The Drydock - Episode 343 (Part 2)
Drachinifel
81,217 views
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - When did Admiral Spruance know about the atomic bomb and is there a record of his staff's reaction?
00:05:16 - What would happen if a battleship shell passed close by?
00:09:20 - How do ship designers get together and decide who gets what space for all these various sub systems needed in a ship near the end of the period the channel covers. Further how long would it take to design a whole ship?
00:17:48 - Is there a hard and fast rule to separate large Destroyers from small cruisers?
00:22:41 - What else could be added to HMS Tiger?
00:27:15 - What technologies would not have worked if they had been invented/developed/deployed about 150 years earlier than they actually were?
00:30:31 - During the second world war, which submarine would be considered the most "luxurious" to serve on, in the perspective of both crew and officers?
00:33:03 - Richelieu 15" shells?
00:40:59 - Königsberg redesign?
00:47:15 - Force Z sinking analysis?
00:53:17 - How did warships not run into problems with high-sulfur steels?
00:59:45 - Foundry markings on Age of Sail British cannon?
01:05:47 - Courageous class with mine-rails?
01:07:39 - What if Doenitz didn't micro-manage the U-Boats?
01:15:59 - The use of light carriers?
01:21:32 - Between 1890 and 1900, which three to five ships, built or moderrnised, would you save from the breakers yard?
01:25:46 - What did sailors eat on the way home from long missions?
01:28:44 - How did nations that purchased capital ships from traditional naval powers such as the UK and France in the late 19th/early 20th centuries repair such ships if they needed major repairs?
01:33:08 - What 'real' ships are Lego pirate ships?
01:36:23 - Spotlights and searchlights in Naval circles?
01:41:57 - Examples of ships extricating other ships from sticky situations?
01:45:19 - During the inter war fleet exercises such as the US navy fleet problems how was the effectiveness of fighter aircraft against other aircraft judged?
01:49:17 - Did sails stretching have any real issue on ships during the age of sail?
01:52:17 - When did torpedoes fall out of favour in different ship types?
01:58:01 - When did power tools on ships become availabale and what did they look like?
02:02:35 - Is there a naval equivalent of the Ypres battlefield?
02:03:53 - Would the deck amour of capital ships in the WW1/WW2 era be face hardened similar to the belt amour of the time?
02:10:57 - Why did the Royal Navy choose to kill Admiral Byng?
02:19:18 - What did the US know about the Yamato and Musashi and when did they know it?
02:24:09 - Differences between the Midways and Malta's?
02:29:58 - USS Monitor and 'bronze shot'?
02:38:27 - What was the role of a captain of the fleet in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and why weren't they more common?
02:42:26 - How efficient was the design of the Great Eastern's hull?
02:44:05 - LST's with runways?
02:46:36 - Hiryu survivors accounts?
02:48:59 - With the Washington and London treaty rules lawyering would it have been possible for the Royal Navy to put a bunch of the High angle dual purpose 8" County turrets in the Pacific as "honestly it's AA!"
02:51:34 - How did U-Boats get to the Atlantic?
02:55:39 - Captain Gatch of USS South Dakota?
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Me, I think of getting back alive as being the ultimate luxury, and the Type XIV subs were rather lacking in that area, given that none of them survived the war and roughly half of the men who served on them were lost.
Like with destroyers, aerial torpedoes didn't completely disappear so much as shift from being ship killers to ASW systems. The Mk46 torpedo was carried on a variety of helicopters and naval patrol aircraft for example.
Missiles not being usable against a submerged sub, the AA issue not being present, and the need to line up being still less than the accuracy needed for level bombing with depth charges, meant that the torpedo was still a valuable weapon against subs.
Maybe that is what the Monitor’s Chief Engineer wants? To reduce friction in the barrel?
"It seems obvious to me that some heavy projectiles, North and South, were coated with a soft metal to limit their tendency to ricochet off the sides of armored gunboats. I suspect the idea originated in Europe, probably England, where extensive testing was being done with rifled ammunition and armor. Anyway, it is important to note that the South did quite a bit of coating their big projectiles during late 1861 thru mid-1862. Maybe the practice continued afterwards but I haven't seen the proof. To be more specific, the big Rebel guns defending the Mississippi River were issued many copper coated (and a small number coated with 'white metal') as you will see described on the invoices below. All was done by Quinby & Robinson, a great Memphis foundry that called itself 'the Tredegar of the west.'
The first entry on the first item says: 'October 30, 1861 - Covering 108 Archer shot with copper.' Look at the fourth entry on the first item, 'Covering 2 James 32 pdr. shot with white metal'" And second from the last on the first invoice below, 'Covering 200 Archers with copper.' All of the other invoices, below, report making copper-covered big projectiles including a few Reads. The Archers they were making were the style Jack Bell pictures on pgs. 188 & 119. Jack should note that they were cast as 24, 32 and 42 pounders. It was one of several regulation patterns for the CS army and navy during the second half of 1861. As of today, only a few 32 pdrs. have been found around Island #10 - none of those were copper covered. Many of these big Archer shot in 32 pdr. caliber were made by Tredegar during the same period with no mention of copper coating.
