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The British BCs lost at Jutland were immolated by a combination of poor armour protection and dangerous ammunition handling procedures designed to increase rate of fire. Hood, on the other hand, was lost primarily because her armour did not offer adequate protection from plunging fire - a fault she shared with many WWI era ships still in service during WWII.
Point is, the German BCs used the same guns as the German BBs, so it really is just sheer luck that no British BCs blew up at Dogger Bank as they did at Jutland - and we could also say that British BCs should never have engaged other BCs, never mind BBs.
. Had more energy and money been expended in that direction rather tan on Fisher's pet project, the RN might have been a much deadlier force from the outset of the Great War...
I believe that Churchill should get a lot of the credit for the QEs by holding out for 15 inch guns and oil fired boilers.
Wiki said:Warspite, and the rest of the class, was the brainchild of two men. One was Admiral Sir John 'Jackie' Fisher, who was First Sea Lord when the first all big-gun battleship, HMS Dreadnought, came into existence. The other was Winston S. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, who was paramount in getting the Queen Elizabeths off the drawing board and into the water; but he was also influenced in a number of decisions about the Queen Elizabeths by Lord Fisher, who had been persuaded to come out of retirement by Churchill.
Furious was,in fact,origianaly armed with 2 18inch-40cal .