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Stunning work! Keep it up!

Excellent work on all these AU ships.

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Bravo! Very beautiful!

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The last pre-dreadnought to be depicted here is the LN Fianna (named after the resistance fighter gangs who fought the English in the insurgence campaign 1808 - 1813), a FCM-built coastal defence ironclad commissioned in 1886. She was too small and too slow (15 knots) to effectively operate in the open sea, carried not much punch (2x 275/35, 6x 140/40 and 8x 45mm and 37mm QF each) but was well protected and a rather stable gun platform. She put up the best fight of all Thiarian ships in the war of 1894 against Brazil, but was nevertheless sunk by Riachuelo and Aquidaban.



Well, that's it for the old cans. Now moving on to the requisitioned ex-turkish superdreadnought and the unfinished capital ship projects of 1916-18.

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Great work, Garlicdesign. Truly one of the best AU threads.

I don't know why, but the map in the first post isn't loading, even when I tried to paste the image address.

Other than that, it's an excellent thread.

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The map is fixed. Imageshack was a real short-lived experience...

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Garlic in what program you make your map?

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Now presenting the final battleship to be actually commissioned by the Thiarians during the first world war. When the Thiarians laid down their Conaire-class superdreadnoughts in 1911, this prompted Brazil to cancel the negotiations with Turkey over the sale of the Rio de Janeiro and kept her for themselves, figuring it would be more prudent to have a battleship of dubious fighting value in 1914 than having a perfect one in 1917 when it might be too late. The Turks on the other hand still wanted an additional battleship, particularly after their naval defeats in the balcan war of 1912. To everyone's surprise, they chose a submission by Thiaria's Riordan yard (which had never built a capital ship before) over British and German offers; it was not revealed until 1923 that bribery had played a decisive part in the decision-making process. The ship, to be named Sultan Osman I, was laid down in late 1912 and launched in February 1915. By that time, the Turks had already stopped paying, and construction was repeatedly halted. The ship was taken over by the Thiarian navy in April 1916, about 75% complete shortly before her scheduled delivery date. She was the first Thiarian ship with Parsons turbines, which were more economical and reliable than the Curtis turbines of the Conaire-class, and mounted the most powerful armament of all Thiarian warships, consisting of nine Schneider type 340/45 guns manufactured under french license and placed in Thiarian-designed turrets. The Ottoman specifications did not contain rangefinders or antiair guns, but a ram and a very heavy secondary armament of 20 152mm guns. The latter were substituted with 16 140mm ones by the Thiarians, who never installed the aft four pieces which were mounted so low as to be totally useless; the ships received four 65/50 flaks and three rangefinders also. The ex-Ottoman ship looked similar outwardly to the Conaire-class, but was shorter and beamier and had less freeboard, with the forecastle only extending to the forward funnel. She was very stable due to her more austere superstructure and the lack of superfiring turrets, but speed (21 knots) and seakeeping were markedly worse than with the Conaire-class; her protection was the same in thickness, but not as widely spread and generally less well arranged.

LT Crionna



The vessel in her original turkish paintwork as the Sultan Osman I



The ship was named after 'the old man' (Gaelic: An Crionna), a legendary leader of Thiarian resistance against Britain between 1809 and 1813, whose skillful conduct of a relentless guerilla campaign drove one British governor to resignation and the next one, General Erskine, literally to madness and suicide. His true name was never made public; he supposedly died of natural causes in 1813 shortly before the British quit Thiaria, and many still believe he never existed and was only made up by Admiral Conaire in order to confuse the British. After commissioning in July 1917, one year behind schedule, she sortied with the Thiarian main fleet for the battle of Caitriona, but hit a british mine and had to RTB. She was quickly repaired and took part in an attempt against a British troop convoy during the summer of 1917/8, but ran onto an uncharted rock and had to be repaired. By that time, she was not exactly known as a lucky ship; this changed on March 4th, 1918 during the battle of Craigmiadh, where she used up all the luck fate had allotted to her. By that time, her crew was fully trained, and she employed her 340mm guns to good effect against HMS Marlborough (10 hits). Being the slowest of the Thiarian battleships, she lagged behind the main squadron during the long chase after the Thiarians had escaped the British trap, and was hit no less than 20 times; she nevertheless made an average speed of 23 knots during the retreat and safely made port despite having been shot up beyond all recognition and suffering a catastrophic turbine failure 20 miles outside Noyalo. She was docked and under repair when Thiaria surrendered and eventually remained in Thiaria after the peace treaty. She finally met her fate in another war, but that story has yet to be made up.

By the way, Biancini 1995 - I've only ever used MS paint. All else is too sophisticated for me.

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Ah..ok thanks Garlicdesign

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