The Battleship with Too Many Guns - HMS Agincourt

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Buy a Poster: https://historigraph.store Get Early Access to Videos: https://www.patreon.com/historigraph How many heavy gun turrets should a battleship have? A question that kept naval designers up at night for decades. At the start of the 20th century the answer was generally two. Then with the coming of the dreadnoughts ships had three, four, five, even in a few cases six turrets. But only once, in the history of battleship design did a ship appear with seven main turrets, creating a broadside of such explosive power that there were serious concerns that when all the guns fired together the ship would break in half. This is the remarkable story of the slightly absurd HMS Agincourt. Sources: R.A Burt, British Battleships of World War 1 Robert Massie, Castles of Steel Richard Hough, The Great Dreadnought: The Strange Story of the Mightiest Battleship of World War I Credits: Artwork by: https://twitter.com/ChrisbyFlanker Animation by CKD Productions and Josh Bassett Written, Directed and Produced by: https://twitter.com/addaway23