USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response

Historical context means examining what people thought in their own time without treating explanation as approval, while new primary sources can revise accounts of causation.

A viewer compares Texas's ten 14-inch guns and Mark 16 shells with German 15-inch armament, drawing attention to shell weight and gun count.

An imagined fleet selection favours Illustrious for continuing to serve through difficult operations, even with a possible late-war speed limit of 25 knots.

Ark Royal's loss is linked to a failure to follow written counter-flooding instructions when letting water aboard seemed instinctively wrong.

The proposal would be called a battlecruiser or cruiser. Advanced guns could return if barrel metallurgy improves, although no detailed feasibility assessment is offered.

A personal preference puts USS Texas first for a museum visit, with praise for New Jersey's educational work.

Battleship shore bombardment is praised through the Iowa class's postwar service and a viewer's comparison of a Texas salvo with a B-17's bomb load.

Sending USS Texas to Mexico as part of an American occupation force is described as a conspicuously blunt choice.

It may have been a western, but the title is not confirmed here.

Giving the Warspite name to an SSBN provokes unease about combining a famous fighting name with a submarine's global nuclear reach.

The reply rejects that explanation, arguing that Britain had substantial naval oil reserves. Much of its supporting discussion concerns the Second World War, and it does not settle Arizona's deployment history.

Continued oil deliveries are explained as replenishment of large British naval reserves, with a tentative recollection that stocks were larger in 1946 than in 1939.

A discussion of oil-fired Queen Elizabeth-class battleships leads to prewar stockpiling and tankers waiting for the Admiralty to finish shore storage.