Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "SMS Königsberg (II) - Guide 214" video.

  1. The Washington Naval Treaty granted the RN construction licenses for two battleships, which could be used immediately, which produced the Nelsons. If those two licenses had been granted for execution in 1927 and 1929, as the licenses granted to France and Italy were, how would that impact Admiralty decision making when the Deutschlands were built? Would the Admiralty follow the lead of the French and build two light battlecruisers, possibly using the 15"/42 turrets in inventory as a cost saving measure? Or, would the Admiralty decide Hood and the Renowns were sufficient to deal with the Deutschlands, and, when the first two Littorios were laid down in 1934, use the licenses to advance the timeline of the construction of the KGV class, laying down KGV and Prince of Wales in 36, with Duke of York and Anson laid down January 1 of 37 and Howe laid down in May of 37?
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  2.  @jasonbrannock1698  the RM only "kept" the San Giorgios in the loosest sense. San Giorgio was, from the 1930s, a training ship, with some boilers removed and speed reduced. San Marco was disarmed and converted into a radio controlled target ship.
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  3. A very good question. Placing two guns side by side limits their firing arc, which doesn't happen in a superfireing arrangement. iirc, there were some British scout cruisers in the early 1900s that had three 12 pounders on the foc'sle, so their arc was even more limited. The three 12 pounders were later replaced by a pair of 4"/40s, side by side. When Peru ordered a pair of cruisers based on the Vickers scout design, they had a single 6" installed on both foc'sle and quarterdeck, instead of the multiple small guns.
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  4.  @unemployed_history_major4795  two hulk questions in one day! A hulk is a ship that generally has been stripped of weapons, and maybe means of motive power and repurposed. If you read or saw "Les Miserables" the main character is held in a prison hulk, an old, unseaworthy, ship of the line, being used as a cell block. Hulks can be used for accommodation, or office space. USS constitution was used as a receiving ship for some years, with the weather deck enclosed, "cabbed over", so it could be used as working space, which made the ship impossible to sail.
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