Shipbucket

Very nice work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

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Another impressive series of destroyers, keep up the amazing work my friend.

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Work list: 1. various pre-1900 Zipang ships 2. Some protected cruisers and other miscellaneous projects

White Coast-class light carrier



In 1338, the final months of the construction of the Carpathia class fleet carriers revealed several flaws to Antara's new carrier programmed. While some issues could be corrected in future classes, a major issue with the carriers themselves were the long construction times. Carpathia took four years to construct, although this was an anomaly with the class itself, it did get the navy thinking about smaller vessels that might be needed as it seemed that Osora was a very likely enemy, who of which had been pioneering the aircraft carrier concept at the time. While the fleet carrier was not thrown out - in fact the navy wanted more - but the Bureau of Naval Construction and Repair had been given the task of developing a new type of carrier that could be constructed in half the time (of Carpathia, 2 years) and serve more as a fleet escort than the core of a battle fleet.

In late 1338, the final plans for the White Coast class were being drafted. The 'assault carrier' was unique only to WW2 and late pre-war Antara, and was described as a vessel larger than an escort or light carrier, but smaller than a fleet carrier, whose role in the fleet was as a support ship, though some historians prefer to think of them as simply purpose-built light carriers. While originally drafted as 'assault carriers', they were known mostly as light carriers. The White Coasts needed to be able to keep up with the battle speed of the navy's cruisers and have the range to operate as far out as Zhentou. White Coast was rated at 34 knots, exceeding her design speed, and had a range of 10k nm at 18 knots. While the navy would later like the ships they received, the Bureau failed in the one task the class was built for, in that it still took as much time to build as a fleet carrier, taking three years to construct. Taking it further, the hoped rapid construction of these carriers would allow them to be active as soon as a war broke out, however due to the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the World War, none of the three vessels left home waters until almost a year had gone by.

Following the Port Isla attack in June 1342, Antara's neighbours declared war along with Osora, which meant that the seas surrounding the Colonet naval base and shipyards were now contested waters. Straits needed to be crossed in order to reach the Scyllic Ocean, and as the Antarans had predicted the straights were heavily mined and watched by coastal batteries. While Antara avoided docking her vessels at Colonet, the war had come too sudden and her three White Coasts were essentially trapped in port/shipyard. White Coast and Cape Carida were already completed, but only Cape Carida had received her air group and Deadre Coast was still under construction for several more weeks. Colonet was the prime target for Ilyanora due to its importance to Antara's industry and military and within a few weeks of the war's start, the city was under siege.

Strangely enough, in conjunction with army airforce planes, Cape Carida sortied her planes to meet the enemy who were often only a few kilometers from her. During the several months siege, White Coast had a massive hole put in her bow from an enemy submarine and both carriers had their decks destroyed by constant air raids. Deadre Coast was abandoned a couple of times, with the workers being forced to resume once the enemy was pushed back momentarily. The navy assured that the straits that granted access to the ocean would be swept, and almost as long as the siege itself, the navy and army had cleared the passage, not that their haste had mattered, as all carriers required more time in the dockyard for repairs following the end of the siege.

In July 1343, White Coast and Cape Carida had arrived at Port Isla at last to begin operations against the Osorans. Both vessels saw extensive combat in the island hopping campaigns of the time, flying combat air patrol and assisting ground forces in raiding and capturing various Osoran held islands. On 21-22 September, the two sister ships were in the middle conducting operations when they were greeted with aircraft from the opposing force. These fleet carriers were exactly what they were not supposed to face. Neither of the captains were trained in particular to deal with the dedicated attack from an enemy carrier force and were thus completely unprepared. The Battle of the Etoko saw the initial sinking of White Coast.

Carida would get her revenge in 1345, being among the many carriers to participate in the Battle of Tuscadia, which saw the destruction of four Japanese fleet carriers. Cape Carida would be the only of her class to survive the war, being present and active in many battles throughout. Carida took a Kamikaze hit in 1346 and 1347. She continued her service until 1351, where she was decommissioned and used as a target ship. Failing to sink as a target ship, she was scuttled as a reef ship in 1354. Cape Carida received ten battle stars for her service. White Coast received three battle stars for her actions in the Etoko Islands, as well as on the home front in 1342/1343.

Deadre Coast arrived in the Scyllic in very late 1343, after White Coast's sinking, and saw minor action in the Matu Islands as part of the 'Oriental Sea' task force. Even despite that, she was regularly tasked with sailing to the Matus to conduct air attacks in the very heavily contested region. On 15 June 1344, Deadre's task force was spotted by Osoran scout aircraft and submarine I-8 saw an opportunity to get famous. With four torpedoes to her starboard, Deadre Coast went down with 1200 of her crewmen after damage control could not keep the ship stable enough to allow for a safe abandonment of the vessel. Deadre received two battle stars for her very brief service.











Ships in class

White Coast - sunk in action, 1343
Cape Carida - used as target ship, sunk as reef ship, 1354
Deadre Coast - sunk in action, 1344

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That's... OUTSTANDIMAZINGUPER!

