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HI all! To hear about Bruce makes my heart sad. Wasn't around for long myself. Business and family, corona and a general shift in interest. Tried to motivate myself for a comeback once or twice but failed... But it is very nice to see some of you are still around, even returning. Wesworld is clocking, what, approx. 25 years now? Wish you all the best, Stephan
Happy new year, folks! :)
Welcome Fredi, good to see some new ship lovers to join...
I remember this too - but can you give a source?
HI, I recently tried to find written sources on blast interference. How to explain it easily to someone not aware of it? What ships suffered from it historically (e.g. italian light cruisers)? What was done to fix it? On a quick check I could not find anything about it in Whitleys cruiser book. Also Richard Worth in his Fleets of WW2 book does not mention spell dispersion in relation to blast interference, though he mentions some other problems with the guns and their accuracy. Then I tried to c...
Quoted from "thesmilingassassin" IMO the Magnificent class are costly and unnecessary, and if built would have actually influenced Atlantean cruiser design significantly (Atlantis is into 1947 and still hasn't built any cruiser larger than 14,000 tons). Only the Chilean, Colombian and Mexican fleets have ships in that weight class, the SAE's more traditional enemies (Brazil and Argentina) have nothing close to this size that isn't a BB or BC so its unclear just why the SAE would need such large...
Quoted from "Rooijen10" It is a sin that you only listed 6 of the 7 seven deadly sins. :D Pun taken! ;)
Well, at some point in time after evaluating events in South America and potential threats on the northern flanks in Africa I decided it would be good for the RSAN to have some amphibic component. There wasn't much available and with an unstable neighbor to the North of Gran Uruguay... Idea is to have some low cost assets for short range activities if needed, while some bigger ships are made to follow international trends. Especially British dock ships impressed a lot... The Glorieus is a direct...
Disclaimer: This is a refit of former liner SS Glorieus that was purchased by the RSAN. This should have been in the news looong ago. Not sure if it was ever posted. :/ Glorieus, laid down 1940, refitted 1945 Displacement: 49.415 t light; 50.625 t standard; 60.505 t normal; 68.409 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 943,41 ft / 929,99 ft x 106,00 ft x 33,99 ft (normal load) 287,55 m / 283,46 m x 32,31 m x 10,36 m Machinery: Oil fired boilers, steam turbines, Geared dr...
R113-R121, laid down 1945 R122-R136, laid down 1946 Displacement: 117 t light; 124 t standard; 134 t normal; 142 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 125,93 ft / 121,39 ft x 16,73 ft x 6,07 ft (normal load) 38,38 m / 37,00 m x 5,10 m x 1,85 m Armament: 1 - 1,57" / 40,0 mm guns in single mounts, 1,95lbs / 0,88kg shells, 1940 Model Anti-aircraft gun in deck mount on centreline forward 2 - 0,79" / 20,0 mm guns (1x2 guns), 0,24lbs / 0,11kg shells, 1940 Model Machine guns i...
LST45-1, laid down 1945 LST45-2, laid down 1945 LST45-3, laid down 1945 LST45-4, laid down 1945 LST45-5, laid down 1946 LST45-6, laid down 1946 LST45-7, laid down 1946 LST45-8, laid down 1946 LST45-9, laid down 1946 LST45-10, laid down 1946 Displacement: 196 t light; 203 t standard; 220 t normal; 232 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 133,08 ft / 131,23 ft x 26,25 ft x 2,79 ft (normal load) 40,56 m / 40,00 m x 8,00 m x 0,85 m Armament: 1 - 2,24" / 57,0 mm guns in sin...
Mafadi, laid down 1945 Ubutsane, laid down 1945 Champagne Castle, laid down 1946 Giant’s Castle, laid down 1946 Displacement: 9.261 t light; 9.613 t standard; 10.875 t normal; 11.884 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 473,79 ft / 465,88 ft x 72,18 ft x 15,09 ft (normal load) 144,41 m / 142,00 m x 22,00 m x 4,60 m Armament: 4 - 4,92" / 125 mm guns (2x2 guns), 63,93lbs / 29,00kg shells, 1944 Model Dual purpose guns in deck mounts with hoists on centreline, all forward,...
