Data and information about ships

[The Rock Doctor]

It would be fair to say that most of those ships are chunkier than I'd have expected.

[Guinness]

I think, particularly in large ships that were approaching the Panama Canal limits, that we might want to consider US ships as the upper limit of the range of reasonable BC values. That's just a guess though, as I haven't collected much data yet about other navies.

[Sachmle]

Bismarck: 0.550

And to think, the SS Demo on Bismark has 0.572 as it's BC

[maddox]

The French Nverse ships are slender with a big waist then.  But I won't change it now, I like 'm that way.

[Guinness]

Bismarck: 0.550

And to think, the SS Demo on Bismark has 0.572 as it's BC

We may have a source conflict there. I'll have to dig around and find where I found the value I've got. If I had to guess, my guess is the SS demo is wrong...

[Walter]

Looking at my Scharnhorst book and Bismarck book, they should be the same. The book also indicates that the longitudinal prismatic coefficient is 0.55.

I am not so sure about the correctness of the SS demo BCs. Of the SS 1.1 files, Alaska was simmed with a BC of 0.466 and Yamato 0.678.

[Logi]

For seeing the line drawings of many ships, I use: http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ships/

Its not first-hand sources, but it helps greatly; like with the US Four-Stackers on the placement of the Torpedo Tubes.

[P3D]

Found a pretty good site on (pre)dreadnoughts, armored and protected cruisers.

http://www.bigbadbattleships.com/

[ciders]

For the merchant navy, an interesting paper : the maritime lines the of passenger ships of the French company Messageries Maritimes for Asia and their dates of passage in different harbours, for 1912.

[The Rock Doctor]

http://www.collectibleblueprints.com/Ships.html

Blueprints of various ships - mostly American, but the odd other vessel.  Potentially a useful resource for those folks drawing their ships.

[snip]

Found this (http://3dhistory.de/wordpress/?page_id=986)
Lots of blueprints for French battleships. Might be useful for internal layout stuff.