WesWorld

Discovered this gem of a never-were a couple of months back and just HAD to add them to the US liner fleet. William Gibbs designed her and she looks like a hybrid of Mauritania and Olympic. In RL she was canceled after the war, but she's too good to pass up. In Wesworld two were built, Constitution and Independence, completing in the early 1920's and were the pride of the fleet before Columbia and Liberty were completed in the late 1920's. They would probably leave service in the early 1940's.

SS Constitution, United States Lines Ocean Liner laid down 1919

Displacement:
42,653 t light; 43,743 t standard; 54,488 t normal; 63,084 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
1,000.00 ft / 980.00 ft x 100.00 ft x 35.00 ft (normal load)
304.80 m / 298.70 m x 30.48 m x 10.67 m

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 160,720 shp / 119,897 Kw = 30.00 kts
Range 5,000nm at 30.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 19,341 tons

Complement:
1,783 - 2,318

Cost:
£5.001 million / $20.002 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 5,707 tons, 10.5 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 18,746 tons, 34.4 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 11,835 tons, 21.7 %
Miscellaneous weights: 18,200 tons, 33.4 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
104,108 lbs / 47,222 Kg = 964.0 x 6 " / 152 mm shells or 5.1 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.02
Metacentric height 5.2 ft / 1.6 m
Roll period: 18.5 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 70 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.00
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 2.00

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has low quarterdeck
Block coefficient: 0.556
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.80 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 31.30 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 42 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 35
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 8.28 degrees
Stern overhang: 12.00 ft / 3.66 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 55.00 ft / 16.76 m
- Forecastle (18 %): 45.00 ft / 13.72 m
- Mid (50 %): 50.00 ft / 15.24 m
- Quarterdeck (18 %): 35.00 ft / 10.67 m (43.00 ft / 13.11 m before break)
- Stern: 39.00 ft / 11.89 m
- Average freeboard: 45.60 ft / 13.90 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 71.1 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 345.3 %
Waterplane Area: 68,779 Square feet or 6,390 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 184 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 138 lbs/sq ft or 675 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.89
- Longitudinal: 2.89
- Overall: 1.00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable, rides out heavy weather easily

Cargo: 5000 tons
1st Class: 750 5280 tons
2nd Class: 600 2640 tons
Steerage: 2000 5280 tons

Nifty!

I know some sources say that Lexington and Saratoga were considered for conversion into very large ocean liners before becoming carriers. It may simply be confusion concerning this design, since Constitution was a name shared with one of the Lexington hulls at least at one point.

I made the names up for Wesworld, but the ship was a real design, William Gibbs first liner design. The liners Columbia & Liberty in Wesworld were built using components from the canceled battlecruisers United States & Constitution.

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