Shipbucket

Hello everyone,

This one has been a long time coming, as I've been working on it since late December. Thanks to everyone on the Discord for helping me out with my first carrier, and pushing me to keep working on it! Not only is it my first carrier, but also my first top-down view - I hope it turned out well!

This is CVH-B, a proposal for a helicopter carrier from the late 50s and early-mid 60s. A forerunner to the "helicopter destroyers" we know now, CVH-B was designed from the beginning as a carrier with ASW capabilities. Not much is known about the ship, but I have collected as much info as I could find in order to accurately depict it. I have drawn it here as it would have been seen in the late 1960s/early 70s.

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Very interesting entry and good work.

(Though I'd be inclined to make - as is quite often the case in SB works - to mark the "walls" - forgot the proper english term - around the gun sites on plan view with 3-pixel thickness)

very nice drawing about this japanese project to build the first carrier ship after WWII. For several reasons the ship was not to be built.
Here are some technical basis data of this ship.

Displacement
stdd.: 8.000 t
full load: 14.000 t

loa: 166,5 m
in CWL: 160,0 m
length flight deck: 155,0 m
width hull: max. 22,0 m
width flight deck: max. 26,5 m
hangar: 112,5 m x 22,0 m
draught 6,5 m

2 elevators 17,0 m x 8,0 m

machinery
2 boilers
2 turbines (same as with "Amatsukaze", the first japanese destroyer after WWII)
60.000 SHP
speed: max. 29 kn.

flight vehicles: 18 SSH-2 Helicopters