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In 1930 the Royal Dutch Navy turned to various shipyards in Europe, to tender bids for a flotilla leader, for the Dutch East India fleet. Thornycroft shipyards in the UK designed a powerful ship.
The ship had a single funnel and 8 4.7" guns in twin mountings, 4 40mm Pom-Pom AA guns and 2 triple 21" torpedo tubes.
The ship was designed to carry a float plane for spotting, and all this with a maximum speed of 33 knots.
The ship, although built with destroyers standards had 1.5" protective plating along the sides, protecting the magazines and machinery spaces, and a 1" protective deck. The design was not built, but eventually the Dutch built the two Tromp class cruisers instead.

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

Nice drawing, but man she would not have been a beauty queen.

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Thiel, I beg to differ! That IS a beautiful vessel! And its beauty is enhanced by Novice's loving treatment of her, creating a most inspiring and studious drawing which excels in the attention to detail and care for proportionality etc. a most well executed job!

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I would agree the design also has great potential for modification.

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well, she is ugly as hell....... but only if compared with the ships that the dutch build in the end http://www.shipbucket.com/Real%20Design ... 0Tromp.png
great drawing though, of an design I didn't even knew about until now :O

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I'm with you on that one Bezo.Nice one Novice.

I was gonna draw i myself.. nice work..

If you have other plans feel free to continue this thread

Thank you all for the positive feed back

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

I'll. soon.

An unusually looking ship, especially for Thornycroft, its not their usual style. Interesting to see though.

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