User blog comment:Void Samukai/The 7 key BBs in history/@comment-26482266-20160118024133/@comment-27822411-20160118040206

Well, of course the ship doesn't have to be a good ship to make the list (otherwise why did I include the Mary Rose), but from 4 onwards, you kinda went and listed "ships that had flaws as modern ships", with the exception of the Iowa. And I can nitpick the hell out of some of your choices;

HMS KGV: Her 14inch guns were alright. They did damage to Bissy and sank the Scharnhorst. They were alright as guns. The problem was the quad turrets, but that was a fault of the gun, not the ship.

KMS Bismarck: I think we can all say that it was a lucky hit that one to the rudder. Bismarck was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, as you stated, lack of good AA didn't help.

IJN Yamato: It was kinda clear from the beginning of the Pacific War that BBs were seriously vunerable to air attacks. Pearl Harbour and PoW showed that. So yeah, Yammy could be sunk by aircraft. It just needed a lot of them.