Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "King George V class - Design, Service and Myths" video.

  1. Engine rooms were hot. Workspace temperatures of 130 degrees F were not uncommon in period warship boiler rooms. They lived on water and salt tablets. Imagine for a minute if you will how much worse it had been for coal fueled ships of the previous wars, stoking the boilers with a shovel, while a mate sprayed the pile with oil for an "extra kick".
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  2. Designers place all important systems under armor . . . except for the 500lb warheads on the exposed torpedo mounts. Even so, above decks tubes are better than having tube doors below the waterline. Fortunately, more modern ideas prevailed.
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  3. Personal thought. Armoring. I wonder if armor schemes on ships would benefit from the same engineering considerations used when designing mine resistant ground vehicles. Could one say mine/torpedo proof a modern hull by shaping its underside to disperse the concussion wave? Air is compressible, of course, while water is not. But I was curious, remembering all the effort put into TDS (torpedo defense systems) for large size warships. Could armored skegs be used to mask the prop(s) or rudder(s) from torpedoes? I wonder how vulnerable a-say-LCS is to mines. Does its odd hull provide a measure of protection?
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  4. Interesting. High quality historical content. Thanks for posting.
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  5. Good content, Drach. Liked.
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