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Japanese WWII Gunboat

Bernhard

...I think. A pity the text isn't more comprehensible.

So...anybody feel like plugging that into Springstyle?

Ok, the closest I can come to making this gun float ...

do you realise that this piece is bigger than Jules Verne's moon gun?

Santissima Trinidad, Iberia Lunacy laid down 1943

Displacement:
17,096,730 t light; 20,046,780 t standard; 20,147,520 t normal; 20,147,520 t full load
Loading submergence 88,488 tons/feet

Dimensions:
5,249.34 ft x 787.40 ft x 262.47 ft (normal load)
1,600.00 m x 240.00 m x 80.00 m

Armament:
1 - 393.70" / 10,000 mm guns
Caution: Main guns limited to end-on fire
24 - 15.75" / 400 mm guns (12 2nd turrets x 2 guns)
100 - 4.49" / 114 mm AA guns
1000 - 1.57" / 40 mm guns
Weight of broadside 30,565,220 lbs / 13,864,150 kg

Armour:
Belt 23.62" / 600 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 151 % of normal area
2nd turrets 23.62" / 600 mm
AA gun shields 0.04" / 1 mm, Light gun shields 0.04" / 1 mm
Armour deck 15.75" / 400 mm, Conning tower 23.62" / 600 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 0.04" / 1 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Electric motors, 38 shafts, 2,791,733 shp / 2,082,633 Kw = 25.00 kts
Range 11,000nm at 15.00 kts

Complement:
150,361 - 195,469

Cost:
£24,989.420 million / $99,957.660 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 3,820,652 tons, 19.0 %
Armour: 1,409,561 tons, 7.0 %
Belts: 176,128 tons, 0.9 %, Armament: 291,179 tons, 1.4 %, Armour Deck: 902,301 tons, 4.5 %
Conning Tower: 38,650 tons, 0.2 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 1,305 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 72,101 tons, 0.4 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 11,774,420 tons, 58.4 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 3,050,789 tons, 15.1 %
Miscellaneous weights: 20,000 tons, 0.1 %

Metacentric height 114.0

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
Excellent seaboat, comfortable and able to fight her guns in the heaviest weather

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.02
Shellfire needed to sink: 9,677,164 lbs / 4,389,488 Kg = 0.3 x 393.7 " / 10,000 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 750.6
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 70 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 2.07
Relative quality as seaboat: 2.00

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.650
Sharpness coefficient: 0.43
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 5.91
'Natural speed' for length: 72.45 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 12 %
Trim: 35
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 150.3 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 1,029.8 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 63 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.89
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 2,424 lbs / square foot or 11,834 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 3.08
(for 262.47 ft / 80.00 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 193.12 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.00

200 aircraft

You should post this on the Design-board at the warships1.com-fora.

done

The text is legible on my computer, although the grammar is poor.



Standard displacement:
79, 600t total length: 289. 5m full-width: 38. 9m draft: 10 6m
main engine: Warship formal all * ギアード very high pressure
turbine 8 basic 4 axial main can: Ro number warship formal heavy oil
can 12 output: 318, 000hp maximum speed: 35. 5kt cruising power: 8
and 500 浬 / 20kt crew-member: 2 and 211 name armament: 10000? O 1
large aperture gun 12.7? P connected equipment angle of elevation gun
12 armoring (maximum) side 250 mm + 200 mm (angle of dip 20 DEG) deck
160 mm + 70? O similar type warship: It is not

It is one in the midst of " 88 fleet " plans of the Japanese navy,
finally it became the " U.S. mainland decisive battle " the warship
which is completed with the cooperation with the army this " large
aperture gunboat 1 " depending upon the preponderant strength of the
Japanese navy which is, the Japanese side had expanded war potential.
And when landing in order to break the enemy which is in the
shoreline " Yamato type " (4 - the warship in regard to all landing
to the shelling warship large remodelling was administered! Is, but
either the test did not die well, received the production suddenly.
O'clock of the Japanese time 8, 5 warships simultaneously it succeeded
in a general way including shelling, but! Unexpected communication
about the mountain entered from the large aperture gunboat all
warship! " This warship navigation impossibility! " " Bridge damage!
" " 15 name injuries! " " Warships damage! Rescue it is the む! "
Either the test did not do properly, being suddenly to receive
encounter, could not become extinct the here and there of the warship
and one after another kept going out to in the sea. Is, but the in
unhappiness it was fortunate miraculously not to be for the deceased.
When after the war the US military pulls up the large aperture
gunboat which our sinking is done and Japan investigates together,
outrageous mistake was found in large quantities.