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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:47:23Town cruisers and Renown imagined with modern weaponsQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:12:37Wartime availability and the cost of sustained speedNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:38Which pre-1950 ships could still serve with a light refit?Q&A
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class47:48A British 9.2-inch cruiser responseChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)2:13:46Fleet-wide treaty tonnage constrained cruiser numbersNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:11Why Town-class cruisers were not simply turned into carriersQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:05How 9.2-inch rivals could change the Town-class batteryNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:22Dividing a fleet to hunt a Tiger battlecruiserQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:08:38Employment politics can protect an interwar carrier programmeNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?49:01Task-group frigates and independent pickets need different designsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?7:38Cruiser build times lengthen despite protected shipyard laborNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:23Every Royal Navy light cruiser becomes HMS PlymouthQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:53Best cruisers of the 1890s, 1930s, and 1950sQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:01The panel's preferred roles in a World War II navyQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:20Town-class cruisers and their Swordfish allowanceQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:00:06Domestic jobs make ship programs politically durableNotable Point
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?1:24The 1930s Town class and countering surface raidersNotable Point
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?2:14Why ships with the same class name can demand different comparisonsNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live10:04Simplified cruisers still took longer to buildChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:16:07Crated Walruses keep distant cruiser patrols supplied with aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:36:25Would Britain revive a 9.2-inch cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:31A cruiser design for emergency mass productionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:04:28How successful automatic six-inch guns could reshape the postwar Royal NavyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:09:13The light AA objection to an automatic-gun Edinburgh refitQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:26:35An uncertain torpedo-hit tally for HMS BelfastQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:52:50Fitted-for-but-not-with treaty cruisersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:18:11How a Town-class cruiser could expend most of its ammunitionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress10:40:16A concealed cruiser inside an enemy formationNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:38:06Favourite treaty cruisers and the limits of the categoryQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:41:18Arethusa, Dido, and the cost of fitting more into a smaller cruiserNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?20:58Henderson's carrier doctrine and rearmament portfolioChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:27:28Town-class cruisers connect rearmament with employmentNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:11HMS Manchester and the cost of stale damage reportsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:17World War II escorts worth saving as museum shipsQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?28:38A ubiquitous British dual-purpose gunNotable Point
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:17A plausible Brazilian naval modernization before WWIIQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:42Light-cruiser escorts for the PanzerschiffeQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?50:26Town-class cruisers gain speed or rangeChapter
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?30:20Dido endurance suited fleet workNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:46Which World War II hulls could accept modern combat systems?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:51How new cruiser classes released older ships for other rolesQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty1:52:45Stimson, fleet parity, and differing naval missionsChapter
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:00:24A cruiser allowance based on each navy's missionsNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:18When a cut-price cruiser becomes a false economyNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:12Town-class modernization and the postwar manpower transitionQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:05How a fifteen-gun Belfast might trade turrets for helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:18Why an enlarged Town class could be easier to modernizeQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:55A larger 1934 German fleet triggers an Allied building raceQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:26:08Belfast's aircraft remained an auxiliary cruiser functionNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:24:43If Town-class cruisers carried sixteen 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:18:22What twin six-inch turrets would do to Britain's prewar cruiser fleetQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:45:17Why no 1930s Town-class batch was clearly the worstQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:03:06Did Town-class cruisers receive the best captains?Q&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?50:13HMS Edinburgh still had a plausible route to portQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:22:25The cruiser force a commerce raider least wants to meetQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:14:47The strongest cruiser designs of the 1930sQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:24:13What the Edinburgh subclass improvedQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/423:51A stronger Operation Rheinübung draws a stronger British huntQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:44:53Brooklyn-class cruisers offered the strongest scouting fitQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax39:27Which cruiser hulls offered the best carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:48:38Why the quadruple 6-inch Town-class turret was abandonedQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:17:10An eighteen-gun German light cruiser as a commerce raiderQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat45:26What quad 6-inch turrets would mean for BelfastQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...56:50A Town-class cruiser armed with 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:38:23Would a fifteen-gun Edinburgh have Nelson-like fire-arc problems?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:52:23How fifteen-gun Towns could support missile modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:00:01Crown Colony cruisers as wartime TownsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:58:45A Royal Navy counterpart to USS Long BeachQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193829:22Two Town classes with different design ancestryNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:29Secondary batteries turn battleships into anti-destroyer screensChapter
