionsNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:43:53Reginald Henderson translated escort experience into the Flower designChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:00:49Henderson might keep capital-ship construction moving in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:28:10If Reginald Henderson survived into wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....19:54Alan Brooke, Churchill, and self-serving memoirsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s51:15How the Third Sea Lord shaped naval procurementNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!1:24:04Henderson's priorities: 15-inch guns, lifts, and sloopsQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:38:50Churchill's prewar influence was smaller than hindsight suggestsNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:25:10Henderson might have accelerated Britain's carrier programmeQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:46:23Henderson would pair fleet carriers with dedicated anti-submarine escortsQ&A
- HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure36:02The interwar development behind light fleet carriersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:13Secret warship projects and the limits of surviving archivesNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!30:11Reginald Henderson and wartime construction continuityQ&A
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!3:49Henderson's leverage over Royal Navy constructionNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!7:08Exercises, not Abyssinia, shaped the support-ship requirementNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!54:01Procurement politics and three possible wartime variantsNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:25:37A modern medical reading of Admiral Henderson's final illnessQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:24:41Admiral Henderson as a wartime First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:32:17Henderson and the Dido class's 5.25-inch compromiseQ&A
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!0:26Henderson's four hidden Town-class hullsChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!30:31The production choice behind a dual-purpose 4.7-inch gunNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!36:30Henderson's large-destroyer opportunityNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:24:20Why Henderson could push the conversion through in 1938Notable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:24:36The ships and fleets a naval historian would visitQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:52:44Reginald Henderson survives into the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:11:05Why Chatfield's memoir needs an archival checkNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:44:24Why Britain favored carriers over naval airshipsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:56:36The M-class monitor idea before the Second World WarQ&A
- HMS Ben My Chree(1908/1915): A Soaring Service with a Legacy of Fire Risk Managment1:00:30Chatfield and Henderson press for better carrier fire safetyChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:14:02A longer-lived Henderson could preserve carrier construction and the Malta classQ&A
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 312:18Landing-craft development predates the official 1940 storyNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 314:37How postwar institutional politics shaped the design recordNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:07:11Reginald Henderson creates the carrier command systemChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:28:22The whole carrier air group trains for night warChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:20:49Henderson warns that peacetime tests can misleadChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:21:58Ark Royal balances protection against aircraft growthNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered43:28Reginald Henderson's warning about fleet air defenseNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...29:02Alpha strike versus continuous carrier operationsChapter
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 122:30Henderson treats standardisation as a fleet-wide multiplierNotable Point
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 124:24Henderson and Goodall designed for global logisticsChapter
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 127:42Exercises and the Abyssinia Crisis build the case for UnicornChapter
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?1:01:12Reginald Henderson linked carrier exercises to wartime fleet designNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:09:25Which naval leaders to save or remove before 1939Q&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:24:19A longer-lived Reginald Henderson could reshape the postwar Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:52:22Reginald Henderson made shipyards answer to informed oversightNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:50:04The interwar Royal Navy was not simply anti-carrierNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 11:01:33What earlier naval control might have done for fleet spottingNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:27:58Henderson's 15-inch preference opens two King George V batteriesQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 247:29Henderson, Unicorn, and delayed carrier prioritiesChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 254:51The Third Sea Lord's construction powerChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 214:51Why Britain's carrier programme did not dovetail in wartimeQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 215:15Henderson was prepared for Mediterranean or Far East commandChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 219:09Henderson turned naval requirements into funded shipsNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response9:20Global commitments complicate theater labels for British carriersNotable Point
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response50:41Why Stanley Goodall's carrier evidence mattersNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?15:49Convoy opposition also came from commercial logisticsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War24:48Fighting fleets and designing them require different admiralsNotable Point
- Bruships 130: Battleships18:19How foreknowledge could redirect Royal Navy designsQ&A
