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As shown looks fine , (Don't get heated at me as I'm just trying to help )

Also I suppose you could also do the Argentinian version as a never build(seeing that they actually ordered them) and as under the French seeing that the french had the class from 1914-1917

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Actually this is the Argentinian version too. They were built for them, and were to set sail for Argentina, but were bought literaly before they left port, because the 1st Balkan war started. As for the french, they just comandeered them with the help of the prime minister along with other ships as a pressure to persuate the King, who was relative to Kaiser to fight against him.

Maybe just change the flags and nation name then?

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I would not angle it. Great job!

Hmm, I agree, although neither is 100% correct, a vertical bow is closer to reality.
Well, as I promised here is both versions of the ships finished. They have a late 19th century 4 inch gun, which can go to the parts sheet, the hull number is that of RHN "Leon" (Lion) as she appeared at the beginning of her carrier, and at the start of world war 2. She was sunk by Luftwaffer in Souda bay during the battle of Crete. I could also do a 3rd variant of one of her sisters with a ww2 camo.

Really liking these drawings, you should definitely do a WWII camo version!

It's a shame they didn't upgrade the primary armament later on (simply from a drawing point of view).

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She looks good to me mate.Cammo version sounds interesting too.I went to Suda while on holiday in Crete about 6 weeks ago.

This is interesting, I never saw a five funnelled destroyer
before. Are the tubes adjacent to the torpedo tubes
for storing torpedo reloads?

Yes, quite right. Well, four and five funnel ships were not that uncommon in the pre dreadnought era, especially in light warships. I am not a naval engineer, obviously, but as far as I can tell, each funnel represents a coal burning boiler. Because the ship is small, the boilers' exausts cannot merge before the break the deck so that is why they have so many funnels. It is interesting to see that when they were rebuilt, they changed to new (and smaller number) oil burning boilers.

That's part of it. Torpedo boats and destroyers needed and ungodly amount of horse power compared to their size. That translate to a truly staggering amount of coal in a very little time frame. That means that a large amount of men neede to be able to shovel coal into the boiler at the same time. Several smaller boilers are better at accomodating those. At the same time the dispersal of the boilers means that more ready coal will be on hand, something that wouldn't be the case with one or two centralized boilers. Lastly, dispercing the engine plant also gave the paperthin ships a modicom of survivability.

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