Valid points you have there. Too bad Hood is at the bottom of sea, not in a museum, I would have loved to visit it. About Tirpitz, I agree it was a bad idea for a battleship to babysitting a port to press awe on UK when it could have join into a large group of capital ships to mow everything in their path down. For example, Scharnhorst & Gneisenau, they were only two battleships in several incidents together, I think Prinz Eugen joined with sisters one time. However, UK had capital ships spread out, German knew this and the way they could have crippled UK further if they assembled as much capital ships they can together and sink UK’s capital ships one at a time unless UK assembled theirs in time which would probably be like another Battle of Jutland. UK still has to worry about their flanks above North Sea, the channels, Artic Ocean, plus their ports in case of surprise invasions. Also they had to cover Gibraltar cuz of Italian warships too. German’s blitzkrieg on France & neighboring countries with tanks & planes were so successful because of how many worked together, not spreading out. But how odd for German that didn’t include their capital ships into their blitzkrieg operations & strategies against UK’s ports and ships. I view capital ships for that purpose as many capital ships protecting each other in a group would make a huge difference instead of spreading them out and becoming easier targets. Of course that would be for WW1 & WW2, not modern days unless capital ships carry lasers to shoot planes down. Anyway, this is interesting discussion and that link is good reading too. Thanks.
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