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This ship is no longer commissioned in the active fleet but being the oldest ship still listed in my navy’s register I have decided to release its states first.

Vasilias Giorgios, central battery iron clad
Laid down 5/6/1867 in Great Britain
Lunched 15/10/1868
Commissioned 21/ 2/1869
Modifications. 1901, sails and rigging removed power plant refurbished.
Current status, Removed from active duty in 1907 and placed in reserve, since 1915 a stationery coal barges at Souda bay.

Length, 61.0 m x Beam, 10.1 m x Depth, 4.9 m
1780 tonnes normal displacement (1508 tonnes standard)

Central battery ironclad
Main battery: 2 x 20.8-cm
Secondary battery: 4 x 8.9-cm
Light battery: 2 x 0.8-cm

Weight of broadside: 189 kg

Main belt, 17.8 cm; bow and stern, 15.2 cm
Armor deck, average 2.5 cm

Battery armor:
Main, 15.2 cm


Maximum speed for 985 indicated kw = 12.24 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 2500 nm / 10 knots

Typical complement: 137-178


Estimated cost, $570,000 (£142,000)

Remarks:

Relative extent of belt armor, 90 percent of 'typical' coverage.

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

Cramped ship; poor crew accommodation, limited working space.


Distribution of weights:
Percent
normal
displacement:

Armament ......................... 52 tonnes = 3 pct
Armor, total ..................... 499 tonnes = 28 pct

Belt 342 tonnes = 19 pct
Deck 86 tonnes = 5 pct
Armament 71 tonnes = 4 pct

Machinery ........................ 346 tonnes = 19 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment ..... 541 tonnes = 30 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores ......... 342 tonnes = 19 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............ 0 tonnes = 0 pct
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1780 tonnes = 100 pct

Estimated metacentric height, 0.4 m

Displacement summary:

Light ship: 1438 tonnes
Standard displacement: 1508 tonnes
Normal service: 1780 tonnes
Full load: 1991 tonnes

Loading submergence 434 tonnes/metre

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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:

Relative margin of stability: 1.22

Shellfire needed to sink: 477 kg = 5.8 x 20.8-cm shells
(Approximates weight of penetrating
shell hits needed to sink ship,
not counting critical hits)

Torpedoes needed to sink: 0.4
(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, 0.16

Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.01

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Hull form characteristics:

Block coefficient: 0.59
Sharpness coefficient: 0.42
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 5.04
'Natural speed' for length = 14.1 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 43 percent


Estimated hull characteristics and strength:

Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 86 percent

Relative accommodation and working space: 73 percent


Displacement factor: 107 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)


Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.95
(Structure weight per square
metre of hull surface: 368 kg)

Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.62
(for 1.65 m average freeboard;
freeboard adjustment -1.62 m;
freeboard does not include
high bulwarks or spar deck)

Relative composite hull strength: 1.00

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

199.95 x 33.00 x 16.01; 5.41 -- Dimensions
0.59 -- Block coefficient
1867 -- Year laid down
12.24 / 2500 / 10.00; Reciprocating -- Speed / radius / cruise
0 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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2 x 8.19; 0 -- Main battery; turrets
Central positioning of guns
:
4 x 3.50; 0 -- Secondary battery; turrets
:
0 -- No tertiary (QF/AA) battery
2 x 0.31 -- Fourth (light) battery
0 -- No torpedo armament
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7.00 / 6.00 / 0.00 / 0.00; 90 -- Belt armor; relative extent
1.00 / 0.00 -- Deck / CT
6.00 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00 -- Battery armor


(Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)


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