Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "USS Ward - Guide 267" video.

From time to time, my Canadian friend whines about how old the DDs that the US gave to the UK were. I point out that that was what the US had in quantity, and the USN was still using them too. The first WWII USN loss in the Atlantic was a four piper, the first USN win in the Pacific was by a four piper. Then I wind him up about the shabby way the Brits treated the former USS Buchanan, ramming her into a drydock and blowing her up.
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After WWI, when Chile was negotiating to repurchase Latorre, but Cochrane was uneconomic to reconvert to a battleship, some accounts say several other ships were offered to Chile instead, including the two surviving Invincibles. What other capital ships were offered to Chile?
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