US Army Veteran Reacts "The USS Texas: The Last Dreadnought | The Fat Electrician Reviews"
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Dreadnought actually had less displacement than the Texas it was a Super Dreadnought.
The Dreadnought is a British battleship and class of British battleships. The definition expanded to include any heavily armored battleship with massive guns. Dreadnaughts were game changers in modern naval history. Modern naval history is divided into two eras, pre and post Dreadnaught. Until the introduction and adoption of aircraft carriers, Dreadnaughts were the pinnacle of naval warfare.
the major focus of the heavy armor was the middle of the ship...just noticed you missed that part, also the guns were mostly the same size. look up the namesake of the dreadnoughts...the HMS Dreadnought
It wasn't that they had "massive guns", because older battleships had those too. More than anything, what made a Dreadnought a Dreadnought was that it had a focused armament, with no medium guns. Basically, pre-Dreadnought battleships would have a balanced mix of every gun type, light, medium and heavy, in order to take on any conceivable combat scenario. Dreadnoughts were revolutionary in that they changed the design paradigm to include ONLY light and heavy guns, with emphasis on the heavy ones.
The rationale was that the mixed armament of the older battleships meant that they could engage any target with a reasonable degree of effectiveness, but weren't great against anything in particular. With a focus on Heavy armament, Dreadnoughts made the older battleships obsolete overnight by being built from the keel up to be battleship-killers. It was an extension of the doctrine of specialization that every major navy in the world still adheres to today, where they build an array of focused warships that are excellent at one or two jobs, as opposed to only a few warships who are only passable at all jobs.
@@rmartinson19 The other defining characteristic of the dreadnought type was the use of the steam turbine for propulsion. Not only were they more heavily armed and better armored than their predecessors, they were also faster.
The reason for the all big gun setup was not just for effectiveness against other battleships, it was the combination of improvements in loading times and range finders meaning that longer range engagements were practical in a way they were not previously. Pre dreadnought battleships carried mixed armaments because their largest guns might get a shot off every two minutes, while their medium guns could fire every 40 seconds or so. On dreadnoughts the main guns could fire about as fast as the medium guns on previous battleships, so long range fire (for the time) could end a battle before the older ship could get into range of its secondary battery.
And while the Dreadnought was era defining, it still had some serious design issues, so the so-called "super dreadnoughts" were simply the second generation of dreadnought style battleships.
Dreadnought = Dread (Fear) Nought (Nothing) US Navy Super Dreadnought = Whatever boat the navy brings for a Tuesday afternoon brunch
"Sir, what if we sink half the ship, tilting the angle of the gun and we can reach further inland?"
"Jenkins, what was going through your head when you thought of that?"
"...Kill, sir."
"Fuck it, can't argue with that, full send."
YEET!
Marines, in one of his other videos he says "they don't call them unless they want something broken, killed or pregnant.
being friends with marines since my highschool days in the 1990s..... yes...
Im from Pasadena Texas where Texas was docked before her drydock. Spent 6 years as a volunteer with Battleship Texas Foundation & got to help with the move to Galveston for drydocking. Awesome reaction guys 💯 If you want to see more footage my cousins channel is Third Coast Drones & he has tons of videos.
Ahh USS Texas. The only warship HMS Warspite would look at and think "you know, you're alright you are"...if she were still around and she didn't have to go slip her tow lines, run herself aground and become one of the most expensive maritime salvage operations in British history as a final "well f**k you then!" after the British government desperate for some cash betrayed her trying to send her to the breakers yard instead of allowing her to be preserved as a museum 😢
Honestly though, the history of USS Texas and the fact she's still around is testiment to the skill and quality of US ship building back in the day 😊
I do recommend you look up HMS Warspite though. Veteran of the Battle of Jutland during WW1, fought a number of actions through WW2, to this day joint record holder with Battleship Scharnhorst for the longest range hit from main battery from moving ship on moving ship and even tanking a 3000lb fritz x guided bomb like a boss and STILL getting out in time to go help out during D-day. I know Drachinifel has a couple of videos covering the QE class and at least one specifically on Warspite. Drach's like the history teacher we wish we had at school 🤗
Sabaton historys dreadnought will tell it best
That will be dropping soon on the wrecked nation
True that Sir, true that they got it all in from keel to main mast and bridge.
A Dreadnought is an "all big-gun battleship". The class is named after HMS Dreadnought which went with maximizing its displacement to give it the most large-caliber guns possible. This was so revolutionary it made all other battleships effectively obsolete, and is why an entire class of ships is named after it.
