Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "The Drydock - Episode 082" video.

Something all too many people ignore about the gunnery of the British WW1 BC's is that based at Rosyth they could not practice live shooting at all. So of course their skills would deteriorate. Just notice the excellent gunnery of the Third BCS after they had transferred to Scapa Flow for gunnery practice. IMO Beatty copes a lot of flak for things beyond his immediate control. He gets blamed for the BC's shooting at the wrong ship but I think his orders (given the tech of the time) would be simple like "Engage opposite numbers" and the other ship captains are the one who screwed up. He just gets blamed for it. I think I read some of that Harry Harrison book before I threw it away in disgust. The whole thing was a poorly written British bashing fantasy.
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@TraditionalAnglican Actually the hydrodynamic shape did not originate with the German type XXI The British built a series of Submarines called the R class in WW1 with high underwater speed, a high battery capacity, large bow salvo and hydrophones. Built today they would be classed as Hunter/Killers. Sadly the design was not continued. You could say the type XXI were based on the shape of the R class
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