Reconsidered one of my bigger reasons behind the boat-and-mothership role for the Support Cruisers.
In light of which, I based this off of the Confederate F-01s.
In Amber Clad, Maori Destroyer laid down 1911 (Engine 1909)
Displacement:
500 t light; 515 t standard; 575 t normal; 624 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
295.26 ft / 288.71 ft x 26.25 ft x 6.56 ft (normal load)
90.00 m / 88.00 m x 8.00 m x 2.00 m
Armament:
3 - 2.95" / 75.0 mm guns in single mounts, 12.87lbs / 5.84kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on centreline ends, majority forward
24 - 0.31" / 8.0 mm guns (8x3 guns), 0.02lbs / 0.01kg shells, 1911 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 39 lbs / 18 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150
6 - 15.7" / 400 mm above water torpedoes
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 9,223 shp / 6,880 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 2,000nm at 13.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 108 tons
Complement:
58 - 76
Cost:
£0.061 million / $0.246 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 5 tons, 0.8 %
Machinery: 285 tons, 49.5 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 195 tons, 33.9 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 75 tons, 13.0 %
Miscellaneous weights: 16 tons, 2.8 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
247 lbs / 112 Kg = 19.2 x 3.0 " / 75 mm shells or 0.2 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.44
Metacentric height 1.3 ft / 0.4 m
Roll period: 9.8 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 71 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.07
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.48
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0.405
Length to Beam Ratio: 11.00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 16.99 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 58 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 48
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 12.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 2.36 ft / 0.72 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 19.69 ft / 6.00 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m
- Mid (50 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m (6.56 ft / 2.00 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
- Stern: 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
- Average freeboard: 11.75 ft / 3.58 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 169.3 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 118.3 %
Waterplane Area: 4,678 Square feet or 435 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 64 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 22 lbs/sq ft or 106 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.51
- Longitudinal: 1.72
- Overall: 0.57
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
10 tons short-range wireless
6 tons torpedoes
Why so many machine guns (or gatling I think) mounts? That is four mounts per side plus what look like 13 pounders for the main anti-torpedo boat guns.
Single, twin, or triple torpedo mounts?
Torpedoes... twins are all I can do at the moment.
The 75mms are for larger (ie, destroyer) targets; I'm aware that they're really inadequate for the role, but I lack a gun heavier than them and smaller that 150mm cruiser guns. A plenitude of light guns is hoped to be enough to free them for that task and anyway it's not like torpedo-boats have armor, is it?
I have higher priorities for my research funds than new guns.
Had a 'Duh! I'm a moron!' moment and tried something else.
Hopefully will preserve the Maori's reputation as being supremely dangerous to other people's destroyers. ^_^
Downside is it's half-again as heavy. Something in the middle would be better... hmmm...
In Amber Clad, Maori Destroyer laid down 1911 (Engine 1909)
Displacement:
743 t light; 794 t standard; 997 t normal; 1,160 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
295.26 ft / 288.71 ft x 26.25 ft x 9.84 ft (normal load)
90.00 m / 88.00 m x 8.00 m x 3.00 m
Armament:
3 - 5.91" / 150 mm guns in single mounts, 102.98lbs / 46.71kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on centreline, evenly spread
Aft Main mounts separated by engine room
4 - 2.95" / 75.0 mm guns in single mounts, 12.87lbs / 5.84kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread
24 - 0.31" / 8.0 mm guns (4x6 guns), 0.02lbs / 0.01kg shells, 1911 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 361 lbs / 164 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150
6 - 15.7" / 400 mm above water torpedoes
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 13,465 shp / 10,045 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 5,000nm at 13.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 365 tons
Complement:
88 - 115
Cost:
£0.122 million / $0.489 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 45 tons, 4.5 %
Machinery: 418 tons, 41.9 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 258 tons, 25.9 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 254 tons, 25.5 %
Miscellaneous weights: 22 tons, 2.2 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
297 lbs / 135 Kg = 2.9 x 5.9 " / 150 mm shells or 0.2 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.50
Metacentric height 1.4 ft / 0.4 m
Roll period: 9.5 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 72 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.54
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.29
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0.468
Length to Beam Ratio: 11.00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 16.99 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 62 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 56
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 12.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 2.36 ft / 0.72 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 19.69 ft / 6.00 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m
- Mid (50 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m (6.56 ft / 2.00 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
- Stern: 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
- Average freeboard: 11.75 ft / 3.58 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 172.3 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 81.8 %
Waterplane Area: 4,907 Square feet or 456 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 62 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 26 lbs/sq ft or 126 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.50
- Longitudinal: 1.61
- Overall: 0.56
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is cramped
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
10 tons short-range wireless
6 tons torpedoes
6 tons torpedo tubes
Now, THAT is a wicked vicious little can!
