Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 248" video.

  1. Regarding the lack of surviving direct written orders to remove flash protections, it probably would've been in Beatty's interest to avoid putting those orders to paper - had they existed in written form, then, if something went horribly wrong as a result, there'd've been a paper trail pointing back to Beatty ordering the ships under his command to ignore safety precautions and disable, circumvent, or remove interlocks to increase their rate of fire, at which point Beatty'd be facing some very uncomfortable questions as to why he gave orders that needlessly endangered his ships.
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  2. You're thinking of the Tallboy, which used a combination of sheer mass, high ballistic coefficient, and high drop altitude to punch through ships (and dams, mountains, etc.).
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  3. Eep-a-mia. 😨
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  4. @corpse Well, Beatty later rose to become commander of the Grand Fleet and even later First Sea Lord, and was also rather massively corrupt; it's possible that some of those people did put those sort of concerns into writing, and Beatty had that writing quietly disappeared or their concerns about his orders expunged from it, like how he made the report into the battlecruiser losses at Jutland, which by all rights should've gotten him cashiered, instead exonerate him completely. Hell, maybe the writing into which they put their concerns was (at least some of) what Beatty prevented from making it into the final loss report!
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  5. I wonder, did the extra time, cost, and effort necessary to refine good-quality steel from the low-quality ores available to them make Japanese steel mills less competitive on the global market compared to mills in countries with access to better-quality iron ore?
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