Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "HMS Lion (1910) - Guide 149" video.

Thanks for an excellent and informative video of these ships. They are often unfairly criticized compared to their German counterparts but in service they did everything asked of them and withstood the test of battle in good order. Unlike their supposedly superior opponents they were eager and able to continue the fight the following day only to find the enemy had fled the scene. The biggest falw would seem to be their poor luck when it came to being hit in battle, the Germans having the uncanny and very lucky ability to land hits on turrets.
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@Wolfeson28 I have to disagree, there are many, many vital things you are skipping. The lax ammunition handling practices so many gleefully point out also existed in German ships prior to Dogger Bank. There Seydlitz was nearly destroyed by the same thing that happened to the British ships at Jutland and only the brave and fast action by her turret crew saved the ship, thereby the Germans learned of the dangers the reinstated the safety features while the British remained ignorant, which led the the losses. The boast of better ships is counterbalanced if you consider the British heavy AP shells were defective and exploded outside the armour while the German AP shells worked as designed. So lighter but effective German shells against thinner British armour Vs heavier but defective British shells against heavier German armour. IMO the British BC;s proved their toughness in battle more so than the Germans, who should have been in better fighting condition when taking that into account. So Lutzow took only six more hits from defective shells than Tiger and was hors de combat while the slighgly less hit Tiger, hit with working shells was still looking for a fight the next day. Tiger for the win. Add in the German advantage of being designed for limited short duration cruises in the North Sea while British ships had to be able to operate anywhere in the world, so German ships could afford to be more closely subdivided than ships of other Navy's. In harbour German crews left the ships and lived in barracks ashore, again not something other Navy's did. And at the rangers the guns were firing at, you're lucky to hit the ship at all, much less the turret as the Germans had a habit of doing, It's a combination of excellent training, excellent optics, a bit of good fortune where the shells hit and the sun favoring the German ships at the start of the battle. It all adds up. Another point few research is how German gunnery quickly worsened as battle wore on due the the intense strain of using their excellent rangefinders while the British system took longer to get on target but once there it stayed on target as the system was easier to use, or more user friendly in today's parlance.
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