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Ville d'Alger and Ville d'Oran, French Mediterranean Liner laid down 1935[/SIZE]
Ville d'Alger and her sistership
Ville d'Oran are the largest French liners in the Mediterranean. They connect Marseille and Algeria in twenty hours.
Displacement:
7,655 t light; 7,859 t standard; 10,197 t normal; 12,067 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
463.19 ft / 447.83 ft x 63.09 ft x 22.97 ft (normal load)
141.18 m / 136.50 m x 19.23 m x 7.00 m
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 18,954 shp / 14,140 Kw = 21.00 kts
Range 12,000nm at 18.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 4,208 tons
Complement:
506 - 659
Cost:
£1.748 million / $6.991 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 538 tons, 5.3 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 2,917 tons, 28.6 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,542 tons, 24.9 %
Miscellaneous weights: 4,200 tons, 41.2 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
19,359 lbs / 8,781 Kg = 179.3 x 6 " / 152 mm shells or 2.7 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.05
Metacentric height 2.7 ft / 0.8 m
Roll period: 16.0 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 50 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.00
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 2.00
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has a flush deck
Block coefficient: 0.550
Length to Beam Ratio: 7.10 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 21.16 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 48 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 25
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 15.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 32.81 ft / 10.00 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 27.89 ft / 8.50 m
- Mid (50 %): 22.97 ft / 7.00 m
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 22.97 ft / 7.00 m
- Stern: 26.25 ft / 8.00 m
- Average freeboard: 25.33 ft / 7.72 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 62.8 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 178.9 %
Waterplane Area: 19,718 Square feet or 1,832 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 193 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 82 lbs/sq ft or 398 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.88
- Longitudinal: 3.47
- Overall: 1.01
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Excellent seaboat, comfortable, rides out heavy weather easily
Breakdown of Miscellaneous Weights:
- 1800 tons for 200 1st-Class Passengers
- 1600 tons for 400 2nd-Class Passengers
- 800 tons for amenities
Luxuries:
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool and lido deck
- First Class cafe and salon
- Second Class cafe and salon
- Cinema
- Air conditioning
Notes:
- Range is actually 5,000nm at 18.00 kts; 2473 tons of deep-stowed cargo or ballast simmed as bunker fuel.
- Briefly borrowed as troopship during the 1937 Morocco Crisis
- Second dummy funnel removed 1941
- Radio-teledection system added as navigational and anti-collision warning system