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 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Royal Navy Interwar Captial Ships

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 Post subject: Re: Royal Navy Interwar Captial Ships Posted: July 27th, 2015, 4:56 pm 

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re Hood and Magus: Things are often clearer in hindsight, but in this case: The Nelsons were built because it was thought essential to have ships with 16in guns to counter US and Japanese ships. However, the British 15in fired a 1938lb shell, not far short of the light shell adopted for Nelson, and ...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: King George V as originally planned 12x14"

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 Post subject: Re: King George V as originally planned 12x14" Posted: June 4th, 2015, 8:32 am 

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Sumeragi said "I'm pointing out factually wrong designation/information (such as there being no single smokestack idea)." If by that you mean that no KGV design was produced with a single funnel, I'm afraid you are mistaken. The Staff requested a single funnel option at a very early stage in the des...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: RN, O & P class War Emergency Destroyers

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 Post subject: Re: RN, O & P class War Emergency Destroyers Posted: May 21st, 2015, 11:18 am 

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Krakatoa said " Once the 4.5" DP gun is available the destroyers armed with those become much more useful." I assume you meant the single mount? The 4.5in Mk V fitted in the Z and C classes was (apart from the barrel and its fittings) identical to the 4.7in Mk XXII fitted in the T to W classes; hand...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Royal Navy Interwar Captial Ships

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 Post subject: Re: Royal Navy Interwar Captial Ships Posted: May 18th, 2015, 1:40 pm 

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@Krakatoa I've had a look at the drawings in Warship 2, and while there is some sheer forward, it's not large and the drawings are reproduced too small to be sure about any differences in the whole series. In favour of 'zero' bow - H3b had forward turret on a high barbette, so could fire forward eve...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Great Britain Fast Battleships Designs U4 & U5

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 Post subject: Re: Great Britain Fast Battleships Designs U4 & U5 Posted: May 18th, 2015, 7:21 am 

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A very small point, but d'Eyncourt's sketch shows the muzzles of B turret, so B is offset to starboard.

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Great Britain Fast Battleships Designs U4 & U5

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 Post subject: Re: Great Britain 'Canadian' Fast Battleships Design U4 & U5 Posted: April 29th, 2015, 8:40 am 

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Flashman said "I read that the Naval Aid Bill of 1913 was to fund 3 battleships of the most modern pattern (read, Queen Elizabeth class), but I had assumed they would just be 3 additional vessels!" Your assumption is nearly correct. The Canadian Naval Aid Bill failed to pass the Senate in late 1913....

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Hawkins Class AA Proposal

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 Post subject: Re: Hawkins Class AA Proposal Posted: March 21st, 2015, 3:14 pm 

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As Hood says, looks good, BUT This proposal was 1938, and was then a serious one, so this is a "neverwere". The 5.25in were ordered. But no chance of STAAG, which was a post-war gun, by which time the Hawkins machinery would be worn out. The quad 2pdr are more the mark. Also a quad 2pdr weighed abou...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Cruisers for South America

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 Post subject: Re: Cruisers for South America Posted: March 20th, 2015, 11:14 am 

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"head towards vertical funnels and the later bridge style when considering the dates of construction"
I agree with that, though I don't think it improves the look of it.

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Cruisers for South America

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 Post subject: Re: Cruisers for South America Posted: March 20th, 2015, 10:21 am 

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@Blackbuck "deviate from the original Thurston design " Those were interesting comments. Have you seen any other diagrams? All I have seen were from Brassey's Naval Annual, all of which had raked funnels, except that I have seen one from the Hiraga Archive 1928 IIRC of Vickers Design 866, a more con...

 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Some Thoughts about What If British Aircrafts

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 Post subject: Re: Some Thoughts about What If British Aircrafts Posted: March 18th, 2015, 5:11 pm 

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Battle of River Plate 13 Dec 1939: No RN Towns class there. Admiral Scheer (not a battleship) was refitting at Wilhelmshaven.
Stick to aircraft :)
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