And if I drop down to four torpedoes it gives me an 'adequate' amount of crew space... good enough.
I think the Maori would find the 150mm shells to be difficult to handle on a small, lively ship such as this, but it does preserve their reputation for heavily armed ships.
Quote from: Valles on February 01, 2008, 11:46:04 PM
Had a 'Duh! I'm a moron!' moment and tried something else.
Hopefully will preserve the Maori's reputation as being supremely dangerous to other people's destroyers. ^_^
Downside is it's half-again as heavy. Something in the middle would be better... hmmm...
In Amber Clad, Maori Destroyer laid down 1911 (Engine 1909)
Displacement:
743 t light; 794 t standard; 997 t normal; 1,160 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
295.26 ft / 288.71 ft x 26.25 ft x 9.84 ft (normal load)
90.00 m / 88.00 m x 8.00 m x 3.00 m
Armament:
3 - 5.91" / 150 mm guns in single mounts, 102.98lbs / 46.71kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on centreline, evenly spread
Aft Main mounts separated by engine room
Why only three 15cm guns, it is possible to mount 5! ;)
QuoteDisplacement:
750 t light; 796 t standard; 926 t normal; 1 030 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
285,61 ft / 280,51 ft x 28,05 ft x 9,78 ft (normal load)
87,05 m / 85,50 m x 8,55 m x 2,98 m
Armament:
5 - 5,91" / 150 mm guns in single mounts, 99,21lbs / 45,00kg shells, 1911 Model
Breech loading guns in deck mounts
on centreline ends, majority aft, 3 raised mounts - superfiring
2 - 0,31" / 8,0 mm guns in single mounts, 0,02lbs / 0,01kg shells, 1911 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side, all amidships, all raised mounts - superfiring
Weight of broadside 496 lbs / 225 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 100
4 - 17,7" / 450 mm above water torpedoes
Armour:
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 0,39" / 10 mm - -
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 15 002 shp / 11 192 Kw = 28,00 kts
Range 4 000nm at 12,00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 234 tons
Complement:
83 - 109
Cost:
£0,133 million / $0,533 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 64 tons, 7,0 %
Armour: 7 tons, 0,7 %
- Belts: 0 tons, 0,0 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0,0 %
- Armament: 7 tons, 0,7 %
- Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0,0 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0,0 %
Machinery: 379 tons, 40,9 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 280 tons, 30,3 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 176 tons, 19,0 %
Miscellaneous weights: 20 tons, 2,2 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
231 lbs / 105 Kg = 2,2 x 5,9 " / 150 mm shells or 0,2 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1,31
Metacentric height 1,2 ft / 0,4 m
Roll period: 10,8 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 74 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0,85
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1,11
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0,421
Length to Beam Ratio: 10,00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 16,75 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 64 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 66
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 15,00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0,00 ft / 0,00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 19,03 ft / 5,80 m
- Forecastle (15 %): 17,06 ft / 5,20 m
- Mid (31 %): 17,06 ft / 5,20 m (9,19 ft / 2,80 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (10 %): 9,19 ft / 2,80 m
- Stern: 9,19 ft / 2,80 m
- Average freeboard: 11,78 ft / 3,59 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 185,5 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 92,3 %
Waterplane Area: 4 910 Square feet or 456 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 49 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 30 lbs/sq ft or 144 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0,50
- Longitudinal: 1,88
- Overall: 0,57
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Quote from: Korpen on February 02, 2008, 08:51:44 AM
Why only three 15cm guns, it is possible to mount 5! ;)
Because... *drum roll*... his crew wishes to be able to MOVE!
:D
Indeed. Also, where would I put the 75s, then? Unless someone finds a gaping flaw, this'll likely be the final version - note the steadiness, put there to address Rock Doctor's point.
I'd much prefer a flush-deck design, really, but can't seem to get them to work as well.
ETA: Now with Picture!
