Shipbucket

Be gentle on this one, it was a absolute b***h to draw, but I made it. It is the sixth, and last of the KuKs armored cruisers; the SMS Sankt Georg. At 124m long, and a beam of 19m, she was 8000 tonsfully loaded with a draft of almost 7m. She had a modest top speed of 22kts. The main arnament considered of two 9,4in guns in a single twin turret mounted fore. The main secondary battery consisted of 5x7,5in guns, one in a single turret mounted aft, and four in casemates mounted in sponsons jutting out of the side. The secondary secondary battery consisted of four 5,9in guns in four casemates mounted in the hull proper. The tertiary battery consisted of 8x2,8in guns, 2x66mm landing guns, 6x47mm guns and 2x37mm guns. She also had two underwater torpedo tubes. The armor belt was 8,3 inches thick with an armored deck of 2 inches. The conning tower had 7,9 inches of armor and 8,3 inches on the turrets.

She participated in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, but did not contribute in the action. As flagship of the cruiser flotilla, the Sankt Georg was the starting point of the 1918 Cattaro Mutiny. Most of the ships present were seized by the mutineers, but most would stand down and rejoin the loyalist forces. The Sankt Georg and several destroyers refused to stand down, but surrendered when Division III consisting of the three Erzherzog Karl-class battleships arrived on the scene.

The Sankt Georg, alongside most of the obsolete warships of the KuK were decommisioned following the mutiny to reduce the number of idle warships. When the armistice was signed the ship was handed over to the British as a war prize. In 1920 she was sold to Italy and scrapped there.

SMS Sankt Georg as commisioned in 1905:


SMS Sankt Georg as she appeared in 1915:


SMS Sankt Georg as she appeared in 1917:

Very nice work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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Good job.

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Great addition.

A lovely addition.

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

The only change I might make would be to color the funnel stays and other lines a darker green when they overlap the ship (retain the light gray when there's nothing but sky behind them).

Lovely vessel! Great job!

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Worklist

Working on currently:

• French, Bretagne, First Rate → Attaching the Sails (FD Scale)

• French, SS Normandie, Ocean Liner → Detailing the Hull (FD Scale)

Planned works:

• American, Wyoming, Schooner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, USS Pennsylvania, First Rate → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, SS United States, Ocean Liner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

Well done!

I've updated the drawing with a more accurate anti-fouling color.

I've added the updated version of the Sankt Georg as well as a new 1917 version with a 66mm AA gun on the stern and a pair of 8mm MGs.