Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 222" video.

As long as it doesn’t end its days aground off Prussia Cove.
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22:00 “We refuse to make a battleship 10% more vulnerable to most battleship or battlecruiser guns to make them 10% faster than most battleships. But we will gladly make battlecruisers 20% more vulnerable to most battleship or battlecruiser guns to make them 20% faster than most battleships.”
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@Cbabilon675 I think you meant Italian or French “so called cruisers.” Germany built only a handful of light cruisers, and they weren’t great, but could have stood up to a Fletcher.
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@DrHenry1987 Neither USS Clemson (DD-186/AVP-17/AVD-4/APD-31) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers which served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Midshipman Henry A. Clemson (1820–1846), who was lost at sea when the brig USS Somers capsized in a sudden squall off Vera Cruz on 8 December 1846 while chasing a blockade runner.
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But isn’t there some advantage to oil-firing in that, when you open the taps, the firebox temperature increases more quickly because the increased flow volume of oil spray burns more quickly than in a coal firebox, whereas the increased volume of fresh coal thrown in must first ignite and then burn thoroughly, before it generates enough-more heat to show up a higher steam pressure at the turbine?
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@darrenandthetimewasters9504 No. They could not possibly have mounted more than four main guns, and nothing larger than 28cm, they didn’t have deck space for adequate secondary armament (even if Germany had adopted dual purpose weapons), their hull form was so poor that even with new-modern propulsion they would have been slower than the Deutschlands, they could not have possibly carried adequate armor, and their torpedo defense and general damage resistance could not have been made current-gen.
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@nielscarpentier4616 There was tons of math involved, it was not a “fire in the direction you believe is right,” and spotter aircraft could help but firing at a target that you could not see, either visually or by radar, was futile.
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8:50 is it possible Callaghan was suffering a cognitive condition by-which he really thought he’d issued orders which supported his “odd / even numbered ships” order?
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48:30 Why would you assume the RN will heed a specific iteration of tradition when the tradition has had three different iterations in the past 100 years?
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