Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 258" video.

  1. Given the potential disastrous propaganda and morale effects of a ship bearing the name of its country going down, why did so many countries still name their major warships after themselves? Just off the top of my head, there's Deutschland (which happened twice, first with the predreadnought and then with the Panzerschiff that eventually got renamed Lützow), the dreadnoughts France and España (made even worse by the ignominious ways in which both of these met their ends, being the only two dreadnoughts ever to be destroyed not by enemy action, random explosion, or shipbreakers, but by simple shipwrecks), Italia (which also happened twice, first with the beltless ironclad and then with the ship that used to be Littorio, with the second also implicating the ship-renaming taboo for extra bad luck), and the shortly-post-WWII aircraft carrier United States (admittedly, that one was cancelled almost immediately after being laid down, but still). Did no one realize that it might be a bad idea to give a warship a name that creates the potential for headlines reading, say, "FRANCE WRECKED" or "UNITED STATES DESTROYED"?
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  2. 1:53 - ...Satsuma is a really, really cool name, though.
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