Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "HMS Invincible - Guide 043 (Human Voice)" video.

These ships attract a lot of negative comments and distasteful jokes because of their losses at Jutland, but when they were used for the roles they were designed for they proved to be highly effective ships. the losses at Jutland were more due to poor ammo handling plus both skilled and lucky German gunnery. The German BC's were more fast BB's than cruiser killers/scouts, which is the role the Invincible class was built for. The German ships had many flaws as well, but too many believe they were perfect in every way, which they most certainly were not.
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@bkjeong4302 True, once enemy raiding cruisers were swept from the sea the I's had little role. Personally I do not consider them BC's at all despite them being reclassified. They were conceived, designed and built as Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers and therefore the first British ships to be designed as Battlecruisers to be the Lion class. And faulty cordite handling aside they proved well able to stand up to the German BC's given the large number of hits they took at Jutland and were still combat capable whereas their more heavily armoured opponents (hit by defective AP shells) were hors de combat despite their advantage of being designed solely for short term voyages in the North Sea and thus could be far more heavily sub devided. Something they deny of course. But that's just my personal opinion.
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