Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "King George V class - Design, Service and Myths" video.

  1. "An over rated design" while lauding the outdated when built Bismarck. Classic.
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  2. You're forgetting that the KGVs had 10 main guns in THREE turrets not 8 main guns in FOUR turrets. Even using a simple rule of thumb thats a 25% decrease in armour requirement to protect the turrets, barbettes and magazines. Plus Bismarck's outdated incremental armour scheme meant there were mutliple thinner layers of armour distributed around the ship above her main deck armour, the KGVs did not have all that added weight of the additional armour layers, instead concentrating her weight of armour into her main deck and belt, one thicker piece of armour being more effective than multiple thinner pieces.
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  3. More turrets, mean more magazines spread out along the length of the ship, which means thousands more tons of armour to protect it all. If you concentrate your guns into fewer turrets holding more guns, then the magazines are less spaced out along the ship's length which hugely reduces the amount of armour required to protect it all. Weight saved that can be used elsewhere such as more armour / guns / propulsion systems. Perhaps the most novel design was the layout of the RN "Nelson" class battleships and the "Dunkerque" class French battlecruisers who had all their main armaments situated close together thereby requiring thousands of tons less armour to protect their magazines / gunnery feed systems.
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  4. They appear to be what was known as "gash chutes", and its where all the dirty water from "swabbing the decks", food scraps from the ship's galleys, and other assorted ship's refuse would have been jettisoned down (to avoid all the rubbish blowing across the decks!!!). the black paint underneath was to mask the stains and dirt which would otherwise spoil the look of a ship.
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  5.  @tomriley5790  Can't speak for other navies, I would assume they had similar sorts of arrangements. As for the number of chutes fitted, a ship the size of a battleship has more than one galley, and swabbing dirty water from one end of a +700ft long ship to a single "gash chute" would soon become a "bit of a chore".
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  6.  @tomriley5790  I've read multiple comments in books over the years regarding USN ships having the same practice of "gash" being thrown overboard, though as for other navies as I said I can't comment with certainty, but would strongly suspect similar arrangements to be pretty universal. All the best.
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  7.  @tomriley5790  I've given you the correct answer to your original question, but I'm sorry to tell you that I'm not a published authority on world navy's refuse disposal policies. But best of luck in your search for the answers you desire.
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