Comments by "Patrick Donnolley" (@ph89787) on "5 Naval Engineering Failures - Sink, Swim or Explode" video.

One advantage Wasp had over her Yorktown half-sisters (or cousins). She had an alternating boiler and engine room set up compared to the combined arrangement used on the larger carriers. I think I bought this up in a drydock before. But Wasp was laid down a week after the 2nd London Treaty was signed which for carriers got rid of the combined tonnage limits in favour of a 23,000 tonne individual ship limit. When the ink hit the paper, someone should have called Fore River and told them to stop construction temporarily. Bring up a copy of Yorktown's blueprints from Newport news and with adjustments to the slipways and possible modifications. She could be ready to be laid down in 1937 as Yorktown-Class (plus or minus modifications to keep the deck edge elevator). Without anyone complaining as she would fit within the treaty.
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@Briandnlo4 I saw that episode, and I agree that her being sent into the Pacific was a timebomb. How she ended up in the periscope of I-19 can be attributed to ignoring orders. Let me explain: The waters where she was sunk were called "Torpedo Junction" for a reason. That was where most of the IJN's subs would gather to interdict shipping. In a rare showing of backbone, Vice Admiral Robert Ghormley had ordered Task Force Commanders to try and change up their routes through the waters as much as possible. So that the subs would at least have a harder time looking for targets. Wasp's Task Force 18 Commander Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes had used the same route for his patrols. Which was against those orders. Plus, Neptune's inferno described him as unimaginative. Eventually, the IJN caught on, and the rest is history.
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@asianbandit4054 she would’ve been at Eastern Solomons had Fletcher not mistimed sending her south for refueling. How much impact Wasp would have is anyone’s guess.
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And when she was laid down. The US could've legally got away with building her as a full-sized Yorktown.
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The reason why Enterprise had torpedo blisters is because: 1. She had a lot of top weight installed on her during the 1943 refit. So her center of gravity had shifted. Meaning the torpedo blisters are added for stability. 2. The space in between the blister and the hull can be used to store additional fuel. So that she can remain out at sea (or at least not require an oiler) as long as an Essex-Class. 3. Yes Enterprise did dodge Torpedoes. Yorktown and Hornet did not and that’s what sank them. The big weakness in the Yorktowns are that their boiler and engine rooms are in the one spot. As opposed to being spread out. A torpedo hit such as the one to Hornet knocks out those spaces and it’s over for the ship. The Torpedo Blisters mostly rectify that weakness.
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If I remember correctly. While she was deemed lost about an hour or so after the attack. She didn’t actually go down till about 9PM that night. Also, Wasp did have one advantage over her half-sisters/cousins. In that she had alternating boiler and engine rooms
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Add to the fact that both Wasp and Shokaku were in the middle of flight operations. So a lot of avgas and munitions were being moved around and exposed.
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The cut corners were bad enough. But Wasp was lost because her TF commander didn’t change up her patrol patterns and the IJN caught onto them.
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That is Wasp…….(CV-18).
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