Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "World's Worst Warships - Book Review with Drach (Part 1 of 2)" video.

  1. I don't know how I missed this. I guess I'll follow along and give my thoughts. 1. US monitors - The only ones I'd class as really bad were the later ocean going types like the Amphitrite-class monitor. 2. The Captain - Well, who can disagree with this one? 3. Russian Circular Warships - They weren't great ships since they were basically just weird looking monitors, but they weren't terrible. 4. USS Katahdin - Kind of non-submerging submarine that never reached her design speed of 17 knots, had no torpedoes, only four small guns, and was a pure ram. She lasted less two two years before she was decommissioned when the USN realized the rams were a dead end technology. She's definitely up there in the list for me. 5. Rurik - Don't know enough about this ships for an opinion 6. USS Vesuvius - A completely nonsensical ship, although the few times she fired her air guns in anger, she did scare the crap out of Spanish. 7. Powerful Class - I don't understand this one. She was a bit too large but would have made good commerce raiders if they had been designed a few years later. 8. - Borodino Class - They had very good directors, a reasonable armament, and decent turn of speed. They would have performed much better if not for their poor leadership and poor material condition at the Battle of Tsushima. 9. HMS Swift. This one we can lay at the doorstep of Jackie Fisher. Other than top speed, she had nothing to recommend her. 10. Viribus Unitis class - Well armed but her almost complete lack of underwater protection does put her on the list. 11. Normandie-class battleship - Designed too slow, built too slow, hybrid power plant would never have been reliable, but it's hard to put these on the list since they never entered service. 12 - AA-1 Class Submarines - First and acknowledged experimental attempt at a fleet sub. The lessons learned were well used in later fleet subs. I don't buy this one. 13. Flush Deckers - Many as modified remained in service until 1946 and served as everything from minelayers to command ships to fast transports. This was a really poor choice on the part of Preston. 14. - RN K Class subs - Submarines with destroyer power plants, destroyer speed, destroyer size, and destroyer armament. Not a good destroyer or a good submarine. 15 - Courageous Class - Other than representing Jackie Fisher at his most crazed, not much to recommend about these as actual battlecruisers.
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