Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "HMS Bellerophon - Guide 266" video.

Well West Germany also declined Turkey's offer to send Yavuz/Goeben back for preservation a museum. Which is really unfortunate since she was the only battlecruiser left in the world, along with the only German-made capital ship.
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I'm pretty sure Dreadnought would've sailed with the Grand Fleet at Jutland if she'd been available, but she was under refit at the time.
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Well retiring them so soon made perfect sense. Even if they had been built to the X4 design, they still would've been obsolete a decade later on account of the inefficient turret layout and the fact that 12" guns had been completely left in the dust by 15" and 16" guns.
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@johngrimlock5727 1 more gun while having 1 fewer barbette and turret. Meaning less space is taken up by the armament and less space needs to be inside the citadel. The weight savings could've resulted in a faster QE. Though a 3x3 QE wouldn't look as good as the 4x2.
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Booms for torpedo nets. Those were later removed as torpedoes got bigger and faster to the extent that the nets were rendered useless.
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@Hidensee Yep, lots of shells that didn't explode others that exploded prematurely. The latter caused a fair bit of superstructure damage, but not so much to the turrets and belt armor. For example, I've seen a post-Jutland photo of Von Der Tann in drydock, with a hole in the stern where a non-exploding 15" shell. If that shell had functioned property, the stern probably would've been blown off.
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@mikemcghin5394 What I was wondering is, did those turret-top guns have their own gun crews, or did the turret crews simply go up there to man them if a destroyer needed shooting at?
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