Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "The Drydock - Episode 312 (Part 1)" video.

  1. Amundsen was likely also the first to actually reach the North Pole as well since Peary’s claim (and the man himself) has been discredited. He conquered both poles in his lifetime. Incidentally, while no human in Amundsen’s Antarctic exploration died, many of the dogs did; this was actually accounted for in his planning as he’d set aside a certain number of dogs to be butchered as additional food stores for the humans and other dogs. This was one of the things the British used to discredit his achievement.
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  2. Right ship in the wrong time: I agree, HOOD. Fucking Hood. The greatest capital ship in the world up until the advent of aircraft carriers, didn’t see war until said carriers were taking over. Even then she made far more sense than all the below-mentioned ships, but then yeah…. Wrong ship in the right time; all 29 WWII-era fast battleships and the Alaskas. Entered service right as the entire battleship paradigm became strategically obsolete.
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  3.  @ROBERTNABORNEY  South Dakota did absolutely nothing at Second Guadalcanal other than get shot at and steal the credit. Washington did actually achieve results in that battle, but that was an exception to the rule (the only battle where an American fast battleship did her job and the only battle in the Guadalcanal campaign where a battleship decided the battle, and then only at the tactical level as the Japanese landing operation went ahead anyways and was only stopped by air attacks the next morning) Surigao Strait and Matapan only involved old battleships and thus never justified the construction of a single new battleship in the leadup to WWII (because none of the battleships built in the 30s-40s were involved during those night actions). Duke of York was the other exception to the rule. The problem is that even at night or bad weather, a battleship can’t deal with an enemy carrier force (just because a carrier can’t launch aircraft doesn’t mean it suddenly comes within shelling distance), and is overkill for dealing with subcapital units, so you only really needed one to stop an enemy battleship in poor visibility, which is far too situational to justify the investment.
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  4. I’d argue those were a case of wrong ship for the right time as defined by Drach.
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