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- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:33Testing a 1918 fast-battleship proposal against available machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:51Why stationary boiler performance does not transfer directly to shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:35A diesel Scharnhorst: power, speed and the whole machinery plantQ&A
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?2:33Deutschland and Scharnhorst: speed, power and enduranceNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?27:05Turbine manufacture, crew demands and machinery redundancyNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?1:01:15A hypothetical Lion with diesel and turbine machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:05:17Queen Mary machinery and battlecruiser developmentQ&A
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?29:50Tiger's dimensions and machinery baselineNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?31:07Why boiler count does not directly determine horsepowerNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?39:56Higher steam pressure and turbine blade efficiencyNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:33:56Warspite’s machinery helps explain its modernizationNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars17:00Fleet screening and the drop-back manoeuvreNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars23:33British shipyards and specialised industrial knowledgeNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?5:46France's prewar destroyers and the unfinished third shipChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?25:04How shipbuilding capacity kept destroyer development movingNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...19:16B-class destroyers: raising the requirement to 30 knotsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...24:35C-class 30-knotters and the case for earlier turbine adoptionNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...33:38River-class turbine trials and hull efficiencyNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...38:30Tribal-class speed, oil, and turbine trialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...40:06Amazon's fuel consumption and the Tribals' structural strengthNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...59:10Acorn-class oil firing within a common designChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:00:12Brown-Curtis turbines and John Brown's refinementsNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:06:00Acheron-class competition and Yarrow specialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:09:51Acasta-class turbine and framing experimentsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:11:08Cruising diesels and Garland's semi-geared turbinesNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:15:07How destroyer turbine trials could benefit larger warshipsNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:15:57Laforey-class armament, geared turbines and new buildersChapter
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)6:07Why naval technology moved faster than army doctrineChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...46:54The 1945 project finally reflected the destroyer lessonsChapter
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)9:12How turbine cruising performance expanded fleet mobilityNotable Point
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)14:17How British and American yards refined each other's turbinesNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI6:36Isokaze-class escorts for the Eight-Eight FleetChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI10:07The Momo class works around yard and turbine limitsChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI23:09The Enoki class meets a six-month emergency deadlineChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered29:58Paulding design strengths cannot overcome escort scarcityChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered39:36Destroyers double as scouts when cruisers are scarceNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:47How quickly HMS Eskimo received a new bowQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:07Why sustained high speed gave destroyers 'turbinitis'Notable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI40:18Reliable turbines replace mixed destroyer machineryNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI42:14French turbine development draws on international exchangeNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI45:07The final prewar classes gain range and carry larger crewsChapter
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:02Why Hood's geared turbines wore fasterQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:19How ocean-liner races affected naviesQ&A
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII8:02Hugin develops Swedish turbine and shipbuilding capabilityChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima42:03Novik combined turbine speed with a heavy destroyer armamentChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima48:26The Orfey subclass remained a useful destroyerNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...16:12Cape St. George: machinery strain and command judgmentNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds31:37Charles F. Adams combines missile armament with a proven designChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII25:10Why high speed in heavy seas damaged destroyer turbinesNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:22Why Admiral Hipper wins by defaultQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:43:59Turbinia and the test beds behind DreadnoughtQ&A
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...18:19Austro-Hungarian engineering drew on foreign machinery designsChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...55:44Umikaze tests the limits of turbine destroyersNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:02:45Urakaze reopens the turbine and boiler experimentNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:03:19Steam reliability protects visible Soviet powerNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?31:09Why electric drive helps a ship accept extra machineryNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global7:31Yarrow boilers and Brown-Curtis turbines show transatlantic design exchangeNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?35:35The S138 label concealed a design revolutionChapter
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?40:54Different S138 machinery complicated flotilla maneuversNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?1:10:12Which torpedo boats could Germany take to Jutland?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202625:44The first destroyers combined attack and defense before turbinesChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:40Brown-Curtis turbines and transatlantic industrial exchangeNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:32How far high-pressure marine boilers could be pushedQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:48Britain's hypothetical response to Nagato in 1900Notable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:17:06Could an expansion engine replace Bearn's low-power turbine?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:06:34Dreadnought and South Carolina: speed despite equal broadsidesQ&A
- 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?42:11Turrets, turbines, and fire control reshape the Victorian fleetChapter
