Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "HMS Minotaur (1906) - Guide 348" video.

  1. I don’t think we’re wishing those ships had been lost with all hands. Rather that they’d been retained as museums, either of bravery or perhaps as “don’t build ships like this.”
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  2. Look out — Japanese torpedo boats gon’GETCHA!!
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  3. No. Their armour scheme, both side and belt, and underwater protection / anti flooding, were so bad that even a single hit from a WW2-era torpedo would have doomed them. Sure the armour could be upgraded, but will replacing engines save you enough, off a starting displacement of 14,500t, to work in that much more armour? Making big improvements to underwater protection and anti-flooding would require gutting the entire ship. Finally, speed is not determined solely by engine power. Hull form has a lot to do with it. Sure, you might have been able to put enough shp into it to increase flank speed, but at what cost to vibration (turbines vibrate), hull flexion, bow-spray and bow-wash impact, etc.
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  4. Probably similar to Wichita, perhaps a Des Moines. If you enlarge / pack on much more beyond that, it becomes so expensive and needs so much crew that you become reluctant to risk it on “cruiser jobs.”
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  5.  @scottgiles7546  Get out. And take this upvote with you.
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  6. It likely played hell with production rates and quality. And probably the ammo was retained long after the ammo and guns had gone out of production, as the guns were in regular use around the world and ya never know when some nation will telegraph asking for a price on replacement ammunition.
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