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In my strive for ever increasing quality and improvement which has been greatly helped with a combination of AU-drawings and feedback recieved on Discord has led me to draw the USS Washington BB-47, the third ship of the Colorado class. She was 75,9% complete when she was cancelled in 1922. She would most definetely have seen service starting in 1923. The drawing was to serve as a prototype for a future upgrade of the rest of the class, and as a base for the Tennessee class, which the Colorado class was virtually identical with. For the most part, she will look the same as the three other of the class. With the exception of lifeboats the four ships will look identical until about the 30s with minor differances in the boat complement and minor elements relating to the superstructure.

USS Washington as hypothetically commissioned in 1923:

Awesome work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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Very nice. We should have finished Washington and scrapped Arkansas.

I don't know if there would be enough displacement in the treaty to do that.

Actually, Wyoming was older. Scrap Wyoming and use Arkansas as the gunnery training ship.

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

The real issue is the fact that Wasington was a 16-inch gunned battleship. The US could not have more than three (like Japan and the UK were capped at two) by treaty.

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Excellent drawing that I'd somehow missed. Is there reason to think that the portholes in the superstructure would be larger than those in the hull? It seems plausible to me that 18" is more appropriate than 24" for the superstructure as well.

Pictures my friend. It seems it was the case for American ships to have larger portholes in the superstructure, probably because they were less of a weakness and if they are flooding, then the ship is already lost.