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Ship Classification

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:01:47F127 displacement and the limits of the frigate labelNotable Point
  2. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    4:09Where a flotilla leader ends and a cruiser beginsChapter
  3. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:14:47Japanese Aegis ship names and classificationQ&A
  4. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:43:48Frigates, destroyers and aircraft-style role designationsQ&A
  5. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:38:44The Royal Navy's postwar Type numberingNotable Point
  6. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:41:39Why the Royal Navy kept its existing ship-identification systemQ&A
  7. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:02:14First, second, and third rates were all battleships of their ageQ&A
  8. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:24:42US escort reclassification brought names into line with fleet rolesQ&A
  9. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:55:01Third rates fought fleet actions while frigates carried on the cruising roleQ&A
  10. Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?
    22:59Frigate and destroyer labels often follow role rather than tonnageNotable Point
  11. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:46:52The weakness of size-only starship classificationQ&A
  12. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:01:56Science-fiction equivalents of the Tiger-class cruiserQ&A
  13. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:17:48Why the IJN called the Kongos fast battleshipsQ&A
  14. How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds
    47:32Ticonderoga begins as a Spruance-hulled destroyer leaderNotable Point
  15. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:51:12Translating a naval task force into Star WarsQ&A
  16. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:56:13Why a Star Wars carrier still needs an anti-fighter screenNotable Point
  17. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:56:41Where Star Dreadnoughts outgrow naval analogiesNotable Point
  18. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:41:07Warship types work better as spectra than boxesQ&A
  19. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:53:46How Japan could stretch the destroyer label beyond IzumoQ&A
  20. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:18:18When a destroyer becomes a cruiserQ&A
  21. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    1:15:31Capability matters more than displacement labelsQ&A
  22. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    1:22:57Post-Cold War assumptions and shallow missile magazinesNotable Point
  23. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    2:06:54Why VLS cell counts cannot recreate the age-of-sail rating systemQ&A
  24. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    2:46:36Why VLS length labels do not standardize firepowerQ&A
  25. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:12Why Star Trek's cruiser labels confuse fleet comparisonsNotable Point
  26. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:00:39Why the Capitani Romani straddled cruiser and destroyer categoriesQ&A
  27. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    1:23:00The proposed battleship's strike-cruiser comparisonNotable Point
  28. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    1:26:32What separates a modern frigate from a corvette?Q&A
  29. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    3:20:05Why the US Navy calls design batches flightsQ&A
  30. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    4:10:25Why Canada calls its Type 26 derivative a destroyerQ&A
  31. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    8:39Why German torpedo boats carried numbers, not namesNotable Point
  32. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    44:34Why were the S138 batches called one class?Q&A
  33. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    54:47Construction and survivability separate destroyers from torpedo boatsNotable Point
  34. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    1:17:55Were Germany's large torpedo boats really destroyers?Q&A
  35. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:10:04Did the sloop disappear or acquire the frigate name?Q&A
  36. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    48:59Will frigates grow past today's destroyers?Q&A
  37. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:18:22A World War I destroyer's modern peer is an OPVQ&A
  38. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:55:03A battleship label may be procurement strategyQ&A
  39. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    3:21:13Cruiser classes and the later sloop roleNotable Point
  40. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    3:22:05Sloops, frigates and corvettes had different build standardsNotable Point
  41. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    5:24:23When fictional ship labels differ from naval definitionsNotable Point
  42. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:10:24How calling battlecruisers frigates might affect their useNotable Point
  43. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:36:18What does heavy cruiser mean in a 1919 design exercise?Notable Point
  44. #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?
    9:31Why South Carolina just fits the dreadnought categoryNotable Point
  45. #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?
    1:43:43How to place a fast capital ship between battleship and battlecruiserNotable Point
  46. Why do Historians like to Name things?
    1:04Dreadnought, ironclad, and sail as naval era labelsNotable Point
  47. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    8:38Vanguard's long history and battlecruiser classificationNotable Point
  48. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    20:25Reading Zonchio's galleys, carracks, and disputed ship namesChapter
  49. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    41:38Why sources call Zonchio's carracks galleonsNotable Point
  50. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    55:19What a battle illustration can reveal about Ottoman carracksNotable Point
  51. So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live
    9:12Ship labels follow mission and the force required to answer themNotable Point
  52. So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live
    10:27Define a modern battleship by mission, not turret countChapter
  53. So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live
    30:50A battleship mission is broader than its main batteryChapter
  54. So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live
    1:48:16An arsenal ship, armored cruiser, and fast battleship convergeNotable Point
  55. Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...
    1:45:01Why major ship classifications usually change after warQ&A
  56. Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...