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:11:09Why HMS Manchester's scuttling remained controversialQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:08:32What a fifth triple turret changes for BelfastQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:54:53Why treaty pressure produced the Crown Colony cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:32:14Why Brooklyn carried more six-inch guns than the Town classQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:10:43What a British Ticonderoga counterpart might have looked likeQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:54:52Where British cruisers would reinforce the US Pacific warQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:58:02Cleveland versus Town-class cruiser rate of fireQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign6:36Why Crown Colony cruisers used triple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:20:35How quadruple 6-inch turrets could strengthen the Town classQ&A
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:03:56Carrier escort needs reshape cruiser and destroyer plansNotable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:56Which warship would be the best command?Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:03:46La Argentina's Arethusa lineage and the improved Leander pathQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered4:38Why the Town class was not a copy of BrooklynQ&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?46:43Town-class helicopter cruisers trade a turret for informationChapter
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies31:19Postwar automatic guns outran their development baseChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s48:10Turbines could give Edinburgh and Belfast more speed and protectionChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:24:55Faster Belfast and Edinburgh under treaty limitsChapter
- Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History1:47:43An autoloading eight-inch Town-class alternativeNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:48:00The most numerous cruiser class depends on careful class countingQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:52:26Unlimited Ark Royals free British yards for the rest of the fleetQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:15:12Why Britain's commerce-war cruisers were absent in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:26:39The Crown Colony class as a wartime Town designQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:07:13More Edinburgh-class distant-station flagshipsQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 22:34Why the Town class favored twelve six-inch gunsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 27:49Town names turned cruisers into civic institutionsNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 213:09The cruiser gap was a problem of global coverageChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 214:04Treaty limits reshaped the Town into the Crown Colony classNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 215:49Belfast and Edinburgh hinted at an unbuilt 9.2-inch cruiserNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 222:16A balanced cruiser built around twelve six-inch gunsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 225:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 228:53Aircraft capacity competed with wartime stowageNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 232:20From royal escorts to the Singtao confrontationChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 236:51Town-class cruisers became wartime fleet cornerstonesChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 240:34Space made the Towns adaptable presence shipsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 243:05Presence fleets were planned in generationsNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:31:27What two Town-class cruisers imply for the Free Polish NavyQ&A
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 612:12Wartime cruiser lines and Neptune's design ancestryChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:02:38Japanese torpedo salvos versus British close-range night fightingNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres57:03The Italian CRDA 60 and Mediterranean flexibilityChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:39:12Italian MS boats: trading some speed for seaworthinessChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:20:54Why shrinking a Town-class cruiser created a poor compromiseQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:02:06Why not an Indian cruiser with triple six-inch turrets?Q&A
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?2:03:04Sastri links naval capacity to Indian nation-buildingNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:22:31York's cut-price battery weakened its firepowerChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 146:08From treaty allowance to an overloaded carrier briefChapter
- USS New Ironsides: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 81:18Would Graf Zeppelin's casemate guns help in a carrier fight?Q&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion23:35A twelve-gun Königsberg could ripple through cruiser treatiesNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:05:27A 1942 war opens with more new cruisers and more AA conversionsNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build13:14A personal design preference for a future HMS BelfastNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response14:27Royal Navy pink lists and cruiser readiness codesNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response27:25Royal Navy light-cruiser production tradeoffsNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History30:17Town-class cruisers for Australia and PolandQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:44:51Why twelve six-inch guns could beat eight eight-inch gunsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:58:11Recognizing British and American cruiser layoutsNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat29:15Why a fifteen-gun Town-class cruiser became self-defeatingQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:06The high-medium-low mix and the Krivak gapChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?41:45An existing 4.5-inch plan makes mass conversion credibleNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:26:04Triple turrets, aft firepower, and mine-handling riskNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:34:39Four warship classes as national design stereotypesQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:21:01Books for the County and Town classesQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:59:43Birmingham represents the Town class at its most activeQ&A
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 418:34The cruiser classes missing from headline battle historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:51:26How to screen an Admiral-class carrier forceQ&A
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina41:35Fast enough, armored enough, and hard to outmatchChapter
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video14:49Building an eastern fleet when the Mediterranean is quieterQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers11:55Brooklyn against Magami and the British Town classNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:01:25A US Navy Mediterranean counterfactual changes more than carriersNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:31:45Brooklyn's balance carries into the Cleveland classChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)13:13Why Edgar needed twice the range of later Town cruisersQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)33:52Clear roles make warship compromises manageableNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4210:22Why Canada did not acquire interwar cruisersQ&A
