Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "HMS Vanguard - Guide 132 (Extended Look)" video.

  1. Jean Bart? Completed in 1955.
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  2.  @chopchop7938  you mean like the three cruisers at the Plate, Renown against Scharnhorst & Gneisenau off Norway, Rodney against Bismarck on 27 May, 1941, Sheffield & Jamaica at the Barents Sea, or Duke of York at the North Cape, perhaps?
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  3.  @charliekk3377  Yes, but the word used was 'build.' I would suggest that a warship (or anything else) isn't built until it is complete. Not, of course, that it matters anyway.
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  4.  @warpmine1761  Well, in that case what you have read is wrong. The Germans did indulge in a naval race with the French between the wars. The French response to the 'Deutchlands' was the Strasbourg class, the Germans responded with the Scharnhorsts, the French laid down the Jean Barts, and the Germans the Bismarcks. The original role of the Deutchlands was to intercept French troop convoys, as determined by the head of the German navy between 1924 & 1928, Admiral Zenker, who had the options of building a slow, heavily armoured coastal type for the Baltic (Raeder's preferred option) of a long range super cruiser capable of resisting 8 inch shellfire, as a commerce raider. He chose the latter. Challenging the RN was never an option.
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  5. Yes, they were called 'five point two fives' just as the guns on the later destroyer classes were called 'four point fives' not 'four and a halves'.
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  6. Because, from the perspective of 1939/40, the first two Lions wouldn't be ready before 1943. As the biggest bottleneck in building was the production of the 16 inch triple gun barbettes, and as the four twin fifteen inch barbettes taken out of Courageous & Glorious were available in store, the decision was made to place a contract for a ship build to a modified Lion design, with an obsolete, but serviceable, main armament, which (ironically, as things turned out,) could enter service more quickly. As the war situation developed, design changes regularly delayed construction (at one time, consideration was given to converting Vanguard to an aircraft carrier) resulting in her not being completed until 1946.
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  7. Unfortunately, it wasn't up to the Royal Navy, but to politicians, and politicians have no sentiment except when it concerns their own pockets.
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