Shipbucket

I'm not really sure the Savannah is a good starting point. She was designed to look good and this resulted in a lot of awkwardly shaped rooms and a shit-load of unfortunate void-spaces that would be a real head ache for a damage control team.

_________________
“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

Worklist

Source Materiel is always welcome.

I can't speak for my fellow admirals of the GFL but personally I can't see a nuclear powered RFA when we have no nuclear powered surface ships to supply.

Didn't the RN look into nuclear powered surface ships at one point? The acronym NIGS comes to mind, though its meaning and context escapes me.

_________________
“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

Worklist

Source Materiel is always welcome.

IIRC the NIGS was an AA missile to replace Sea Slug (NIGS stan for New Naval Guided Weapons System)
It was a semi-active homing dart which after some long design work was eventually evolved into Sea Dart (which is a much smaller missile). To carry NIGS to sea a new large surface ship was proposed, using both steam plant and a niclear plant or just neclear plant, but NIGS refered to the weapon and not the ship.

_________________
Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

That explains it. I knew I'd read that in connection with a proposed nuclear ship.

_________________
“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

Worklist

Source Materiel is always welcome.

Well...........I think Hood has something 'up his sleeve'

I have taken another look at the nuclear powered RFA proposed in 1960.
In essence it amounts to RFA Olna with nuclear power. Apart from removing
the funnel I don't think the nuclear version would have been much different.

The political controversy and complexity of operating such a ship killed it stone
dead. So no need for a shipbucket after all!

One class of ship I have always liked were the G3 and N3 battlecruisers and battleships
cancelled in 1921. If instead of the two Rodneys and the King George V class the Royal Navy had built 8 ships based on this design (perhaps a Battleship version but with 16" rather than 18" guns)
and given them the same names, the Post War Royal Navy would have had some interesting ships
left over for conversions?

There was no way we were going to do any conversions though. The ships were too old, and it was held at that point that carriers were the future and it was near pointless to build battleships or even operate them any-more.

The Americans were the only ones considering conversions, and then only because they had too much money and needed a couple more hulls.

The Soviets did in fact consider building new battleships postwar.

_________________
“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

Worklist

Source Materiel is always welcome.

EXAMPLE: K-1000 Suyuz