Most Spectacular Warship Design Fails

Throughout history there have been some truly incredible warships - but there has also been a pretty decent share of awful warship designs too. It was a space where different nations competed with one another, often with short notice and little time, to design the biggest, the best and the most innovative. But sometimes that drive for innovation could lead to failure and at some point in history a French naval architect decided that fitting full sized windows like those from a country manor to the hull of a giant ironclad warship was a good idea... Following on from last month's video today let's take a look at 5 more terrible warships and the stories of their woeful designs and careers! Featuring the Russian monitor Novgorod, the US Battleship USS Massachusetts, French Battleship Hoche and Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru.