Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 156" video.

wrt the question about navies having dedicated fuel reserves, at one time, the USN did have dedicated oil reserves, at Elk Hills in California and at Teapot Dome. In the early 20s, SecNav Denby transferred custody of the oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior then proceeded to grant oil production licenses to whichever oil companies paid him the largest bribes, igniting the best known case of corruption in the Harding administration.
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@AsbestosMuffins the SPR works both ways: to glut the market to lower gas prices just before an election, and buy up oil to tighten supplies and raise prices at other times. The Elk Hills naval oil reserve was sold to Occidental Petroleum in 1998. Teapot Dome was sold in 2015.
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@lloydknighten5071 my suspicion is the pressure pulse inside the hull from the magazine explosion would seek escape through any means, including going through open/ruptured wt doors and bulkheads into the boiler rooms and out the funnel.
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The USN's naming conventions were not that organized at the time. Monitors, and armored cruisers, could both be named after states, while a battleship could reuse a historical name, like Kearsarge. As you said, the monitors, and the armored cruisers, were renamed when naming battleships after states became formalized. Florida was used as the target in a live fire exercise in 1908, where the turret was hit by a 12" shell and sustained some damage. Florida was using that turret in a live fire exercise targeting the San Marcos (formerly USS Texas) in 1911, so, presumably, the Navy had replacement parts available for the Florida's turret.
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