Queen Elizabeth Class vs Iowa Class Battleships

The scrapping of the Grand Old Lady, HMS Warspite, remains one of the greatest crimes against naval history ever committed, and like you said Ryan, she did not go quietly.

such a shame that HMS Warspite wasn't preserved as a museum. imagine her on the Thames next to Tower Bridge together with HMS Belfast!

Can't argue with the exploits of Warspite. Her battle honours are heavily loaded towards steaming balls out in harms way against moving, armoured adversaries. Perhaps the most significant BB in terms of sheer ass kickery...

Between you and Drach today has been a great day for those interested in Naval shipbuilding history. Thanks!

I'm glad you mentioned the complexity and amount of expertise that go into major caliber guns. Most people don't understand just how much brainpower, effort, and skill goes into designing and manufacturing a gun that can fire a 2,000lb shell 30,000yds+ accurately.

If I remember right, when the Iowa and New Jersey engaged the IJN Nowaki at about 21mi, the FIRST SALVO was a straddle. Pretty impressive I would say.

It's such a tragedy to naval history that Warspite was not saved as a museum ship. During the Battle of Jutland, Warspite's steering jammed during an aggressive maneuver to avoid a collision with her sister ship HMS Valiant. This caused her to steam in circles thus drawing German fire away from the damaged cruiser HMS Warrior. Warspite took an incredible beating but she saved HMS Warrior. It was almost as if Warspite herself made the decision to save Warrior. Plus she is the first ship to survive an "anti ship" missile attack from Fritz-X bombs. How much awesomeness can one ship achieve!?

For context on how warspite is viewed to brits then I'd say we view her the same way Americans view enterprise. Both great ships that took huge beatings repeatedly and yet refused to lose and just carried on truckin no matter how hard they got hit

"Captain, there's a World War I battleship coming at us kind of slow. Just 23 knots." "So we've got them outclassed in every respect. This should be easy" "Sir, it's the Warspite" "Oh!"

I love these longer history type videos! Ryan is really knowledgable.

The history of the HMS Warspite would be a wonderful video to watch. The more detail the better… but I don’t know how many others would be as in to it as I, so I understand. She had a truly legendary career. Well done!

This will be good. My Great-Grandfather served on HMS Barham during WW1, including the Battle of Jutland, and HMS Malaya in the 1920s.

Just to clarify, four battleships made a Division in the Grand Fleet, not a Squadron. The subsequent R class battleships were authorised as an 8 ship class, the five as built with the last 3 the original Renown and Repulse to the R class design and the eighth cancelled which was to be called Resistance. The last 3 were changed in design or cancelled when it was decided that no more battleships would be laid down as it was thought the war wouldn't last long.

Excellent presentation. Thank you so much.

Ryan, this was excellent! Thank you so much 😊

I think it would be interesting to compare/contrast Warspite to New Jersey, especially considering they are the most decorated Battleship from each nation respectively.

A drink to HMS Warspite, the greatest Brtitish warship in history. Shame they scrapped her instead of turning her into a museum ship.

I'd definitely like one on the Warspite. I'm sure Drach has a video on her, but it would be cool to see your take as well. I've really gotten hooked on this type of video over the last year, keep up the excellent work.

To be fair, the Queen Elizabeth class would’ve won every engagement with an Iowa from 1914 to 1943

Having the same last name of one of the Queen Elizabeth class battleships HMS Barham is cool, but her fate during WW2 was heartbreaking to learn.