Before this ship, i.e. "pre-Dreadnoughts", battleships had extensive secondary and even tertiary armament, which meant you couldn't have as many large-caliber guns. The problem was the mixed-caliber armament made effective fire control very difficult as the fire directors couldn't distinguish between the secondary shell splashes and the primary shells. Also, the differing effective ranges made the secondary weapons less than useful as in reality one would stand off as far as possible to engage, obviously.
Can we request TFE videos? If so, I would like to request "It's A Trap!" and 'Sniper Gunship.' And maybe 'Legless Brit Fighter Ace.' "Berlin Airlift."
... too many good ones.
In order: 'Air Commander tricks CIA/Enemy,' 'Myopic Naval Commander rewrites naval gun doctrine and creates coral reef,' 'Brit Air Commander becomes best fighter pilot after losing legs AND rewrites Brit air doctrine,' and finally 'America flexes on USSR by landing ALL the planes while yelling at the one guy who keeps airdropping candy to knock it off.'
Dreadnaught's were the collective name for all Battleships after HMS Dreadnaught in 1906. Basically, a lot more big guns than the usual 2 big and smaller mixed sized guns on previous battleships. The bigger they got, they began to be called super Dreadnaughts and eventually fast battleships like the Iowa's.
The Us and France and Japan were all planning to build them early 20th C, Britain rushed production to get there first. It wasn't a massive revelation, nor did it make everything else obsolete as is commonly thought.
While being commissioned a few months earlier, USS Texas wasn't close to the Queen Elizabeth class, with oil fired turbine engines and 15 inch guns. It wasn't bad though, and it's great that it's been preserved.
Oh and by the way, if it wasn't for the French, you guys would still be speaking English!! Oh wait...
Just to give a quick definition, the term dreadnought is not only a ship type, but a term meaning "fear nothing." The term was used to describe a ship that was so big, so heavily armed, so intimidating, that the crew should fear nothing when going into battle.
Dread naught
For some insane reason, Nic thinks he can't act. Hes talked about it several times on his podcast. His videos are a form of acting...hes reading a script and talking to a camera...and he's fantastic. Theres no way he'd be a "terrible actor".
Marines a law onto themselves
Nic is so awesome great reaction guys. The Bismarck went down on its maiden voyage but it sunk the hms hood In less then 10 minutes taking 1,415 men down with it leaving 3 survives
Bring your own spices since the Brits forgot to add it to their food.
Ed dreadnought is typically play battleship that weighs between 20,000 tons to 40,000 tons, and usually sports 12 to 14 in guns, the reason they're called dreadnoughts is because when the first touched the water in 1906, it made every warship on the planet obsolete, and the name of that ship what's HMS dreadnought
Re computer technology - it would be first analog computer on a Battleship (not digital). Analog computers had been around for a loooong time! - see "Antikythira Mechanism" from Ancient Greece or Charles Babbages "Difference Engine" from Victorian UK
yes, the first digital computers started popping up in the ww2/post era, coming from the decoding machines that were built
I feel so proud that I live just less than an hour away from where this legend of a ship is being repaired. I remember visiting it a few times during my years in grade school, and I definitely will be going for a visit when it reopens in the next year or two! 😁🇺🇸
she's a beautiful floating tank
Ships were often referred to as a she not named after a girl. Bismarck was referred as he or king.
It was named after Otto von Bismark, the first chancellor of a unified Germany.
The Bismarck also had a sister ship called the tirpitz named after admiral Alfred von tirpitz
It's not the name that determines whether a ship is referred to as "he" or "she". It's cultural. All German and Russian ships are referred to as "he", while all ships in the English-speaking world are "she".
HMS Dreadnought named that class of battleships.
She outclassed all opposition at the time of commissioning in 1906, but only served for fifteen years before being sold for scrap.
There was a lot of competition at the time.
You should pick 4 or five of his tickets to videos to react to in one video
The main reason for the gangster lean was that Texas was limited in how much elevation it could give its guns. When it was designed and built, it was with ship to ship battles in mind, so being able to elevate higher wasn't necessary. Later battleships did have that capability, hence there was no need for them to do that maneuver. Yes, Ryan over at Battleship New Jersey talked about it.
Dreadnought refers to a certain era of battleships.