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Fantastic work!

Very nice work.

I would be tempted to raise the funnels though to make sure the smoke and hot air turbulence is higher to prevent interference with aircraft landings.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Removed for being outdated.

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Farber and Memphis class light frigates



Constructed alongside the Cora class 'heavy' frigates, the Farbers were designed for the Freyatic Fleet and were smaller with a lighter main battery, indicative of the thought that they would never encounter an enemy vessel larger than a submarine. There were many that believed 127mm/45 single was still over kill for a vessel of its size, but the Navy had such as surplus of the mount that it was decided to be fitted regardless. The main battery provided excellent anti-surface and anti-air protection due to its high right of fire, powered drives and fire control. The main battery was supplemented with a light torpedo armament of one triple 533mm torpedo launcher for emergency purposes. Anti-aircraft armament as built was made up of 38mm and 25mm guns at various points of the ship.

As the class was focused primarily around ASW, the Farbers featured K-guns, stern mounted depth charges and a forward firing ASW mortar. Farber's simplified design was meant to decrease construction times and allow for mass production. Between the Coras and Farbers, the Farbers were the most favorable as the Coras larger size and gun armament was found to be unnecessary, thus the Farber was further developed into the succeeding Memphis class 'light' frigates.





The differences between Memphis and Farber were subtle. Memphis was slightly longer to accommodate a larger engine to bring her up to 25 knots, as opposed to Farber's 23 knots. Memphis featured no torpedoes from the get go as they were deemed unnecessary, instead being replaced with additional 25mm. Between all three classes, the hull was continually simplified.





Ships in Farber class

Farber - scrapped, 1359
Maribel - scrapped, 1358
Harrison - scrapped, 1358
Heckman - scrapped, 1359
Lagusa - scrapped, 1358
Russel - scrapped, 1359
Dawson - sunk as target ship, 1356
Nathalie - scrapped, 1359
Anastasia - scrapped, 1357
Lockwood - scrapped, 1359
Sobel - sunk, 1347
Carson - scrapped, 1357
Faraday - scrapped, 1358
Virginia - scrapped, 1358
Reed - scrapped, 1359
Suzette - scrapped, 1359
Caledonia - scrapped, 1358
Degiso - scrapped, 1358
Hoagland - scrapped, 1358
Donatella - sunk, 1347
Sapers - scrapped, 1358

Ships in Memphis class

Memphis - scrapped, 1358
Argenta - scrapped, 1358
D. Fitzgerald - scrapped, 1358
Clayton - scrapped, 1359
Baker - scrapped, 1359
Joyce - sunk as target ship, 1354
Gibbs - scrapped, 1357
Morgan - scrapped, 1358
Green - sunk as target ship, 1359
Peko - scrapped, 1357
Pratt - scrapped, 1359
Ward - scrapped, 1358
Dixon - scrapped, 1359
Benton - scrapped, 1358
Carver - sunk as target ship, 1352
Connor - scrapped, 1359
Sanders - scrapped, 1357
Chapman - scrapped, 1358
Stewart - scrapped, 1359
Hartman - scrapped, 1357
Shannon M. - scrapped, 1357
Hadrey - scrapped, 1359
Rios - scrapped, 1358
Rice - scrapped, 1359
Butler - scrapped, 1357
Mayo - scrapped, 1358
Ryan - scrapped, 1357
Payne - scrapped, 1359
J.A. Cooper - scrapped, 1359
Mendoza - scrapped, 1358
Walton - sunk, 1347
Allison F. - scrapped, 1359
M. King - scrapped, 1358
Johnston - scrapped, 1359
Tyler - sunk as target ship, 1352
Garnett - scrapped, 1357
Tsumiki - scrapped, 1358
Ford - scrapped, 1358
Romero - scrapped, 1359
Holland - scrapped, 1358
Clementine - scrapped, 1357
Little - scrapped, 1358
Francis - scrapped, 1359
Garret - scrapped, 1358
Nelson - sunk, 1345
F. Davids - scrapped, 1358
Larson - scrapped, 1358
Bailey - scrapped, 1359
Woods - sunk as target ship, 1354
Dawson - scrapped, 1358
Gates - scrapped, 1359
Lopez - scrapped, 1358
Andrews - scrapped, 1357
Schroeder - scrapped, 1358
Castillo - sunk as target ship, 1358
McKenzie - scrapped, 1359
Marsh - scrapped, 1358
J.F. Cooper - scrapped, 1359
Desi - sunk, 1346
Roth - scrapped, 1358
Mendez - scrapped, 1357
Lara - sunk as target ship, 1359
Frost - scrapped, 1358
Haleday - scrapped, 1357

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Nice work? but 1340's-1350's and WW2 look destroyers? Does Antara Universe follow different calendar?

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Work list: 1. various pre-1900 Zipang ships 2. Some protected cruisers and other miscellaneous projects