WIDEST Ships Through The Panama Canal

Panamax warships - how much is that shortcut worth? #panamacanal #battleship #worldofwarships #navy #warship #usnavy #warships

[Lukelikesmissiles]

Question: can we make these canals BIGGER? We MUST get our girthy boats around the world in record time!

[juankovacs]

Is insane the fact the US navy designed their ships during WW2 to fit through the Panama Chanel. And fit almost to the inch.

[MADd_MAKXS_YT]

"Battleships were thick boys"

Don't battleships go by she? 💀

[Armada-]

That’s why American battleships were generally thinner than their contemporaries, and that’s why they never went above the 16 inch gun armament, the navy was keen on making sure their battleships could quickly change theaters through the Panama Canal.

[popcornboi]

American solved the aircraft carrier problem by having enough on both sides of the continent

[justarandomdude-gvyz]

Thick girls with ship guns, where did I heard that before....

[Joost-lm]

Do a video about the dutch navy and the sinking of the ship the ruyter

[alphax]

Bismarck was the first non compliant BB with an 118ft beam. Yamato was over a year behind.

[david_porthouse]

Point of Yamato and Musashi exceeding Panamax size is that the equivalent US battleships would also be unable to use the Canal. However a ship that size might not struggle to go round Cape Horn.

[homefront]

I remember seeing an idea to make the world's biggest canal ever made. Would go through Texas close to the border. Be big enough to allow CV transportation with a bit extra room.

Allowing for quick transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific. While aloe giving a form of border defense. While also potentially being a resource for revenue for commerce and any buildings that might get built alongside it

[MedEwok]

The most frequently used canal in the world is the Kaiser-Wilhelm Kanal, nowadays boringly renamed to Nord-Ostsee-Kanal or in English also known as Kiel canal, linking the Baltic and the North Sea near Kiel.
That's a canal worth designing your ships for.

[RonnieCurry-mh]

The Montana class had money included to widening the Panama canal in to building them!

[geographyRyan]

Were? Lucky for us, SoDak-class Massachusetts and Alabama, and all 4 of the Iowa-class are preserved. I've been on Massachusetts several times and.... Yeah, she's quite wide

[phil_nebula]

Alternatively and fairly recently U.S. supercarrier have been using the Magellan Strait instead of crossing the Cape Horn with the first being the USS Ronald Regan (CVN-76) in 2003 followed by the USS George Wasington (CVN-73) in 2008, than USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 2010, and USS George Washington again 2015 East bound and again in 2024 on its way to Japan. Alternatively most carrier go the long way through the Indian Ocean, and Suez Canal such as USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in 2012 for ROCH, and heading back to the US West Coast in 2019, and USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) in 1998 and 2019 respectively.

[johnfisher]

Actually the illegal, treaty violating Bismarck had a beam of 118 feet and that ship was completed well before the Yamato.

[bobbydennis]

Yeah US aircraft carriers not being able to fit through the Panama canal would be a problem IF they didn’t have more than ten spread out across nearly every ocean. Man I love US military might

[onyxdragon]

Also, the Panama Canal is one of the reasons why the US didn't build the Montana-class battleships.
Sure, the main reasons were that the role battleships played in war had diminished to the point it was better to build CVs, but it would have been impossible for a Montana class battleship to go through the canal. USS Iowa could barely go through, and they were thinner than the Montana class would have been lol

[mattd]

Can we just appreciate the pilot and navigator and helmsman on those battleships while passing through the canal?

[barnykirashi]

The Panama Canal: **Exists**
Royal Hungarian Navy: **Steals the IJN Musashi and IJN Shinano**
The Panama Canal: "Something's wrong, I can feel it."

[KPLBall]

Dont forget that the USS Midway was the first US ship not Panamax. Later they modified the Canal because of modern tankers.