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?3:52A reactor can drive machinery or generate electricityNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age20:20County-class COSAG tested gas turbines without sacrificing rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:13Faster dreadnoughts delay the battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:37Turbine Lord Nelsons and a faster DreadnoughtQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:29:32HMS Belfast's clutch and its 200 rpm operating warningNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...52:02Victory ship performance versus Liberty ship volumeChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?12:08Normandie's mixed engines complicated training and protectionNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...21:02Bellerophon's machinery corrected Dreadnought-era compromisesChapter
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?5:30What higher steam pressure changesChapter
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?10:26Parsons, Brown-Curtis, and turbine competitionNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?18:22Boiler count, power, and the missing hull lengthNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?29:13Small-tube boilers and Britain's industrial baseChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:05:45Why Palmers had less control over shipbuilding costsNotable Point
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion33:53How cavitation creates noise, erosion, and detection riskChapter
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion36:38Shipbuilders and turbine pioneers turn cavitation into a design problemChapter
- Ship Propellers: A Quick History & Discussion37:27Propulsion generations complicate warship classificationNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:05Why an oil-fired turbine Olympic class would trade economy for speedQ&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer6:36A destroyer officer shaped by speed and early commandChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:16:47Choosing warship propulsion without the Washington TreatyQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:29Direct steam, turbo-electric, and diesel-electric drivesQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:06Why diesel-to-gas differs from steam's earlier transitionQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:59Why the Royal Navy K class was so dangerousQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:54Battleship subdivision as a honeycombQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...13:59Boilers, turbines, and the hidden cost of warship developmentChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:55:38The qualitative naval race ran through international suppliersNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:59:09A 24-knot standard would push America toward turbinesNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?27:47British turbines spread through sales and licencesNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?30:35Buying time through parallel machinery trialsChapter
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:36:39William May's fast, distributed fleetChapter
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:39:22The United States answers with turbines, guns, and turretsChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force6:28Fisher's 33-knot requirement and a builder competitionChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force41:40Thornycroft turns engine power into Tribal speedChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force1:00:20Six-funnel HMS Viking tests speed and heavy gunsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...32:36How could F2 and F3 make 30 knots on two shafts?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...46:22A thousand tons could buy Nelson more speedNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:56:29Could the Deutschland class be made faster?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:21:28Should Britain have adopted more diesel propulsion?Q&A
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates25:37How indicated and shaft horsepower compareChapter
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:31:00F3 machinery, two-shaft power, and the gap between peacetime and wartime speedQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 913:23A high-powered Royal Navy 'spirit ship'Chapter
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 931:03What Tiger's power figures reveal about speed and enduranceChapter
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:09:12Why high-pressure steam suited the US NavyQ&A
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo21:10Britannic's hybrid machinery and the meaning of published speedNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:08:54Turbo-electric drive versus geared steam turbinesQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:19:29Why a civilian turbine-efficiency figure cannot settle a naval comparisonQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'15:35A 28-knot station cruiser and technology test bedChapter
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'43:50Blücher shows what the Tiger Cub had to beatNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'53:00The qualitative naval race ran on shared technologyNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:24:16Turbine battleships without the Dreadnought revolutionQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:36:37A German fast-capital-ship race before 1914Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:28:56Could a larger Royal Sovereign-type battleship have been built?Q&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage38:02The scale and machinery behind a 100,000-ton carrierChapter
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:29:40How turbines and diesels displaced expansion enginesQ&A
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...21:22Rated carrier speed leaves an emergency marginNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 343:37Researching the way to an American battlecruiser fleetChapter
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:17:40Why turbines trigger a fleet-wide refit problemNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:43:46When it pays to delay a light-cruiser orderNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:49:04Designing the first American battlecruiserChapter
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!39:01What it meant for HMS Hood to strip a turbineQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:47:07Unicorn's turbines sit on a scale between cruisers and battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!2:09:00Tiger's turret gap reflects machinery and hull balanceQ&A
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 244:02British turbine leverage slows German constructionNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 247:54Germany turns to diesel-turbine hybrid capital shipsNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:07:35Carrier shortages and the Singapore advance forceNotable Point
