Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "The Drydock - Episode 023" video.

With regard to selling older capital ships to other nations rather than scrapping them, in a few cases the Royal Navy tried to and were turned down. HMS Canada was sold to Chile (having previously been purchased from Chile in 1914) and once again became Almirante Latorre. Chile was also negotiating to buy back her sister ship HMS Eagle (Almirante Cochrane), but the RN was converting her into an aircraft carrier and Chile wanted the conversion reverted which wasn't really practical (apparently some in the Chilean Navy wanted to buy her in CV form, which would've probably been a good idea had Chile actually ended up in any naval wars in the 20s or 30s). The British offered to sell them HMS Inflexible and HMS Indomitable (the 2 surviving Invincible-class battlecruisers), but Chile declined. They also tried to sell HMS Agincourt to Brazil (who she'd originally been designed for), but presumably the Brazilians remembered why they sold her to Turkey in the first place and said no. And with regard to building new battleships for foreign sale, the Washington Naval Treaty required that any such ships built by the signatories must be treaty-compliant. But building capital ships for export was still legal. Vickers apparently at one point offered a Nelson-like design to Spain, and Ansaldo offered upgraded versions of the Littorio-class to both Spain and the USSR.
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Ronald Reagan's wartime military service was pretty much a farce, though.
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@JohnE9999 Yeah, I was just thinking in terms of how Reagan was given blatantly preferential treatment by the Army because he was a famous actor. And besides, it's not exactly typical of the US Navy to name ships after people from the Army. George H.W. Bush was a naval aviator with a distinguished war record, so it makes some sense for him to have a carrier named after him. Gerald Ford also served on a carrier in WW2, so...eh. I guess. But in general, I disapprove of naming the CVNs after Presidents.
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I still find it rather bizarre that the Italians sent divers to blow up the SMS Viribus Unitis, a ship that the Regia Marina wanted to seize intact and incorporated into their own fleet.
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@Drachinifel Still, they blew the ship up long before the disposition of the fleet had actually been decided. That's what's so weird about it.
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