00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:27 - Could you please give a brief introduction to the role and scope of the Merchant Marines in WWII, including a description of the citizen/foreigner makeup of the branch?
00:06:32 - 'National Doctrine' in the Age of Sail?
00:13:19 - New 6" gun in the USN in late WW2?
00:15:34 - NBC shells for battleships?
00:20:36 - Can you give other examples (apart from the IJN) of navies whose strategies were informed by a shallow or otherwise flawed understanding of Mahanian doctrine?
00:28:56 - I’m wondering how did you come to own primary source material?
00:45:06 - Did the long build times of the major ships of the Japanese Maru 3 program have a significant impact on when the Japanese felt comfortable beginning hostilities with the US?
00:50:20 - Yamato or Yamatoe?
00:52:50 - Why did the RM not notice the design issues with their 15" guns?
00:55:55 - How was the CIC location debate decided?
01:00:05 - What was the process, from totally cold, of lighting the boilers and getting up steam in a pre-dreadnought battleship?
01:05:54 - If the transom hull form would have been developed earlier say the early 1910's would the early dreadnoughts, battlecruisers and cruisers benefited from the design and hit higher speeds earlier than traditionally evolved?
01:10:08 - Picture of RN Officers?
01:11:29 - When did the post war mine sweeping efforts officially end in the major theaters of World War 2?
01:15:40 - Was radar sensitive enough to 'see' shell splashes?
01:18:20 - How much land combat training did naval personnel get especially at times were boarding was no longer practised?
01:20:46 - Did The Jutland Scandal, by Admiral Reginald Bacon, and The Truth About Jutland by Admiral John Harper change the public’s perception of either Beatty or Winston Churchill (due to the exposure of his evidently very poor scholarship on the battle) at the time they were published?
01:22:24 - How were propeller shaft ports kept watertight?
01:25:49 - What courses were taught during the Selborne-Fisher Scheme?
01:28:33 - What was Fisher's 'oil engine'?
01:35:04 - Thoughts on the Kronprins Gustav Adolf class?
01:40:46 - What was the Japanese reaction to the death of Admiral Yamamoto?
01:42:59 - Are the shells typically on display museum ships good to be fired?
01:46:03 - In the Age of Sail, what were the three ships whose captures were the most impactful — not in terms of the careers they would go on to have in their new navies, but in terms of the broader impact of the information, cargo, technology, persons, or other prizes found onboard?
01:49:59 - What was the biggest material deficiency of the major navies going into WWII?
01:56:18 - Main guns with magazines on them?
01:59:17 - Were there every any designs for rockets or bombs that used White phosphorus for smokescreens or suppressing AA guns?
02:01:29 - Were 3rd class cruisers under-valued?
02:07:17 - Polish Baden class?
02:13:17 - How were decisions made when it came to what to sacrifice for more AA guns?
02:18:39 - How common were sub vs sub fights during the World Wars, and were such battles more common in the Atlantic or the Pacific during WWII?
02:22:32 - What happened to RO-500?
02:24:22 - How did the Great White Fleet survive it's typhoon better than some of the WW2 ships?
02:27:15 - Were exceptionally large destroyers ever called cruisers, either by their own navy or other navies?
02:28:58 - Please tell us the sad, sad story of the Lend-Lease ship Empire Starlight in 1942?
02:32:05 - What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Tiger/Kongo style aft turret layout with the large space between the two turrets. Compared to the more standard super firing arrangement?