Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Battle class - Guide 187" video.

  1. How come there were no X and Y class destroyers
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  2. To  @WinterVulpine  The RN did just that. The Fleet Destroyers had low angle guns and torpedoes and the Escort Destroyers (WAIR conversions and Hunt class) had AA guns and depth charges. Problem with the DDE's was their size and range "The Royal Navy had identified the need for two types of destroyer: larger vessels with heavy gun and torpedo armaments for fleet work and another type for escort duties. Although old fleet destroyers could be allocated to escort work, they were unsuitable for the task and new construction replaced them. Fleet destroyers were designed for speed and their machinery was inefficient at convoy speeds, reducing their range. Their shape made them poor sea boats at low speed, also exacerbated by additional equipment on the superstructure. Modifications were needed to ease these problems. The escort vessels forsook the heavy armament and some of the speed of the fleet type to reduce unit cost and better suit mass production and the conditions. This new "fast escort vessel" was later classified as an "escort destroyer" " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_and_W-class_destroyer and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt-class_destroyer
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  3. To  @artificernathaniel3287  - No they are dual 40mm mounts. There was one 4" aft of the stack. I seem to recall it was a "Star shell gun" reflecting pre-radar ideas
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  4. To  @Xenophaige_reads  There were a flotilla of the Emergency class Tin cans that was armed with five 4-inch AA guns. Might have been a way to go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_and_P-class_destroyer
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  5. During wartime they moved from London to Bath
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  6. She's the (fictional) USS Keeling, "Greyhound" is her radio callsign
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  7. Steve Valley, Perhaps you are thinking of the Boffin Mount which could mount two 20 mm, one 2 pounder or one 40 mm, depending on what was available. http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww2/cruisers/ontario10.jpg
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  8. You mean like HMS Saratoga, Yorktown, Cowpens, Isandlwana....
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