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/valles_uf/Destroyer1911.png)
In Amber Clad, Maori Destroyer laid down 1911 (Engine 1909)
Displacement:
750 t light; 793 t standard; 995 t normal; 1,157 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
295.26 ft / 288.71 ft x 26.25 ft x 9.84 ft (normal load)
90.00 m / 88.00 m x 8.00 m x 3.00 m
Armament:
2 - 5.91" / 150 mm guns in single mounts, 102.98lbs / 46.71kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on centreline, evenly spread
4 - 2.95" / 75.0 mm guns in single mounts, 12.87lbs / 5.84kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on side, all amidships
24 - 0.31" / 8.0 mm guns (8x3 guns), 0.02lbs / 0.01kg shells, 1911 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 258 lbs / 117 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150
4 - 15.7" / 400 mm above water torpedoes
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 13,439 shp / 10,026 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 5,000nm at 13.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 365 tons
Complement:
88 - 115
Cost:
£0.115 million / $0.460 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 32 tons, 3.2 %
Machinery: 441 tons, 44.3 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 261 tons, 26.2 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 246 tons, 24.7 %
Miscellaneous weights: 16 tons, 1.6 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
303 lbs / 137 Kg = 2.9 x 5.9 " / 150 mm shells or 0.2 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.33
Metacentric height 1.1 ft / 0.3 m
Roll period: 10.4 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 100 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.59
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.45
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0.467
Length to Beam Ratio: 11.00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 16.99 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 62 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 73
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 12.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 2.36 ft / 0.72 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 19.69 ft / 6.00 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m
- Mid (50 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m (7.55 ft / 2.30 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Stern: 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Average freeboard: 12.24 ft / 3.73 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 169.7 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 98.2 %
Waterplane Area: 4,903 Square feet or 456 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 67 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 25 lbs/sq ft or 123 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.50
- Longitudinal: 1.94
- Overall: 0.58
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
10 tons short-range wireless
4 tons torpedoes
Stacked twin torpedo mounts? (well one over the other) Does that work fuctionally? The problem we've been having on thius end is that the person with the correct book lives in Sacramento, but the gaming group meets in San Francisco. Thus last time we had an issue to discuss we had no good detailed information of destroyer equipment and who much something should weigh (or how it works kind of things).
Try elevating the 75's and having both torp tubes at deck level... that's a bit more kosher. Will it work?
I dunno, I think the stacked would work, you just couldn't fire both at the same time. I've seen cruisers w/ the torp mounts up high on the second deck, and they worked fine, IIRC, so this should as well.
QuoteI dunno, I think the stacked would work, you just couldn't fire both at the same time. I've seen cruisers w/ the torp mounts up high on the second deck, and they worked fine, IIRC, so this should as well.
As well as ordinary deck mounts on ships with higher freeboards than a mere destroyer could ever have. The need for sequenced rather than unison fire might be potentially inconvenient, but it seems possible that Maori practice doesn't call for 'full broadsides' at all. And it certainly does save on deck-space.
Besides, it gives me a clear design element to base the idea of a 'Maori Style' destroyer around, which I find desirable. Too much anime, probably.
The follow-up class will probably have a single elevated 75 aft and an extended cabin rather than the 1911's twin low guns, but no other major changes are planned.
Ahoj!
I have doubts as to the guns being able to fire directly to the sides.
You have 8m beam. At the widest point. Where the guns are the beam is what - 7m? 6m?
The end of the breech is about 1,5m from the centerline. The cartridge (good luck with bag charges on a 750 tonne boat) itself is almost a metre long.
For ease of handling it is nice to have another 1m or so.
IMO the loaders will be bum(p)ing into the railing quite often.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_59-45_tbts.htm
On this photo you see a puny 10,5cm gun:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/artillery/GermanNavalGunCrewinAction.jpg
But a nice illustration of the sort of space requeired to work the gun.
Borys
QuoteThe end of the breech is about 1,5m from the centerline.
Wait, what?
I am not persuaded about the main guns, since by my count the crew has about eight-to-ten feet of distance between the back of the breech and the rear wall of the gunhouse, but evidently I'd underestimated the amount of space needed to enclose the 75s. Would an additional two feet be helpful there, do you think?
Quote from: Valles on February 05, 2008, 10:51:43 AM
QuoteThe end of the breech is about 1,5m from the centerline.
Wait, what?
I am not persuaded about the main guns, since by my count the crew has about eight-to-ten feet of distance between the back of the breech and the rear wall of the gunhouse, but evidently I'd underestimated the amount of space needed to enclose the 75s. Would an additional two feet be helpful there, do you think?
What gunhouse? Acording to the SS report the guns are open, like the submarine guns Baorys linked to. If you want unarmoured gunhouses on the gun you should add a few mm of armour to them.
Ahoj!
