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Either that or the Japanese secret service has struck again, as this plan went missing off the desk of the chief of the Philippines Naval Design Office.


Filipino B-3 class battleship Mk.2, laid down 1928

Length, 649 ft x Beam, 118.0 ft x Depth, 32.0 ft
38510 tons normal displacement (35381 tons standard)

Main battery: 10 x 14.00-inch / 356mm (4 turrets; 2 x 3, 2 superfiring x 2)
Secondary battery: 16 x 5.10-inch / 130mm (8 x 2)
AA battery: 24 x 1.57-inch / 40mm
Light battery: 12 x 0.98-inch / 25mm

Weight of broadside: 14833 lbs

Main belt, 14.0 inches; ends unarmored
Torpedo bulkhead, 2.0 inches
Armor deck, average 5.0 inches
C.T., 2.0 inches

Battery armor:
Main, 14.0" / secondary, 2.0"
AA, 0.5" shields / light guns, 0.2" shields

Maximum speed for 90476 shp = 26.00 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 17500 nm / 12 kts

Typical complement: 1375-1787


Estimated cost, $47.650 million (£11.913 million)

Remarks:

Relative extent of belt armor, 76 percent of 'typical' coverage.

Ship has slow, easy roll; a good, steady gun platform.

Good seaboat; rides out heavy weather easily.

Magazines and engineering spaces are roomy, with superior
watertight subdivision.

Ship is roomy, with superior accommodation and working space.


Distribution of weights:
Percent
normal
displacement:

Armament ......................... 1854 tons = 5 pct
Armor, total ..................... 12947 tons = 34 pct

Belt 2589 tons = 7 pct
Torpedo bulkhead 999 tons = 3 pct
Deck 4746 tons = 12 pct
C.T. 49 tons = 0 pct
Armament 4564 tons = 12 pct

Machinery ........................ 2817 tons = 7 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment ..... 15606 tons = 41 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores ......... 5136 tons = 13 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............ 150 tons = 0 pct
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38510 tons = 100 pct

Estimated metacentric height, 7.0 ft

Displacement summary:

Light ship: 33374 tons
Standard displacement: 35381 tons
Normal service: 38510 tons
Full load: 40859 tons

Loading submergence 1466 tons/foot

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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:

Relative margin of stability: 1.05

Shellfire needed to sink: 50087 lbs = 36.5 x 14.0-inch shells
(Approximates weight of penetrating
shell hits needed to sink ship,
not counting critical hits)

Torpedoes needed to sink: 8.6
(Approximates number of 'typical'
torpedo hits needed to sink ship)

Relative steadiness as gun platform, 70 percent
(50 percent is 'average')

Relative rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.44

Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.21

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Hull form characteristics:

Block coefficient: 0.55
Sharpness coefficient: 0.42
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 5.88
'Natural speed' for length = 25.5 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 53 percent


Estimated hull characteristics and strength:

Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 75 percent

Relative accommodation and working space: 169 percent


Displacement factor: 118 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)


Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.98
(Structure weight per square
foot of hull surface: 219 lbs)

Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.92
(for 23.7 ft average freeboard;
freeboard adjustment +3.9 ft)

Relative composite hull strength: 1.05

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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]

649.00 x 118.00 x 32.00; 23.70 -- Dimensions
0.55 -- Block coefficient
1928 -- Year laid down
26.00 / 17500 / 12.00; Oil-fired turbine or equivalent -- Speed / radius / cruise
150 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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10 x 14.00; 4; 2 -- Main battery; turrets; superfiring
:
16 x 5.10; 8 -- Secondary battery; turrets
:
24 x 1.57 -- Tertiary (QF/AA) battery
Gun-shields
:
12 x 0.98 -- Fourth (light) battery
0 -- No torpedo armament
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14.00 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 2.00; 76 -- Belt armor; relative extent
5.00 / 2.00 -- Deck / CT
14.00 / 2.00 / 0.50 / 0.20 -- Battery armor


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Thats odd, the Atlantian BuShips has recieved a dossier from the Japanese govt.....what ever could be inside?

Seriously though, she could likely get more armor to her secondary's and CT, and more speed. She's 1500 tons under the CT limits so you may be able to tweak the design abit.

Ehrm Wes, she´s 4619ts under CT-limits. ;o)

However, a little bit more armor on her coning tower is not a bad idea. There is some hull strength left that can be used. On her secondaries I wouldn´t put more armor. it would make them to heavy for manhandling or to train fast enough if considered DP guns.

In general she´s a good and balanced design. With 26kn she lacks speed but being the first BB she simply defines fleet speed for the Filipin Navy.

With her 10 14inch guns she´s a unique appearance in WesWorld (once build) even though eight or nine 15inchers would offer more striking power. With 10 barrels you´ve the advantage of more shells in flight of course.

While not a design the RSAN would build she´ll be an dangerous opponent to larger CT BBs - and even more so to all the old stuff still floating around.

Regards,

HoOmAn

I thought I'd reserve a little hull strength, for future modifications (more AA?).

C.T. armour - really looking just for splinter/MG protection; add more armour and 5" shells might pop through one side and detonate inside. Nice way to spoil your morning. :-/

And as for design changes; 1928 is such a long way away...

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Either that or the Japanese secret service has struck again, as this plan went missing off the desk of the chief of the Philippines Naval Design Office.

Another job well done by the Okashira, who had gone out to get the plans personally. There was some slight opposition, but he quickly got rid of those pesky mercenaries.
:-)

(hope the links work)

"Ehrm Wes, she´s 4619ts under CT-limits. ;o) "

Yes your right....guess I was sleeping when I posted!