Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "HMS Tiger (1913) - Not Exploding on the Job" video.

  1. The policy of building battle cruisers as derivatives of an existing battleship class, rather than reinventing the wheel every time, would appear to make sense. If the US had followed along, then CC1 and 2 would have been ordered as developments of the Colorado class, been more sound ships than the 1916 battlecruiser design. and potentially, make it into commission before the treaty went into effect as Maryland did. Then CC3 and 4 would have been broken up on the ways with the South Dakotas, that is assuming that any battlecruiser based on the SoDaks would be so huge that the waiver would not be written into the treaty the way Saratoga and Lexington were waivered. Without that waiver, Akagi and Kaga would not have been built as carriers either. Meanwhile, not having Lexington and Saratoga as carriers would free up enough tonnage under the treaty for the US to built 3 additional Yorktowns.
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