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Hello all

this is my first posting and I wanted to share this drawing of what I think was a never built design of the battle cruiser USA Lexington. I have included files that I took of the web. If any one know of a better source of information. By the information that I have I can not make the bridge area with any real design. I cant even be sure if this was a legitimate design or some ones fantasy ship. Since the design is over 1200 feet it may be bogus. I still have to work on shading and details. So it is still a work in progress. Thanks for any help I could get.

Charles



I HAVE PUT THE LATES ADDITION PNG FILE IN PLACE OF THE WHAT I STARTED WITH.

You'll want to upload the picture in a .PNG file format to save the detail. Most other things cause color or detail loss.

It does not like the "png" file I thought t might be because it was to large. but the file is not that big any Ideas on what it might be

Thanks

Nice work, but that'll take a lot of cleaning up unless you have the pre-jpeg version still saved.
.png files are the only ones accepted @ Shipbucket.

It's a real design. Not a very practical one though. She was one of the early designs for a high speed Battlecruiser. To get the speed they wanted she had to be huge in order to hold all the machinery. I did the B&W drawing in your post based on stats in Norman Friedman's U.S. Cruiser Design History book and someone else made a CG model based on that. Later I found this design drawing on the Naval Historical Center website. Its not the exact same design, but its part of the design series. I think this was separate from the Lexington design. There were several different Battlecruiser designs proposed before WW1.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar///Onlin ... 84072c.htm

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Thanks for the information yes it is a monster ship but there have been a few that where designed like that that never where built. I like your b&w drawing and thanks for giving a few nights of entertainment drawing it up. I was wondering did they put cattapults on ships that long ago ore was that lterary licence. that's one of the reasons I thought it might be part of the alternet universe.

Thanks Charles

They had simple flywheel catapults at the time and one reason the Lexingtons had the lowered quarterdeck was to make room for one to be installed so I added one to this design as well. When I first saw the stats for the design in the book I was convinced it was a typo until I read the description of the design. To get the 30+ knot top speed back in 1914 they needed a massive amount of boilers and a long, thin hull to reduce water resistance. One concern with the design was the massive length. There were serious fears about its structural strength and there wasn't a drydock in the country that could have held her. Luckily advances in technology allowed future designs to be smaller.

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These tutorials will help you upload the image as .PNG

Imageshack

MajHost.com

Photobucket.

Welcome aboard Chuck, and good first work.

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Here is the drawing in .png format I hope

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