    3:05:30Why US destroyer escorts were not initially called frigatesQ&A
  57. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    1:09:42Where modern frigates, destroyers, and cruisers divergeQ&A
  58. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    1:24:55Is Dunkerque a battleship or a battlecruiser?Q&A
  59. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    2:01:25Subclasses trace the Nimitz design’s evolution toward FordNotable Point
  60. Bruships Gothenborg style...
    1:21:57Why the MEKO 360 is better understood as a frigateQ&A
  61. Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    23:02Heavy cruisers withdraw from a battleshipNotable Point
  62. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    25:31When larger ship types take over smaller ships' jobsNotable Point
  63. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:04:25How destroyer guns can force cruiser growthNotable Point
  64. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:28:04An anti-submarine cruiser with a destroyer's roleNotable Point
  65. The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers
    12:15Furious resists a neat battlecruiser labelNotable Point
  66. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    37:18Iowa remains a fast battleship, not a battlecruiserQ&A
  67. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    3:51:48Nine 9.2-inch guns turn Courageous into a heavy cruiserNotable Point
  68. Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...
    1:14:08Modular fleets make role definitions more importantNotable Point
  69. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    4:25:41How wartime officers would view 10,000-ton destroyersQ&A
  70. Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    47:42Were Scharnhorst and Dunkerque battleships or battlecruisers?Q&A
  71. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    2:30:55Why the Warrior class was not a dreadnought armoured cruiserQ&A
  72. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    3:18:00Why Long Beach was the US Navy's last purpose-built cruiserNotable Point
  73. Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough
    15:07The rating system began as a pay systemNotable Point
  74. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    0:20Why the Ticonderogas became cruisersNotable Point
  75. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    4:49Destroyer leaders, frigates, and changing US labelsQ&A
  76. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    30:43A loose 19th-century cruiser analogyQ&A
  77. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    33:25Star Destroyers as capital-ship hybridsNotable Point
  78. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    34:21Modern escorts have inherited cruiser missionsNotable Point
  79. Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response
    10:02How DLG and frigate labels shiftedQ&A
  80. Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response
    16:40Long Beach, armour, and cruiser lineageNotable Point
  81. Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane
    1:17:09When destroyer guns begin to create a cruiserQ&A
  82. US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response
    0:51HMS Hood, Lexington, and the battlecruiser categoryQ&A
  83. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:39:28Six-inch guns would not automatically make Bristol a cruiserQ&A
  84. Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus
    3:38:44How foreign cruiser labels can reshape procurementQ&A
  85. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    2:41:28How 'moderately armed and armored' changes with timeQ&A
  86. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    2:45:10Battlecruisers inside the cruiser spectrumQ&A
  87. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    15:24Testing a cruiser definition against real shipsNotable Point
  88. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    17:32HMS Warrior and the cruiser-capital-ship boundaryChapter
  89. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    30:11Cold War cruiser politics and the 1974 cruiser gapNotable Point
  90. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    33:26Do all modern warships perform the cruiser role?Notable Point
  91. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    1:47:24Warrior changes type without changing shapeNotable Point
  92. Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?
    29:02Why capital ships received 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
  93. Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?
    7:43Why destroyers were flotilla assets and cruisers independent shipsNotable Point
  94. Bruships 90: Books From the Road
    49:18Navies avoided renaming expensive rebuilds because a 'new ship' attracted scrutinyQ&A
  95. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)
    2:15Classifying a Dutch coastal-defense battleshipQ&A
  96. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    16:09How battleship and cruiser design roles divergedQ&A
  97. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    16:54Warrior, Black Prince, and changing warship classificationsQ&A
  98. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    0:26Why navies prefer the frigate labelChapter
  99. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    9:32How armoured frigates helped create the cruiser categoryChapter
  100. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    13:39Warship categories grow beyond their original scaleNotable Point
  101. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    19:33Why modern sensors changed the cruiser’s scouting roleNotable Point
  102. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    22:16Independence, endurance, and the task-group testNotable Point
  103. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    1:00:02Why 76 mm guns matter for close-in defenseNotable Point
  104. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    1:17:47Álvaro de Bazán and Hobart blur frigate and destroyer labelsChapter
  105. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    1:37:02A mission-based definition of the modern cruiserChapter
  106. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    1:40:19Apply the cruiser test to a modern warshipNotable Point
  107. UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)
    15:42Why treaty armament does not make a true heavy cruiserQ&A
  108. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    3:21Why VLS count does not define a cruiserQ&A
  109. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    9:16Why Ibuki was not a battlecruiserQ&A
  110. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    29:07A mission-based modern cruiser definitionChapter
  111. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    33:39Was Long Beach the last true U.S. cruiser?Q&A
  112. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    52:09Classify the ship that is fittedQ&A
  113. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    58:11A cruiser definition beyond national labelsQ&A
  114. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:14:09Why mission codes do not solve classificationQ&A
  115. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    2:07:35One Aegis family called frigate and destroyerChapter
  116. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    2:39:47Why drones may not create a new ship typeQ&A
  117. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    2:44:11Frigates and destroyers as cruiser variantsChapter
  118. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    2:46:01How wartime sloops became modern frigatesQ&A
  119. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    3:04:04Armour is central to the battleship definitionQ&A
  120. Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    49:17Light and scout cruisers as operational categoriesNotable Point
  121. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy
    1:16:23Why ice-class ratings may leave a safety marginQ&A
  122. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    57:16HMS Unicorn and the politics of ship classificationNotable Point
  123. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    1:34:57Why size alone does not make a battleshipNotable Point
