Paris Temps

[maddox]

Paris, right after the parliamental meeting.

Premier Galpoux's offices.

I can't believe it, I can't believe it, the senators gave me a forth option, and forced that down the ministers troaths.
Denise, we'll have to send a courrier to the warzone of Phoenix, to get a "definite answer of the status of Ambassador Aretas Akers-Douglas".

I want following things to happen. 

• Grange will have to provide extra bodyguards, subtile ones, to Aretas.
• A meeting between me and ambassador Aretas will have to happen as soon as it can be arranged without the press to breath in our necks, or the senators officialy knowing.
• Find out what is the most luxurious, but slowest way to travel to Phoenix. And send Deputy secretary aid Gaston Lagaffe as courrier.

As you wish Premier Galpoux. Any more immediate demands of my capacities?

Now you mention it, there is considerable energy from anger I need to release. I think we can work on that before you send out the messages and orders.

[maddox]

late april 1919

Admiral Quarters Occitanie, Brest.

Admiral Geon. I hope you have a satisfying answer to the Needs Of France and her Allies.

Yes I do, Premier Galpoux. I'm dispatching the First Scouting Squadron to aid our allies in their quest, and to avenge the insult to France.
As we speak, Napoleon and her escorts leave the port, if you join me, you can see them leave their berths.
What reminds me, can you ask Minister Capet, if he finds time even when on his personal quest, to tell Iberia these sleek, fast ships will cross the Strait of Gibraltar in 60 hours.

[TexanCowboy]

 And like that, Romania's 18-year old princess causes a potential war.

[The Rock Doctor]

Not quite seeing what Romania has to do with this...

[maddox]

Me neither  ;) , but I like the comment.

[Sachmle]

What reminds me, can you ask Minister Capet, if he finds time even when on his personal quest, to tell Iberia these sleek, fast ships will cross the Strait of Gibraltar in 60 hours.

And like that, Romania's 18-year old princess causes a potential war.

I believe his intent was to say the Minster Capet's "Project", the wooing of Empress Flowrains, may be distracting him and that forgetting to tell the Iberian's that a large group of French ships are heading towards Gibraltar unannounced could be an issue.

[The Rock Doctor]

Okay, so the princess is hoping for that Iberian wargame to come to life...

[maddox]

I believe his intent was to say the Minster Capet's "Project", the wooing of Empress Flowrains, may be distracting him and that forgetting to tell the Iberian's that a large group of French ships are heading towards Gibraltar unannounced could be an issue.

Or gaining the throne of Ukraine....

[Sachmle]

Or gaining the throne of Ukraine....

That too.

[ctwaterman]

Has anyone considered that Perhaps Minister Carpet wants both the Princess and the Thrown of the Ukraine therbye unifing both nations in a manner of speaking.  :o  ;D

[maddox]

Tippity - toes away innocently....

[maddox]

June 1919, Paris, hotel Napoleon, big conference hall.

Jean Jacques (a Departement of Industry flunky) is speaking to a crowd of journalists.

Messieurs, I have the honor to tell you that Glorious France is sponsoring the Chantiers de St Nazaire to build a replacement of Le Magnificent. The orders for the structural steel are placed at several foundries. The engines, the most powerfull in the world and this time build in France, not in the Norman Kingdom.

Normandie will surpass any ship afloat on the 7 seas, in comfort and grace.

Normandie, Giant liner ship laid down 1919 (Engine 1916)

Displacement:
  60.000 t light; 60.646 t standard; 77.592 t normal; 90.589 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
   1.008,81 ft / 1.000,00 ft x 164,04 ft x 31,82 ft (normal load)
   307,49 m / 304,80 m x 50,00 m  x 9,70 m

   - Double hull:
      2,00" / 51 mm   550,00 ft / 167,64 m   30,00 ft / 9,14 m

Machinery:
   Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
   Direct drive, 4 shafts, 139.988 shp / 104.431 Kw = 27,00 kts
   Range 15.000nm at 20,00 kts
   Bunker at max displacement = 29.242 tons

Complement:
   2.301 - 2.992

Cost:
   £5,622 million / $22,488 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
   Armament: 0 tons, 0,0%
   Armour: 1.221 tons, 1,6%
      - Belts: 0 tons, 0,0%
      - Double hull: 1.221 tons, 1,6%
      - Armament: 0 tons, 0,0%
      - Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0,0%
      - Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0,0%
   Machinery: 5.216 tons, 6,8%
   Hull, fittings & equipment: 23.453 tons, 30,6%
   Fuel, ammunition & stores: 17.814 tons, 23,3%
   Miscellaneous weights: 28.860 tons, 37,7%

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
   Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
     151.834 lbs / 68.871 Kg = 14.508,0 x 2,8 " / 70 mm shells or 27,4 torpedoes
   Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1,33
   Metacentric height 17,5 ft / 5,3 m
   Roll period: 16,5 seconds
   Steadiness   - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 71 %
         - Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0,00
   Seaboat quality  (Average = 1.00): 1,62

Hull form characteristics:
   Hull has a flush deck
   Block coefficient: 0,514
   Length to Beam Ratio: 6,10 : 1
   'Natural speed' for length: 31,62 kts
   Power going to wave formation at top speed: 40 %
   Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 44
   Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 8,00 degrees
   Stern overhang: 3,28 ft / 1,00 m
   Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
      - Stem:      39,37 ft / 12,00 m
      - Forecastle (30%):   29,53 ft / 9,00 m
      - Mid (50%):      29,53 ft / 9,00 m
      - Quarterdeck (15%):   29,53 ft / 9,00 m
      - Stern:      29,53 ft / 9,00 m
      - Average freeboard:   30,71 ft / 9,36 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
   Space   - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 73,2%
      - Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 270,5%
   Waterplane Area: 110.658 Square feet or 10.280 Square metres
   Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 188%
   Structure weight / hull surface area: 169 lbs/sq ft or 826 Kg/sq metre
   Hull strength (Relative):
      - Cross-sectional: 0,99
      - Longitudinal: 1,02
      - Overall: 1,00
   Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
   Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
   Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
   Excellent seaboat, comfortable, can fire her guns in the heaviest weather

28860 ton misc weight.

75 tons communication capacity.
25 tons ERADa

4200 ton    600 first class passengers
12000 ton 3000 second class passengers
9000 ton    3000 third class passengers

3560 ton cargo capacity.

[P3D]

Er, I honestly doubt that an 50m wide ship would fit even the slipway.

[TexanCowboy]

It won't fit the Grand Canal....

And it's only the largest ship in the world until a 'accidental' Romanian style explosion occurs.  :D

Nonetheless, the freeboard should be about a 1/3 to a 1/2 of the beam on a liner. That means it should be increased.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Er, I honestly doubt that an 50m wide ship would fit even the slipway.

Actually, I think it has to fit in the type 5 drydock at Marseille, nothing else in the French Infrastructure is long enough to build it.