Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "The Drydock - Episode 207" video.

  1. Well on the stockpiling of naval rifles front don't know of anyone stockpiling 12s for cruiser killers, but the British held on to like all the 13.5s from scrapped ships and ended up putting them in coastal batteries in the buildup to war. Presumably if they had more time and money for ship building they could have also used them to spam out modern fast hulls with Orion/original KGV/iron duke turrets in scaled down vanguards The US also had an assload of Lexington/1920s South Dakota 16"/50s that could presumably have been used to make a bunch of Iowas/Montanas if a WWI style dreadnought race broke out with Britain and/or Japan and the Beaord didn't mess things up.
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