HMS Benbow: KSS1 S3 Comment Response

Steam battleship suits Benbow, while later period-specific labels avoid defining ships by HMS Dreadnought, which came afterward.

Starting with Canada's Harry DeWolf, a discussion of modern ship names explains why inherited reputation can make some roles better fits for a famous name than others.

A playful proposal to make the Queen Elizabeth class more formidable receives one concrete suggestion: small-tube boilers.

Because the effective belt position changes with real loading and displacement; the thickest armor is a limited central citadel, not a uniform full-length belt.

A brief comparison with a submarine clarifies that its conning tower does not count as freeboard and underscores how low Benbow sat above the water.

The guns came through Elswick Ordnance Company; its relationship with Armstrong Whitworth was real but unusually independent in this period and became more clearly subordinate later.

The absence of Byng from an Admiral-class naming list shows how a later family reputation could outweigh an earlier admiral's successes.

A design-history comment places the Admiral and Victoria classes in the experimental sequence that led to the Royal Sovereign class.

They can engage fixed land targets and use external observers for corrections, though early signal-flag reporting was imperfect; modern forces face the same need for off-platform targeting.