You have pre-dreadnoughts (battleships that were built before HMS Dreadnought). These were built 1880s - early 1900s. These have different guns sizes and huge armor. They were very slow.
Then you have HMS Dreadnought built 1906. It was main large guns of the same size and same size secondaries. It was also extremely fast for its large armor at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). She also had revolutionary turbines instead of the old piston engine. USS Texas had the tried and true pistons instead of turbines.
After those you have standard battleships (think USS Arizona). These are large guns 13-16 inch guns. They were heavily armored, have AA guns, and were slow around 25 knots (28 mph; 46 kmph).
They you have fast battleships. (Think the Iowas). These have heavy guns (15-18 inches, a huge amount of AA guns, and armor galore. These ships can go anywhere from 30 knots (35.5 mph; 55.5 kmph) to a record of 35.2 knots (40.5 mph; 65 kmph) which is hold by USS New Jersey BB-62. It is also possible to go 37 knots (42 mph; 68.5 kmph) according to USS Iowa BB-61 captain.
Side note about the Iowas. It was because of their speed and reserve buoyancy (ability to take on water and still float) that allowed them to be active in the US Navy going into the 2000s. Two were decommissioned in the 1990s and the other two were decommissioned in 2006. They also had missiles and were rumored (the navy neither confirmed nor denied) to carry nuclear rounds and missiles. Their ballistic computers that they were built with were as accurate as the AEGUS system that they were fitted with. So much so that the ASGUS were used as a backup for the backups (they were also used for the missiles).
Any more questions?
Thanks man! Awesome comment
Sorry have to correct you the Iowas did not have 18 inch guns they had 16 inch/50 caliber
@@mike28003 i put 18 inches because of the Yamatos despite the fact that their aren't technically fast battleships. I put the think about the Iowas because they are an example that a lot of people think of that are still around.
USB is the best line of the video
Isaw somewhere a landing craft driver saying that when she fired all her guns at once they would push the ship down in the water and cause a swamping hazard to the landing craft that got too close.
You want to watch some cool early Fat electrician videos then I would suggest the following
The ship that wouldn’t sink
The ship that wouldn’t die
The switchblade
The Rapid Dragon
And Toys for tots.
And every Iowa class battleship!
The ship with a temper!
@@SeaFireK that girl that almost lost her cool
My all time favorite of his videos. 🥰
The Battleship Texas is currently docked in Galveston, TX being restored. It will likely be berthed in Galveston in the near future when the ship will be reopened to the public. She is a wonderful ship and a memorable experience. I would highly recommend it to you or anyone else who may be in the area and likes such things
I looked it up, the definition describes it as a battleship that is lager and faster than its predecessor
Texas was a super dreadnought. A dreadnought is an all big gun ship
I've been on the USS TEXAS you can board her and sit in her gunner seats❤ she was dry docked in battleship Texas but I believe they recently relocated her to Galveston.
Edit: she is currently being repaired in Galveston and won't be open to visitors until late 2025😢.
Before battleships were called battleships, they were called dreadnoughts.
Today people tend to think of them as 'bigger than a battleship' but in reality ships that were called dreadnoughts were actually smaller than later battleships.
In general dreadnought/battleship same thing, just different names used in different periods.
When they say analog computers, a slide rule is considered an analog computer. The fire control system on the Texas was one of the most complex 'computers' of the time, but nothing like what you're envisioning. More like turn this knob to set range, turn that knob for humidity, pull that lever for projectile weight, turn this to target heading, then that gauge will show turret elevation and bearing you should fire at.
Most ships afloat are generally referred to as female, but the Bismarck was definitely according to her crew; his captain, the Admiral on board and naval high command during World War II referred to Bismarck as a he.
The "computers" on board were kinda like non-digital calculators i would imagine, i am in college for computer repair and the first thing we learned was the history of the computer and non-digital calculators were early forms of them
Neglected to mention Texas led to the creation of Aircraft carriers as well. She had 5 planes she could launch off the rear platform
US-B 😅 or the 51st state , theres a movie called 51st state you could check out .
A dreadnought is a thing where you're scared of zero😊
Bismarck was similar in capacity to HMS Hood, which was way older. Similar armour strength, similar main gun batteries and numbers
Hardly the best battleship ever
Nic is a freakin national treasure. The boy has zero filter and serious wordsmith skills. Absolute. Damn. Legend.
