US Torpedo Battleships - Guide 379

The torpedo battleships, un-built designs of the United States Navy, are today's subject.

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[mitchm]

Torpedo /battleships/? We must never let the crew of the Kamchatka watch this video.

[nerobernardino]

...Good lord, Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts wasn't smoking some crack.

[argokarrus]

A "Torpedo Battleship" seems to be more or less what your HMS Thunder Child design would've evolved into when people made more of her after the Martian War.

[WalterReimer]

"Rush." At 20 knots or so.
Ah, how times have changed.

[adventuresinmodelrailroading]

I'm sure there was plenty of eye rolling and muttering of the phrase "here we go again " whenever Scofield brought the subject up.

[abyssaljam]

"Sir, how many torpedo tubes should the ship have?"
...
"More!"

[JBRP]

16 torpedo tubes and 40 6" guns sounds like a fun way to chew up your enemies fleet screen of destroyers

[SteamCrane]

He almost had it right. A battleship armed with a large number of torpedo tubes, no guns, and the ability to sink below the surface, and later come back up to the surface. It just might work...

[lexington]

The Star Trek nerd in me totally wanted to hear Drac quote Khan from Star Trek II "aft torpedoes, FIRE!" 🤓😎.

[warmstrong]

Then they figured out that hiding their torpedo armed vessel underwater was the most practical way to go.

[birbfromnotcanada]

“Torpedo battleships?!?!?!?!”
-the crew of the Kamchatka upon seeing an island

[Graham-ceyk]

Thank you for covering these 'overgrown destroyers', from memory the Russians and Italian's also looked at this idea, their efforts might be worth looking at as well.

[Kirk]

It really amuses me that the USN built a whole series of cruisers with no torpedoes at all, but were considering this exercise in lunacy only a decade or so earlier.

[heirofaniu]

Just the term "Torpedo Battleship" is enough to make me light headed from the sheer amount of blood being rushed into a particular lower extremity of mine.

[tobiasGRY]

Now I really wanna see Drach cover the proposed American "Shimakaze, " that was basically a Fletcher or Allen M. Sumner with two 5-inchers and everything else a torpedo mount.

[shaider]

As long as the torps don't perform like Mk14's, these seem interesting. Like a Shimakaze but with the armor to match the armament and admitedly way slower.

[tarab]

The torpedo battleship concept would eventually come back in the form of the nuclear attack submarine. Which is honestly probably what it takes to make it viable.

[timbrwolf]

"Torpedo battleships?" Whimpered the crew of the Kamchatka.

[WildBillCox]

"I see torpedo boats everywhere! Wait- I'm a torpedo boat, too! Greetings, friends!"

[artwebb]

Given that letting water in at the bottom tends to be quite effective at sinking ships compared to letting air in at the top

Best laugh I've had so far today,
Classic Drach