Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "ARA Veinticinco de Mayo - Guide 327" video.

  1. wrt the ships Chile acquired after WWI, I hope they didn't pay too much for those destroyers. The first two of the class, which Chile received new, just before the war, lasted through WWII. The three that the RN had requisitioned, had apparently been run hard (HMS Broke had a couple particularly lurid engagements), as they went to the breakers in the early 30s. The subs Drac refers to are probably the six British H class boats built in the US by Fore River. Those subs were part of the order the Admiralty placed with Bethlehem Steel in 1914. With the US being neutral at the time, the Wilson administration impounded the subs. The Admiralty hit on the idea of signing over the subs to Chile as partial payment for Latorre and Cochrane, when those unfinished battleships were requisitioned. As Chile was not involved in the war, the Wilson administration approved of the sale. The sub's departure from the US, bound for Chile, was reported in US newspapers at the time.
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  I can certainly see a scenario where they build four Kiis, rather than any Tosas or Amagis. Yes, if the Tosas had not been laid down, that would leave the slipways at Kawasaki and Mitsubishi available for Atago and Takao at the same time as Amagi and Akagi were laid down, so there would be better alternatives to Kaga, when Amagi was wrecked. But would the IJN do that, with a doctrine that called for both battlecruisers and battleships? The last iteration of the Lexingtons was spawned after SecNav Daniels and his entourage inspected Hood on a junket to Europe in early 1919. If the Japanese had made a similar inspection of Hood, they may have made the leap in doctrine to the fast battleship in 1919, cancelled the Tosas and Amagis, and gone straight to the Kiis, I have noticed, everything I see indicates the Kiis were little more than up-armored Amagis, so the doctrinal leap to the fast battleship may have been made over a very short time span.
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  3.  @bkjeong4302  so, you are proposing the fast battleship was a cost saving measure, more than following Hood.
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  4.  @coldown_ivan4864  no, they were RN standard H class boats. H-11 through H-20 were built at Fore River. H-13 and H-16 though H-20 were transferred to Chile as partial payment for the requisitioned ships. After WWI, H-14 and H-15 were transferred to Canada as CH-14 and CH-15, decommissioned in 22 and scrapped in 27. H-11 and H-12 finally made it to RN hands, and were scrapped in 20.
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