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Saturday, July 26th 2003, 2:41am

El Cid revisited

Ok, I'll leave the quads alone for the time being ...

El Cid, Iberia Armoured Cruiser laid down 1920

Displacement:
22,531 t light; 23,533 t standard; 25,389 t normal; 26,772 t full load
Loading submergence 1,244 tons/feet

Dimensions:
738.19 ft x 88.58 ft x 24.93 ft (normal load)
225.00 m x 27.00 m x 7.60 m

Armament:
12 - 9.45" / 240 mm guns (4 Main turrets x 3 guns, 2 superfiring turrets)
12 - 5.12" / 130 mm guns (4 2nd turrets x 3 guns)
12 - 2.24" / 57 mm AA guns
Weight of broadside 5,934 lbs / 2,692 kg
8 - 23.6" / 600 mm above water torpedoes

Armour:
Belt 9.06" / 230 mm, upper belt 5.91" / 150 mm, end belts 3.94" / 100 mm
Belts cover 88 % of normal area
Main turrets 9.06" / 230 mm, 2nd turrets 0.79" / 20 mm
AA gun shields 0.79" / 20 mm
Armour deck 1.97" / 50 mm, Conning tower 5.91" / 150 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 3 shafts, 144,431 shp / 107,745 Kw = 32.00 kts
Range 10,000nm at 13.00 kts

Complement:
1,005 - 1,307

Cost:
£5.008 million / $20.031 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 742 tons, 2.9 %
Armour: 6,630 tons, 26.1 %
Belts: 3,012 tons, 11.9 %, Armament: 1,922 tons, 7.6 %, Armour Deck: 1,586 tons, 6.2 %
Conning Tower: 110 tons, 0.4 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 5,050 tons, 19.9 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 10,109 tons, 39.8 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,858 tons, 11.3 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Metacentric height 4.3

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: 1.02
Shellfire needed to sink: 31,091 lbs / 14,103 Kg = 73.7 x 9.4 " / 240 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 2.9
(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: 0.48
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.03

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.545
Sharpness coefficient: 0.37
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 7.68
'Natural speed' for length: 27.17 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 54 %
Trim: 68
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 87.6 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 169.3 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 112 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 1.00
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 157 lbs / square foot or 766 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.11
(for 22.97 ft / 7.00 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 4.72 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.01