Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "HMS New Zealand - The Lucky Kiwi Capital Ship" video.

  1. Not to mention the not so great layout of the guns. Had she been akin to a mini-Tiger in configuration with superfiring guns, you'd have a ship that with modernization would have been a viable cruiser-killer (or cruiser squadron flagship) all the way into WW2. Though even then, she would've been very expensive to keep in service for that fairly limited role.
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  2. It's too bad they didn't use HMS New Zealand to bring Jellicoe in to become Governor-General. It would've been better that way.
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  3. Too bad they didn't give New Zealand the 12" gun turrets to mount on fortifications, just because that would've meant they would be preserved.
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  4. IIRC, New Zealand now prohibits nuclear-equipped ships from their ports. So that wasn't the case yet in 1975, I suppose.
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