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1153:44British cruiser quantity changes the tactical problemNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:16:54Using Cruiser Birmingham to understand ship layoutChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments14:49British-built warships for the NetherlandsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:24:04What a Belfast-standard Town class would changeQ&A
- Ruse de guerre25:42Ocean-liner speed exposes warship endurance limitsNotable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)0:00Belfast and Giussano ideas tested in UADChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)48:01How quadruple turrets could have reshaped British cruisersNotable Point
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)7:50Shipbuilding as Depression-era industrial policyNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)44:14Graf Spee against a full-strength County and TownQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:01:17How the possibility of a battlecruiser dilutes raider patrolsQ&A
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion9:46Two light cruisers against an 11-inch raiderChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion16:26Volume of fire versus the perfect cruiserNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)10:26A speculative bridge from Arethusa to Town-class cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:10:24Why the Town-class cruisers remain prominentQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:55:41Why sustained 30-knot passages punished machineryNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)54:01A replacement HMS Birmingham and the limits of emergency buildingNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:39:12A County-cruiser hull would make a fast but small carrierQ&A
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion3:28A Town-style light cruiser below 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)32:32Heavy torpedoes demand handling and reloading machineryNotable Point
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)9:05Why Britain prioritized light cruisersNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)10:33Deterrence and the ship visible on sceneNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney27:07Q&A: why Belfast and Edinburgh are not a separate pairQ&A
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)17:02London's rebuild reveals a shared cruiser design lineageNotable Point
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)1:48What Renown revealed about the Deutschland classQ&A
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)3:28How Royal Navy hunter groups could neutralise a raiderNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru19:29Royal Navy cruiser designs worth reconsideringQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)50:18Town and Brooklyn layouts reveal national doctrineChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)10:10What made a good 1930s cruiser?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:54:45Town and Brooklyn: two valid cruiser answersChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:49:09A Royal Navy without pre-war weapon-development delaysQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:56:26How British cruisers handled their floatplanesQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered48:26Using Town-class cruisers as a paired commerce-raiding forceQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)40:17The muzzle-blast problem in triple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:53:37Where to research HMS Sheffield's May 1941 camouflageQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?3:04:43How to use spare Town-class cruisers in the PacificQ&A
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design26:25Testing the design against a Regia Marina-style forceNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:32:42Far East cruisers used oilers and forward basesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:18:58The cruiser as a modern counterpart to the numerous third rateQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:19:04Britain answered Italian light cruisers with several ship typesQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:02:11Should an aircraft-heavy scout cruiser seek local superiority?Q&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:12:57A delayed war could produce British 9.2-inch heavy cruisersQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?49:37Which pre-1945 warship offered the best living conditions?Q&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out12:38Inherited cruisers and Tiger-class test bedsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:31:34Crown Colony cruisers as war-build TownsQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:43:27A convoy screen offered the wrong targets for big-gun submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:25:34A Town-class cruiser as a one-type navyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:31:22HMS London's extensive cruiser refitQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:53:43Novik and the Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2:44:57Designing an ideal Second World War surface action groupQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers17:32River Plate validates cruiser sea-denial doctrineChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland52:50Why criticize the 1936 naval treaty but not earlier arms limits?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya0:50HMS Fiji's treaty-era design and real displacementChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from19:14The Town class set the Royal Navy's cruiser benchmarkChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from32:07Naval planners questioned whether the treaty was practicalNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from41:43Fiji and Ceylon compressed Town-class capabilityChapter
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:46:01A Town-class history connects HMS Birmingham to postwar crisesChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers35:43Did fifteen-gun cruisers make the Town class feel underarmed?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers47:02Did Town cruisers have more room for anti-aircraft additions?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers47:56Why the Crown Colonies' displacement figures invite scrutinyNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers50:55Why did Gloucester-subclass cruisers carry larger crews?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:28:58Why favor the larger Town class over the Crown Colonies?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:38:14How the Royal Navy would have deployed twenty-four Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:38:26Did Town-class cruisers retain their torpedoes longer?Q&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)15:03Why modern fleets still need a high-low frigate mixChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East8:13A reported cruiser shortcut against a pirate dhowNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:39:40Cruisers and destroyers supporting the Revenge counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:41:46How Canada might have employed a wartime cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:47:43A specialist reference on Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:48:52The limited value of .50-calibre cruiser air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:54:24Why the Royal Navy favored six-inch cruisersQ&A
