Shipbucket

Were the bilge keels and roll stabilizers really so high on the hull (and near to the horizontal) as that? It seems quite unusual.

They were mounted that high on the only underwater hull plan I could find. I found it a little odd myself and actually lowered them about 2-3 pixels.

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

Perhaps scaling off of this would improve the situation.

Yeah that seems to show a basic bilge keel without stabilisers. I'll go back and edit.

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

The pic is rather too grainy to really tell. One question though: since we know that the Counties featured 4 pairs of stabilizers, why should Bristol not have the three pairs as shown on Hood's drawing? They could be retractable...

_________________
My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

One other problem with the picture is that Bristol, after being stripped and becoming a hulk, likely would have had any stabilisers she was equipped with removed and the holes permanently filled-in to lower maintenance requirements. (And, if she did have bilge keels so high up, those likely removed to stop a tug (Edit: Or the pier she's tied to.) from dishing them in.)

Of course, I could be completely wrong about this, as I have never seen a picture of her in a graving dock during her all too-short service career.

Edit: Removing the stabilisers would also reclaim the space previously used by their machinery, though I somewhat doubt she is incredibly pressed for space in her current role - another possibility is that her as-built configuration (if the public plans are correct) was designed for the ship to be incredibly stable while under-way (for the Type 988, perhaps?), and less effective while moored or under tow.

I did not mean to suggest that Bristol did or did not have active stabilization, only that the picture should be used to accurately locate the bilge keels.

I didn't mean to imply otherwise! Apologies if I did.

I was suggesting that her bilge keels might have been replaced/relocated, with the old, higher-on-the-hull location changed to one at the turn of the bilge during one of her refits after inactivation.

Sounds to me like a project about as worthwhile as building a little pile of banknotes and setting them on fire.

Well, it's not exactly like there are gaps in that bilge keel for stabiliser fins, and we are talking about the semi-modern Royal Navy and wasting money.

Edit: In the end, it's the artist's choice, but I do not think a graving dock picture from 2010 is enough evidence to overturn the plans we can find, unless there's some indication said plans are incorrect.