LCP1-18, laid down 1945 LCP19-36, laid down 1946 Displacement: 10 ts standard Dimensions: 11,45 m / 11,10 m x 3,50 m x 1,05 m Armament: 2 - 7,62 mm gun Machinery: Diesel Internal combustion motors, 280hp Speed: 10 kn Range: 150 nm Complement: 4 Load weight: 4 ts or 36 troops [The LCP Series 45 actually is a variant of OTL American LCVP crafts (Higgins Boat) which were historically build through the 40s. I use this design because SS can´t deal with light crafts.]
LCFS1, laid down 1945 LCFS2, laid down 1945 LCFS3, laid down 1945 LCFS4, laid down 1946 LCFS5, laid down 1946 LCFS6, laid down 1946 LCFS7, laid down 1946 LCFS8, laid down 1946 Displacement: 250 t light; 264 t standard; 308 t normal; 343 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 162,42 ft / 158,46 ft x 23,29 ft x 5,84 ft (normal load) 49,51 m / 48,30 m x 7,10 m x 1,78 m Armament: 1 - 2,95" / 75,0 mm guns in single mounts, 13,23lbs / 6,00kg shells, 1942 Model Dual purpose gun...
Ostara, laid down 1945 Gefjon, laid down 1945 Displacement: 1.551 t light; 1.614 t standard; 1.926 t normal; 2.176 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 322,87 ft / 313,98 ft x 34,45 ft x 12,47 ft (normal load) 98,41 m / 95,70 m x 10,50 m x 3,80 m Armament: 2 - 4,53" / 115 mm guns (1x2 guns), 50,71lbs / 23,00kg shells, 1945 Model Dual purpose guns in a deck mount with hoist on centreline forward 4 - 2,24" / 57,0 mm guns (2x2 guns), 6,61lbs / 3,00kg shells, 1942 Model Au...
Pietermaritzburg II, laid down 1929, sunk 20-11-35 (gunfire) Douala II, laid down 1929, refitted 1945 Beira II, laid down 1930, refitted 1945 Blantyre II, laid down 1930, refitted 1945 DDisplacement: 7.746 t light; 8.108 t standard; 9.280 t normal; 10.217 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 557,93 ft / 547,90 ft x 58,40 ft x 19,52 ft (normal load) 170,06 m / 167,00 m x 17,80 m x 5,95 m Armament: 12 - 5,91" / 150 mm guns (4x3 guns), 110,23lbs / 50,00kg shells, 1929 Mod...
Magnificent, laid down 1945 Splendid, laid down 1945 Displacement: 18.980 t light; 20.166 t standard; 21.971 t normal; 23.415 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 706,52 ft / 692,26 ft x 78,74 ft x 28,22 ft (normal load) 215,35 m / 211,00 m x 24,00 m x 8,60 m Armament: 12 - 9,84" / 250 mm guns (4x3 guns), 524,70lbs / 238,00kg shells, 1945 Model Breech loading guns in turrets (on barbettes) on centreline ends, evenly spread, 2 raised mounts - superfiring 12 - 4,92" / 12...
Sloth, laid down 1945 Greed, laid down 1946 Pride, laid down 1946 Lust, laid down 1946 Envy, laid down 1946 Wrath, laid down 1946 Displacement: 1.580 t light; 1.639 t standard; 1.849 t normal; 2.017 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 305,30 ft / 300,20 ft x 37,73 ft x 12,70 ft (normal load) 93,06 m / 91,50 m x 11,50 m x 3,87 m Armament: 1 - 4,92" / 125 mm guns in single mounts, 63,93lbs / 29,00kg shells, 1942 Model Dual purpose gun in a deck mount with hoist on centr...
Disclaimer: Not sure if I posted any of these designs before. So bear with me if it is double or previously posted designs are a bit different. Lost most old data and tried to recover some. You may also get some hindsight of what will continue 1946+, though I maybe will not post reports for those years.
SAE Quarterly Reports No. 100 – October to December 1945 Transfers/Notes: None Factories: 27 factories total can be used. Fixed factories 1 factory fixed to produce infrastructure points in 1945. Flexible factories 25,300ts of material produced this quarter (26 factories). 0 factories will produce infrastructure points this quarter. Material handling 1ts of material transferred from Q3/45. 1502ts of material recovered from scrap yard. 26,803ts of material used this quarter. 701ts of material tra...