Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "HMS Hood - Origins of a Legend" video.

wrt the potential of a late 30s Hood rebuild, given that Hood already exceeded treaty displacement, and given that the treaty allowances for added torpedo, deck and anti-aircraft protection were 3,000 tons, regardless how much hull or deck needed to be protected, how effective would a major rebuild be?
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@skywise001 Some material says that the UK was willing to accept a single ship displacement limit of 42,000, rather than 35,000, in the Washington treaty. I am pretty confident that Japan would opt to complete one of the Tosas. The US could have completed one of the Lexingtons, or a South Dakota. A South Dakota would be something of a stepchild, unable to use her higher speed, because the other battleships in the fleet could not keep up. A Lexington could steam with the two carrier conversions as part of the Scouting Group, so, my hunch is, a Lexington would be completed. France and Italy would probably not build anything.
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@Caktusdud. the funnel creates an updraft that pulls the exhaust gasses out of the boilers. Put holes in the funnel, or uptakes, and that updraft is lost. When escaping from Mers-el-Kébir, Strasbourg was hit in an uptake. The men in the boiler room served by that uptake were all asphyxiated.
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