Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Reserve Fleet

Also searchable as Fleet Reserve, Fleet Reserves, Reserve Fleets.

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  1. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:47:36Why older armoured cruisers would stay in serviceQ&A
  2. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:04:05Surviving Invincibles could enter reserve before IndefatigablesQ&A
  3. Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:41:06Reserve crews for laid-up shipsQ&A
  4. Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    21:48Earlier Type 23 replacement and a usable reserveNotable Point
  5. Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?
    1:00:51Reserve fleets preserve hull life and readinessNotable Point
  6. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:45:47A Japanese-style construction cycle for the Royal NavyQ&A
  7. Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...
    51:20Draug's reactivation exposes the cost of neglected reservesNotable Point
  8. Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...
    1:09:50Sleipner's escort career ends with competing demands for crewsNotable Point
  9. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    2:31:06Could steel warships be placed in ordinary?Q&A
  10. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    2:35:21Could Canada store a reserve fleet on the Great Lakes?Q&A
  11. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    2:36:24Why a reserve-fleet idea needs sustained infrastructure fundingNotable Point
  12. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:18:26Could USS Seattle's receiving-ship crew get her underway?Q&A
  13. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    53:13The promise of Wickes production freed older destroyers for wartime serviceNotable Point
  14. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    55:37A deep destroyer reserve made aggressive training affordableNotable Point
  15. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    1:12:22Clemsons entered reserve before returning to global serviceChapter
  16. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    1:16:34Reserve destroyers gave the U.S. Navy room to develop and operateNotable Point
  17. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:28:50A pair of reserve Lions could extend British battleship serviceQ&A
  18. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:37:53Completed Lions and Malta carriers could survive into the Falklands eraQ&A
  19. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    1:56:20Losing reserve fleets made naval mass easier to ignoreChapter
  20. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    3:13:44The twelve-hour-war theory helped erase reservesQ&A
  21. Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!
    33:20Type 23 retirements expose procurement short-termismNotable Point
  22. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:32:55Where Britain could store a large reserve fleetQ&A
  23. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:36:46How ships in ordinary could improve Royal Navy retentionNotable Point
  24. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:27:19Was HMS Intrepid's engine trouble genuine?Q&A
  25. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:20:13Would 18-inch Iowa variants be retained after the war?Q&A
  26. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    33:39Economies of scale and ships in ordinaryNotable Point
  27. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    1:11:41How deferred refits created the Type 45 backlogQ&A
  28. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    1:16:01The RFA needs competitive civilian pay and reserve depthNotable Point
  29. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft
    25:44Reserve ships as readiness and deterrenceChapter
  30. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    12:35Engineering expertise aboard Delaware and ashoreChapter
  31. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    25:01Could Type 45 destroyers serve alongside Type 83?Q&A
  32. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:05:38Keeping RFA tankers available through reserve and charter workNotable Point
  33. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:21:24Rebuilding the 1989 Royal Navy with future knowledgeQ&A
  34. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    31:37Reserve readiness and the Fourth Destroyer FlotillaChapter
  35. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    50:44How navies learned to preserve mothball fleetsQ&A
  36. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    55:40Why restoring frigate reserves would require new shipsNotable Point
  37. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    56:34Why reserve planning cannot assume wars of choiceNotable Point
  38. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    1:23:09Diesels for reserve gunboats and monitorsNotable Point
  39. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    1:06:45The Nore reserve flotilla links people, ships, and dockyardsChapter
  40. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    38:00Why Royal Navy second rates disappeared from the active listQ&A
  41. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    43:16How the Medway raid encouraged dispersed naval reservesNotable Point
  42. Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force
    45:31Why did sold Royal Navy destroyers remain intact for years?Notable Point
  43. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    20:10Spain would need trained crews and dockyards as well as shipsNotable Point
  44. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    23:40Royal ship names complicate a rapid replacement policyNotable Point
  45. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:04:19Why American ships of the line were awkward Royal Navy reservesQ&A
  46. Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...
    30:22Sea Control Ship and the CVV carrier proposalQ&A
  47. Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...
    33:52Nuclear-carrier economics and the missing reserveNotable Point
  48. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    55:07Zumwalt's medium carriers as a mobilization reserveQ&A
  49. Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...
