The Drydock - Episode 285

00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:35 - RN sailors on US ships and vice-versa? 00:07:23 - Turret sizes vs number of guns? 00:14:40 - Do you think there are any old ships left hiding in plain sight? 00:18:34 - Utility/Value of Battlecruisers? 00:24:42 - Infaltion adjusted costs of the pre-WW1 naval arms race? 00:34:00 - US ’small battleships’ of 1919? 00:39:22 - Differences in US and UK wargames in the inter-war period? 00:44:48 - What is it with competent captains and admirals time and time again driving their battleships/cruisers/carriers ashore? 00:49:24 - Paint and timber supplies aboard ship in the Age of Sail? 00:53:45 - Why did the Royal Navy choose limes rather than some other citrus fruit? 00:56:30 - Role of ’little dots’ in the Atlantic? 00:59:28 - What were the different companies that developed naval guns, and was it the companies themselves or the different navies that actually drove the size of the guns and ca