Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "US Torpedo Battleships - Guide 379" video.

@RCAvhstape much faster than all merchantmen at this age....passenger liners like the Titanic achieved 24 knots max speed.
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@klade5031 One of the fastest windjammers is the "Mir", with 19,4 knots top-speed at good winds...
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The cowboys were idiots. HMS Invincible made at Jutland a direct hit into the propulsion room of the light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden. The same happened to Scharnhorst at the Northcape in WWII. In a fast torpedo boat or a destroyer such losses are not so heavy than in the case of battleships. And no one can cheat physics. The biggest fast battleships (or battlecruisers, does not matter )with a seagoing hull were Hood, Vanguard & the Bismarcks. The US fast battleships & the Yamatos, with their long straight hulls (to store their monstrous propulsions) were all failed constructions like the idea of fast torpedo-BBs.
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