so that waves breaking up are going to hit the underside of that and go down rather than breaking over the top of it next let's get to these weird connellations along the side of the ship this is something that you see with most of the dreadnoughts and standard type battleships and not just for the united states around the uh the world during this time period it's very very common to see your secondary battery your anti-torpedo boat battery which on an american standard type battleship are NUMBER_TOKEN-inch NUMBER_TOKENs mounted in the hall during this time so that that first deck down what we would call second deck on on battleship new jersey the designers of texas called the gun deck like it's a freaking NUMBER_TOKEN sailing ship that's where the anti-torpedo boat battery is and they very specifically designed these sponsons down there so these secondary guns would have the greatest possible training arcs so they could engage torpedo boats all around the ship bow on and so forth they couldn't be directly at the bow because remember those waves breaking over when those ports are open for the guns it is this huge open rectangle and there are in theory some some interlocking sheet metal things that could slide there and there were some canvas covers that could be there but they always leaked so you got to have it a little bit far after you got to then make these weird cutouts particularly along that second deck area for these things to be able to get their best arks of fire now even though two or three of the earliest generations of dreadnoughts and almost all the pre-dreadnoughts featured guns in these positions when we actually went to war and started fighting in the north atlantic during world war one it was very quickly realized that there are some pretty nasty waves there and those come right through those open gun ports and what's on the other side there's open gun ports that's where the crew sleeps and eats and spends all their free time so now that area is damp and moldy and they're trying to sleep and north atlantic waves are coming in and hitting them in their hammocks so it's just frigidly cold the ship's got no climate control is built nothing significant at least so the navy takes pity on their humble humble sailors and figures out hey these guns aren't actually usable down here anyway if we move them up one level to the deck house on main deck boom they function a heck of a lot better and it's not letting in all the elements and so that's why you have that feature there and a lot of the other weird shapes around the hall so what's another weird design feature where you look at a battleship and you're like why in the heck is that like that let us know in the comment section down below maybe we'll cover it in a future video do you think all of these weird design features have legitimate uses do you think the designers had good reasons for doing things the way they did or do you think looking back at it with hindsight that it was absolutely absurd for them to make a slow battleship or put the guns one deck lower let us know your thoughts about battleship texas's design in the comments section down below battleship new jersey receives operating support from the new jersey department of state also from a number of other businesses and private individuals like yourselves if you're looking to support a
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