- HMS Ben My Chree(1908/1915): A Soaring Service with a Legacy of Fire Risk Managment10:05Ben-my-Chree begins as a fast Irish Sea steamerChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty5:21Shipyards and technology crossed national linesNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:09:07British turbines and American boilers for a faster Dutch battlecruiserQ&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.1:57:27K-class submarines chased surface-fleet speedChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:05:12Using turbines and refits to bridge capital-ship generationsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:14:41Refitting the first dreadnoughts for the turbine eraChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids2:39:42Would a faster Revenge class become much heavier?Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books35:43How a lighter Nelson design could reach 28 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:17:01How early turbine cruisers accelerate the machinery chainQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:15:32The earliest practical turbine armored cruiserQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:36:32A hypothetical radioisotope heat source for warshipsQ&A
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence44:04A proposed interwar sloop reserve for 1939Notable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:16:46Why gas turbines could simplify machinery refitsQ&A
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 822:13Daring-class machinery, range, and radar suiteChapter
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 519:38Enterprise balanced speed, protection, and seaplane capabilityChapter
- HMS Cossack: A Dangerous Destroyer to Behold - KSS3 S1 Comment Response5:16Why Tribal-class destroyers suffered turbine blade rubbingQ&A
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri1:51:26Could Italy obtain Parsons turbines?Q&A
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 18:10Cuniberti develops the all-big-gun battleshipChapter
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 112:10Dante Alighieri versus HMS DreadnoughtChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 926:45Parsons turbines and the international naval technology networkNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response25:16Why turbines define a true dreadnoughtQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response38:15Parsons turbines, U.S. procurement, and German dependenceQ&A
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 511:29Triple-expansion engines, speed, and rangeChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:11:27Turbines, industrial capacity, and early battlecruisersNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 80:02Why North Dakota qualifies as a true dreadnoughtChapter
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 86:16A strong turbine ship with unreliable machineryNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 810:50Why turbines matter to the dreadnought benchmarkChapter
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 812:37A 1910 goodwill cruise despite first-generation turbine ageingNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 823:20What North Dakota's trial figures imply about unrealized speedNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 829:26Twin-shaft machinery that could be reached and replacedNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 837:28Could a failed North Dakota have delayed the turbine navy?Notable Point
- Joffre Class: Too Many Enemies - Key Ship Series 5, Epsiode 54:14Béarn combined a propulsion compromise with engineering overloadNotable Point
- Joffre Class: Too Many Enemies - Key Ship Series 5, Epsiode 524:55High power supported a forty-aircraft light carrierChapter
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1020:21British engineering in the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 436:18Mixed diesel and steam drive multiplies failure pathsChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:17:22Did fleet destroyers use high- and low-pressure turbines?Q&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock23:46Von der Tann's speed, armour, and machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:26:04Existing fuel reserves let the Royal Navy change propulsion slowlyQ&A
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas43:20Designing a 33-knot Japanese battlecruiserChapter
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:42:38Turbine manufacture limits Germany's capital-ship programmeQ&A
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda38:14Foreign turbines and uneven shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)7:21How turbines helped control the rangeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)17:29Selling turbines while competing at seaNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...20:17Why heavy operational use wore out Tribal turbinesNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:03:19Karlsruhe combined diesel cruising with steam-turbine speedNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:09:00Turbines exposed dependence on a wider industryChapter
- Building the Fleets for Jutland2:03:50Closing counterfactuals test unused fleet optionsNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...1:19:46Global turbine supply creates hidden wartime dependenciesNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...1:25:55Different machinery complicated battleship division planningQ&A
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 36:34Machinery heat, magazines, and evolving fire controlNotable Point
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas7:20Why gas turbines took decades to reach warshipsChapter
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas26:16Why COSAG burdened Type 81 engineeringChapter
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas32:18Why combined-cycle propulsion remains rare at seaNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 17:46Speed plus range changes the engagementChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 19:13The ideas and people behind DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 111:26Why steam turbines were central to DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 113:03Displacement, turbine machinery, speed, and rangeChapter
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:56:15British capacity to build RMMV OceanicNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources57:57Why combine steam and gas propulsionQ&A
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History18:45Diesel's prestige problem against steamNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response24:48Bearn's turbines, range, and conversion economyNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?12:27Bearn and lost carrier momentumNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:22:21Choosing a maintainable warship for an earlier centuryQ&A
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines39:19Parsons turbines and compact powerNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam40:30Why the path to expansion engines was not linearChapter
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?52:21Bearn's mixed propulsion compromiseChapter
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:04:56Bearn's range case fails against the Courageous classNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service35:16Asante, namesake ties, and Tribal machinery strainNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:12:55A Tribal destroyer's engine room and power densityNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:27:48British shipbuilding from iron to steel, turbines, and dieselChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers29:31Sverdlov's speed, gun battery, and armour schemeChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty58:43Successful arms control must reward complianceChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:02:48Why replacement turbine blades are not simple copiesQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:04:09Béarn traded flight speed for mixed propulsionChapter
