Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 1 (Beatty vs Hipper)" video.

Thanks Drach, I've been waiting for this and you didn't disappoint It's obvious the British BC's poorer gunnery is more the result of location and inability to properly practice rather than laziness. I know you have a poor opinion of Beatty but it seems to me he was more unlucky and had subordinates who totally failed to use any initiative or were incompetent. I'm sure he personally didn't send those radio signals or hoist the flags but like any Admiral he gave the orders and expected them to be properly done professionally. He gets blame for poor ammunition handling procedures but I likes how you pointed out Hipper did the exact same thing until he learned his lesson at Dogger Bank. He was just lucky to learn his lesson in a small action rather than a major fleet engagement.
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Should all the six I class BC's be more properly classes as Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers and not Battlecruisers as that's what they were designed and built as? Therefore Britain's first true Battlecruisers were the Lion class. The German BC's were designed more as small, fast BB's than BC's, except Von Der Tann whose armour was weaker.
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