Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 331" video.

  1. It does not matter what the question is. The answer is always “Beatty and Seymour sucked.” Always.
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  2. Well it certainly could do x thing. Therefore, best ever. At everything. Best battleship. Best doorstop. Best gumball machine. It was best ever.
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  3. Likely not four. While one Bismarck required more “stuff” than one Scharnhorst, it was not a direct 2:1 ratio, allowing all the “stuff” required for one Bismarck to instead build two Scharnhorst. Further, even if Germany had had all the “stuff” needed to build four Scharnhorst instead of two Bismarck, they would not have had the yard capacity to build four Scharnhorst simultaneously.
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  4. Also-also, this is assuming (presuming) that 100% of crew deployed aboard the major surface units would be suitable for UBoot duty. After 1943, when the KM surface fleet was put into a heavily static / training routine, rarely sortieing and almost entirely to conduct short bombardment to support the army, the crewmen aboard the surface units were those already passed over for UBoot duty.
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