Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "The Drydock - Episode 054B (2/3)" video.

And here we are for round two of the marathon I've read that prior to the Washington Treaty the Japanese were spending as much as 40% of their GDP on the Navy alone, so the Treaty saved the country from bankruptcy although they don't like to admit that. And for abiding by the Treaty's, basically the Japanese never did. All the cruisers built under the treaty were grossly over the announced displacement as well as over the 10K limit for CA's. The carriers were also over the agreed limits and the Japanese just lied. In building the Dreadnought Jackie Fisher said "It was better for the RN to take the lead rather than play catch up" The US ships were NOT laid down before HMS Dreadnought. Both being laid down in December 1906 while Dreadnought was laid down in October 1905 and completed in December 1906 I agree the Danton's were the best of the last Pre-Dreadnoughts but they were built years after the others. The sailors of the HSF didn't think much of their Pre-DN's as main battle line units dubbing them the five minute ships. The enemy would spend four minutes laughing at them and one minute to sink them
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Do you think the South Carolina's should even be counted as proper full Dreadnoughts as they retained the old triple expansion engines Vs HMS Dreadnoughts turbines?
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