Now folks, if somebody tried to sell you _this_ as a treaty cruiser I would agree that you had grounds to get a mite suspicious ;->
Bernhard
Enter ship name, Iberia CA laid down 1924
Displacement:
18,553 t light; 19,335 t standard; 21,304 t normal; 22,794 t full load
Loading submergence 1,014 tons/feet
Dimensions:
738.19 ft x 75.46 ft x 26.25 ft (normal load)
225.00 m x 23.00 m x 8.00 m
Armament:
12 - 8.27" / 210 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 4,263 lbs / 1,934 kg
16 - 23.6" / 600 mm above water torpedoes
Armour:
Belt 8.27" / 210 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 94 % of normal area
Main turrets 8.27" / 210 mm, 2nd turrets 3.54" / 90 mm
AA gun shields 0.79" / 20 mm
Armour deck 3.15" / 80 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 140,668 shp / 104,938 Kw = 33.00 kts
Range 9,000nm at 15.00 kts
Complement:
881 - 1,146
Cost:
£5.396 million / $21.583 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 533 tons, 2.5 %
Armour: 5,344 tons, 25.1 %
Belts: 1,597 tons, 7.5 %, Armament: 1,680 tons, 7.9 %, Armour Deck: 2,067 tons, 9.7 %
Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 4,633 tons, 21.7 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 8,043 tons, 37.8 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,750 tons, 12.9 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Metacentric height 3.3
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: 1.00
Shellfire needed to sink: 23,642 lbs / 10,724 Kg = 83.7 x 8.3 " / 210 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 3.7
(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: 0.56
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.06
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.510
Sharpness coefficient: 0.34
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 8.15
'Natural speed' for length: 27.17 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 53 %
Trim: 66
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 90.3 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 122.6 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 113 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 1.00
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 140 lbs / square foot or 686 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.08
(for 21.33 ft / 6.50 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 3.71 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.01