  124. Why the Galaxy Class are Cruisers in 12 minutes...
    0:31Why size does not decide whether the Galaxy is a cruiserChapter
  125. Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    41:18Why ship labels can hide operational rolesNotable Point
  126. Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)
    37:08A treaty cruiser category, but a minelayer in practiceNotable Point
  127. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    9:54Which ship was the last purpose-built US cruiser hull?Q&A
  128. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    16:12Would the unbuilt Admirals form a Hood subclass?Q&A
  129. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    1:02:19Was Type 82 a destroyer or a cruiser?Q&A
  130. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    1:22:49When does a cruiser-killer stop being a cruiser?Q&A
  131. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    1:00:16Why fast battleships inherited the battlecruiser's roleQ&A
  132. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    2:22:25Gun calibre does not define a battlecruiserNotable Point
  133. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:05:02Cruiser missions survive under the destroyer labelQ&A
  134. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:17:34When a 6-inch destroyer becomes a cruiserQ&A
  135. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:24:47Cruiser-sized ships remain in several modern fleetsNotable Point
  136. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    1:19:21Why twenty-eight-gun sixth rates disappeared from the totalsQ&A
  137. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    1:20:42Where corvettes fit among Nelson-era warshipsQ&A
  138. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    1:43The treaty gap that created the heavy cruiserNotable Point
  139. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    21:40Was CSS Virginia the first coastal-defence ship?Q&A
  140. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    42:54Do gunboats count as early coastal-defence ships?Q&A
  141. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    1:18:45Where is the line between a monitor and a coastal-defence ship?Q&A
  142. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    2:21:41What traditional warship category best fits a coastal-defence ship?Q&A
  143. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    2:50:34Was the Sverige class a true pocket battleship?Q&A
  144. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    3:06:55Was the Royal Navy's Devastation class a coastal-defence design?Q&A
  145. Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI
    1:49:17Was the Edgar Quinet class a French battlecruiser?Q&A
  146. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    15:37The battleship term and HMS VictoryQ&A
  147. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:47:37A future U.S. destroyer with cruiser displacementQ&A
  148. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:54:14Do flag facilities and missile counts define a cruiser?Q&A
  149. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:57:51Type 26 and the growth of frigatesNotable Point
  150. Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)
    1:08:21The España class as coastal-defence dreadnoughtsQ&A
  151. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-7
    16:26Do steam turbines define a dreadnought?Q&A
  152. Bruships 48: Reading History
    3:27:18The Millennium Falcon as an East Indiaman rather than a ship of the lineQ&A
  153. Bruships 48: Reading History
    3:52:32Emperor and Retribution classes as battlecarrier and battleshipQ&A
  154. Prince Philips Navy
    2:25:21Why postwar records can call a sloop a frigateQ&A
  155. Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 4
    1:07A fictional cruiser with a sloop-sized crewNotable Point
  156. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    3:22:07Why the Naboo cruiser is better described as a yachtNotable Point
  157. The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)
    28:37Why an armored cruiser's armour was so thickQ&A
  158. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates
    19:36Why the frigate, sloop, and corvette labels need contextNotable Point
  159. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 4
    8:21Ōtori-class torpedo boats blur the destroyer boundaryNotable Point
  160. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 2
    1:27How the London Naval Treaty defined little shipsChapter
  161. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    44:21Leander flexibility and postwar Type designationsQ&A
  162. A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history
    31:26Leander as a precursor to Elswick cruisersQ&A
  163. A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history
    53:48Where Alaska, Kongo, and Deutschland fitQ&A
  164. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)
    7:11Landing Ship Infantry categories and shifting rolesNotable Point