Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "The Drydock - Episode 105" video.

  1. Battle Cruisers ... You have general categories such as Destroyers, Cruisers, Battle Cruisers and Battleships. Then you hae Ship Classes such as the Scharnhorsts, the Alaskas and the Kongos. Battle Cruisers are anything between a Cruiser and a Battleship. It's a catch all category for ships that mostly appeared in very small numbers. Because these ships appear in very small numbers - taking their categories and trying to be more granular with them is a waste of time. Because there are so few ships of each of these types of Battle Cruisers - they are BEST dealt with by speaking about their Class if anyone wants to be more granular. Why call an Alaska a "Super Cruiser" when that tells you nothing. Just call them "Alaska's". That tells you all you need to know. What you have here - is a Sub-Category being created - and then ships being shoe horned into it. Do we really need yet another category here for such a small number of ships? A category so small that you're reaching out to other categories to draw ships into it? The Scharhorsts were certainly Battle Cruisers - but - they had 11" guns. The Repulse was certainly a Battle Cruiser but it had 15" guns. The Alaska's WERE certainly Battle Cruisers but they had 12" Guns. The Hood was certainly a Battle Cruiser - that fit into a One Ship Class. The Hood. Why try and create a special sub category for one ship? The Hood - tells you all you need to know. For other categories - like Destroyers and Cruisers - you got dozens if not hundreds of ships in the sub-categories for these ships of Destroyers, Destroyer Escorts, Light Cruisers and Heavy Cruisers. For Battleships, during WWII you had a wide range of ships - which had subcategories based on their age. WWI era, Inter-Wars era and WWII era battleships all of which could hurt each other even though the different subcategories had increasingly greater power. Different powers tended to develop different Battle Cruisers. The Germans all had 11" guns. They were supposed to get bigger ones but that didn't happen. The British Battle Cruisers were all WWI era ships with 15" guns. All the earlier non 15" gun WWI era British Battle Cruisers were gone and they stopped building them with The Hood. After Jutland the British didn't build any more.
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