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 62:11Cunningham and Pound's competing cruiser visionsNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 103:52Spreading sloop construction kept escort-building skills aliveNotable Point
- Malta Class: Once more the Royal Navy building for the After War? - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 23:08Treaty limits and the Royal Navy's ideal carrierChapter
- Malta Class: Once more the Royal Navy building for the After War? - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 212:46The Future Building Committee and the post-war fleetChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built33:50How earlier officer losses narrowed wartime leadershipQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years19:46Reginald Henderson's route from destroyers to carrier constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:02:02Henderson's career under a more senior carrier commandQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:03:30Reginald Henderson's possible wartime commandsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:19:17Henderson's naval politics and Cunningham's fleet commandQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 916:19Henderson built doctrine as well as a carrierNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 78:00Radar changes the carrier-defence problemNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney56:28How Admiral Henderson's survival could deepen Royal Navy command optionsQ&A
- Meeting HMAS Vampire!1:39The Daring class as a Tribal successorNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses34:39Engineering perfection versus fleet-wide standardisationNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon59:13Institutional division blocked known shell reformNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class58:44Gunboats supporting torpedo-boat night attacksChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?55:48Britain's carrier program and the scale of French delayNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:16:13A carrier also demanded cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?29:54Interwar industrial investment makes mass refits possibleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?41:45An existing 4.5-inch plan makes mass conversion credibleNotable Point
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 652:44:38Illustrious air groups were limited by policy and lift layoutChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video40:55Why navies also need Whitehall warriorsQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:41Why trade-protection carriers stalled before the warChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:23:07Why no one inventor owns the escort-carrier ideaNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4057:45Chatfield's 14-inch-gun bargain with HendersonQ&A
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation35:18Staff College and Tactical School turn experience into doctrineChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments23:46Henderson's lost opportunity for earlier rearmamentQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:47:12Staff and tactical schools carried the educational legacyChapter
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:29:28Goodall's Hood judgment depended on replacement timingQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)40:16Carrier design follows theater and strike doctrineChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)51:43Interwar escort advocates lacked supportNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:32:47Third Sea Lords who prepared the Royal Navy for warQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)46:44Henderson also anticipated the aircraft carrier's riseQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:09:01Choosing Cunningham, Nelson, or Henderson for different commandsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:11:07Reginald Henderson's overlooked rearmament workNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:49:02If the Royal Navy regained the Fleet Air Arm in 1932Q&A
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)12:11Cruiser classification after the treaty systemNotable Point
- The Operation: Taranto Long Patrol p45:58Why Illustrious sent spaced strike wavesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:33:54Chatfield, Henderson, and interwar carrier policyNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:41:10Bomber doctrine, not malice, set Air Ministry prioritiesQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:52:50What earlier Royal Navy control could have changedQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:27:45How First Sea Lords overrode normal procurement channelsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties23:17Admiral Henderson's procurement authorityChapter
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper34:43Service historical research and the carrier argumentNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)5:02Researching shipbuilding trends and overlooked naval leadersNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:15:46Questions for Henderson, Vian, and CunninghamQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:29:08Beresford, Fisher, and Royal Navy patronageQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland2:17How technology forecasts shaped Crown Colony cruiser designChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments12:27Why constructor-admiral partnerships matter in warship designNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties7:34Carrier design thinking moves beyond gun caliberNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:09:27Glorious and Eagle rehearsed carrier-versus-carrier war in 1931Notable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:04:57Is there a biography of Admiral Reginald Henderson?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:17:23Was there an American equivalent to Admiral Henderson?Q&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:31:13Capability planning is not the same as predicting a warNotable Point
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"21:42Rebuilding the political case for naval aviation after 1945Chapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard55:06Did Fisher shape the Royal Navy of World War II?Q&A
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol33:09Henderson's peacetime case for sloopsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:06:26Henderson's carrier work without a fleet commandNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:09:53Henderson during the Abyssinian CrisisQ&A