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy0:59Edinburgh and Belfast's quadruple-turret design pathChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy4:45Edinburgh's loss and the gold-recovery legacyNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy6:50Walrus aircraft and the Town class's upgrade spaceNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy7:21How mine damage helped Belfast survive the warChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy11:17Belfast as survivor, outlier, and class memorialChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy27:20How interwar cruiser iteration led to the Town classNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy29:42Cruiser diplomacy between routine presence and a battle fleetChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy33:28Birmingham and Liverpool achieved effects without firingNotable Point
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters0:49Why twelve six-inch guns could offset eight-inch rangeChapter
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters4:29Why the Gloucester subclass carried weight in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters13:45HMS Manchester's rapid radar and anti-aircraft upgradesChapter
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters36:21Manchester and Gloucester as contrasting preventable lossesNotable Point
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War1:18Town-class deployments at the start of warChapter
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War7:54Town-class cruisers in the Bismarck search barrierChapter
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War11:01Town-class seakeeping in Atlantic operationsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War11:39Town-class cruisers at Cape SpartiventoChapter
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War18:57Belfast, Newcastle, and the choices behind warship preservationNotable Point
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War19:40HMS Belfast reveals what a large light cruiser was forChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War1:30Building and commissioning the Town-class cruisersChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War4:29Swan Hunter races Belfast to complete EdinburghNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War6:50City names strengthen the case for large light cruisersNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War7:31Town-class cruisers join the Home FleetNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War9:27An unidentified royal photograph tests ship attributionNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War15:15The Gloucester group guards the Indian OceanChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War16:56Indian Ocean trade routes shape the Singapore reinforcement planNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War21:00Large crews make the Towns imperial-policing shipsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War21:40Recognizing Birmingham by her knuckle bowNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War27:07Large light cruisers answer foreign heavy cruisersNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War29:07Town-class ships train the Royal Navy's wartime leadersNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction0:42Why the Minotaur design became the Town classChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction6:17Armour, twelve guns, and aircraft for independent operationsChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction10:11How the Southampton, Gloucester, and Edinburgh batches grewChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction16:10Aircraft spares and the Gloucester crew penaltyNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction18:05Why twelve 6-inch guns beat fewer 8-inch guns in the studyChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction24:22The unbuilt quadruple-gun Super TownChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction29:23Why the Town fitted the Royal Navy's cruiser roleNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction30:46What a Super Town would demand from its hull and magazinesChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction35:36Gun-cycle averages behind cruiser procurementChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction39:25Why shell volume mattered with long flight timesNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction41:51Why a hypothetical Super Town might have been the Bristol classNotable Point
- Town Class Part 1 of 7: Cruisers1:18Why the Town class belongs to the cruiser ageChapter
- Town Class Part 1 of 7: Cruisers21:19A 96-cruiser force for Britain's worst-case warNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…33:37How a Town-class cruiser might have changed the River Plate fightQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:07:20Japanese officers could study Counties and Towns on stationQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:10:44The sixteen-gun Super Town cruiserChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:15:59Why the Super Town's quadruple turrets were dividedQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:23:29Turret-top flags helped aircraft identify British cruisersQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:32:30Super Town planning assumed treaty limits would fadeNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:37:51Which Town-class cruiser had the most wartime experience?Q&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:52:54Minotaur names several different cruiser generationsQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…2:00:40Town-class adaptability delayed the next cruiserNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…2:12:57A possible Town-class missile conversionQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint5:41Why the Royal Navy called them Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint28:21The Far East trade map behind Town-class deploymentsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint32:20Town-class cruisers as commerce destroyersNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint33:58From Arethusa hulls to twelve six-inch gunsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint36:07Internal armor and survivability in the Town classNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint38:33How the Royal Navy reached the six-inch triple turretQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint39:52What the Town class's internal armour protectedQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint41:12Southampton, Gloucester, and Edinburgh subclass tradeoffsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint55:32Town-class cruisers escort the royal visit to CanadaNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:33:21How war redistributed the Town-class squadronsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:41:04Town-class cruisers in the hunt for BismarckNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:55:09Why the prewar Far East cruiser plan collapsedChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:59:45Individual Town-class careers and remembered namesChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:06:49How the Town class's water-filled bulges workedQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:09:53Why the Town class remained useful after 1945Q&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:23:03The Town class as presence ships and wartime toolsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:26:52Why a 10,000-ton Town looked much largerQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:30:00Why the Crown Colony class followed the TownsQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:40:41Why the Amphions stopped at threeNotable Point
