Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers

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  1. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    1:25:59Larger carrier development changes the Yorktown pathNotable Point
  2. USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings
    5:06Simpler construction can support quality and maintenanceChapter
  3. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:18:08Forrestal retained internal lessons from earlier US carriersQ&A
  4. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    50:1327,000-ton carriers with more room for protection and aircraftChapter
  5. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    50:21Yorktown as the starting point for Essex and MidwayNotable Point
  6. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:05:10A protected Yorktown offers a different American carrier pathNotable Point
  7. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    1:08:35Would Enterprise be retained for specialised carrier work?Q&A
  8. What would need to change for HMAS Australia & HMS New Zealand to be retained under Washington?
    49:28Lexington-carrier pairs could create early fast task forcesChapter
  9. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:14:59Separate light carriers could replace Ranger and Wasp with more YorktownsNotable Point
  10. How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...
    16:19Yorktown and Illustrious fit different geostrategiesChapter
  11. How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...
    20:06Carrier air groups balance concentrated strikes and sustained fightingNotable Point
  12. How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...
    21:51Treaty limits make carrier designs divergeNotable Point
  13. Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:12How battle outcomes distort warship reputationsQ&A
  14. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:09:45Separate allowances could support larger fleet carriersNotable Point
  15. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    3:26Working small carriers could displace Ranger and WaspQ&A
  16. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    15:33US and Royal Navy light-carrier build pathsQ&A
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    2:34:28What a US warship production swarm really meansQ&A
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    4:16:41Essex as a first-rate carrier designed for mass productionQ&A
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    7:27:09Could 1942 American carriers use Bearcats and Skyraiders?Q&A
  20. Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?
    57:11Yorktown and Enterprise under the same boiler revolutionNotable Point
  21. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:22:25Earlier carrier orders change the need for the Essex classNotable Point
  22. Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership
    2:49:31What laying down six Yorktowns in 1939 would changeQ&A
  23. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:23:56Why a surviving Yorktown would be repairedQ&A
  24. Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...
    2:34:49Larger carrier allowances reshape Lexington and YorktownQ&A
  25. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    4:12:50Additional Yorktown-class carriers and Pacific operational flexibilityQ&A
  26. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    51:16Design choices shaped the forces behind the totalsNotable Point
  27. War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion
    25:13Ticonderoga's long-hull Essex improvementsChapter
  28. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    1:12:29Would mirror-pair carriers ever have become standard?Notable Point
  29. The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 3
    29:43The 23,450-ton displacement paradoxChapter
  30. What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 1
    1:24:25Strike carriers, armored fleet carriers, and air-group sizeChapter
  31. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    43:42From Yorktown to Essex: designing for rapid constructionChapter
  32. USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 1
    0:58Midway followed an American carrier philosophyChapter
  33. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    1:03:17The Lexington model points toward the modern carrierChapter
  34. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    49:24Yorktown embodies the US alpha-strike doctrineChapter
  35. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    52:20Yorktown and Midway express doctrine, Essex emphasizes rapid constructionNotable Point
  36. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:29:41Yorktown turns first-strike doctrine into ship designChapter
  37. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    31:48How Admiral Pratt planted the US Navy's carrier programQ&A
  38. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    49:30Why USS Hornet repeated the Yorktown designQ&A
  39. Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London
    1:17:22What would a first Soviet carrier copy?Q&A
  40. Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London
    1:49:38Extra carrier tonnage favors a longer Yorktown series over WaspNotable Point
  41. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    34:28Why an early massed strike on Tokyo was too riskyChapter
  42. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    39:56Yorktown and Lexington traded speed against enduranceNotable Point
  43. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:22:50Three navies built different carrier task-force modelsChapter
  44. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:04:07Four Lexingtons leave room for six enlarged YorktownsQ&A
  45. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    3:44:39Why Force H would choose a Yorktown-class carrierQ&A
  46. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    15:47American carrier doctrine breaks toward aggressive raidingChapter
  47. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:19:20Could Ranger and Wasp have been traded for another Yorktown?Q&A
  48. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:49:22Lexington battlecruisers as carrier escortsNotable Point
  49. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:43:42How Britain might build a Yorktown-sized carrier seriesQ&A
  50. Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?
    2:36:59Could a US carrier reserve change the Wasp design?Q&A
  51. USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response
    14:19Yorktown-class growth margins and treaty tonnageQ&A
  52. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:30:03Essex turns Yorktown experience into faster productionQ&A
  53. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    4:47Displacement growth and treaty figuresNotable Point
  54. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    10:56Armor placement and the Pacific strike roleChapter
  55. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    16:01From Yorktown to the Midway classNotable Point
  56. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    30:33Covering Hornet and fighting at MidwayChapter
  57. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    56:18How US and British dream carriers would still differNotable Point
  58. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    42:23A Lexington-Alaska fast task groupQ&A
  59. If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response
    21:15Carrier endurance depends on operating geographyNotable Point
  60. If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response
    22:23Matching carrier design to doctrineNotable Point
  61. Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...
    1:34:39Four warship classes as national design stereotypesQ&A
  62. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    1:03:02Yorktown-class aviation strength outgrew its command spacesNotable Point
  63. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:22:28Yorktown and Enterprise saved weight in the wrong structureChapter
  64. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    1:20:06What Yorktown did better than MidwayQ&A
  65. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    34:26Ordering more Yorktown-class carriers in early 1939Notable Point
  66. Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    58:44How more tonnage changes British and American carriersChapter
  67. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    25:51Could Britain keep the United States out of the war?Q&A
  68. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    3:51:46A second Ark Royal would narrow the interwar carrier gapNotable Point
  69. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    1:28:50The strongest prewar carrier designs for World War IIQ&A
  70. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    43:03A treaty-limit Ranger and better-protected YorktownsQ&A
  71. Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s
    2:22:24Why Ark Royal and Yorktown differedChapter
  72. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    0:23Ark Royal and Yorktown as purpose-built fleet carriersChapter
  73. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    6:48Displacement and power reveal Ark Royal's structural weightNotable Point
  74. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    9:52Ark Royal and Yorktown as stepping stones to later carriersNotable Point
  75. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    14:12Yorktown's launch cycle and Pacific strategyChapter
  76. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    18:50From carrier conversions to fleet programmesChapter
  77. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    19:27A second Ark Royal and the Yorktown trio as force-structure choicesNotable Point
  78. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    20:33Why Yorktown retained an islandNotable Point
  79. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    1:55:21Which carrier air groups were considered eliteQ&A
  80. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?
    2:58:47Shokaku by day, Ark Royal by night, Yorktown overallQ&A
  81. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered
    42:46Could France have licensed the Yorktown design?Q&A
  82. Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)
    2:23:42Why not build a Yorktown design for the French Navy?Q&A
  83. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 3
    16:28The Yorktown class organizes a ninety-aircraft strikeChapter