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  1. The monitor USS Miantonomoh (with a freeboard of a mere 31 inches) had just sailed to England the year before HMS Captain was laid down, and Coles had been given a tour of the ship. That probably gave him undue confidence in the ability of low-freeboard ships to sail the Atlantic. Though he (perhaps willfully) ignored the fact that Miantonomoh was mastless, and thus did not fatally combine that low freeboard with a high center of gravity, like Captain would do.
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  2. The fact that Captain McVay was court-martialed while Admiral Halsey was not (despite negligently sailing his fleet into the middle of a typhoon twice along with his shameful abandonment of the fleet he was supposed to protect at Samar) is insane.
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  3. The story of the Novgorod and Vitse-admiral Popov spinning from the recoil of their guns is incorrect. What actually happened is that the turntable for the guns wouldn't lock into place strongly enough to handle the recoil and it was prone to spinning after the guns were fired.
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  4. And it turned out that there was a lot more work involved that simply removing the 28cm triple turrets and installing 38cm twins. The never-completed refit for Gneisenau also involved replacing the bow again, this time lengthening the ship to account for the added weight of the larger guns.
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  5. In the previous 200 years, there had been 6 other ships named HMS Captain. In the following 155 years, there have been none.
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  6.  @KuDastardly  In 1917, she was officially renamed "USS Old Constitution", so that she could remain in commission while the name was reused for one of the Lexington-class battlecruisers. A museum ship's name can be reused, but an (even ceremonially) actively serving ship's name cannot. But since that battlecruiser was scrapped before completion under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, the old frigate was able to revert back to being the one and only USS Constitution.
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  7. Gneisenau was actually in the process of having the bow rebuilt again (this time lengthening the ship to allow for heavier 38cm twin turrets to replace the 28cm triples), when all work on surface ships was cancelled due to Hitler throwing a tantrum over the Kriegsmarine losing a battle.
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  8. Queen Mary's story should include a a mention of her rival Normandie's sad fate during WW2, something that could've just as easily happened to Queen Mary. Also, when it comes to museum ships, the vast majority that have been preserved were not because they were the most historically significant, but because they had good timing for when they left active service and became available for preservation.
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  9. Nonpareil Cork Works truly was "without equal"...in depravity.
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  10. Nor were they the first. HMS Hood was also known as "His Majesty's Submarine" because of how much water went over the bow.
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