It all reads very much like the rise of the Dreadnoughts, the almost immediate obscelescence , the battlecruiser as an innovation ...history repeating itself once more.The manouverability is echoed in the Armada galleases (sp?) versus small English ships. Its yet another example of this whole forum showing how lessons are forgotten and re-learned in all areas of warfare.
And as I pmd , and must make public, a "forty" with 3000 marines and crew besides must have been quite a challenge to the olfactory apparatus.