Now
this is a real kick-ass battlecruiser
Powerful, Battlecruiser laid down 1936
Displacement:
36,768 t light; 38,305 t standard; 40,811 t normal; 42,653 t full load
Loading submergence 1,697 tons/feet
Dimensions:
867.50 ft x 105.00 ft x 29.70 ft (normal load)
264.41 m x 32.00 m x 9.05 m
Armament:
9 - 12.00" / 305 mm guns (3 Main turrets x 3 guns, 1 superfiring turret)
12 - 5.12" / 130 mm guns (6 2nd turrets x 2 guns)
32 - 1.56" / 40 mm AA guns
Weight of broadside 8,642 lbs / 3,920 kg
Armour:
Belt 7.00" / 178 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 107 % of normal area
Main turrets 9.50" / 241 mm
Armour deck 5.00" / 127 mm, Conning tower 3.00" / 76 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 2.00" / 51 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 289,362 shp / 215,864 Kw = 36.00 kts
Range 4,500nm at 20.00 kts
Complement:
1,435 - 1,866
Cost:
£17.563 million / $70.253 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 1,080 tons, 2.6 %
Armour: 11,192 tons, 27.4 %
Belts: 2,172 tons, 5.3 %, Armament: 2,211 tons, 5.4 %, Armour Deck: 5,492 tons, 13.5 %
Conning Tower: 77 tons, 0.2 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 1,239 tons, 3.0 %
Machinery: 8,119 tons, 19.9 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 16,377 tons, 40.1 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 4,043 tons, 9.9 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Metacentric height 6.7
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
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: 1.12
Shellfire needed to sink: 43,471 lbs / 19,718 Kg = 50.3 x 12.0 " / 305 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 5.2
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 71 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.43
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.15
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.528
Sharpness coefficient: 0.36
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 7.71
'Natural speed' for length: 29.45 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 56 %
Trim: 62
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 105.6 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 236.4 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 113 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.97
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 180 lbs / square foot or 881 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.34
(for 30.00 ft / 9.14 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 9.94 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.00