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Friday, May 16th 2003, 4:15am

and hears my qeen as pre treaty cv

Hobart, UK Aust Queen Elizabeth laid down 1919

Displacement:
30,046 t light; 30,770 t standard; 34,296 t normal; 36,979 t full load
Loading submergence 1,252 tons/feet

Dimensions:
634.50 ft x 104.00 ft x 33.50 ft (normal load)
193.40 m x 31.70 m x 10.21 m

Armament:
10 - 4.50" / 114 mm guns (10 Main turrets x 1 guns)
10 - 1.00" / 25 mm AA guns
15 - 0.50" / 13 mm guns
Weight of broadside 462 lbs / 209 kg

Armour:
Belt 13.00" / 330 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 79 % of normal area
Armour deck 7.00" / 178 mm, Conning tower 2.00" / 51 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 3.00" / 76 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 148,935 shp / 111,106 Kw = 30.02 kts
Range 28,500nm at 10.00 kts

Complement:
1,260 - 1,638

Cost:
£4.016 million / $16.063 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 58 tons, 0.2 %
Armour: 9,512 tons, 27.7 %
Belts: 2,256 tons, 6.6 %, Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %, Armour Deck: 5,676 tons, 16.6 %
Conning Tower: 46 tons, 0.1 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 1,534 tons, 4.5 %
Machinery: 5,289 tons, 15.4 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 12,188 tons, 35.5 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 4,250 tons, 12.4 %
Miscellaneous weights: 3,000 tons, 8.7 %

Metacentric height 5.3

Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.00
Shellfire needed to sink: 42,878 lbs / 19,449 Kg = 941.1 x 4.5 " / 114 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 7.2
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 99 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.03
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.16

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.543
Sharpness coefficient: 0.41
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 5.97
'Natural speed' for length: 25.19 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 60 %
Trim: 85
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 76.7 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 165.6 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 146 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 1.35
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 185 lbs / square foot or 904 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 2.56
(for 25.00 ft / 7.62 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 5.62 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.44

this ship has30 aircaft

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Friday, May 16th 2003, 10:58am

You could add some more misc. wieght to increase the number of sorties your airgroup can make. But thats about the only flaw. Phenomenal range as well---perfect for a carrier.