Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere" video.

  1. Why weren't destroyers in the WWI/WWII era typically built with ram bows? They fell out of use on larger warships after battle ranges lengthened to the point where a ship attempting to ram would be destroyed by gunfire long before connecting. Destroyers, however, did still routinely get into these sort of fist-range boiler-room brawls throughout both World Wars, both against surfaced submarines (which would routinely get rammed by destroyers even without the latter having ram bows to aid in the process) and against surface ships (for instance, Jutland-at-night and Dover Strait in WWI, and Narvik II, Glowworm/Hipper, and Friday the 13th in WWII, among many others), and ram bows would've allowed destroyers to easily cripple or sink larger ships even if they'd exhausted their torpedoes or were too close for them to arm (sure, this would've likely wrecked the ramming destroyers, but, to put it bluntly, destroyers are [unless you're the Kriegsmarine] expendable).
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