And let's be real. The only places likely to be hosting Unsubscribe Podcasts are beerhalls. 😀 Not that that is a bad thing, it's just that like a lot of my ex-military buddies, the stories flow better when the alcohol is flowing. With some restraint though. 😀
And you guys are awesome too. Watching you watching Nic toss high explosive terms like Grim Yeeter is a great time. 😀
A dreadnaught is the first class of big gun iron hull battle ship. The British created this class with the HMS Dreadnaught... The rest of the world powers had to catch up.
Leaning your warship to keep attacking the enemy is what a Marine would think of doing.
Texas is actually a Super Dreadnought since it had guns over 13.5 inches (14inch in this case) and geared steam turbine propulsion with oil burning boilers meaning it matched or exceeded the Orion class Super Dreadnoughts, The original dreadnoughts were ships matching HMS Dreadnought with a uniform main battery that was generally 12 inch guns and a bit slower propulsion that in some cases was coal fueled. While super dreadnoughts were just bigger, faster, and more heavily armed.
A dreadnought is an armoured ship with an all big-gun main battery. Pre dreadnoughts usually had a couple of large guns and lots of varying grades of secondary, tertiary and even quinary batteries depending on design. The point of a dreadnought was to have knock out capability at long range rather than up close broadside brawls like Napoleonic warships.
I do want to go see the U.S.S. Texas, She will have her best face on, after the drydock. Long live Texas.
OK, The British coined the term from a new class of what they called at the time a BATTLESHIP, which basically stepped the British navy out of the mold of wooden ships with iron plating for armor that were frigates, and clippers and multi deck gun platforms with short range cannons, they were going to use an all steel hull, with compartments, a turret design taken from the American ship building industry developed during the Civil War, and new smokeless gun powders and large shells fired through longer rifled barrels, all of which was taken from the rapid advancements of the American firearms industries during the Civil war, and the first lord of the British navy at the time of construction of the HMS Dreadnought, said that this ship will "dread nothing" and that got whittled down to calling the new class of warship "DREADNOUGHT" so in a nutshell, a dreadnought is a battleship, capable of absorbing a tremendous amount of punishment, and dishing out even more while it does it.
You guys should also check out his video about the Iowa class battle ships.
Some of his other tiktoks that are really good are "Doc" and "Mark 19 grenade launcher". I think ya'll would really enjoy those videos
Screw tik tok!
T-shirt that says USS Texas with an outline of the ship on the front, and on the back has the hull number and the nickname “The Grim Yeeter”
Having "computers" on a ship built in 1914 is not like you might think. Back then, a "computer" was simply a device that provided tjings like mathmatic computations in anolog. Think like an old fashioned cash register or typewriter. You would type numbers into it using large keys and it would aid in figuring out trajectories and the lot and type them onto a piece of paper.
They definitely did not have computer screens and digital readouts back then.
He does in fact have a grim yeeter shirt for the Texas, just have to catch it when its cycled into his merch shop
Man, I really take for granted the fact this was a regular school field trip location a few different years. It wasn't far from the San Jacinto Monument for the longest.
dreadnoughts are also called POCKET BATTLESHIPS! its basically a small battleship, in ww2 they dont have dreadnought anymore but i guess they have called them HEAVY BATTLE CRUISERS in ww2 ... idk ..
Ummmmmm no
4:55 the Texas saw no real combat in WW1 mostly because the surface war at sea was already won by the British at Jutland, 1916. The US entry was 1917
Some of TFE early videos have great euphemisms for dictators. They're hilarious. Keep an eye out for those.
I don't know if you took this one from recommendation or not, but it is my favorite of his videos.,
You need to watch his videos from oldest to newest, without skipping around. It's hilarious to see the descent into madness the more he starts talking about communism.
Yes, it "technically" had a computer. The "analog computer" ran off of gears instead of electricity. Check out the "Antikythera Mechanism". A 3000 (three thousand) year old computer.
Water grunts strike again with the gangster lean. 🇺🇸
Speaking of never war crime the first time, he has a video on a military weapon program that was basically a war crime. LOL
8:15 My Best friend of 12 years is a US army vet. This is true.
His best short video are this one the and the 1911, trench sweeper
Y'all should do a video with TFE, that would be awesome.
Just remember. The moment we hear about America returning to isolationist, it's time to hunker down cuz shit got real. Other than that, I love this video!
Keep up the great work guys!
Dreadnought means Fear Nothing.
