Damn, the message says this is my first visit since 28 December 2010. Scary.
Anyway, this is beautiful! I'm one of the people who wrote the Wikipedia article on this class, so I'm ecstatic to see such a beautiful drawing... I'm used to seeing blurry black and white photos.
Replying to page 2... Caroline's the only ship still around that fought in the Battle of Jutland. Amazing how you can draw the ships but don't know their history, eh? [I'm the exact opposite, so that's not an insult]
yup + they had to find exactly how they were going to pay for them. Really? That's awesome! I think it's a conglomeration of museums that are posting all of that, so apparently they hold some of your dad's stuff (which is also awesome)!
Oh, and I answered my own question, I think De Zeven had two funnels in her early days. Alvama, if you ever draw De Ruyter, I've got a cool site for you that has quite a few Dutch naval photos. http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/default.aspx
she was an battleship....but she was last of an line of coastal defence ships ;) (done some research now :D ) Meh, I think 'coast-defense ships' and 'battleships' are as different as pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts. But that's just my opinion. :P Did you know that the Dutch had plans to build a c...