00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:32 - Drydock shapes

00:06:31 - Prize money and taxation

00:08:03 - Mr Hollom and older midshipman

00:11:24 - Good books on RN WW2 commanders?

00:12:51 - Why was Zuikaku withdrawn from Guadalcanal?

00:17:37 - SMS Emden's impact on the 'big picture'?

00:21:47 - Is there a maximum viable carrier hull displacement in the propeller era, after which you are putting to many resources into one hull for the vulnerability?

00:25:52 - Armouring your ship against your own guns

00:31:26 - Were cruisers ever actually involved in commerce interdiction/raiding in the 20th century, or was this a theoretical threat?

00:34:09 - Why did Imperial Japanese Naval air/carrier doctrine place such a low priority on reconnaissance (using seaplanes in this role instead)?

00:38:00 - Differences between Mikasa and Borodino classes?

00:44:00 - Was there anything the Prussian Navy could have done differently to effectively challenge the Swede's during the Seven Years War?

00:48:03 - What if the Holy League had lost the Battle of Lepanto?

00:51:06 - What if Admiral Wilhelm Souchon had decided to stay and fight it out with the Russian pre-dreadnoughts during the action off Cape Sarych?

00:57:37 - Gunboats in colonial wars?

01:00:48 - What were small improvements/changes in ship design, that made a (relative) huge difference in handeling/fighting capability/life quality of the crew?

01:05:40 - Split command crew between bridge and conning tower?

01:08:48 - Power dynamic between a captain and the chief medical officer?

01:13:20 - What if the anti-war party won in 1914 in the Ottoman Empire?

01:17:47 - Franklin Roosevelt and the "Three Little Ships"?

01:21:57 - When/why did the second class battleship stop being a viable combat unit?

01:27:47 - During WWII, outside of Pearl Harbor, were there any other capital ships sunk, salvaged, and brought back into active fleet status during the war?

01:30:03 - Which navy took to heart their failures in World War One best and learned their lessons well?

01:35:20 - Did ice build-up hinder the use of the armament on big-gun battleships?

01:38:31 - Why is it that on naval vessels when the captain is giving an order or series of orders it keeps getting repeated by multiple members of the officers and crew even when the crewman that has to execute the order is in the same room possibly an arms length away from the captain?

01:42:01 - Good books about ship anti-aircraft weaponry end of 1930's into first few years of WWII

01:44:06 - What was the British plan for if Spain entered WW2 on the Axis side?

01:48:30 - Prizes! How did one pick crew to sail them, what did original crew usually do, when and why did capturing prizes start and stop being a thing.

01:55:30 - Heavy Cruiser, Battlecruiser, Fast Battleship, Battleship... definitions

02:09:59 - Has a ship ever used the recoil of its guns to steer/maneuver? If not, what is the strangest/most off the cuff way a ship improvised a way to steer/maneuver.

02:15:24 - What role did Casco Bay in Maine play in transatlantic convoys. I had heard it was one of the major staging points in the north east.

02:19:02 - Which scuttling was the biggest middle finger to the enemy?

02:23:44 - Free surface effect and ship design

02:30:28 - In WW2 how did the Royal Navy and US Navy distribute the fruits of ULTRA intelligence to their respective field commanders. Did they use Special Liaison Units like the Army and Air force?

02:35:29 - Which of the three 'legs' of the Guadalcanal Campaign was the weakest?

02:40:05 - What was the reliability of deck guns on WW2 era submarines. Did the seawater affect the guns in any way after resurfacing?

02:43:00 - Why were Bismarck's turrets so large?

02:47:36 - Admiral Cowan

02:50:06 - In the Age of Sail, would there be shipyards and/or chief builders who were known like Kelly Johnson and the Skunk works for producing excellent ships, or was it more hit or miss per ship?

02:55:38 - Concerning the Monroe Doctrine, at what point was the US Navy capable of enforcing the doctrine in any meaningful way and at what point was it fully enforceable?

02:59:57 - I read that carrier HMS Hermes was stationed in China in the 1920s and 1930s suppressing piracy. What did piracy look like in this time?

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