Pay attention guys Nick said it was a Super Drednaught. Also this year the final repairs were finished and it is still floating.
dreadnoughts are named after the british ship the HMS dreadnought. Afgter that every ship with a minimum of four heavy guns of 12 inch size. And extra guns that can be between between 4.7-and-7.5-inch. So mostly a ship with huge guns and some more huge guns :D
My uncle, who was in the Navy, once said, you can put a boat on a ship but you can’t put a ship on a boat.
Sadly, you guys missed the live tour. He didn't do standup, but the Unsubscribe podcast (of which he is one of the hosts) did a live tour earlier this year
Simply put... the "Dreadnought" is roughly a "Destroyer Version 1.0". They pre-dated the "destroyer class" that we are familiar with today, and were considered (world-wide) as the heaviest armored and armed ships to ever be made. (Pre-WW1 this is)
The DRAWBACK is that they were so expensive to build that NOBODY wanted to actually risk using them in combat. However, when they WERE used in combat they quickly found out that they were pretty much "outdated" because multiple nations (specifically UK/Germany) had multiple ships and they could be "ganged up on" (with a simple 2v1) and be taken out due to either damage or FEAR of damage.
USA = United States of America
USB = United States of Britain
USC = Unites States of Canada
I am from ND and our capital is Bismarck named after Otto von Bismarck. He is the reason all the small empires came together and created a unified Germany. He is a well respected leader and the Midwest has a lot of German immigrants
To put it simply a dreadnought is a form of big gun naval capital ship designed for the purpouses of engaging heavily armed and armoured enemy vessels or for shore bombardment built between 1900-1916.
“Dreadnought” was originally the name of the lead ship in a new line of British battleships and as common naval traditions hold her sister ships were named “dreadnoughts” in her honor. The name became a semi official moniker for battleships of a certain design pattern or philosophy that would match the HMS dreadnought in her role of the British navy.
What is a dreadnought? That sort of depends based on context the nationality involved and whatever politics are spewing around naval programs. The better question is what is a classical dreadnought of which this is far more easily answered.
Prior to the conception and construction of the HMS dreadnought there was no such thing as a “battleship” really the largest classification of vessel was noted as Cruisers and these cruisers were generally built along the lines of ‘pack as many guns as you can get a hold of onto the ship and hope for the best’ and ignoring the fact that these vessels could end up with over 100 naval caliber guns with very few of them being of similar caliber or having similar ranges/ballistic properties. Up until the 20th century this wasn’t necessarily important as most navies used the ancient tactics of forming into lines opposite their enemy and passing by each other at close range while exchanging gun fire. But naval gunnery and thus accuracy was allowing naval commanders to engage targets at farther and farther distances where the issues with having no standard armament and trying to fire control so many different types of artillery at once became a huge issue. To solve this problem the British admiralty authorized the construction of a vessel with a large standard main armament to engage heavily armored and armed naval ships and shore bombardment. The designers came up with the HMS dreadnought which was the grandmother of standard naval architecture until the implementation of long range missile based weapons into naval use. She had a few large main guns in free turning armored turrets with significant field of fire both fore and aft of the vessel supplemented with a ‘secondary’ gun battery of smaller caliber naval artillery typically installed at single ‘casemate’ mounts (fully independent articulating armoured mount with a fixed field of pivot) to engage smaller vessels at closer ranges if need be.
The name for dreadnought was given to her by someone important but relatively uninvolved in the design process until the last stages where once they looked upon either the design or the nearly completed ship they made a remark that the British navy and empire would ‘dreadnought’ its enemies with her at sea.
Dreadnoughts had an all big gun main armament. 11-12 inch guns depending on the class and nation.
Super dreadnoughts like USS Texas had more armor and bigger guns anywhere from 13.5- 16 inch guns, again depending on class and nation...unless you were French with 13.4 inch guns on their Bretagne-class
The New York-class comprising of USS New York and USS Texas were the only American super dreadnoughts that were not also what became known as standard type battleships.
Standard type battleships were the Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Tennessee and Colorado classes of super dreadnought from the US Navy. They all had the same all or nothing armor layout, a similar 4 turret main gun layout, and a 21 knot top speed
As a Native Texan, I approve of this battleship. Got to see it once in Galveston.
Nick is kind of doing stand-up in the live Unsubscribe podcast shows
Dreadnought = Big Ass Battleship.
In all honesty though, Dreadnoughts were battleships that used a concept called ‘All Big Gun’ the theory is a uniform armament of large guns and a small number of smaller secondaries would be more accurate in long range engagements than a ship with a mixed armament.
