As you can see less armour and comes in just on the treaty mark of 40,000tons i been thinking of building 5 of them to replace both my 2 Queens and 3 older 13.5 BBs
Nelson, UK AUST Battleship laid down 1929
Displacement:
37,806 t light; 40,000 t standard; 43,192 t normal; 45,573 t full load
Loading submergence 1,659 tons/feet
Dimensions:
726.81 ft x 106.50 ft x 30.00 ft (normal load)
221.53 m x 32.46 m x 9.14 m
Armament:
9 - 15.00" / 381 mm guns (3 Main turrets x 3 guns, 1 superfiring turret)
Main turrets are grouped together
12 - 5.00" / 127 mm guns (6 2nd turrets x 2 guns)
10 - 1.56" / 40 mm AA guns
15 - 0.80" / 20 mm guns
Weight of broadside 15,960 lbs / 7,239 kg
Armour:
Belt 15.00" / 381 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 89 % of normal area
Main belt does not fully protect magazines and engineering spaces
Main turrets 15.00" / 381 mm, 2nd turrets 4.00" / 102 mm
AA gun shields 1.00" / 25 mm, Light gun shields 1.00" / 25 mm
Armour deck 5.00" / 127 mm, Conning tower 15.00" / 381 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 2.50" / 64 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 160,240 shp / 119,539 Kw = 29.66 kts
Range 24,000nm at 10.00 kts
Complement:
1,498 - 1,947
Cost:
£14.752 million / $59.009 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 1,995 tons, 4.6 %
Armour: 14,800 tons, 34.3 %
Belts: 3,346 tons, 7.7 %, Armament: 4,373 tons, 10.1 %, Armour Deck: 5,370 tons, 12.4 %
Conning Tower: 400 tons, 0.9 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 1,311 tons, 3.0 %
Machinery: 4,921 tons, 11.4 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 16,090 tons, 37.3 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 5,386 tons, 12.5 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Metacentric height 5.5
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.00
Shellfire needed to sink: 45,912 lbs / 20,825 Kg = 27.2 x 15.0 " / 381 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 6.5
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 67 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.64
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.00
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.651
Sharpness coefficient: 0.43
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 6.34
'Natural speed' for length: 26.96 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 57 %
Trim: 67
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 90.1 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 176.4 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 106 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.96
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 200 lbs / square foot or 976 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.41
(for 23.90 ft / 7.28 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 3.61 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.00