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haven't really written a history yet, but it's on my ever growing to-do list.

The ANS Chancellor as she looked after her refit in '68

I'm not sure about the lengthy taper you have on your underwater hull, particularly extending forward of the turret. That section of the stern is usually packed with the shafts, drive gear, aft gun magazine, barbette, armour, etc. your current design severely restricts the space for these, makes the stern less stable in that it would displace less water and hence by less buoyant (an issue if flooding occurs aft), and would also pose an issue with hull stresses.

Other than the stern, the rest of the design looks fairly good though you'll likely need a crane to handle the ships boats. They look to be well back from the edge of the deck and boats of that size are rather heavy.

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actually, that curve is a bit off, but not that far off. what is missing is an keel underneath that offers strenght and an position to dock the ship on.

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And here I thought you guys would coment about my rather poor attempt ad drawing a Pagoda mast. But on the subject at hand, how would you sugjest I fix the stern?

Judging by the porthole spacing, you've got some strange deck levels going on.

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I'm not going to be able to fix that without redesigning the whole ship.

sorry to say, but that is sometimes what is needed to get ships to look right. expand your knowledge. look back at what you made before you had the knowlegde. redraw. the more unique your ships, the more you run into this......

anyways, the stern can be fixed by adding an keel that runs aft from the propellers to the bilge keel level. keep the current black line, that is your 'flat', (well you could make it start a bit more to the stern and space the propellers a bit better, but both are acceptable if neccesary as they are now) and let it end with an 60 degree angled part (angled with the waterline)

also, as you have your propellers now, you have only a single rudder, you might want to change that too.

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I won't be changing the portholes but I might modify the stern, however I don't quite follow what you mean as I can decipher what your discribing

http://www.shipbucket.com/images.php?di ... 201920.png
http://www.shipbucket.com/images.php?di ... 0Mk-71.png
some examples how I meant the stern to look....

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