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/421:09Crown Colony cruisers on a tighter Town-class budgetNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1612:11Britain's advantage within apparent parityNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:03:22A Town-class cruiser modernization with missiles and helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:07:43Sources for an assessment of returning Belfast to serviceQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:21:11A Town-class modernization would need new machineryNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea5:47Treaty limits turn design into a chain of compromisesNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?55:18HMS Orion and wartime air-defence modernisationNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:10:03The Leanders as a middle tier between Arethusas and TownsChapter
- 2 Minutes: Leander Class in Very Brief1:16The Leander as a starting point for a cruiser programmeNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:11:36Why build Crown Colonies instead of more Towns?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:13:23Why the Leanders felt like stepping-stone cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:41:57How one cruiser class could contain distinct subclassesQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...49:27How later wars shape the sources historians followNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...58:30Birmingham's torpedoes in the harbour standoffQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:56:57G3M air threat versus cruiser interdictionQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:40:31The fast screen around the coalition battle lineQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:06:02How a Pacific war could reshape Royal Navy ship designNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:11:53Pacific combat would decide the County-class cruisers' futureQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 417:56Cruiser construction, treaties, and long-term choicesNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...57:56Cruiser design choices shaped by treaty hopeChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 450:57Royal Navy trade warfare versus decisive battleNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 48:04The cruiser pipeline cannot be redesigned overnightNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 417:42The Soviet threat limits Japanese options in ChinaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 443:22Blockade before invasionChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 413:09HMS Birmingham and proportional retaliationChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise5:02Why the E class were large light cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise12:33Town-class relief on the China StationNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald22:18Comparing cruiser answers to a Deutschland raiderNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:43:45HMS Birmingham’s experimental cruiser bowQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:57:19Town-class cruisers were intended to anchor Britain's Far Eastern stationsQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:02:46Why the Crown Colony class became a wartime Town-class derivativeQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)18:52Town-class cruisers as a mobile Far East deterrentNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:13:26The Town-class story beyond HMS BelfastChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:44:41Ships worth carrying into the Falklands era and beyondQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)6:17Henderson frees the destroyer from the torpedo-boat modelChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:06Improving the Tribal, Battle, Town, and Daring classesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:16:07Why Cleveland-class cruisers carried larger crews than TownsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:22:07Why the Town class did not need 4.5-inch secondary gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:27Why Japanese surface raiders offered little value by 1944Q&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:50:23How earlier wars emptied the Far East cruiser planQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history39:40Why Leanders were not Town-class substitutesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A13:44Town-class superstructures balanced space and streamliningQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A44:39Town-class commerce raiders should avoid Takao-class cruisersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A45:51Crown Colony cruisers were stripped-down Town derivativesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered44:55How treaty limits constrained Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:17:42Why quadruple gun turrets proved troublesomeQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:38:55What awaited a concentrated German fleet sortieQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:39:46Why Britain preserved so few modern fighting shipsQ&A
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video1:54When wartime necessity overtakes maritime rulesChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video4:24A British flag becomes the whole case at TsingtaoChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video10:27Birmingham's gunpoint standoff risks a wider warNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video27:38HMS Liverpool stops Japan's prestige linerChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video34:17A cruiser success reveals Far Eastern weaknessNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video24:01Liverpool's scouting tools and visible presenceChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:04:23Japan's loss of face and strategic lessonChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:16:33The bluff that worked and backfiredChapter
- January 6th Asama Maru leaves San Francisco - An AsamaMaru80 video4:12HMS Liverpool connects Asama Maru to the Town classNotable Point
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile6:00Overseas experience and the political case for Town-class cruisersChapter
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile15:33Edinburgh-subclass range, aircraft, and command capacityChapter
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile18:00Why spare space distinguished the Town classNotable Point
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile21:03Town-class cruisers tested as raiders and raider huntersNotable Point
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile1:09:46Survivability as a foundation of conventional deterrenceNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video29:51Global commitments limit the Graf Spee huntChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video48:26Japan and the United States watch Graf Spee's campaignNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)25:13Dido, Town, and Type 31: designing space for naval presenceNotable Point
- Disguises of a Surface Raider - A River Plate 80 Video5:18Why repeated reconnaissance could expose Graf Spee's disguiseNotable Point