Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 258" video.

  1. 5:40 Well, at least Satsuma put the fore funnel aft of the foremast / forward gunnery spotting platform.
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  2. Sorry it pains you when people bearn that ship so hard.
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  3. 23:32 I think an argument could be made that Deutschland’s bad luck started when she was renamed to Lutzow, lending credence to the claim.
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  4. 1:35 Also, in 1905-6 the world still very much took its cues from Britain, and in naval terms even more so. The Anglophile nature of so much of the world, and the navies that sailed it, would probably have put “dreadnought” over the finish line first, even if Satsuma was the first warship of the type.
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  5. PofW wasn’t quite on a “shakedown” cruise, but she very much did have civilian engineers aboard working 24x7 to get all main turrets and 14” guns working properly.
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  6. 36:28 They wouldn’t have used Lion for shore bombardment. Too much worry about mines and subs to risk the last battleship. She would have gone straight to the Pacific to be Vian’s flagship.
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  7.  @adamalton2436  I think if the Grand Fleet had done serious damage to, let alone annihilated, the High Seas Fleet, it would have caused the utter collapse of Germany’s morale and accelerated the end of the war by six months. By mid-1916, it was clear that the nobody’s boast of “home by Christmas 1914” was accurate and the land war was a meat grinder. The only place the German citizens still believed they could achieve real victory was at sea, especially as the RN had maintained a decidedly conservative, even defensive, attitude in spite of its clear advantage in numbers. Had the High Seas Fleet been crushed, it would also have allowed the RN to control the North Sea and gloat it daily.
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  8.  @nathand.9969  No, Japan would not have been better served by a third Yamato class battleship. By mid-1944 the IJN was almost completely broken and unable to provide proper fuel or air cover for any large-ship operation. B) Japan might possibly have been able to complete before the war ended, but see A). The ship would have been sunk by air or submarine power before mid 1945, without putting her guns to use against US targets. C) even if Japan had completed Shinano, to original design, in 1943, there still just wasn’t a theater or operation where she would have been useful. “Having a third Yamato” would not have caused the IJN to do anything significantly different than it did having only two Yams.
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  9. Dreadnought could not have completed with 13.5” guns unless her building were delayed by several years. It takes almost as long to design and proof a new battleship-caliber naval weapon as it does to build the battleship itself. The Orions were the first to use the new gun, not because the RN chose not to use them on an earlier class, but because they weren’t ready until the Orion design was finalized.
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  10. Why did Fisher put Dreadnought’s forward funnel immediately ahead of the foremast? Wasn’t that just obviously stupid?
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  11. No idea. Drachinifel, call for you on line one. Drachinifel, line one please.
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  12. Sorry, what? Which dreadnought was not all-big-gun?
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  13. 49:55 A ship cannot be in the same boat as another ship. A ship can barely be in the same boat as itself.
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  14.  @monke9742  very much un.
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  15.  @nikujaga_oishii  Cruisers are built to maneuver while firing, which weighs against all-forward mains. Battleships are built to line up broadside-on and fire away, which does not weigh against all-forward mains.
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  16. 1:01:10 (Mrs. Drach raises her eyes above the top edge of her laptop screen and looks not quite menacingly at Mr. Drach.)
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  17. I don’t hear it.
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