There are other interesting facts about CS projectile production found in the contemporary invoices below. Look at the eighth line on the first page below. It reports the manufacture of '54 9pdr. James Rifled Shot Turned.' So, Quinby & Robinson were also making quantities of 3 inch James shot. These have probably been dug at Shiloh. Previously, I thought all were made in New Orleans by Leeds who manufactured a couple of thousand in 3 inch and 3.3 inch caliber. Another interesting item around the middle of the first page below is 'Boring out one old cannon.' This was an old iron 4 pounder reamed and rifle to a 3.35 inch caliber. Tredegar bored out 50 of the state's (VA) old guns to 3.35 caliber during late 1861. In early 1862, Col. Wright, ordnance chief in Tennessee, requested Tredegar send 200 of their 3.35 Archers to him - that is the amount required to be carried by a single gun in the field.
Read these pages carefully. This was a transitional period in Southern ordnance production and their is much to learn. When Memphis fell, Q & R moved as much as they could save to Columbus, Miss., and later to Selma and Georgia."
Good old Saturday night!!
The Drydock - Episode 343 (Part 2)
Drachinifel
81,217 views
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - When did Admiral Spruance know about the atomic bomb and is there a record of his staff's reaction?
00:05:16 - What would happen if a battleship shell passed close by?
00:09:20 - How do ship designers get together and decide who gets what space for all these various sub systems needed in a ship near the end of the period the channel covers. Further how long would it take to design a whole ship?
00:17:48 - Is there a hard and fast rule to separate large Destroyers from small cruisers?
00:22:41 - What else could be added to HMS Tiger?
00:27:15 - What technologies would not have worked if they had been invented/developed/deployed about 150 years earlier than they actually were?
00:30:31 - During the second world war, which submarine would be considered the most "luxurious" to serve on, in the perspective of both crew and officers?
00:33:03 - Richelieu 15" shells?
00:40:59 - Königsberg redesign?
00:47:15 - Force Z sinking analysis?
00:53:17 - How did warships not run into problems with high-sulfur steels?
00:59:45 - Foundry markings on Age of Sail British cannon?
01:05:47 - Courageous class with mine-rails?
01:07:39 - What if Doenitz didn't micro-manage the U-Boats?
01:15:59 - The use of light carriers?
01:21:32 - Between 1890 and 1900, which three to five ships, built or moderrnised, would you save from the breakers yard?
01:25:46 - What did sailors eat on the way home from long missions?
01:28:44 - How did nations that purchased capital ships from traditional naval powers such as the UK and France in the late 19th/early 20th centuries repair such ships if they needed major repairs?
01:33:08 - What 'real' ships are Lego pirate ships?
01:36:23 - Spotlights and searchlights in Naval circles?
01:41:57 - Examples of ships extricating other ships from sticky situations?
01:45:19 - During the inter war fleet exercises such as the US navy fleet problems how was the effectiveness of fighter aircraft against other aircraft judged?
01:49:17 - Did sails stretching have any real issue on ships during the age of sail?
01:52:17 - When did torpedoes fall out of favour in different ship types?
01:58:01 - When did power tools on ships become availabale and what did they look like?
02:02:35 - Is there a naval equivalent of the Ypres battlefield?
02:03:53 - Would the deck amour of capital ships in the WW1/WW2 era be face hardened similar to the belt amour of the time?
02:10:57 - Why did the Royal Navy choose to kill Admiral Byng?
02:19:18 - What did the US know about the Yamato and Musashi and when did they know it?
02:24:09 - Differences between the Midways and Malta's?
02:29:58 - USS Monitor and 'bronze shot'?
02:38:27 - What was the role of a captain of the fleet in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and why weren't they more common?
02:42:26 - How efficient was the design of the Great Eastern's hull?
02:44:05 - LST's with runways?
02:46:36 - Hiryu survivors accounts?
02:48:59 - With the Washington and London treaty rules lawyering would it have been possible for the Royal Navy to put a bunch of the High angle dual purpose 8" County turrets in the Pacific as "honestly it's AA!"
02:51:34 - How did U-Boats get to the Atlantic?
02:55:39 - Captain Gatch of USS South Dakota?
According to my calculations, all drydocks counted together make up 2295768 seconds, or 678 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds, or 26 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 48 seconds. This makes each Drydock, on average, 6693 seconds long, or 1:51:33 hrs long.
Since not every drydock is a single video, rather, all videos of the drydock counting up to 382, each Video is, on average, 6009 seconds long, or 1:40:09 hrs.
Hope this scratches an itch for someone, as it did for me.