Tillman I’s 70,000-ton design benchmark

Tillman I is introduced as a 70,000-ton study armed with twelve 16-inch guns and protected by 18 inches of armour. Those figures establish the scale of the numbered maximum-battleship proposals before the video steps back to Tillman’s earlier 1912 request. The ship remained a design study, so its specifications show what the Navy was being asked to examine rather than the tested performance of a completed vessel. Opening here gives the reader a clear baseline for comparing the later Tillman III, IV, and V proposals.