User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-27822411-20151010205026/@comment-10905876-20151011002016

And we seem to forget that naval wars are not won by battlecruisers. The Germans lost all of their battleships in World War Two, while the Brits only lost one modern battleship, and a few old outdated ones, and none in a duel with enemy surface combatants. That is a much better track record for their ships. And if we only measure battlecruisers, we have to leave out a lot of major powers. The United States, France, Italy, Russia, and some other minor powers.

If we look at the Royal Navy's overall performance over the Kreigsmarine, it's no comparison. The only real success the Germans had were with their U-Boats, the rest of the time they got pummeled to death by the British. If we compare say, carriers, the British have some of the best designs of the war, (way better than the flimsy things used in the pacific theater, you won't see a Yorktown shrug off a hit like a Brit carrier) while the Germans were now shows. So, just because they had a misfire with their battlecruisers, you seem to give the Brits absolutely no credit for the rest of their ships.