I played around with SS and came up with this steam corvette, Is 80tpns extra weigth enough for rigging?
Is this a good sailing/steamship sim?
Kronprins Oscar, Sweden steamcorvette laid down 1871
Broadside ironclad
Displacement:
3 889 t light; 4 142 t standard; 4 210 t normal; 4 248 t full load
Loading submergence 267 tons/feet
Dimensions:
278,87 ft x 52,49 ft x 19,69 ft (normal load)
85,00 m x 16,00 m x 6,00 m
Armament:
6 - 8,00" / 203 mm guns
8 - 6,00" / 152 mm guns
12 - 3,94" / 100 mm guns
10 - 2,24" / 57 mm guns
Weight of broadside 2 019 lbs / 916 kg
Armour:
Belt 6,00" / 152 mm, upper belt 2,00" / 51 mm, end belts 4,00" / 102 mm
Belts cover 85 % of normal area
Main guns 8,00" / 203 mm, 2nd guns 4,00" / 102 mm
3rd guns 1,00" / 25 mm
Machinery:
Coal fired boilers, simple reciprocating steam engines,
Direct drive, 1 shaft, 1 852 ihp / 1 381 Kw = 12,00 kts
Range 800nm at 7,00 kts
Complement:
261 - 339
Cost:
£0,410 million / $1,641 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 252 tons, 6,0 %
Armour: 1 008 tons, 24,0 %
Belts: 574 tons, 13,6 %, Armament: 434 tons, 10,3 %, Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0,0 %
Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0,0 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0,0 %
Machinery: 445 tons, 10,6 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 2 104 tons, 50,0 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 321 tons, 7,6 %
Miscellaneous weights: 80 tons, 1,9 %
Metacentric height 2,7
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Excellent seaboat, comfortable and able to fight her guns in the heaviest weather
Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1,20
Shellfire needed to sink: 4 465 lbs / 2 025 Kg = 24,4 x 8,0 " / 203 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0,9
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 50 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0,45
Relative quality as seaboat: 2,00
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0,511
Sharpness coefficient: 0,41
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 5,28
'Natural speed' for length: 16,70 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 34 %
Trim: 25
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 82,9 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 175,1 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 105 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0,84
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 127 lbs / square foot or 620 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 4,88
(for 19,69 ft / 6,00 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 6,95 ft,
freeboard does not include high bulwarks or spar deck)
Relative composite hull strength: 1,00