Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "HMS Lord Nelson - Guide 092" video.

  1. In my Grandest Fleet war game, I stationed the two Nelsons and the USN's Michigan and South Carolina at Malta to help the Regia Marina contain the Austrians. The most powerful pre-dreadnoughts ever built combined with the slowest dreadnoughts ever built (both classes made 18 knots) - a combination made by Neptune. The IJN is in the Eastern Med with the Kurama, Satsuma and Kawachi Classes (The Kongos are attached to the Grand Fleet) to contain the Turks. The armored cruisers of the Katori and Tsukuba classes - which mounted 12 inch guns (The IJN rated them as Battlecruisers - Second Class for a period) - are in the Atlantic helping the RN and USN escort convoys from the US.
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  2. Because the British approximately doubled the shell weight from caliber to caliber 47mm = 3 pounder 57mm = 6 pounder 3inch = 13 pounds 4 inch = 31 pounds 4.7 inch = 50 pounds 6 inch = 100 pounds 7.5 inch = 200 pounds 9.2 inch = 380 pounds 12 inch = 850 pounds With the introduction of the 13.5 inch, this broke down 1250 (light) 1400 (heavy) pounds 15 inch 1920 (WW1) 1938 (WW1) pounds
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  3. Malcolm Taylor - She was obsolescent by 1914. The queen Elizabeths already mounted 15 inch guns (1920 pound shell vs 850 pound 12 inch shell) and was, therefore under armed and under armored. As far as needing numbers, the Grand Fleet decisively outnumbered the High Seas Fleet at every stage of the war. At Jutland, the RN had 37 dreadnoughts and IGN had 20. Would one more dreadnought made a difference? There was also a qualitative edge - by the end of 1916, the British had 12 ships armed with 15 inch guns and the Germans had 2.
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  4. Nathan Saper - Because wing turrets wasted tonnage. Consider the original German battleships - they mounted 6X2 main battery turrets in a hexagon, but could only fire 8 guns in any direction. That was tonnage that could have been put to use with more powerful engines or thicker armor.
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