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The best Armoured Cruiser that never was ...
whew!
"She experienced a major redesign in the course of this:"....I'll say...and its a good thing too....she would have given those british moniters a run for their money in the "best floating brink" catigory! Overall a nice ship and fun to draw too!
Nice one!
She really looks good and her sheet indicates she´s a tough nut to crack.
Her overall appearance reminds me of the german WW1-twins SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU. Your NAVARRA looks like a bigger sister to them - or the next logical step in design evolution.
The only thing worth nitpicking is her really weak secondary and tertiary armament...
I wonder what this mini screw is good for? It seems way too small to be able to drive the ship.
Cheers,
HoOmAn
Ahhh... One more thing...
I just noticed that her cranes are to short to swing outboard and lift a boat.
The boats in general seem to be placed at places where they have no chance to be used.....?!
*g* Hooman will be Hooman :-))
Originally posted by LordArpad
Originally posted by HoOman
The boats in general seem to be placed at places where they have no chance to be used.....?!
You are missing the point here pal :-) They are lifeboats ... you man them and let the ship sink from underneath you ...
cheers
Bernhard
The main purpose for ships' boats is to provide a method bywhich people and supplies can get between the ship and shore in cases where the ship cannot get to a quay - this was often the case in this time-period (after all, when six battleships, six-twelve cruisers, and somewhere around twentyfour destroyers enter a harbour not specially adapted to serve as a longterm base for such a force, space along the quays quickly becomes scarce). Thus, being able to handle the ship's boats was in fact significant.
Peng, I was joking ...
Bernhard
lol
...well I caught the joke Bernhard.....but seriously though I did have some missgivings about the lifeboat handling equipment. If you like we can bring her back into the dockyard and make some modifications. Anyone have any other helpfull comments? I have a few questions of my own for everyone. Are lifeboat davits around guns able to be removed or folded out of the way of the turret? Many times I've seen lifeboats set up near or beside turrets and say to myself "boy those boats will float real well after those guns go off!"
Personally i've always wondered about those aircraft-catapults on the fantails of capital ships - the aircraft and handling-equipment look very exposed to blast back there.
There would normally be many different boats, of different sizes, and for different purposes. One or two of the larger ones might well have a steam-engine, or later a petrol-engine, and an enclosed cabin, while most would probably be variations of open boats powered by oars. Boats would normally be placed close together, and often even be stacked on top of each other.
Question...
Aren´t those cranes still too small/short to handle the boats and lift them off the water?
sigh
...not if you've redone the drawing many times and know shes getting converted to a carrier....then they look miles long...
The cranes in the profile are longer than the cranes in the overhead view on the latest design - I'd say by a ration of between 7/6 and 7/5.
Cranes
Originally posted by Pengolodh_sc
The cranes in the profile are longer than the cranes in the overhead view on the latest design - I'd say by a ration of between 7/6 and 7/5.
I guess you´re right but they´re still not long enough to be trained outbord and lower or lift a boat.
Using the overhead view, about 1/6 of the total length of the crane-assembly will stick outside the ship's side when the crane is swung 90deg off the beam. Using the profile view, between 3/13 and 2/7 of the total length of the crane assembly will stick outside the ship's side when the crane is swung 90deg off the beam. By total length of the crane-assembly, I mean the length from the tip of the crane to the backside of the column of the crane.
hmmm
Won't those cranes look silly if I enlarged them given their particular look?
Quoted
Originally posted by LordArpad
Tuesday, May 7th 2024, 3:11pm
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