WI: Hood sisters built as 8x18 inch naval guns

Thomas1195

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However, larger dockyards and shipyards because of this would make it easier to upgrade them to adopt machine-based mass production techniques in the future.
 
When the Hood was going down, her Bow vertical she apparently fired from her A turret one last time.
Many believe this was actually a magazine explosion.
However if it was, it was a very localised one, especially when compared to the after magazines.
But the Hoods stem did break off from the Rest of the ship.
So was it a magazine explosion?
Or was the effect of the main explosion enough to weaken the forward bow enough, that after she fired, it's integrity failed?
Or did it just implode, due to her going down so quickly
 
Dry docks available before WW2:
Belfast, Roysth, Clyde, Plymouth, Portsmouth, St. John (Canada), Esquimalt (Canada)

And I suppose technically Southampton and Singapore?
But Southampton is in more or less constant use by Trans-Atlantic (And other) Liners, and Singapore might be too remote at the time?
 
When the Hood was going down, her Bow vertical she apparently fired from her A turret one last time.
Many believe this was actually a magazine explosion.
However if it was, it was a very localised one, especially when compared to the after magazines.
But the Hoods stem did break off from the Rest of the ship.
So was it a magazine explosion?
Or was the effect of the main explosion enough to weaken the forward bow enough, that after she fired, it's integrity failed?
Or did it just implode, due to her going down so quickly

IIRC modelling of the magazine explosion has a blast front passing forward through the engineering spaces. It might then be able to blow down the forward magazine bulkhead and ignite that too - before being quenched by flooding.

Alternatively, the stress on the hull as the bow raised out of the water could have caused it to break in half, as with Titanic. Hood was supposed to be a rather stressed design anyway.
 
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