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The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships
Study The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships, a Dr. Alex Clarke video from 1 May 2023, with 5 time notes. Topics include Battleship Guns, Dreadnoughts, Naval Gunnery.
Time notes
- 0:00HMS Dreadnought's 12-inch starting pointNotable Point
HMS Dreadnought's 12-inch bore is compared with a head roughly 10 inches from top to chin.
- 0:33Orion's 13.5-inch guns and the half-inch step to 14 inchesNotable Point
The Orion class's 13.5-inch calibre is close to 14 inches, although the half-inch difference is described as enough to matter.
- 0:45The Queen Elizabeth class's 15-inch shell widthNotable Point
The Queen Elizabeth class's 15-inch shells are illustrated as almost the width of a chest.
- 1:00Colorado's 16-inch gun in human scaleNotable Point
The Colorado class's 16-inch bore prompts a joke that two heads might fit inside it.
- 1:10HMS Furious and Yamato in the 18-inch comparisonChapter
The final comparison groups HMS Furious and Yamato under 18 inches and illustrates that width as roughly shoulder to shoulder.