Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Ship Handling

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  1. William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!
    1:58:07Carrying and towing a sailing warship's boatsQ&A
  2. The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI
    27:52G96 and the late-war peak of the large torpedo boatChapter
  3. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    7:44:19How US dynamite-gun ships aimed fixed weaponsQ&A
  4. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    37:21How a three-masted rig helps a sailing ship turnQ&A
  5. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:07:22Were Russian circular warships an idea ahead of their controls?Q&A
  6. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:14:47Why coercive pincer maneuvers risk collisionsQ&A
  7. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:28:34Would Warspite be vulnerable to A-4 attacks at San Carlos?Q&A
  8. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:33:31Using an anchor for a warship handbrake turnQ&A
  9. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    31:11Nuestra Señora del Rosario enters the ArmadaChapter
  10. Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:19:18Why first-rate ships served as fleet flagshipsQ&A
  11. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    10:24Using a larger ship's wake to fight fires at seaQ&A
  12. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:11:21Assessing Cuauhtémoc's Brooklyn Bridge collisionQ&A
  13. An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley
    14:23Cartagena: blockade strategy and Rowley's ship handlingChapter
  14. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    7:05HMS Hindustan expands the floating collegeNotable Point
  15. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    44:30Merchant experience aboard Bathurst-class corvettesNotable Point
  16. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    4:42:42What a submarine conning tower does on the surfaceQ&A
  17. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:13:35British ships of the line crowded on sail before battleQ&A
  18. Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)
    38:30HMS Dictator's anchor turn at the Battle of LyngorNotable Point
  19. Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:46:14Torpedo damage, maneuver, and warning timeNotable Point
  20. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    2:08:30Fishtailing depends on shafts, propellers, and ruddersQ&A
  21. Twelve Odd Ships
    43:03Novgorod's circular hull favored sheltered watersChapter
  22. Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.
    1:33:23Novgorod's circular hull fits a narrow missionChapter
  23. Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:35:33Command initiative should prevent fleet collisionsNotable Point
  24. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    2:12:28New Jersey could draw on former crews but would still need tugsQ&A
  25. HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response
    11:19Why HMS Renown suited Jacky FisherQ&A
  26. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    3:11:03Naval fiction should respect a ship's momentumQ&A
  27. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 7
    2:28:40Detection, speed, and two torpedo-evasion turnsNotable Point
  28. Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!
    46:23What can be said about Kort-nozzle steering experimentsQ&A
  29. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 5
    1:48:00Automatic torpedo avoidance fails HMS LondonNotable Point
  30. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    2:43:55Why even a single ship zigzagged against submarinesQ&A
  31. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:03:54How rail ferries line tracks up at the berthQ&A
  32. Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology
    36:57Re d'Italia shows why drill mattersChapter
  33. Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!
    1:18:44Repulse's loss was not mechanically inevitableNotable Point
  34. Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?
    3:34:37Cruiser contact exposed Bismarck and disabled her own search radarChapter
  35. Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1
    41:54Machinery and bow units for a hard-to-handle carrierNotable Point
  36. HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 9
    33:52Steam readiness mattered in confined watersNotable Point
  37. Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...
    36:08One ship is not the same as a fleetNotable Point
  38. Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation
    22:31Dead reckoning needs a planned courseNotable Point
  39. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:56:32Why navies often prefer even propeller countsQ&A
  40. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)
    36:17Realistic games and divided vehicle-crew rolesNotable Point
  41. HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?
    38:21Aft pivot gun and command communicationsNotable Point
  42. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:41:21Rigny chose a frigate while his line ships carried the weightChapter
  43. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    2:26:25What makes a warship handy and nimbleQ&A
  44. Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)
    18:49Compartmentation, cruising turbines, and a wide turnNotable Point
  45. British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)
    49:38Sheerness shows why dock access matters as much as dock sizeNotable Point
  46. British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)
    51:08A double-ended dock can make carrier entry safer and fasterNotable Point
  47. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    1:26:47Dock geometry and difficult approaches at SheernessNotable Point
  48. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    1:36:19How ships were moved inside dockyard basinsQ&A
  49. Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…
    3:18:46Estimating Warspite's speed from a photographQ&A
  50. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    1:58:50HMS Victoria's collision was an obedience problem, not proof for rammingQ&A
  51. Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)
    1:00:34Tryon's signaling method and Markham's delayChapter
  52. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    2:48:37Landing Ship Tank handling was difficult, not impossibleQ&A
  53. Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-45
    31:52Why coastal convoys had no simple average speedQ&A
  54. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    58:27Why a carrier's navigation bridge stays high and aftQ&A
  55. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    1:21:39Why Ever Given was so difficult to handle in the Suez CanalNotable Point
  56. Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes
    1:25:35Why moving the G3 bridge aft complicated ship controlQ&A
  57. Paddle Ships at War
    24:02How a stern-wheel paddle ship turnsQ&A
  58. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    27:48Why a cruiser would not tow the merchant awayQ&A