Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "Battle of the Falkland Islands - Von Spee's Last Stand" video.

You have two things First you have a general category of Destroyer, Cruiser, Battle Cruiser, Battleship Then you have a Specific Class Scharnhorst, Lexington, Invincible While you do have subcategories for Destroyers, Cruisers and Battleships - there weren't enough Battle Cruisers to create a sub category - other than the specific class of the ship. Pretty much anything bigger than a cruiser and smaller than a battleship - is lumped into the Battle Cruiser category - where making category distinctions that are more granular a waste of time. If you're going to get more granular - you may as well simply refer to the class of the ship because the distinctions that would put a ship in a more granular category are going to, by and large, be reflected by the specific class the ship was in. Thus the Alaska's with their 12" guns are as much Battle Cruisers as the Scharnhorsts with their 11" guns and yet so are ships like the Repulse with 15" guns. Ships like the Graf Spees are really just their own class but can be lumped into the Battle Cruiser category by their 11" guns which they have in common with the Scharnhorsts. Then you have one off ships like - The Hood. How can you get more granular than - The Hood? The primary criteria that made something a Battle Cruiser was Speed, Size, Armor and Fire Power. These could vary with their era - so that early Dreadnought Battle Cruisers were no comparison to the later Battle Cruisers. These later ships would often have more Speed, but Armor and Fire Power more like the Battleships of earlier era's. Thus the Hood and the Kondos being Battle Cruisers despite Hood's attributes and the re-classification of the Kondos as Battleships. The Kondos weren't Battleships ... .
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