Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "The Drydock - Episode 135" video.

  1. 11:37 Minor correction here. Saratoga was CC-3. CC-2 was USS Constellation. But since Saratoga's hull was further along in construction and thus chosen for conversion into a carrier.
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  2. With regard to "downgrade" follow-on ships, are the J/K/N classes really a downgrade of the Tribals? They do lose 1/4 of the guns, but they have double the torpedo armament.
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  3. 1:45:20 I'm pretty sure you're mistaken here. There is no strictly date-based cutoff that lets the US keep Colorado while Japan has to scrap Mutsu. Mutsu was completed well ahead of Colorado. In fact, it was kind of complete bullshit that Mutsu was ever on the chopping block at all. The Washington Naval Conference convened on November 12, 1921. This was when the US proposed that all incomplete capital ships be scrapped. But Mutsu was already complete, being commissioned by the IJN on October 24, 1921. Colorado, on the other hand, wouldn't be completed until August 30, 1923. The US was blatantly negotiating in bad faith by on one hand insisting that the cutoff was based on the date of November 12, but on the other hand including a ship that had to be scrapped despite already being complete before that date. It's also not really accurate at all to say the Japanese were rushing to complete Mutsu. Mutsu's construction was actually slightly slower than Nagato's, and Nagato certainly wasn't a rush job. And she was completed before the conference had even be called, let alone before the US proposed that all capital ships not already completed be scrapped. So there's really no basis for suggesting they were rushing to beat a deadline that didn't exist yet.
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