Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock -- Episode 165" video.

  1.  @benjamin4673  my guess, and worth what you paid for it, is torps used contra-rotating screws due to the size limitation of the tube. Same as some aircraft used contrarotating props to clear the ground.
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  2.  @paulgoyne6926  your comment ties in to a thread going on a previous post. I think the assertion that three Canadian QEs would simply replace the three KGVs on the original retention list, or Thunderer and two GKVs, is correct. The RN might even get the Nelsons, in place of the Iron Dukes as well. The US did not want that conference to fail, for domestic, political, reasons, so was very lenient with the UK. The UK was the only power to come out of the treaty well above it's tonnage quota, with numerical superiority, with firepower superiority, and with two ships of entirely postwar design, but the US got what it wanted: an excuse to cancel the 1916 capital ship building program.
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  3.  @johnshepherd8687  my suspicion is, had Tennessee and California both been built with 16" guns, then, assuming you buy the story that West Virginia and Colorado were completed to approximate the 5:5:3 ratio of 16" gun ships with the Nagatos, then West Virginia and Colorado would not have been completed. That scenario would have the Delawares carrying on into the early 30s, and Florida and both Wyomings entering WWII as "first line" battleships. I put a question to Drac in guide 220 that would have about the same result: Daniels realizes. in Feb of 1919, that his decisions wrt the South Dakotas had rendered the Colorodoes obsolete, so, rather than throw good money after bad, Daniels orders Maryland cut up on the slipway and the other three cancelled before they were laid down, then the Lexingtons and South Dakotas are canceled for treaty compliance, what happens? Unfortunately, he declined to address that question. An even worse scenario is if Daniels had taken a page from the Admiralty's book, and canceled both the Coloradoes and Tennessees when the US entered the war in April 1917, as neither Tennessee nor Maryland was laid down yet, and all that was built of California was the bottom of the hull. Then, to get the USN to the 525,000 ton treaty limit, the USN would need to retain the Delawares, the South Carolinas and some of the Connecticut class.
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