Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The Drydock - Episode 101" video.

  1. The British fleet in the Med was there to fight surface actions with the Italian fleet. Let's face it, compared to Germany, Italy was always considered a second rate navy, and the RN was confident it could fight in the Med with some of its older but still powerful ships. What the RN didn't appreciate initially was the role of air power and how poorly equipped the fleet was to fight off air attacks. The found to their consternation that a couple of 3" guns and some quad Vickers machine guns just weren't a sufficient AA armament by 1940.
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  2. The USN was is a somewhat similar situation with the South Carolina class. When placed in service in 1910, it was the first dreadnought with all the 12" guns in super firing service on the centerline. If the building pace for the class wasn't quite so leisurely. the class would have been in the role now given to Dreadnought . Like Dreadnought , the South Carolina didn't see much action in WWI and had only a little over ten years useful service before falling victim to the Washington treaty.
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  3.  Tom Sanders  It was, but the performance of the Italians was poor, and ships and ammunition had numerous faults.
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