Shipbucket

Hello again!

A little real design as a by-product of another planned WWI AU scenario (yes, that's what seems to have become of me...):

The Ottoman battleship Mesudiye (modern Turkish spelling, better known as Messoudieh in her own time)

The Mesudiye was an 1870s vintage central battery ironclad which, rather than being scrapped as her age would have warranted, received one of the most thorough reconstructions in naval history in 1902. She was fitted with all new armament, machinery and superstructure and continued to serve for another 12 years, till she was sunk by a British submarine in the first days of the first world war. She took part in both balkan wars, however, although ineffectively due to poor training of her crew. Sources are contradictory as to whether her main armament of two 234mm guns was actually fitted, but later removed to strengthen the dardanelles fortifications and replaced by dummy barrels, or whether the main guns were never delivered and she only ever carried dummy main gun barrels.



All photographs of her on the web show her without colour variations, so I only depicted her in khaki; i do not know when the Ottomans adopted that colur (probably in 1912 during the war against Italy) and how she was painted earlier.

Greetings
GD

Marvelous job!

Very interesting.

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Very well done GD, another masterpiece.

yes indeed and nice too see old turkish ships in the bucket.

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An exellent drawing once again!
But i'm quite sure the main turrets were more rounded.

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Awesome!

Marvelous job, and interesting.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

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Very nice work!

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Hello again!
Thanks everyone for the praise, and thanks Waritem for noticing. Not the standard British 234mm single turrets from the British parts sheet for Mesudiye, but indeed more rounded ones of Italian production. Edited

Greetings
GD