The Drydock - Episode 339

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:37 - What degree of casualties to disease should have been expected to occur for the royal navy during operations in the Caribbean during the 18th century? 00:06:34 - Did the Allies in WWII know about the german Alberich "Anti-Sonar-Coating" and how effective was it? 00:12:00 - Did Germany and Italy have a coherent strategy for deploying their ocean going and coastal submarines during WW2 to make the best use of the attributes of each type? 00:16:32 - Was there any way in your opinion as an engineer to make the walter drive submarines safer? 00:20:10 - Considering the ineffectiveness of Japanese ASW efforts, did anyone besides Eugene Fluckey think about using submarines to land ground troops on Japanese-held territory? 00:23:13 - In the Walter-type U-Boats had actually been produced, would they have had Cold War successors? 00:26:00 - How did the Type XXI, Type XXIII, Walter boats etc. compare to the Japanese Type-201? 00:29:45 - Was there ever any thoughts in WW2 of giving submarines a vertically firing torpedo or floating mine? 00:32:39 - For those of us who are used to thinking of Hydrogen Peroxide as a benign disinfectant stored in plastic bottles could you elaborate on the challenges of using and storing it in the Walter Boats? 00:38:04 - Why didn’t the US ever consider using 15 inch (381MM) caliber guns on their battleships? 00:46:22 - Did large corporations of the Age of Sail like the British and Dutch East India Companies have their own navies, how large/effective were they, and was there much overlap in crews between state and private navies? 00:51:57 - HM Drifter Catspaw? 00:55:45 - How strong was the Dutch East India Company in comparison to other navies at the height of its power? 00:58:47 - Did France have an alternative to Bearn? 01:02:06 - Could USS Enterprise CV-6 have kept up with the Essex's in front-line daytime duty in 1945? 01:06:04 - USS Langley's carrier pigeons? 01:08:20 - The passing of naval supremacy from the Royal Navy to the US Navy was fairly amicable. Was there ever another time in history this happened, when the ascending naval power did not have to execute a hostile takeover?