Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Range-finding and Fire Control - Plotting Your Demise" video.

@Johnny_Tambourine one I remember was the retaking of the SS Mayaguez by US Marines boarding from a USN destroyer along side, in Cambodia, May 15, 1975. More recently, boardings have been executed against pirates and drug smugglers. Within the last year, the news has run video of US frogmen boarding and pounding on the hatch of a drug smuggling "submarine", until the occupants surrendered.
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Second question: some sources say the Dunkerque and Richelieu classes suffered excessive dispersion of shot due to the main guns being mounted in pairs, too close together, leading to the muzzle blast of the guns knocking the shell from the neighboring guns off course. Was this the case, and, if so, did the navy install a delay circuit so that two guns would fire first, then their close-mounted mates fire a split second later, after the muzzle blast from the first two guns had dispersed?
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First question, wrt the topic today, US BBs through the Colorado class had two, huge, equal height, masts. The size of the masts implies they were trying to use triangulation to estimate range. Was that the case? If so, what sort of shortcut did they use to do the Trig involved? By the time I figured everything out with a slide rule, the firing solution would be outdated.
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@thatoneguy8457 I did a cruse on the Lexington when it was the Navy's training carrier in the Gulf of Mexico. I don't know about a separate mess for the Marines, but I did see heads on the ship labeled as being for Marines. I would expect the Marine contingent to have had it's own living spaces as well.
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