Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Fisher's inconsistent treatment of armored conning towers

A brief exchange tests whether Fisher scrapped the Orlandos because he disliked armored conning towers.

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Question

Were the Orlandos scrapped because Fisher disliked armored conning towers?

Short answer

That explanation does not fit Fisher's later designs, which continued to include armored conning towers.

Notes

A viewer proposes that Fisher's dislike of armored conning towers might explain the class's disposal. Fisher included such towers in every ship he subsequently built. That contradiction makes the feature an inadequate explanation for why the Orlandos were selected. It also warns against reducing Fisher's decisions to one technical preference.