00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:30 - When did the RN become the dominant naval power?

00:03:54 - Kongo-class impact on WW2

00:07:35 - In your opinion which of the free Navies and minor power navies were the most successful based on overall impact on the war, on both sides, in World War Two?

00:10:31 - What is the rank of the officer in charge of a WWII Royal Navy destroyer and what would be the average of age of one at the start of WWII?

00:12:24 - Turret hits on battleships?

00:15:54 - Battle of Campeche, sail vs steam?

00:19:10 - Did the USN have doctrine worked out how the standards, fast battleships, and very fast battleships would engage the enemy if all three types of battleships were present in a Jutland-style engagement with the enemy line of battle?

00:24:41 - How common was it to have warships named after the same person in different navies during the period the channel covers?

00:27:52 - Was Tsingtao the only naval base Germany had outside Germany in WW1? How did they support ships in African colonies colliers? How many bases did the RN have outside the UK in WW1?

00:31:07 - Why were the Iowa's, Essex's and Fletcher's so succuessful?

00:36:10 - Royal Navy officers on half-pay who did interesting things and aren't named Cochrane?

00:38:30 - Pick any ship you visited on the April 2022 US tour. Where would the shells land if its main battery fired?

00:40:29 - Did age-of-sail navies experiment with powder formulations at all, or was it all just standard black-powder charges of varying sizes and weight?

00:42:39 - Slopes in gun turret floors?

00:46:30 - Were the interwar naval treaties signed assuming there would be a successor treaty?

00:49:42 - Which is the greater disaster, Mary Rose, Indefatigable, or the Courageous class?

00:55:48 - Would the German surface raiders of early WW2 have been more effective/caused more damage if they had completely ignored prize rules from the outset of the war?

01:00:19 - What determines barbette size? Weight of the guns/turret? Physical dimensions of the turret? Secret third thing?

01:02:40 - Is it common for AP bombs to penetrate so deep into a ship (aside from Tallboys), and does it have to penetrate somewhere such as a funnel to do so? Has a bomb alone ever caused a ship to sink from flooding?

01:06:51 - Rubber as armour instead of iron?

01:10:45 - The Battle of the Beta (or Duisburg) Convoy in November 1941

01:17:03 - What are the weird things attached to this turret?

01:20:24 - Section 22 and the date of USS Darter

01:29:40 - Would skip bombing have had any effect on warships bigger than a destroyer?

01:32:29 - Peacetime recruitment/retention issues in history?

01:36:49 - Are there any good colour photos of dye-equipped shells exploding?

01:38:40 - Russian ships in the American Civil War?

01:41:23 - When did aircraft carriers start to be considered as capital ships?

01:43:54 - Anti-torpedo gun?

01:52:54 - How close did the Germans come to the conclusion that there likely might be something wrong with Enigma and that they need to take action?

01:55:16 - What made the Mark 38 fire control system so effective?

02:01:09 - Why did Graf Spee offload crew twice?

02:03:15 - Shackles on a ships stern?

02:04:50 - Advantages/Disadvantages of catapult placement on ships?

02:13:34 - What are your top 3 wins and top 3 sins in terms of impact on the war for ship hulls that were converted to aircraft carriers from WW1 to Korea?

02:23:02 - Tennesse / Colorado class effectiveness?

02:26:40 - Kriegsmarine fleet-in-being vs raiding?

02:31:59 - The Mount Hood detonation, is there no known cause? Is that still accurate? What are your thoughts on what happened?

02:37:00 - Was it common for small colonial shipyards the size of H.W. Stone to build vessels for the Royal Navy and if so, were the vessels built similar in dimension and role as the ones built by H.W. Stone?

02:39:39 - How did the invention of Morse code effect ship communications and when did ships start using signal lamps to relay complex communications in real time?

02:42:53 - Theoretical inter-war carrier conversions?

02:47:34 - Were there any other instances of kamikaze (divine wind) in naval history?

02:53:20 - What do you feel is the most historically significant naval engagement/campaign?