Interesting drawings.
That Wyoming BB is a big ship for its time. 495x?, 6x12"? then 6 or 12 turreted secondaries. It is very well armed for its time.
Like the AU vessels I drew with 6 guns for pre-dreads (which you commented on), yours (1896) are even earlier than mine (1898). We have both used the German Brandenburg idea and made the 'middle' guns the same calibre as the others. I would class your ship as a Semi-dreadnought, the way it is armed. The stats I would be interested in are the armour and propulsion/speed.
The more I look at the Wyoming the more I like it as a big solid ship with a blend of French and other countries' superstructure and armament.
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The thing I noticed about Krakatoa's vessel was that the North Sea forecastle break and hull form are not optimum for mid Atlantic waves or the long Pacific swells. The Brandenburg clearly influenced the hull form a lot as it did my T-class armored cruisers.
I cannot estimate from that hull form what its "battle speed" might be, but I assume that it is of the 16-17 knot {?}speed range and that hull length, beam, and draft [142 meters by 23 meters(?) by 7.4 meters?(?) yields an indicated power of about 13,000 kilowatts or 17,000 horsepower? I want to ask if you use bag guns? stowage for bag guns would be markedly different than for cased charge shell guns. Shell count per barrel might be as low as 55-60 shells per gun?
The gun barrels are unusually long in caliber. (45s?) The Incan navy therefore uses a cooler burning powder than RBY. It would also use lightweight shells. MVs= 700-720 m/s?
No fire control director seems to be present? So can I assume that a central telemeter station is not present either? That gives me a battle range estimate of 1,000 to 6,000 meters. PH predicted of 4%? Local control.
Fuel bunkerage is a wild guess but maybe 400 hours at 10 knots? That would put in around 1200 tonnes of coal in an 16,000 tonne vessel. (*about 3/4 the total of the Wyoming's bunkerage.)
The armor on that hull will be continuous just from the superstructure form seen. It has to be THIN by US/British standards. (deck about 6-8 cm and side belts no more than 6 cm at the ends to 28->30 cm at the waist frames?)
I assume a standard box barbette housing for the bag gun double barrel turret. Ranges in thickness from 10 cm (ends) to 28 cm in the beam plates?
This is a flush decked hull. The real universe American battleships started with stacked up turreted secondary armament and only adopted citadel secondary armament as a space saver and armor weight saver with the Virginias. American designers knew that barbettes were safer and stronger but required much bigger hulls to space the guns out. Also the real American shipbuilding docks were small.
Assuming that the skinflint Congress comes across with the appropriations and that the dockyards are expanded earlier, we get the Wyoming.
The ship is 150 meters long, 21.5 meters wide with an 8 meter draft (*492 feet x 70 feet 7 inches x 26 feet 5 inches)
Like most American warships in this AU it carries an elaborate armor scheme that is a C armor deck under which is another armored raft, called the "top hat" scheme.
General characteristics
Class: W-class battleship (Wyoming and Wisconsin)
Displacement: Standard: 16,000 tm (16,721.5 long tons)
Full load: 19,000 tm (18,700 long tons)
Length: 150 m (492 ft 2 in)
Beam: 21.5 m (70 ft 7 in)
Draft: 8 m (26 ft 5 in)
Propulsion: Eight TE steam engines coupled to dynamo electric motor final drives, four shafts, four propellers
final output 13,500 kW (18,100 hp.)
Speed: 35 km/h (18.9 knots 21.75 mph)
Range: 11,112 km ( 6000 nm, 6,215 miles ) at 18.5 km/h (10 knots 11.5 mph)
Complement: 33 officers and 586 enlisted
Armament: 6 × 30 cm (11.8 in)/40 Model 1890 BLNR in double turrets
12 × 15 cm (5.9 in)/40 Model 1885 BLNR in double turrets
14 × 9.0 cm (3.54 in)/35 Model 1883 BLQFH in single mounts
8 x 1.15 cm/60 Model 1889 Gatling guns (*refit to 2.0 cm ; (0.78 in)/50 Hotchkiss RFC 1898.)
4 × 46 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes (either Howell electric or Schwarzkopf torpedoes, 16 torpedoes carried)
Armor: main gun houses: 15 cm (5.9 in)-> 30 cm (11.8 in)
main belt: 15 cm (5.9 in) ->30 cm (11.8 in)
secondary gun houses: 7.5 cm (2.75 in) -> 15 cm (5.9 in)
main barbettes: 15 cm (5.9 in)-> 30 cm (11.8 in)
secondary barbettes: 10 cm (3.92 in) -> 20 cm (7.84 in)
C-deck: 10 cm (3.94 in) on the flat and 20 cm (7.84 in) on the slope.
Conning towers 25.5 cm (10 inches)
Notes: All electric ship with hoists traverse, elevator gear, winches, electrical lighting and communications being electric to minimize hydraulics. Exposed oil based hydraulics turned out to be a BAD idea. (Battery Moultrie disaster.) so all recuperators are sealed pneumatics with non-flammable (as much as is possible) hydraulic fluids.
Built post the USS Chicago disaster so coal bunkers are of the wet/dry storage type. Ammunition is single piece cased cartridge stowage type. Shalloon explosive wrap (wool bags) has been discontinued in favor of silk because of the electric spark hazard. Ditto with percussion priming over electrical.
Gun elevation is -3/+35 which is unusual for the era, but which considering that the Americans intend to practice shore bombardment (civil war experience) is not unusual for them in this AU.
Fire Control system is the Bushnell/Fiske stadia meter type. There are two telemeter stations for range control estimate purposes (triangulation). Set ranges for the era and this fire control system was 1000-> 10,000 meters with an estimated predicted accuracy (Probability of hit) of about 8->10%. but which worked out in practice to more like 1-> 3%.
Some of the things the Americans will learn from the Wyoming experience.
a. Their fire control stations are set way too low.
b. Their armor scheme is too complex.
c. Torpedoes on a battleship are almost useless.
d. Those bow and stern 9 cm guns are unworkable in any weather at all.
e. The 2 cm guns are going to come in handy for shooting down Spanish balloons, but will be useless against Spanish torpedo boats. (Yes, the Wyoming is torpedoed by the Pluton.)
Krakatoa noticed that some of the superstructure and detail work resembles the French shipwright's art. That is no accident. The battleship was heavily French influenced.
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