Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "HMS X1 - Guide 355" video.

  1. You've often said that you prefer to group pre-treaty dreadnought battleships into four groups: first-generation dreadnoughts, second-generation dreadnoughts, first-generation superdreadnoughts, and second-generation superdreadnoughts. Do you consider 12-inch ships with cross-deck-capable en-echelon wing turrets (the Neptune, Colossus, Kaiser, and Rivadavia classes) to be first-generation dreadnoughts or second-generation dreadnoughts? In your video on the Colossus class, you state that the British en-echelon ships (Neptune and the Colossi) were the Royal Navy's first second-generation dreadnoughts; however, in your more-recent video on the German König class, you state that the Königs were the Kaiserliche Marine's first second-generation dreadnoughts, thus implying that the preceding class, the en-echelon Kaisers, were first-generation dreadnoughts. Some other questions on where various battleships fit in this classification scheme: Are Dante Alighieri and the Russian dreadnoughts first- or second-generation dreadnoughts? They have all-centerline main batteries and use triple rather than twin turrets, but the turrets aren't superfiring (compromising end-on fire). Conversely, the South Carolinas have an all-centerline superfiring main battery, but it's only eight guns in twin turrets, and they don't even have turbine engines; are the South Carolinas the American first-generation dreadnoughts, or was the USN building second-generation dreadnoughts right from the start? Do superdreadnoughts with a main battery of lots of 13.4-14-inch guns (such as the Normandies, with twelve 13.4s; the Lyons, with sixteen 13.4s; or the middle tranche of Standards, the Fusōs, and the Ises, each with twelve 14s) still count as first-generation superdreads due to their smaller main-battery caliber as compared to 15-16-inch ships like the Queen Elizabeths or Colorados, or does the greater weight of fire from their sheer number of 13.4-14-inch guns push these ships up into the realm of the second-generation superdreads?
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