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In the long and sometimes absurd story of naval engineering, a few warships stand out not for their power — but for how spectacularly wrong they went. From double-decked gun turrets to top-heavy tumblehome hulls and monstrous 18-inch monitors, these ships were supposed to revolutionize naval warfare. Instead, they nearly sank themselves. In this video, we’ll explore three of the most disastrous design ideas ever to leave the drawing board. We begin in the United States, where the Kearsarge-class battleships experimented with “gun-on-gun” turrets — an arrangement that combined heavy 13-inch guns with smaller 8-inch mounts stacked above them. It looked ingenious on paper, but in battle conditions it was a mechanical nightmare. A single jam or hit could knock out half the ship’s main battery. From there, we move to France and Russia, whose obsession with the tumblehome hull — a sharply inward-sloping hull design — produced some of the most unstable ships ever built. Vessels like Hoche, Brennus, and the Borodino-class battleships were supposed to save weight and improve gunnery arcs. Instead, they rolled dangerously in rough seas and met tragic ends at battles like Tsushima. Finally, we’ll examine Britain’s colossal 18-inch monitors — General Wolfe and Lord Clive — bizarre hybrids that mounted the largest guns ever used by the Royal Navy on slow, under-armored hulls. They fired shells the size of small cars, but their seaworthiness was abysmal. Each shot nearly threw them off anchor. These three chapters show that innovation often walks a fine line between brilliance and disaster. They reveal a truth that echoes across naval history: sometimes, the boldest ideas are the ones best left unbuilt. Join me as we look back at the strange, fascinating, and sometimes tragic experiments that defined an age of naval ambition gone wrong. Thumbnail artists: https://artistree.io/draconicfables Sources/Other Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Mussolinis-Navy-Reference-Marina-1930-1945/dp/1591145449 https://www.amazon.com/War-Mediterranean-1940-1943-Bernard-Ireland/dp/184415047X https://www.amazon.com/French-Warships-Age-Steam-1859-1914/dp/152674533X https://www.amazon.com/The-French-Fleet/dp/1526701316?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&gQT=1 https://www.amazon.com/French-Battleships-World-War-One/dp/1591146399 https://www.usni.org/press/books/russian-and-soviet-battleships-0 https://www.amazon.com/Warships-Soviet-Fleets-1939-1945-III/dp/1399022814/ref=asc_df_1399022814/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=647295705344&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12876870193127060542&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016045&hvtargid=pla-1748739344084&psc=1&mcid=d903c450d40b31a190e09aba3b4f6d5c https://www.amazon.com/Warship-2015-John-Jordan/dp/1591146003 https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Battleships-Illustrated-Design-History/dp/1682477584 https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Battleships-Illustrated-Design-History/dp/1682477584 https://www.amazon.com/Big-Gun-Monitors-Construction-Operations/dp/1591140455 https://www.amazon.com/Monitors-Royal-Navy-Fleet-Brought/dp/1473877148#:~:text=This%20volume%20covers%20the%20origins,with%20other%20classes%20of%20ships. Video Information: Copyright fair use notice. All media used in this video is used for the purpose of education under the terms of fair use. All footage and images used belong to their copyright holders, when applicable.

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