- Blackburn Skua - 2 Minutes0:53Henderson's fighter-dive-bomber specificationNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:24:19Skua turns Henderson's carrier requirement into a fighter-dive-bomberChapter
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car9:41What is known about Reginald Henderson's death?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car16:02Understaffing magnified Henderson's Admiralty workloadNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/320:56Ultra, high command, and the pressure on PoundChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 430:17Henderson's pre-war refit plans become availableNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 413:06Keeping naval leaders alive changes the forceNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 432:35Reginald Henderson links China service, carriers, and naval administrationNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:26:16The officers who carried Fleet Air Arm doctrine into senior commandQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You12:51HMS Unicorn as aviation support infrastructureNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:02:21The D-class anti-aircraft conversion war interruptedNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:07:57Reginald Henderson's likely path to Far East commandQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class30:44A speculative lineage from Henderson to DaringNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)3:40Stanley Goodall carries forward the large-destroyer ideaChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)6:12Bruce Fraser and the unbuilt L-class lineageNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)3:40The cruiser shortage Henderson had to solveChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)6:17Henderson frees the destroyer from the torpedo-boat modelChapter
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville27:53Consensus command versus small-ship ruthlessnessNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:44Reginald Henderson's interest in amphibious mobilityQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:31Where Reginald Henderson might have commanded in wartimeQ&A
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 28:43HMS Bassett as an ocean-going trawler prototypeChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 219:28Vosper 73-foot boats and the Admiralty fight over coastal strike craftChapter
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)23:01HMS Unicorn and forward fleet aviation supportNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 213:55Using Wikipedia as a gateway to naval-history sourcesNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 216:21Reginald Henderson and the fleet built for the Second World WarChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 218:25Reginald Henderson from HMS Erin to the convoy systemChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 220:18Henderson's high standards could become a leadership liabilityNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 124:10Caspar John's book as a window into Reginald HendersonNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:13:21A peacetime 1942 Royal Navy under Reginald HendersonQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy22:07Why KGV and Vanguard remained battleshipsQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19291:10:58OC opened a wider problem of air-ASW cooperationNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie8:14Reginald Henderson and the carrier building programmeChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie10:50Could Henderson have accelerated carrier construction?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:21:56Could stronger advocacy have brought escort carriers sooner?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:26:24Why carrier procurement needed an experienced Third Sea LordNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered32:12How seakeeping helped Tribal-class crews and weaponsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered43:30Henderson's carrier ideas in the British Pacific FleetQ&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 18:19Henderson's staff assessments linked Gallipoli and convoysNotable Point
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 112:38The myth of neglected interwar amphibious warfareChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 143:52Designing Landing Craft Tank for heavier armourChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:03:41Did Henderson also shape the Hunt-class destroyers?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?9:07London Treaty rules created free small-ship tonnageChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?24:01Endurance for global convoy escortChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?39:50Bittern design linked peacetime needs to wartime escortsChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:09:49Henderson, Chatfield, and the King George V compromiseQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:12:36Did contemporaries recognize Henderson's influence?Q&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!24:59The 1929 exercises reshape carrier warfareChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!34:38Why HMS Unicorn was not classified as a battleshipQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!42:57Prewar studies become wartime carrier designsChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!44:00The missing biography of Reginald HendersonQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!47:06Why losing Courageous and Glorious did not erase the carrier planQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:36:57Reginald Henderson's practical influenceQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream4:47Henderson and the Royal Navy case for the Tribal classNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)11:17Henderson's convoy theory and the creation of carrier commandNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)13:04Henderson's engineering case for naval control of aviationChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)15:13Henderson's shipyard knowledge and maintainable warship designNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)16:31Henderson's lost wartime leadership and joint-service politicsChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)19:13Henderson's shipyard intelligence and practical naval innovationNotable Point
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)6:02Reginald Henderson's practical case for larger destroyersNotable Point
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)30:47Battle and Weapon classes carried the large-destroyer idea forwardChapter