    20:52A reserve fleet must be ready to surgeNotable Point
  50. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    22:13What mothballing a warship actually involvesNotable Point
  51. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    47:24Mothballing and scrapping to make a fleet affordableChapter
  52. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    56:47Political control can frustrate naval strategyNotable Point
  53. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:16:59Reserve fleets are normal peacetime force structureNotable Point
  54. Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4
    16:39Strategic insurance after a lost fleet battleNotable Point
  55. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    55:10Sizing the U.S. Navy carrier forceQ&A
  56. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    55:58A mixed nuclear and conventional US carrier fleetQ&A
  57. Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:24:24Mothballing old ships to crew new destroyersNotable Point
  58. Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 1938
    3:42:08Iterating the Furor torpedo-boat programQ&A
  59. The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans
    1:03:33Freshwater reserve basins extend the old carrier's lifeNotable Point
  60. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    8:24Why ships in ordinary preserve fleet depthNotable Point
  61. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    49:36Queen Elizabeth carriers: operational adequacy and deterrent valueNotable Point
  62. Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions
    1:15:34Reserve warships bought mobilization timeChapter
  63. Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    21:54Old ships can still provide operational massNotable Point
  64. Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    23:20What happens to mothballed ships in the campaign?Q&A
  65. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    3:13:32G3s serve future needs rather than replace old ships one for oneQ&A
  66. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    3:32:13Scrapping pre-dreadnoughts does not finance new battleshipsQ&A
  67. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    3:41:50Early mothballing could preserve Ticonderoga cruiser lifeQ&A
  68. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    26:42A line battleship built for fleet depthChapter
  69. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    1:21:29Reserve service, spare guns, and a radio telescopeChapter
  70. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:10:28Modeling reserve fleets, maintenance, and mobilizationChapter
  71. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:17:14The case for a Royal Navy reserve forceChapter
  72. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    1:13:37What nuclear warships require in reserveQ&A
  73. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    1:19:40Why cold-shutdown reactors still need a watchQ&A
  74. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    1:40:47Reserve squadrons preserve wartime fleet depthNotable Point
  75. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:55:35Reserve fleets preserve useful second-line shipsQ&A
  76. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:19:27Making Royal Naval Reserve service easier to enter and understandQ&A
  77. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:10:40Ordinary, guard ship, depot ship, and hulk in the sailing navyQ&A
  78. HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 1
    1:06:55Short-term and extended reserve give a fleet mobilization depthNotable Point
  79. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:55:56What a much larger US diesel-submarine fleet would requireQ&A
  80. Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI
    23:45Extra Type 45 hulls spread development cost and create depthNotable Point
  81. Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI
    1:12:59Italy's second fleet strengthens the Adriatic blockadeChapter
  82. USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 10
    59:37A Barbary show of force begins Independence's serviceChapter
  83. USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 10
    1:12:17Independence's larger lesson: reserves, hard power, and credibilityNotable Point
  84. Sloops Adaptability of Presence
    13:20Reserve rotation protects deployable ship numbersNotable Point
  85. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:11:52Reserve destroyers trade bad headlines for real wartime resilienceQ&A
  86. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    3:24:33Reserve ships protect a fleet against long-war attritionChapter
  87. HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 8
    48:05Reserve ships as insurance for refits and crisesChapter
  88. HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response
    9:30How Britain planned a 22- or 23-ship capital fleetNotable Point
  89. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    33:13Why old sloops still mattered in 1939Notable Point
  90. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    36:45Acacia careers from wartime losses to 1950s serviceChapter
  91. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    40:12A practical ASDic modernization caseNotable Point
  92. Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 2
    43:33What six extra sloops might have changed in 1939Notable Point
  93. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    58:00Why Renown was held back from BismarckQ&A
  94. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    1:57:21Why obsolete battleships make poor reserve shipsQ&A
  95. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    2:32:37How long 12-inch dreadnoughts might last without World War IQ&A
  96. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:49:15Can scrapping ships finance a reserve fleet?Q&A
  97. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    3:23:58How an unrestricted capital fleet would cycle older ships outQ&A
  98. US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response
    33:44The post-Cold War case against retiring nuclear cruisersQ&A
  99. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    2:08:40How quickly could reserve warships return to service?Q&A
  100. Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 5
    11:20A reserve fleet needs crews and dockyardsNotable Point
  101. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    36:50Guard ships after the Dutch War shocksNotable Point
  102. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    38:17What paid off and in ordinary meanQ&A
  103. Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 12
    43:43HMS Cressy from China Station to Heligoland BightChapter