Actually, I was refering to the 6" guns, as possible not being able to fire directly abeam. Or very slowly. On ends is fine, as much as it can be on a vessel this size.
The 3" should be fine, they are much, much smaller:
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_3-40_mk1.htm
Borys
QuoteActually, I was refering to the 6" guns, as possible not being able to fire directly abeam. Or very slowly. On ends is fine, as much as it can be on a vessel this size.
Yes, I know you were. They're fully enclosed, the beam of the deck is irrelevant. By my pixel-counting there is ten feet/three meters of open space between the breech of the gun and the back of its house. Springsharp shows the recoil effect as quite tolerable. Seems quite clear to me.
QuoteWhat gunhouse? Acording to the SS report the guns are open, like the submarine guns Baorys linked to. If you want unarmoured gunhouses on the gun you should add a few mm of armour to them.
That seems really silly given that they're not intended to protect from anything stiffer than the weather, but fine, fine.
In Amber Clad, Maori Destroyer laid down 1911 (Engine 1909)
Displacement:
750 t light; 793 t standard; 995 t normal; 1,157 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
295.26 ft / 288.71 ft x 26.25 ft x 9.84 ft (normal load)
90.00 m / 88.00 m x 8.00 m x 3.00 m
Armament:
2 - 5.91" / 150 mm guns in single mounts, 102.98lbs / 46.71kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on centreline, evenly spread
4 - 2.95" / 75.0 mm guns in single mounts, 12.87lbs / 5.84kg shells, 1911 Model
Quick firing guns in deck mounts
on side, all amidships
24 - 0.31" / 8.0 mm guns (8x3 guns), 0.02lbs / 0.01kg shells, 1911 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 258 lbs / 117 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150
4 - 15.7" / 400 mm above water torpedoes
Armour:
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 0.12" / 3 mm 0.12" / 3 mm -
2nd: 0.12" / 3 mm 0.12" / 3 mm -
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 13,439 shp / 10,026 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 5,000nm at 13.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 365 tons
Complement:
88 - 115
Cost:
£0.115 million / $0.460 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 32 tons, 3.2 %
Armour: 2 tons, 0.2 %
- Belts: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 2 tons, 0.2 %
- Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 440 tons, 44.2 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 259 tons, 26.0 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 246 tons, 24.7 %
Miscellaneous weights: 16 tons, 1.6 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
302 lbs / 137 Kg = 2.9 x 5.9 " / 150 mm shells or 0.2 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.34
Metacentric height 1.1 ft / 0.3 m
Roll period: 10.4 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 100 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.59
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.45
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0.467
Length to Beam Ratio: 11.00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 16.99 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 62 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 73
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 12.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 2.36 ft / 0.72 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 19.69 ft / 6.00 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m
- Mid (50 %): 16.40 ft / 5.00 m (7.55 ft / 2.30 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Stern: 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Average freeboard: 12.24 ft / 3.73 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 169.6 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 98.2 %
Waterplane Area: 4,903 Square feet or 456 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 66 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 25 lbs/sq ft or 122 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.50
- Longitudinal: 1.93
- Overall: 0.57
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
10 tons short-range wireless
4 tons torpedoes
Hello,
I believe that you need to use 'mount with hoist' to have fully armored and/or enclosed turrets. Saw this somewhere amongst all the various threads.
TTFN
Quote from: blooded on February 21, 2008, 07:45:26 AM
Hello,
I believe that you need to use 'mount with hoist' to have fully armored and/or enclosed turrets. Saw this somewhere amongst all the various threads.
TTFN
Well, i do not think you need hoists per se, but without them ROF will be horrible as soon as the ready ammunition is used up, and in an enclosed mount the amount will be lower then when using deck lockers. So it will be 5-10 rounds, and then the gun crew have to start running in and out of the mounts the get shells and charges...
So in practices; Yes, one needs hoists in enclosed mounts.
I was about to say that giving each gun its own hoist on a destroyer would make the historical purists shriek in agony... but when it's put that way it's its own argument, isn't it?
Noted for future reference. ^_^
Quote from: Valles on February 22, 2008, 07:14:20 AM
I was about to say that giving each gun its own hoist on a destroyer would make the historical purists shriek in agony... but when it's put that way it's its own argument, isn't it?
Or one can see that almost no destroyers prior to ww2 had enclosed mounts...
But one CAN see that the first to develop DD's with enclosed mounts (the Japanese, IIRC) did so for all the same reasons that the Maori would in our little world. I don't think that the design is unfounded, but I would say it's about 10 years early.