Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 2)" video.

  1.  @somethinglikethat2176  I don't even play Drac on TV, but I have a project in mind. I think the TBD gets a bum wrap for it's performance at Midway. Up to that point, the plane had done well. There are no surviving TBDs in museums anywhere. The Lexington is, of course, a war grave, and cannot be disturbed. However, there are several TBDs in the debris field around the ship. Due to the cold, dark, and oxygen starved conditions at that depth, photographs have shown the planes to be well preserved. My project would be to salvage the TBDs in the Lexington debris field, for restoration and display at the USN aviation museum in Pensacola, and selected other museums around the US.
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  2.  @davidlow8104  I would suspect the answer to your question would be "no difference". I have read that the UK was willing to accept a limit for individual ships in the 42,000 ton range, an intellectually honest position as the UK already had Hood, of that size. But, the treaty also limited overall battleship fleet size to a set tonnage limit, so building larger ships would result in having fewer ships. When First London set a cruiser fleet tonnage limit, the RN had to build below the individual cruiser displacement limit to be able to build enough cruisers to meet their needs.
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  3.  @davidlow8104  iirc, the objective of the treaty was to cut spending. If the UK had built 45.000 ton Nelsons, then the US would have wanted to complete three South Dakotas and Japan would have wanted to complete the Tosas for parity, and the spending would continue to spiral. The first London treaty extended the battleship construction moratorium through 1936, so any ships that were scrapped, beyond those First London required to be scrapped, could not have been replaced. By the time Second London went into effect, battleship building capacity had atrophied from lack of use. Look at the build times for the KGVs. In discussions in another forum, it appears the Admiralty ordered the five ships of the class laid down essentially simultaneously, when it knew the UK lacked the industrial capacity to build five simultaneously. Consequently, delivery times for the first two, KGV and PoW were not too bad, but deliveries became progressively later on the subsequent ships. With new construction capacity so constrained, they had no option but modernize older ships.
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