  104. Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)
    30:47Diadem's global service in an era of rapid changeChapter
  105. Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)
    34:33Niobe's Boer War escort, rescue, and fleet serviceChapter
  106. Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers
    32:51Sverdlov's guns as visible instruments of Soviet diplomacyChapter
  107. Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers
    37:27Soviet retention kept the gun-cruiser option alive into the Falklands eraNotable Point
  108. Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 3
    15:57Reserve, Morocco, and collier duties extended Forbin's careerChapter
  109. Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 3
    23:19Coëtlogon's exercise career ended with an official warning not to rely on herChapter
  110. Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 3
    25:42Surcouf survived rapid obsolescence by filling a fleet command gapChapter
  111. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:38:16How much British reinforcement was available?Q&A
  112. Bruships 88: Way of War
    2:31:39Korean War mobilization reaches the reserves and RFAChapter
  113. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    6:37Remnant Faction: mobilizing an intact reserve fleetChapter
  114. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    7:55A tiered Royal Navy cruiser force for global commitmentsQ&A
  115. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    1:21:23Keeping modern escorts in ordinary reserveQ&A
  116. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    37:32Why reserve warships still matter in a long warNotable Point
  117. Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 10
    3:23First-class protected cruisers and reserve-fleet logicChapter
  118. Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 10
    59:24The Edgar class remained useful after losing first-rate statusChapter
  119. Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p6
    23:23Fleet exercises exposed the cost of real readinessNotable Point
  120. Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p6
    35:25Arethusa shows how ships in ordinary saved manpowerChapter
  121. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    3:01:24What a credible Vanguard reserve would requireQ&A
  122. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    40:34Mobilizing hulls without enough commanding officersNotable Point
  123. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    49:07A starship replicator instead of a mothball fleetNotable Point
  124. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    53:37A reserve fleet needs crews as well as stored hullsNotable Point
  125. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    1:50:46Why Starfleet needs a reserve systemNotable Point
  126. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    3:04:28How many Galaxy hulls were really available?Notable Point
  127. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    20:15Reserve cruisers would release modern ships for AsiaNotable Point
  128. Bruships 69: The Decider
    31:53The cost of retaining Type 23 frigates in reserveQ&A
  129. County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued
    24:03Why Britain rapidly sold the reserve fleetNotable Point
  130. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    2:51:33Why a larger modern reserve fleet remains unlikelyQ&A
  131. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    45:13Colour squadrons as a command reserveNotable Point
  132. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?
    33:41How a NATO reserve fleet might preserve Cold War warshipsQ&A
  133. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?
    1:22:19Why an untouched Iowa reserve would be hard to reactivate todayQ&A
  134. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907
    2:00How a fleet reserve preserves wartime capacityNotable Point
  135. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    11:51Why the Royal Navy retained so many older battleshipsQ&A
  136. Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?
    1:33:58How quickly would reserve fleets return to service?Q&A
  137. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    2:42:58Why the Tigers were unavailable in 1982Q&A
  138. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland
    31:32HMCS Quebec's Korean War reactivationNotable Point
  139. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda
    39:59Gambia mixes British and American fire-control systemsNotable Point
  140. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    49:55Why the U.S. four-piper reserve was accidentalQ&A
  141. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    57:41How usable was Britain's reserve fleet?Q&A
  142. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    45:45Legacy Fleet and the danger of cutting old shipsChapter
  143. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    37:49Shipbuilding politics could send disappointing designs into reserveNotable Point
  144. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:23:28How long might armored cruisers have lasted without war?Q&A
  145. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:31:31HMS Leander survived because she was still activeNotable Point
  146. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:40:31Why wartime demand for escorts never disappearsNotable Point
  147. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    1:47:57War-fighting and peace-fighting fleets reinforce each otherNotable Point
  148. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    2:01:10Were worn boilers the reason for scrapping?Q&A
  149. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    2:12:56Why Pearl-class survivors challenge Fisher's technical criteriaChapter
  150. The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?
    6:35The first generation of new 1930s light cruisersChapter
  151. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 2
    10:47Burned stocks, lost gunboats, and ships held in reserveNotable Point
  152. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    59:41Submarines and bases for a Mediterranean counteroffensiveNotable Point
  153. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    14:29Japanese refits and an unready battle lineNotable Point
  154. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    20:29Worked-up destroyer flotillas and forward reservesNotable Point
  155. Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?
    9:02Reclassifying old destroyers as coast-guard shipsNotable Point
  156. 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister
    22:47Type 45 successors and Type 31 wartime rolesNotable Point