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- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...28:42Why a power-station boiler faces different demands at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live29:35Late warships with reciprocating expansion enginesQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:36How steam warships heated heavy fuel oil from coldQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:08:22Why impressment gave way to professional serviceQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:04Why an enormous first rate would merit screw conversionQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:20Project 50 and the limits of steam submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:00Spain's Oquendo-class destroyers and delayed constructionQ&A
- Bruships23:18Steam power before gunpowder and ramming tacticsQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:52Steam power breaks the geography of sail blockadeQ&A
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...7:06Wildfang's extra knot and the Huszars' light gunsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)40:13Rattler's propeller trial was also a crew testNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:34:17How early did combined ship propulsion appear?Q&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:26Could USS Seattle's receiving-ship crew get her underway?Q&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:56Steam specialists, Tiger reactivation and HMS BristolQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...6:33Monarch's hull proportions and the uncertainty in length-to-beam ratiosChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...9:36Monarch's armour stayed while new machinery improved her speedNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...17:21Forecastle, sail rig, and the limits of an early turret shipChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...19:12Larger guns favoured turrets before engines could free their firing arcsNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...21:13Why coastal turret ships could abandon sail soonerNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...29:09Collision, repair, and Mediterranean serviceNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...32:12Modernization carried Monarch into the twentieth centuryChapter
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:23:48Why cold ships and holiday manning magnify the raidQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:21Why destroyer steam pressures laggedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:40:02How foreknowledge could accelerate the 1850 Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:17:25Reliable steam power and an earlier end to warship sail rigsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:37:58Why steam propulsion changed naval warfareQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:54How warships kept crews warm in cold weatherQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:26A steel Old Ironsides forces propulsion to catch upQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:43Why the 1860s are a compelling shipbuilding eraQ&A
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships2:07Why sail persisted after steam arrivedChapter
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:27Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney's unusually long serviceNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence31:11Hornby adapted fleet tactics to steam and ironcladsChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...29:33Arkansas enters service with crippling machinery faultsChapter
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:44How a steamship could exceed its rated speed in an emergencyQ&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?28:49Steam-powered raids made Portsmouth's landward defenses necessaryNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!22:31HMS Garry's machinery and seventy-person crewNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth32:22Darkness shaped scouting in the high-speed steam eraNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:32:08George Cockburn uses politics to reform the NavyChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...4:09Samurai upbringing and the Anglo-Satsuma WarChapter
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:38:52Why new Second World War Darings would not fit a modern fleetQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:50:51What navies might look like without marine steam enginesQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:21:27An incoming tide lets Farragut lower boiler pressureNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:21:35German machinery was capable but painfully individualQ&A
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates25:19Benchmark navies could shape rivals through selective performance figuresNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:01:16Muscle-powered Chinese paddle ships in the Opium WarsQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:33:01How wind and tide concentrated sailing-fleet battlesQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:50:06Shell guns before Trafalgar and the early ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:08:48How air-independent boilers would reshape early warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:15:45Helicopter height forces carrier redesignChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:58:28Fisher with future design histories builds a frightening DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:38:56How quickly a steam fleet can leave harborQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:09:27Changing definitions of high-pressure steamQ&A
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 814:30Asahi's machinery, armament, and armorChapter
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:52:57Steam gave K-class submarines fleet speed at a high priceQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:14:05Old sailing-warship types faded through changing rolesQ&A
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196011:25HMS Warrior made armour, speed, and firepower inseparableNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 922:08Simple machinery and reliable distant deploymentNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound3:12Northampton's ambitious machinery and Nelson's better speedNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology36:57Re d'Italia shows why drill mattersChapter
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:41:36Milne argues that steam squadrons require a steam-powered defenceNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response15:27What did an oil-fired ship's stoker do?Q&A
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response0:33Why Warrior's boilers and engines needed a long passageQ&A
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response1:33Coal quality and the first naval steam engineersNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine9:01Bearn's machinery changed after the hull was laid outNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:19:14Steam machinery burdened the K-class submarinesChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:47:23K-class submarines forced steam machinery into a fleet roleChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War39:08Machinery, guns, and armour aboard Blanco EncaladaNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 711:13Firepower and machinery made Huáscar a deterrentNotable Point
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 612:12A compact but heavily protected ironcladChapter
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 616:18Why iron armour and machinery retained valueNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition2:22Why the ironclad frigate broke the sailing-ship modelNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition24:37When a new technology becomes practicalChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition27:21Reliable steam created a new capital shipNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition30:21Boiler layout made steam a shipwide systemNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition40:22Coal stations made global steam power possibleChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition41:23Why the Royal Navy let coaling at sea atrophyQ&A
