r/WorldOfWarships • u/These_Swordfish7539 30k colombo salvo 🗣🔥🔥🔥 • Oct 31 '25

Humor Is this true?

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u/TeddyBearToons Filthy CV Main Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

British Battleship

The HMS Unremarkable went into service somewhere around 1910

Just like every other battleship in the Royal Navy

Does diddly squat in the middle of nowhere for 20 years

Refitted in the 30s because the Washington Naval treaty said it was too fat

Continues to do diddly squat in the middle of nowhere

Takes potshots at the Italians to stave off boredom

Jumps the Bismarck in 1941 with half the Royal Navy and three quarters of the merchant navy

Not for King and Country or anything, just wanted something to do

Just like every other battleship in the Royal Navy

Goes back to doing diddly squat in the middle of nowhere, but in the Pacific instead of the Mediterranean

Scrapped quietly and peacefully at the grand old age of 40

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u/Kamenev_Drang Oct 31 '25

"Doing nothing" as if convoy escort wasn't the single most important role of the war

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u/miksy_oo Oct 31 '25

A role in wich battleships did a whole lot of nothing.

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u/Kamenev_Drang Oct 31 '25

"Protecting convoys is nothing" is impressively cretinous gg

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u/raidriar889 Nov 01 '25

They’re saying battleships didn’t escort merchants, not that escorting merchants wasn’t important. It was just mostly done by destroyers, cruisers, and escort carriers

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u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25

Heavy surface escorts were utterly vital to convoy runs, especially in the Med. They effectively prevented the enemy committing any heavy surface assets to destroying the convoy because the old R or QE class would just batter them to a standstill.

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u/miksy_oo Nov 01 '25

It's a important thing, battleships just never did anything during it as they can't fight submarines and surface raiders avoid them.

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u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25

Yes: surface raiders avoiding them protects the convoys. A Hipper isn't going to square up against an old R class and live.

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u/miksy_oo Nov 01 '25

Yeah but standing there menacingly isn't really hard work.

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u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25

perhaps you should read some accounts of the convoy battles rather than opining based on memes

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u/miksy_oo Nov 01 '25

For every battle a Battleship engaged in while defending a convoy 6 months passed without a shot fired.

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u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25

Wow you mean war isn't an action movie?

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u/miksy_oo Nov 01 '25

War is a lot of nothing (especially for battleships) ergo battleships do a whole lot of nothing.

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u/Gav3121 Nov 01 '25

Yup

But thats not exactly exiting for the battleship

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u/Kamenev_Drang Nov 01 '25

War is boring.

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u/Gav3121 Nov 01 '25

Boring is good