Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Barbary States - The Final Yarrs" video.

@kemarisite I'm not sure I would call Hood a fast battleship. According to drawings C&R made up, based on information from Goodall and McBride, that 12" belt was only 8'8" high, vs 17' on a Colorado. The rest of Hood's belt was 7" and 5", vulnerable to a heavy cruiser.
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@hatchcrazy I would offer the intervention of President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes, in an unintended manner. Without the Washington Naval Treaty, and Congressional tightfistedness in the 20s, the USN would have built the six South Dakota BBs in the 20s that would have been just as obsolete and near useless in 41 as the "standards" that preceded them. Without the intervention of the treaty, and Congress, the six Lexington class battlecruisers would have been built. Of course, you could also argue that the 1916 Naval Act that authorized the South Dakotas, Lexingtons, and Colorados, was politically motivated and unrealistically ambitious, so Harding and Hughes were correct in their stated intent of reining it in.
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@Brian Barrigar As Drac said, the US did provide a frigate, Crescent, to Algiers, in 1798. In 1800, the US ambassador to Algiers reported that the ship was not being maintained and was starting to rot. In 1806, Crescent, rotten and leaking, was broken up. If the pirates continued to neglect "free" ships like that, they would not have much of a force, as the ships would be falling apart before a large number could be accumulated from tribute paying nations.
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