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Anarak Class Heavy Cruisers.

Like all of the signatories to the Washington treaty, the Incan Empire built cruisers right up to and beyond the 10,000 ton limit. Eight inch guns were the maximum allowed and that was what the Incan designers allowed for. A new triple turret was also designed for the new guns and three were fitted, two forward and one aft. The armouring was modest with a 3" belt and 1.5" deck. The most armour was fitted around the propulsion and magazines where 3.5" armour was placed.



Statistics for the class of six was:

Displacement: 10,740 tons standard, 14,150 full load.
Dimensions: 608 x 66 x 26 feet
Machinery: 4 shaft, steam turbines, 78,000shp
Speed: 32 knots
Endurance: 8400 miles at 15 knots
Armour: 3" belt, 1.5" deck, 3.5" turrets
Armament:
9 x 8" (3x3)
6 x 100mm (6x1)
6 x 37mm (6x1)
Torpedoes: 12 x 21" (4x3)
Aircraft: 2
Crew: 630

Quitosuyu Class Battleship.

The Quitosuyu class followed the layout of the German Brandenburg class battleships with a central 'Q' turret. But where the Brandenburg's had different calibres between the A/B and Q turrets the Quitosuyu's had one calibre only. While the extra turret gave it a 50% increase in firepower it was never in consideration for the first 'all big gun' battleship nomination. The Incan capital ships (indeed all the 'Pyramid' ships) needed to be slightly longer and wider to preserve stability that would otherwise be compromised by the Pyramid addition.



The four ships of the Quitosuyu class made a favourable impression overseas, and because of the First World War, served over 20 years in the Incan Navy. At 16,000 tons displacement they were some of the largest warships yet built. 460 feet long was average, but the breadth of 82 feet was more than most. The boiler rooms were all forward between the A to Q barbettes, while the engine room was situated under the aft superstructure. The triple expansion machinery produced 18,000hp through four shafts for 18 knots maximum speed. Armed with six by twelve inch main guns in three twin turrets, the layout proved successful in action. Secondary weaponry was made up of eight single six inch guns mounted in casemates, and like most navies found that the casemates suffered severely from any sort of seaway washing out the working areas. Anti-torpedo boat guns of 100mm were fitted with four in the forward superstructure and one each on the A and Y 12" turrets. Unlike a lot of their competitors the Quitosuyu class had no submerged torpedoes and had no torpedoes at all fitted.

IS Quitosuyu (1898) Service/Fate:

IS Nazcasuyu (1898) Service/Fate:

IS Tumbesuyu (1899) Service/Fate:

IS Amazonisuyu (1900) Service/Fate:

Merry Xmas to one and all.

Imperial Ship Condor (CV-1940)

During the 1930's when other navies were upgrading their facilities, the Empire had little reserves for the Navy to upgrade its infrastructure, most of the Imperial War Budget had been spent on the Army and creating the Army and Navy Air forces. The largest building docks available could handle ships no more than 790 feet in length. This length was fine for the Treaty battleships and the Yupanqui class showed what could be done. However the aircraft carrier was a different beast. The CV required as much hull volume as possible for their main task of housing, feeding, launching and recovering aircraft. The Incan designers wanted to build the biggest aircraft carrier they could but were limited by the docks available. With the Yupanqui class under construction only two slightly smaller docks were available until the new 1100 foot docks that were to be constructed were completed. The Imperial designers were nothing if not innovative. By collapsing the wall between two of the smaller docks a catamaran hull could be built. The cat-a-carrier was born.

There are so many things for and against this design. I am sure everybody will want to make a comment telling me why it will either work or not work. I have done this as a semi-serious bit of work and my apologies to Bombhead, whose nice drawing I have butchered.



You will note from the bottom drawing that I have shown the anchor points of the catamaran 'join' between the hulls.