Shipbucket

HMS Hawkins and the other ships were built as a result from wartime experience. The fact that German raiders so easily roamed the world's oceans, sinking the unprotected merchant ships, the lifeblood of the Empire, was considered unthinkable. The idea behind these ships was, long endurance with a good turn f speed and armament heavy enough to sink enemy raiders. The gun caliber chosen was unique 7.5"/50 gun in single pedestal mountings. This gun caliber was the reason why during the Washington disarmament conference in 1922 the 8" was chosen as a maximum for cruisers (and also submarines)

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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"

very very nice

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

As Rifleman said^

The rafts on the turrets look like berets

(edited after a long night, sorry for any confusion)

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Work list(Current)
Miscellaneous|Victorian Colonial Navy|Murray Riverboats|Colony of Victoria AU|Project Sail-fixing SB's sail shortage
How to mentally pronounce my usernameRow-(as in a boat)Don-(as in the short form of Donald)Dough-(bread)
"Loitering on the High Seas" (Named after the good ship Rodondo)
There's no such thing as "nothing left to draw" If you can down 10 pints and draw, you're doing alright by my standards

This is like cool! Is there an as built version? And the side turret is just nice!

Really nice... these early RN post great war cruisers are indeed lacking gems.

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

That wasn't me, Rodondo, it was Rifleman.

what?

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

Ha The much anticipated project from your list shipmate; and you've done her proud; and indeed are we to see more of this class? We hope so

HMS Effingham is on the stocks and HMS Vindictive will be done as well.

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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"

I was misquoted, and thought you said what they said I said. Is that too complex? I meant no offense, Rifleman.