Example: Texas has 5x2 14in mains and 16x1 5in secondaries.
Ships that came before were termed Pre-Dreadnoughts and usually had 2x2 large guns (ranging from 10in to 12in), 8x1 secondary armaments (ranging from 4in to 8in), casemate armaments (guns housed in the hull so as not obstruct the turrets ranging from 3in to 8in), and then the ATBA (Anti Torpedo Boat Armamant) with was anything smaller than 3in (for example the 1.1in ‘Chicago Piano’ which later became the go to AA system until WWII for the USN.)
Plus Pre-Dreadnought ships were fitted with submerged torpedo tubes.
Kind of long winded and for that I apologize.
Guys should check out the fat engineer video on the f-15
Nick went on a live tour with his fellow hosts from the Unsubscribe Podcast. They're going to be doing another one this fall
Dread-naught is the British classification. But such a cool thing to call it, many of the 'battle wagons' of the day went by it. The USS Texas would do well to stick with it or even better, Super Dreadnaught (noughts). Before they had steel cruisers with large turret guns. But they really went overboard with the concept in the first years of the 20th century. Dread-naught mean 'fear nothing' so how bad ass is that?
A dreadnought is a battle ship that needs to go on diet.
I always say dreadnoughts are the thicccest ships loln
Y'all should react to his commentary on officers.
they would be mechanical computers
Named after Otto Van Bismark
Don't forget the US-C... Canada 😂
Leave it to the Marines to Gangster lean the freedom sedan! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅👏👏👏👏👏
May I suggest you guys checking out Korean Englishman? They are releasing a youtube series where they take a bunch of college-level Brits to the Korean Military Service boot camp (Korean Navy to be precise). They are on episode 6 now and will be releasing future episodes weekly. I hope you guys can check them out! Do take note that the episodes at the actual army base takes place on episode 4 and 6 onwards. But i strongly suggest you start from the beginning.
It's not that it had a male name it was that the Bismark was referred to as "he" rather than "she" which is traditional.
USA
USB = Britain
He also does USC for Canada.
'Merica!
Don't forget about the ships that beached themselves to fire further inland. I forget what class of ship they were.
So Dreadnought is a class of Battleship Poineered by the USB also known as Britain, and the HMS Dreadnought was the First of it´s kind.
As Technology went on the Americans and later the World at large, began improving on the Concept creating variations of Super Dreadnoughts.
It´s all got to do with Amor LAyouts Externally as well as internally, enabling Battleships to just eat more and more damage before being unable to continue fighting.
The Texas was up there in what she could theoretically tank, but no Battleship in History took as many hits in Combat as the KMS Bismarck, ultimately Sunk by the British Navy, the sheer amount of damage these types of Ship could endure and still keep Functioning is absolutely astonishing.
Hence the name "Dread naught" meaning Fear Nothing, because those ships really didn´t have to.
Btw the giving Ships the Female pronoun goes back to the Ancient Egyptians, i believe it was Hatshepsut who started this and many cultures adopted it. And yes The Bismarck was called "Der Bismarck" by it´s crew, probably solely because it wasn´t exactly named after a long dead person, so everyone on board probably remembered the actual guy being Chancellor and it would´ve felt wierd.
Dreadnaughts were the precursors to the battleships the term dreadnought is because of the British ship hms dreadnought and later dreadnaughts were reclassed to battleships so the name dreadnaughts were the precursors to battleships if the dreadnoughts didn't exist we wouldn't have battleships so we wouldn't have the famous battleships like the Iowa class the Bismarck class and the Yamato class of battleships so you can thank the dreadnoughts for giving us battleships
12:54 - Nimitz, The Sullivans, Duke of York, Prince of Wales, all of the King George V class battles hips, and many many others.
The German naval tradition has the ships referred to with a male honorific, though. (In todays parlance, they used the pronouns he/him.)
You do realize that there is also US C ( Canada)
@EmbraceTheSuck21 you might also really enjoy finnish sniper Simo Häyhä if you have not already heard about him
Bismarck German Chancellor
USA=america
USB=britain
USC=canada
To be fair, the Bismarck was probably the most feared battleship in history, until it was sunk, at one point people were beginning to believe it was unsinkable
To also be fair.... It took a LOT to finally sink it. Though the steering was disabled rather quickly.
Y'all might wanna check out "Sink the Bismark" by Johnny Horton, not askin' y'all to react to it but I think ya guys will like it.