The communication issues supposedly can generally be tracked to Seymour in all of the engagements he was present in. I’m not massive Beatty hater or fanboy but it’s extremely obvious who’s in the wrong here.
I would wager to say besides those situational cockups, the communication technology and systems were generally fine for the period.
As people have mentioned before, the two largest issues facing the Royal Navy isn’t individual ship designs, it’s generally the cordite and shells used. It doesn’t matter how heavily armoured your ships are when you can have a modern battleship explode from a shot to the casemates (like Malaya almost did at Jutland) or ignite powder in the turrets for example from splinters getting through the sighting hoods/turret roofs.
Having more reliable shells and removing the massive chance for your extremely valuable/expensive ships to explode/randomly explode in port should be at the top of the list. It doesn’t matter how strict your flash protection is if your cordite is that unstable.
Best way really is to completely phase out cordite and switch to something similar to what the Germans or Americans were using.
Bad powder + good flash protection = boom
Good powder + bad flash protection = fire
I would wager to say besides those situational cockups, the communication technology and systems were generally fine for the period.
As people have mentioned before, the two largest issues facing the Royal Navy isn’t individual ship designs, it’s generally the cordite and shells used. It doesn’t matter how heavily armoured your ships are when you can have a modern battleship explode from a shot to the casemates (like Malaya almost did at Jutland) or ignite powder in the turrets for example from splinters getting through the sighting hoods/turret roofs.
Having more reliable shells and removing the massive chance for your extremely valuable/expensive ships to explode/randomly explode in port should be at the top of the list. It doesn’t matter how strict your flash protection is if your cordite is that unstable.
Best way really is to completely phase out cordite and switch to something similar to what the Germans or Americans were using.
Bad powder + good flash protection = boom
Good powder + bad flash protection = fire