Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "USS Olympia - From Cali to Philly via Manila" video.

  1. The superstructure must be haunted.
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  2. Two questions concerning major problems in the design of ships or naval ordnance that should've been both completely obvious and fairly-easily-fixable at the design stage and yet were somehow overlooked: a. Given that it's been known for centuries that the earth's magnetic field varies dramatically from place to place and region to region, why/how did every major navy that developed and fielded magnetic-influence-detonated torpedoes apparently fail to consider that this variation might have an impact on the performance of said torpedoes (a problem that could've been fixed either by requiring each individual torpedo to be calibrated for the ambient magnetic field in its particular intended area of use or by developing a detonator that could detect the ambient magnetic field postlaunch and automatically calibrate itself en route)? b. When designing the Essexes, why did apparently no one realize that the spaces in the gallery deck, suspended below the flight deck and forming the roof of part of the hangar deck, would be, to quote Franklin's official damage report, "death traps" in the event of a major fire on either the flight or hangar decks (due both to their necessarily-light construction and to the possibility of a major bomb hit igniting major fires on both the flight and hangar decks, sandwiching the gallery deck), a problem that would've been relatively simple to eliminate at the design phase by eliminating the gallery deck and instead enlarging the island to accommodate said spaces (as was done on a number of British carriers)?
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