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition43:11Coal stations as strategic choke pointsNotable Point
- Blockade!!24:12Steam power changes blockade runningNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:40:12Quintuple-expansion steam engines and complexity limitsQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts42:51Sackville's Scotch boilers and railway industrial skillsNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts44:17Triple-expansion engines were smooth, not silentNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:07:20Marine boiler research often starts with technical training manualsQ&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:45:20How quickly did the Falklands battlecruisers get underway?Q&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers12:14Sail in the transition to steam cruisersNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers14:01Which ship was the first true steam cruiser?Notable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:45:06Why early steam cruisers still carried sailsQ&A
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class45:49Scotch boilers and triple-expansion enduranceChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class47:17Follow the fire-tube cycle inside Sackville's boilerNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class53:05How Sackville's triple-expansion engine reused steamNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)8:45Hull dimensions, machinery, and the transition to salvo fireChapter
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)23:17Freya's boiler failures reshape German warship machineryNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)40:08Which warship classes lost their practical value even faster?Notable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 22:21An Elswick cruiser derived from EsmeraldaChapter
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 14:08Mersey-class guns, machinery, and rangeChapter
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1113:39George Melville makes the engineering case for ColumbiaChapter
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1118:18How steam engineering became a US Navy institutionChapter
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1119:46Rickover's Civil War sea-power claim needs a caveatNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p911:05Sfax's hull, machinery, armament, and protectionChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p711:44Esmeralda's machinery, dimensions, range, and crewChapter
- Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p625:50Phaeton's trials tested funnels, draft, and machineryChapter
- Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p646:22Sail remained insurance against missing coal infrastructureNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p410:19Slow machinery and the last lifting screwChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:51:35How steamship boilers were kept from explodingQ&A
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p32:25Sail, steam, and a lifting propellerNotable Point
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p34:50General-Admiral's specifications and batteryChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p10:17Industrial change reshapes the cruiserChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p125:04Steam power frees designers from sailing constraintsChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p128:34Turreted cruisers require metallurgy and horsepowerNotable Point
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation13:57Technical literacy as a command responsibilityNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches35:02The engineering status crisis behind the reformChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:20:05Why rainwater cannot sustain a steamship's boilersQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...23:48Maintaining sails on early steam-converted warshipsQ&A
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)9:34Steam-era seamanship and HMS DefenceNotable Point
- The Challenger Expedition (Long Patrol)16:01HMS Challenger's size, propulsion, and reduced armamentNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov27:24Why Mahan questioned the steam-age naval meleeNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol6:08Demologos and the first steam-warship experimentNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol7:38Paddles, screws, and the Rattler trialsNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol12:01HMS Rattler proves useful beyond propulsion trialsNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol12:32How engines made armoured hulls practicalChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol24:43Lissa, Devastation, and reliable steamChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles11:44Demologos: an early steam-powered floating batteryNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles23:00Why screw propulsion displaced paddlewheelsChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles26:56Why paddle and screw warships overlapped for decadesQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles42:21HMS Warrior's speed, armour, and striking powerChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:31:52Trafalgar's myth and later battle expectationsChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:33:16What made Trafalgar decisiveChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:44:23HMS Hood did not need all 24 boilers for cruisingQ&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)15:38Camperdown's transitional hull formNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)17:12Victoria's forward armament and power demandsNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)23:10Compound engines, triple expansion, and coal enduranceNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron18:52Steam frigates bridge wooden walls and HMS WarriorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron22:09A converted steam triple-decker before WarriorNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:15:59Why early steamships kept their sailsChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:17:54Sirius and Great Western test Atlantic steam enduranceNotable Point
- 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity22:46K-class steam power bought speed but not enduranceChapter
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans1:36:59Battlecruiser operating economicsQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:35:27How coal-and-oil combination firing workedQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword25:04Why Canada's coast guard lacks a royal titleQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:39:16Turning pulverized coal into a pumpable marine fuelChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:43:25Recovering steam-engine exhaust energy with a turbineNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:45:06How operating assumptions changed the steam-versus-diesel resultChapter
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol16:24Handmade marine engines made expertise ship-specificNotable Point
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol18:02Why distant stations still valued paddle frigatesNotable Point
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol21:26Sultana exposed the risks of overloaded early steamshipsNotable Point
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol37:52The machinery behind USS WolverineNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192018:22Steam pressure and the appeal of electric pod propulsionNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:07:58Could Edgar-class cruisers still sail under canvas?Q&A
- Paddle Ships at War1:28:24Why steam boilers depended on fresh waterQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War2:52:41Early steam power fuels invasion panicNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol21:06Amphion machinery layout and torpedo resilienceNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"(Intro)17:53Warrior is ready while Monitor is still buildingChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1628:40Destroyer engine rooms under heavy fireQ&A
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 1 of 27:01Small steam vessels bring guns closer in the Opium WarsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A48:09Why steam did not free navies from geographyQ&A