Well done, Red Admiral came quite close and Walter finally got it right. :o)
"infamous hexa mount" ?!?!?! ;o)
Walter, I´ve not tried to draw her in a larger scale and size her down. The reason is that I made quite a number of drawings yet and they are all of perfectly the same scale. That´s why I keep it that way. Drawing them in a larger scale and trying to size the pic down afterwards would result in a slightly different scale making a comparison impossible.
Btw, she was not rebuild in 1935. The linedrawing shows her like she will look in 1935 but laid down she was in 1933. The comment was meant to give an idea when she was build.
So here are her stats:
Flotillenführer 33, South African Leader laid down 1933
Displacement:
2.397 t light; 2.493 t standard; 2.869 t normal; 3.158 t full load
Loading submergence 303 tons/feet
Dimensions:
442,91 ft x 44,29 ft x 12,80 ft (normal load)
135,00 m x 13,50 m x 3,90 m
Armament:
6 - 5,24" / 133 mm guns (3 Main turrets x 2 guns, 1 superfiring turret)
12 - 1,57" / 40 mm AA guns
22 - 0,79" / 20 mm guns
Weight of broadside 460 lbs / 208 kg
8 - 21,0" / 533 mm above water torpedoes
Armour:
Main turrets 1,57" / 40 mm, AA gun shields 0,98" / 25 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 55.000 shp / 41.030 Kw = 34,18 kts
Range 4.000nm at 18,00 kts
Complement:
195 - 254
Cost:
£1,571 million / $6,286 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 57 tons, 2,0%
Armour: 81 tons, 2,8%
Belts: 0 tons, 0,0%, Armament: 81 tons, 2,8%, Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0,0%
Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0,0%, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0,0%
Machinery: 1.430 tons, 49,9%
Hull, fittings & equipment: 829 tons, 28,9%
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 471 tons, 16,4%
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0,0%
Metacentric height 2,3
Remarks:
Caution: Light-weight hull structure.
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is cramped.
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent.
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform.
Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1,29
Shellfire needed to sink: 767 lbs / 348 Kg = 10,7 x 5,2 " / 133 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0,4
(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: 0,35
Relative quality as seaboat: 1,00
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0,400
Sharpness coefficient: 0,30
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 9,53
'Natural speed' for length: 21,05 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 62 %
Trim: 70
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 176,3%
Relative accommodation and working space: 122,4%
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 77%
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0,51
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 44 lbs / square foot or 213 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 0,89
(for 16,40 ft / 5,00 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 4,61 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 0,54