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers8:23Dimensions, propulsion, and stability under heavy gunsChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National3:00Powerful machinery and successful speed trialsNotable Point
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?7:25Armour, machinery, range, and gunsChapter
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?15:04Boiler and turbine supply choicesNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193943:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193949:53Removing radar, turbine, and gun-production bottlenecksNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths3:19Bristol propulsion, range, and the cruiser missionChapter
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths9:33Industrial competition behind British turbine developmentNotable Point
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)14:42Project 1144 size and combined propulsionChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)8:57Machinery, speed, and the scout-cruiser labelChapter
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)24:10Admiral Spaun and Novara class design comparisonChapter
- Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)13:59Dual-fuel machinery embodied a conservative design compromiseNotable Point
- Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)39:20The Boadiceas worked hard but exposed the cost of cautionNotable Point
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)14:07Why a new scout role kept old enginesChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)45:44Scout cruisers as a missed turbine testbedChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)47:06A private-venture turbine scout cruiserNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:15:06Range, speed, and American machineryNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol10:51Modern hybrid machinery inside a dated cruiser hullNotable Point
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:45When 25 knots stopped being enoughNotable Point
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)39:11A cautious specification missed the chance to force turbinesNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books32:26How paired high- and low-pressure turbines save fuelQ&A
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)1:38Russian turbine orders became German war assetsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)47:52John Brown and Parsons compete on marine machineryNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)46:15Brazil's Bahia class: turbines reshape the scout cruiserChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol29:45Parsons and Turbinia seize the Spithead stageNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol31:36Propeller testing and Britain's turbine industryNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol34:01Turbine design follows the ship's missionNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol45:17Dreadnought built for speed and readinessChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:10:14Turbina's spectacular turbine demonstrationChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:15:53Reduction gearing makes marine turbines more efficientNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:16:19Competing turbine suppliers accelerate British developmentNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:56:16Dreadnought as a synthesis, not a bolt from nowhereQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:03:23Would triple-expansion machinery have changed Dreadnought's funnels?Q&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:08:44Why did Black Prince need more boilers than Dreadnought?Q&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:18:09Dreadnought's real break was doctrinalNotable Point
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol26:02Torpedo-boat numbers meet British turbines and larger destroyersChapter
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...14:52Boiler upgrades depend on the original turbinesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/440:45More Yamatos or a stronger maritime industry?Q&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?36:26Ibuki crossed the transition to steam turbinesNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:57:06The prewar US Navy needed better propulsion more than battlecruisersQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers9:18The 9.2-inch cruiser as a convoy-escort alternativeNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions17:25R-class speed against the German battle lineQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19156:42The unbuilt Lyon class as a French design choiceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191315:44American deterrence without escalationNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191111:54Almirante Latorre: big guns and oil-sprayed coalChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191116:59Kaiser class and Germany's coal constraintChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June15:05Kawachi's mixed 12-inch battery complicates the dreadnought labelNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June18:53Dante Alighieri turns Cuniberti's ideas into a fast battleshipChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June22:19Gangut combines Russian speed with a twelve-gun broadsideChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190821:58Small engineering gains turn horsepower into more speedNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-74:03Delaware-class machinery trials and industrial politicsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-716:26Do steam turbines define a dreadnought?Q&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-718:30Turbine performance relied on accumulated industrial skillNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19074:16St Vincent-class batch production builds a battle squadronChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190710:23The Nassau class blurs the dreadnought divideChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190719:12North Dakota brings turbine power to the American battle lineChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190726:50Maintainability slows the transition from engines to turbinesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190610:23How the Invincibles reached 25 knotsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190618:46Bellerophon as an incremental second-generation dreadnoughtChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19051:24Tsushima and the technology window for dreadnoughtsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19057:18The international origins of the all-big-gun shipChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 190513:03Dreadnought's machinery combined speed with redundancyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 190515:07Dreadnought was more than an all-big-gun shipNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:13:57Why Tribal-class turbines demanded frequent reconditioningQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers41:36Crown Colony specifications and doubts about displacementChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers50:55Why did Gloucester-subclass cruisers carry larger crews?Q&A
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships28:39Correcting Astraea's machinery from turbine to triple expansionNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:43:25Recovering steam-engine exhaust energy with a turbineNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 316:00Planing hulls and light machinery unlock high speedNotable Point