Canal Barge Program

[damocles]

Barge , Hiolland canal boat laid down 1910

Displacement:
   100 t light; 102 t standard; 103 t normal; 104 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
   118.36 ft / 59.06 ft x 14.76 ft x 6.56 ft (normal load)
   36.07 m / 18.00 m x 4.50 m  x 2.00 m

Machinery:
   Petrol Internal combustion motors,
   Hydraulic drive, 1 shaft, 9 shp / 7 Kw = 5.00 kts
   Range 2,500nm at 3.00 kts
   Bunker at max displacement = 2 tons

Complement:
   16 - 21

Cost:
   £0.004 million / $0.014 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
   Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %
   Machinery: 0 tons, 0.4 %
   Hull, fittings & equipment: 89 tons, 86.6 %
   Fuel, ammunition & stores: 3 tons, 3.3 %
   Miscellaneous weights: 10 tons, 9.7 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
   Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
     684 lbs / 310 Kg = 6.3 x 6 " / 152 mm shells or 2.6 torpedoes
   Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.03
   Metacentric height 0.3 ft / 0.1 m
   Roll period: 11.3 seconds
   Steadiness   - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 74 %
         - Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.00
   Seaboat quality  (Average = 1.00): 2.00

Hull form characteristics:
   Hull has a flush deck
   Block coefficient: 0.630
   Length to Beam Ratio: 4.00 : 1
   'Natural speed' for length: 7.68 kts
   Power going to wave formation at top speed: 34 %
   Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 37
   Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 50.00 degrees
   Stern overhang: 49.21 ft / 15.00 m
   Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
      - Stem:      8.46 ft / 2.58 m
      - Forecastle (20 %):   4.40 ft / 1.34 m
      - Mid (50 %):      4.40 ft / 1.34 m
      - Quarterdeck (15 %):   4.40 ft / 1.34 m
      - Stern:      5.38 ft / 1.64 m
      - Average freeboard:   4.80 ft / 1.46 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
   Space   - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 13.7 %
      - Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 33.7 %
   Waterplane Area: 645 Square feet or 60 Square metres
   Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 955 %
   Structure weight / hull surface area: 83 lbs/sq ft or 403 Kg/sq metre
   Hull strength (Relative):
      - Cross-sectional: 3.89
      - Longitudinal: 27.23
      - Overall: 4.73
   Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
   Room for accommodation and workspaces is extremely poor
   Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
   Excellent seaboat, comfortable, rides out heavy weather easily

10 tons misc.
1 loaded truck or
8 horses and 1 wagon or
40 to100 people.
 
Designed with bow ramp for wheel in wheel out wagon loaded cargo without the use of stevedores and scarce cranes. Built for the Ukraine and Bavarian wheat transport program. .  


 

[maddox]

A sleek version of the French Peniches...

[Sachmle]

10 tons misc.
1 loaded truck or
8 horses and 1 wagon or
40 to100 people.
 
Designed with bow ramp for wheel in wheel out wagon loaded cargo without the use of stevedores and scarce cranes. Built for the Ukraine and Bavarian wheat transport program.

Wheat transport....yeah....and if you buy that I'm sure he's got a bridge in New York to sell you, along with some ocean front property in Arizona. ;)

Very nice though.

[ctwaterman]

Hmmmm I'll take a hundred or so...

*paces out the Inside*... 1 IT-17 light tanke or 1 armored car....
1 artillery tractor or 1 artillery piece...

Yep a wheat transporter.

[maddox]

It takes one to recognise one.

Let's restart the Peniche program,and follow the Dutch example. At least for the bow ramp.

[ctwaterman]

Ok Its a deal..... a Bow Ramp... and wait lets start working on a ship to carry these barrages..... ;)

[ciders]

Maybe the draught is biggest than necessary. 2 m, it's a great draught.

But his ship is a very good idea.  ;)

[maddox]

Actualy, 2 meter is about what the Freycinet gauge gives for the type 1 ships. The Peniches. 38m long, 5.05 m wide and max draught of 2.2 meter, max loading capacity of 250-300 tons. (the Nverse French Peniche can carry 220 tons if overloaded to .5 Composite strength)

[ciders]

Effectively, 2,2 m. I thought in less.

[damocles]

1. Floatation.
2. The thing is supposed to ground on a grade of 15 degrees slope and keep its stern loaded deep in the water so that it can pull its nose off in reverse after load/unload. The screw needs to be about six feet deep to do that so it does not waste power throwing spray. Note the bow angle and the hull line?

I think if it were a swamp boat or river boat in a place like the Amazon, or the Confederate coastal canal-ways you have an excellent point, though, about that draft.

This thing is intended for the Baltic and Dutch canal system. ;D
 
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