Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "The Most HOPELESS Battleship: HMS Captain" video.

  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. 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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