Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 206" video.

Versusdelyxe not necessarily a capture scenario, but Italy received several Austrian destroyers as reparations after WWI. The ships were refitted with Italian guns and served in the RM for several years.
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@MickeyBlueEyes34 USS Memphis, ACR-10, was at anchor in Santo Domingo on August 29, 1916. Heavy swells started to develop and the captain ordered steam raised to get underway and out of the harbor. Before steam could be raised the swells were so large the ship was rolling 45 degrees, and more. A series of three waves estimated to be 70 feet high hit the ship and drover her onto the beach half a mile away from where she had been. The ship was completely wrecked and sold for scrap in place. Some accounts speculate the waves were a Tsunami, but there was no seismic activity in the area at that time. The speed of the waves, which took about an hour to reach the ship from when they appeared on the horizon, is more typical of wind generated waves, possibly produced by a hurricane that was in the area at the time.
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@gneisenau89 information I find says over 80 ocean going Navy ships were built by Kewaunee (Wisconsin) Shipbuilding and Engineering alone, mostly cargo ships and tugs. One of their ships, originally built as FP-344 for the Army, was taken over by the Navy after the war. She was converted into an intelligence gathering ship and renamed Pueblo. Now, the Freedom class LCS is built at Marinette, Wisconsin. The Constellation class Frigates will also be built in Marinette.
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@genericpersonx333 actually, no, they did not have a lot of latitude regarding which ships were retained. Other conference attendees wanted to force Japan to retain Settsu, and scrap the newly completed Mutsu. The whole idea of the treaty was to stop spending on capital ships. Secretary Huges' initial proposal was immediate halt to all capital ship construction, including ships that were in an advanced state of construction, and retain older ships until they aged out at 20 years of age. I did see a newspaper report that conference attendees were in general agreement that 12" guns were obsolete, but only allowed the US to replace the two Delawares with two Colorados, while leaving the USN with 4 other 12" gunned ships, while Washington was used for target practice. I did a bit of back-of-the-envelope figuring, and the US could have completed Washington for about the same amount as they spent modernizing Florida and Utah, only half a dozen years before Florida was scrapped and Utah was converted to a target ship. The Kongos, being less than 10 years old, armed with 14" guns, and fast, were no where near being replaced.
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@Wolfeson28 the North Carolinas were built was just before an increase in power plant efficiency. The NC's plant generated 121,000 hp. The SDs had the all singing, all dancing, 600psi plant producing 130,000hp. To illustrate how inefficiently the SDs used that power, the British 1938 Lion class design was designed for 30kts, with 130,000hp.
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