Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 267" video.

  1.  @ronaldfinkelstein6335  I'm thinking the most likely to stuff the treaty would be the UK, instigated by the US' attitude wrt repayment of war debts. If the US debt negotiating team, headed by SecTreas Mellon and SecState Hughes, immediately after the Washington conference, stuck to the letter of the law passed by Congress: payment in full, on schedule, with stated interest, instead of the more reasonable approach taken by Mellon and Hughes, the UK could well have decided to walk out. I suspect that the N3 and G3 were bluffs, as the Admiralty did not have facilities around the empire that could handle ships that large. Even in 1938, when the US and UK were negotiating the battleship displacement escalator, the UK still did not have facilities to handle anything much larger than 42-43,000 tons. For a hypothetical British battleship, I would draw a development line between the J3 (a 42,000 ton Hood, with three triple 15" turrets) and the Lion, with a potential blip when Chatfield was First Sea Lord, as he seems to have been the driver of the "more smaller guns" theory that gave the KGVs 14" guns.
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