Her loss was due to the idiot Beatty, who only owed his own survival to one of his own hero officers. I wonder how he coped with having the deaths of all of those RN sailors on his conscience.
The officer quarters forward was because the idea was that the officers would have had a shorter time to their watch or in case of quarters, action stations. Making your way from the stern to the bridge took a while and I think in some cases wasn't possible belowdecks under battle conditions. However, the percieved need to scramble to quarters wasn't that great because there was always ample warning time before action and in normal watch conditions officers probably prefered a slightly longer walk to always having machinery noise. The captain had a sea cabin on the bridge anyway and usually didn't use his spacious quarters on the extreme stern at all when the ship was underway.
On training. It's a lot easier said than done. I trained crew at sea during the 1990s through to the late 2000s. You can not train crew on land, or even on a ship tied up. You have to be at sea to find out who can function at sea and who can not. A lot of people can not tolerate being on a ship working two six hour watches a day for several weeks. Sea sickness is the first hurdle, which is mostly down to a person's balance system in their ears -- your ears can go to sea, or they can not. Tiredness is the second. It's a feeling of exhaustion that is difficult to explain. People just break and lose all their get up and go. Once they break, very few learn how to overcome that and get their second wind day after day. I've seen ex-pro rugby players and soldiers not be able to cope, i.e., people who are strong and healthy on land. Then we get down to whether the person can actually do the work well and be consistent. There's also the matter of whether the person can work well with others or will be trouble. The attrition rate from all those factors is very high. At least 75%. It was difficult enough finding 75-100 good crew, let alone 1000s like these warships had (we poached most of our crew by offering better pay and food etc).
Meanwhile the nearly identical Kongo's were viable in the 40s. German battlecruisers were the perfect counter to British ones - better armor, while their smaller guns were more than sufficient.
How were the Kongo's viable in the 40s? Kirishima destroyed by USS Washington, Hiei shot full of holes by cruisers and destroyers to suck a point she basically foundered, Kongo sunk by a sub, Haruna sunk at anchor.
@@patrickmccrann991 Kirishima fell victim to radar and superior fire control. If she had hit Washington at that range she would have penetrated too. This engagement was so close armor thickness was irrellevant.
Your videos can be interesting but it would help if you worked on switching from a monotone voice to a normal conversation voice. The monotone puts people to sleep & distracts from the content.
@@nathansullivan4433 I got in my TH-cam feed a comparison of 1930 and current ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. After watching that it puts you in a certain state of mind.
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Her loss was due to the idiot Beatty, who only owed his own survival to one of his own hero officers. I wonder how he coped with having the deaths of all of those RN sailors on his conscience.
like ay British officer back then he didnt give a shit
Good vid quite a few pics i'd not seen before .
The officer quarters forward was because the idea was that the officers would have had a shorter time to their watch or in case of quarters, action stations. Making your way from the stern to the bridge took a while and I think in some cases wasn't possible belowdecks under battle conditions. However, the percieved need to scramble to quarters wasn't that great because there was always ample warning time before action and in normal watch conditions officers probably prefered a slightly longer walk to always having machinery noise. The captain had a sea cabin on the bridge anyway and usually didn't use his spacious quarters on the extreme stern at all when the ship was underway.
One of the " Splendid Cats ".
On training. It's a lot easier said than done. I trained crew at sea during the 1990s through to the late 2000s. You can not train crew on land, or even on a ship tied up. You have to be at sea to find out who can function at sea and who can not.
A lot of people can not tolerate being on a ship working two six hour watches a day for several weeks. Sea sickness is the first hurdle, which is mostly down to a person's balance system in their ears -- your ears can go to sea, or they can not. Tiredness is the second. It's a feeling of exhaustion that is difficult to explain. People just break and lose all their get up and go. Once they break, very few learn how to overcome that and get their second wind day after day. I've seen ex-pro rugby players and soldiers not be able to cope, i.e., people who are strong and healthy on land. Then we get down to whether the person can actually do the work well and be consistent. There's also the matter of whether the person can work well with others or will be trouble.
The attrition rate from all those factors is very high. At least 75%. It was difficult enough finding 75-100 good crew, let alone 1000s like these warships had (we poached most of our crew by offering better pay and food etc).
My world of warships
Hms Queen Mary dies as easy every time I use it
Another victim of poor ordinance handling. At least lessons were learned.
Meanwhile the nearly identical Kongo's were viable in the 40s. German battlecruisers were the perfect counter to British ones - better armor, while their smaller guns were more than sufficient.
How were the Kongo's viable in the 40s? Kirishima destroyed by USS Washington, Hiei shot full of holes by cruisers and destroyers to suck a point she basically foundered, Kongo sunk by a sub, Haruna sunk at anchor.
The Germans seem to have thought differently about the size of their guns.
@@patrickmccrann991 Kirishima fell victim to radar and superior fire control. If she had hit Washington at that range she would have penetrated too. This engagement was so close armor thickness was irrellevant.
German gunnery.
Your videos can be interesting but it would help if you worked on switching from a monotone voice to a normal conversation voice. The monotone puts people to sleep & distracts from the content.
At least it's his voice, and not an AI voice.
Total waste of men. For what? Empire?
For the upholding of poorly advised treaties made for the sake of, yes, imperial dick measuring.
That’s the most tragic thing about WWI. Millions of boys and young men sent to die for some empire that would likely collapse a few years later.
@@nathansullivan4433 I got in my TH-cam feed a comparison of 1930 and current ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. After watching that it puts you in a certain state of mind.
KGV class of 1911 also had the rear officer's accommodation