WesWorld

Odin Class Armoured Cruiser laid down 1905

Scrapped

Vessels -
K.D.M. Odin
K.D.M. Thor

Displacement:
11,969 t light; 12,503 t standard; 14,501 t normal; 16,041 t full load
Loading submergence 736 tons/feet

Dimensions:
470.00 ft x 75.00 ft x 23.00 ft (normal load)
143.26 m x 22.86 m x 7.01 m

Armament:
8 - 8.00" / 203 mm guns (4 Main turrets x 2 guns)
12 - 5.00" / 127 mm guns
Secondary guns mounted low & subject to being washed down in a seaway
8 - 3.00" / 76 mm QF guns
QF guns mounted low & subject to being washed down in a seaway
6 - 2.00" / 51 mm guns
Weight of broadside 2,930 lbs / 1,329 kg
4 - 18.0" / 457.2 mm submerged torpedo tubes

Armour:
Belt 5.50" / 140 mm, upper belt 3.25" / 83 mm, end belts 2.00" / 51 mm
Belts cover 156 % of normal area
Main turrets 5.25" / 133 mm, 2nd casemates 3.00" / 76 mm
QF casemates 2.00" / 51 mm, Light gun shields 0.50" / 13 mm
Armour deck 1.50" / 38 mm, Conning tower 6.00" / 152 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 1.00" / 25 mm

Machinery:
Coal fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 3 shafts, 41,360 shp / 30,854 Kw = 24.00 kts
Range 10,000nm at 10.00 kts

Complement:
660 - 858

Cost:
£1.209 million / $4.836 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 366 tons, 2.5 %
Armour: 3,694 tons, 25.5 %
Belts: 1,916 tons, 13.2 %, Armament: 727 tons, 5.0 %, Armour Deck: 715 tons, 4.9 %
Conning Tower: 77 tons, 0.5 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 260 tons, 1.8 %
Machinery: 3,447 tons, 23.8 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 4,412 tons, 30.4 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,532 tons, 17.5 %
Miscellaneous weights: 50 tons, 0.3 %

Metacentric height 5.0

Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.27
Shellfire needed to sink: 8,813 lbs / 3,997 Kg = 34.4 x 8.0 " / 203 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 1.3
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 71 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.34
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.28

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.626
Sharpness coefficient: 0.43
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 5.89
'Natural speed' for length: 21.68 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 57 %
Trim: 55
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 138.4 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 156.1 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 107 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.93
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 115 lbs / square foot or 562 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.85
(for 21.00 ft / 6.40 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 4.69 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.00