Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "HNoMS Eidsvold - Guide 213" video.

  1.  @VersusARCH  I would like to hear about the First Balkan War myself. Especially, why, in neither the battle of Elli or Lemnos, did either side attempt to torpedo the other's ships? I gather the Greeks had not had the money to buy 21" torpedoes for the new Aetos class DDs, but the Thyellas and Nikis had been in commission for years. Same thing on the Ottoman side. All the DDs ran back up the Dardanelles, instead of attacking, though I did read there were charges and counter-charges whether Ottoman command had signaled the DDs to attack and the DD squadron commander not seen the signal.
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  2. @UNSCForwardontodawn Alrighty, first, Wiki says the Sutherland dock, after it's 1927 expansion, is 210 meters/690 feet long, 27 meters/88.6 feet wide and max water depth over the sill at high tide is 9.75 meters/32 feet. My 1928 USN port directory, which may have old data since Sutherland was expanded in 27, says 637' overall/630' over the blocks, 84' wide and depth at sill of 31' 4". The 1928 directory also lists Mort's graving dock at Woolwich: 850' overall and over the blocks, 83' wide, and max depth over the sill of 28'. KGV and Renown are both too wide for either dock. A Deutschland would fit. So lets use Deutschland as a template, and, as a cost and time saving expedient, use the twin 15"/42 turrets in RN storage for the main armament. Beam would probably need to be increased from the Deutschland's 68' as the twin 15"/42 turret and gun sets will weigh about 300mt more each than the triple 11"s on Deutschland.. So what happens to the two shiny new ships? They get deployed to Malaya, instead of PoW and Repulse, and are sunk, but they might hold their own in the Java Sea, if they were not used for Force Z. Plan B: USS Wasp would fit. What would happen if the Aussies had two carriers the size of Wasp, except with a decent amount of protection? By 41, the two carriers have air groups composed of Skuas for the scout bomber role, and Buffaloes, as the Aussies, Kiwis, Dutch and RAF all flew Buffs in that theater in 41. The two carriers are deployed with Force Z. The twin engine bombers the IJN used would be meat on the table for Buffs. The location was within range of Zeros, but would the IJN have Zeros available to escort the bombers? Some of the smaller carriers still had Claudes at that time, so the supply of Zeros may have been restricted. When the Aussies stripped their Buffs down, they held their own for a while. So, if the Aussies bought carriers, PoW and Repulse have a fighting chance, as would the force in the Java Sea, until the IJN brought their A game with Zeros.
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  3.  @bkjeong4302  Midway and the Aleutians make me wonder, as does Wake. Small islands strike me as places to stake out garrisons to be beat on until they surrender. I don't see the point, vs using subs for reconnaissance. My favorite plan remains a multi-year plan to infiltrate the Philippine government and have that government announce it is voluntarily aligning with Japan and inviting the US to leave, which clears the way for the assault on the Dutch East Indies, which, ideally, would have been "authorized" by the Netherlands government the Germans set up.
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  4.  @Simon-Says-H  they didn't. iirc Nevada was able to attempt a breakout from Pearl because, some hours earlier, someone in the engine room decided to light a second boiler, so the one that had been running for days to provide steam and electricity could be shut down. So, when the attack started, the ship had two of the six boilers percolating, which gave it a big head start.
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  5.  @Packer910  iirc, a lot of those AP bombs were duds. In Arizona's case, it was another golden BB, direct hit on a magazine that was not well protected from above, on a pre-Jutland ship.
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  6.  @bobbychoate7476  I doubt it. The characteristics of USN smokeless are quite different. USN power does not contain any nitroglycerine, like British Cordite does. Several other nations used powders that contained nitro, but the proportions varied. During WWI, the Brits had one class of monitors that used US built 14" guns, and, for most of the war, bought US smokeless for them. Near the end of the war, the Brits tried using Cordite in them, and found range was significantly less with Cordite.
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