The Emerald Queen

[maddox]

The Emerald Queen, Independent fast gunship/yacht laid down 1910 (Engine 1909)

Displacement:
   7.976 t light; 8.548 t standard; 9.625 t normal; 10.487 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
   556,92 ft / 541,34 ft x 54,13 ft x 23,95 ft (normal load)
   169,75 m / 165,00 m x 16,50 m  x 7,30 m

Armament:
      3 - 13,00" / 330 mm guns (2 mounts), 1.098,50lbs / 498,27kg shells, 1910 Model
     Breech loading guns in turrets (on barbettes)
     on centreline ends, evenly spread
      8 - 2,76" / 70,0 mm guns in single mounts, 10,47lbs / 4,75kg shells, 1910 Model
     Quick firing guns in deck mounts with hoists
     on side, evenly spread
      8 - 0,98" / 25,0 mm guns (4x2 guns), 0,48lbs / 0,22kg shells, 1910 Model
     Machine guns in deck mounts
     on side, evenly spread, all raised mounts
   Weight of broadside 3.383 lbs / 1.535 kg
   Shells per gun, main battery: 200

Armour:
   - Gun armour:   Face (max)   Other gunhouse (avg)   Barbette/hoist (max)
   Main:   6,00" / 152 mm   4,00" / 102 mm      6,00" / 152 mm
   2nd:   1,00" / 25 mm         -         3,00" / 76 mm

   - Armour deck: 3,00" / 76 mm, Conning tower: 10,00" / 254 mm

Machinery:
   Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
   Direct drive, 4 shafts, 43.146 shp / 32.187 Kw = 27,00 kts
   Range 8.000nm at 12,00 kts
   Bunker at max displacement = 1.939 tons

Complement:
   485 - 631

Cost:
   £0,909 million / $3,636 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
   Armament: 423 tons, 4,4%
   Armour: 1.580 tons, 16,4%
      - Belts: 0 tons, 0,0%
      - Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0,0%
      - Armament: 418 tons, 4,3%
      - Armour Deck: 1.064 tons, 11,1%
      - Conning Tower: 97 tons, 1,0%
   Machinery: 1.961 tons, 20,4%
   Hull, fittings & equipment: 3.812 tons, 39,6%
   Fuel, ammunition & stores: 1.649 tons, 17,1%
   Miscellaneous weights: 200 tons, 2,1%

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
   Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
     9.027 lbs / 4.094 Kg = 8,2 x 13,0 " / 330 mm shells or 1,3 torpedoes
   Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1,10
   Metacentric height 2,4 ft / 0,7 m
   Roll period: 14,7 seconds
   Steadiness   - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 58 %
         - Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0,98
   Seaboat quality  (Average = 1.00): 1,28

Hull form characteristics:
   Hull has a flush deck
   Block coefficient: 0,480
   Length to Beam Ratio: 10,00 : 1
   'Natural speed' for length: 23,27 kts
   Power going to wave formation at top speed: 49 %
   Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 45
   Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 11,00 degrees
   Stern overhang: 9,84 ft / 3,00 m
   Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
      - Stem:      29,53 ft / 9,00 m
      - Forecastle (20%):   16,40 ft / 5,00 m
      - Mid (50%):      16,04 ft / 4,89 m
      - Quarterdeck (15%):   16,04 ft / 4,89 m
      - Stern:      16,04 ft / 4,89 m
      - Average freeboard:   17,22 ft / 5,25 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
   Space   - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 103,5%
      - Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 121,5%
   Waterplane Area: 19.178 Square feet or 1.782 Square metres
   Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 106%
   Structure weight / hull surface area: 115 lbs/sq ft or 564 Kg/sq metre
   Hull strength (Relative):
      - Cross-sectional: 0,94
      - Longitudinal: 1,65
      - Overall: 1,00
   Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is adequate
   Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
   Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily

Conning Tower is redone as an nursery.

200 tons misc weight is ment for Marissa's HQ and palace.  (Includes a pink marble sheeted bathroom, teak and oak soundproofed playroom and library, marconi set and a vault)

Ship is to be painted dark emerald green hull and lighter green upper works and turrets.

Modified to erase a fluke

[Borys]

It will be a slammer of a holiday!
The vacations will come with a bang!

[Desertfox]

I think I have a very good idea who is to get that ship...

[Tanthalas]

proly some Famous Pirate like Capitan Sparow...

[Ithekro]

Hmmm a contender for the Queen Emeraldas perhaps?  Though the Emeraldas is a much older privateer, and only armed with some hidden cruiser guns, she was the largest ship in the Rohirrim Navy for a while.  If this truely is a pirate ship...and goes against the Kingdom of Rohan, then it may have to be hunted by a pair of older warships...Arcadia and the Emeraldas... ;D

But that is for the future.

[maddox]

As far as France knows, the ship is ment to be a diplomatic courrier with a punch.  The long range and high speed aid her in this.

What the ministry of Commerce doesn't know (or doesn't want to aknowledge) is that she gets a few changes in Halifax on behalf of diplomatical contacts with the CSA.
As the CSA is one of several suppliers of parts and funds for this strange vessel.

[olekit]

hm... 3x330 mm, 10000 ton and 83 meters long with a speed of 27 knots? The courier yacht? not good idea. even for pirate ship. not safe for its crew and for the diplomatic secrets on board...

[Desertfox]

The Pink Palace and the nursery are dead giveaways. There is only one female with kids who would buy such a ship.

[Korpen]

The Emerald Queen, Independent armed yacht laid down 1910 (Engine 1909)
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
   270,40 ft / 541,34 ft x 54,13 ft x 23,95 ft (normal load)
   82,42 m / 165,00 m x 16,50 m  x 7,30 m

Interesting design, the ship is shorter overall then it is at the waterline...
I suspect it takes some really fancy quantum engineering to build her.

[maddox]

Desertfox , if you're refering to Marissa De La Grande Mars, why would she get a new ship from France?
Next point is, she sold her ship that did the same things to the DKB, why would she buy a new one now? She's not a pirate queen or so.

For the same amount of inteligence, you could have know that Minister Capet has certain alternative leanings that explains the pink issue. And a nursery, diplomats tend to travel with families.

[maddox]

Korpen, got the fluke out of her.  Thanks for pointing out.

[Desertfox]

Call it a hunch. Maybe she just wants to move up. Then there is this:

200 tons misc weight is ment for Marissa's HQ and palace.  (Includes a pink marble sheeted bathroom, teak and oak soundproofed playroom and library, marconi set and a vault)

;)

Another French ship just isn't interesting, now an unafiliated ship with 13" guns, now that IS interesting.  8)

[Ithekro]

Older 13" guns (1895 model if I remember correctly), but still....13" guns.  Anahuac guns at that.  Though to be fair, I imagine that one of the following three countries produces those guns:  DRM (MesoAmerica/formerly the Anahuac Empire), France (export gun), Firanji (ex-Anahuac model).

However, if this vessel, or its crew, does not conduct acts of piracy on land or sea, than it is not a pirate ship.   Perhaps in Navalism's world, independents with money can buy/build registered warships?

[maddox]

I won't say it's common that an armed and armored ship is in civilian, non pirate hands, but it's not unheared of either.
In this, power is a currency in its own.

And as in this world, for money you can buy anything.


The 13" guns I refer to are salvaged from "disappeared" or sunken Anuhuac battlebarges during the final Rohan-Anuhuac war. A few battlebarges are unaccounted for, and this is one of the few things that explains that.

[P3D]

Old 13" guns that can do like one shot every 5 minutes, using ammunition from questionable sources, does not seem to be impressive.