It is easier to discuss the drawing if it is at hand....
BBL, laid down 1934
Displacement:
19,043 t light; 20,239 t standard; 22,702 t normal; 24,581 t full load
Loading submergence 986 tons/feet
Dimensions:
590.00 ft x 84.00 ft x 27.50 ft (normal load)
179.83 m x 25.60 m x 8.38 m
Armament:
6 - 14.00" / 356 mm guns (3 Main turrets x 2 guns, 1 superfiring turret)
12 - 4.70" / 119 mm guns (6 2nd turrets x 2 guns)
24 - 1.57" / 40 mm AA guns
Weight of broadside 8,902 lbs / 4,038 kg
Armour:
Belt 12.00" / 305 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 70 % of normal area
Main turrets 13.00" / 330 mm, 2nd turrets 2.00" / 51 mm
Armour deck 5.00" / 127 mm, Conning tower 3.00" / 76 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 77,053 shp / 57,481 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 12,000nm at 15.00 kts
Complement:
924 - 1,202
Cost:
£9.384 million / $37.536 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 1,113 tons, 4.9 %
Armour: 7,209 tons, 31.8 %
Belts: 1,516 tons, 6.7 %, Armament: 2,448 tons, 10.8 %, Armour Deck: 3,194 tons, 14.1 %
Conning Tower: 52 tons, 0.2 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 2,217 tons, 9.8 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 8,504 tons, 37.5 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 3,659 tons, 16.1 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Metacentric height 4.2
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
I think, her turrets/barbets are way too massive and large compared to the rest of the ship. Well, maybe her hull and turrets are in scale but then the superstructure is not. A 14" turret on the weatherdeck (like A or C turret) and thus without much barbet has a high of about 1 1/2 decks normally. I also think the 11,9cm gunhouses are somewhat small and - round what doesn´t look too realistic to me. Her funnels are a little bit too small and low, too.
In general her overall appearance heavily reminds of one of my own designs I posted on the warships1 Design Board some month ago - especially her bridge and attached FC equipement. Looks like we had the same ideas....
The similarities are really striking if one also compares the technical stats like year, armor (especially belt and main guns) or range....
For comparision, here are the full stats of my own design (just for those of you that don´t know both the pic and the stats yet because as I said I already posted this months ago):
Länder Klasse, laid down 1934
Length, 245.0 m x Beam, 28.5 m x Depth, 9.0 m
34214 tonnes normal displacement (31273 tonnes standard)
Main battery: 8 x 33.0-cm (2 x 4)
Secondary battery: 16 x 11.5-cm (8 x 2)
AA battery: 32 x 4.0-cm
Light battery: 24 x 2.0-cm
Weight of broadside: 4356 kg
Main belt, 30.0 cm; ends unarmored
Torpedo bulkhead, 4.0 cm
Armor deck, average 15.0 cm
Conning tower, 33.0 cm
Battery armor:
Main, 33.0 cm / secondary, 4.0 cm
AA, 1.0 cm shields / light guns, 1.0 cm shields
Maximum speed for 132042 shaft kw = 32.50 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 12000 nm / 15 knots
Typical complement: 1258-1635
Estimated cost, $68.624 million (£17.156 million)
Remarks:
Relative extent of belt armor, 92 percent of 'typical' coverage.
Ship is roomy, with superior accommodation and working space.
Distribution of weights:
Percent
normal
displacement:
Armament ......................... 1198 tonnes = 4 pct
Armor, total ..................... 11255 tonnes = 33 pct
Belt 2742 tonnes = 8 pct
Torpedo bulkhead 898 tonnes = 3 pct
Deck 5431 tonnes = 16 pct
C.T. 296 tonnes = 1 pct
Armament 1888 tonnes = 6 pct
Machinery ........................ 4622 tonnes = 14 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment ..... 12615 tonnes = 37 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores ......... 4424 tonnes = 13 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............ 100 tonnes = 0 pct
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34214 tonnes = 100 pct
Estimated metacentric height, 2.0 m
Displacement summary:
Light ship: 29790 tonnes
Standard displacement: 31273 tonnes
Normal service: 34214 tonnes
Full load: 36430 tonnes
Loading submergence 4659 tonnes/metre
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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.24
Shellfire needed to sink: 17452 kg = 35.0 x 33.0-cm shells
(Approximates weight of penetrating
shell hits needed to sink ship,
not counting critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 4.9
(Approximates number of 'typical'
torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform, 50 percent
(50 percent is 'average')
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.37
Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.01
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Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.54
Sharpness coefficient: 0.36
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 7.57
'Natural speed' for length = 28.3 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 53 percent
Estimated hull characteristics and strength:
Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 91 percent
Relative accommodation and working space: 153 percent
Displacement factor: 114 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 1.02
(Structure weight per square
metre of hull surface: 848 kg)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.04
(for 6.20 m average freeboard;
freeboard adjustment +0.30 m)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.02
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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
803.60 x 93.48 x 29.52; 20.34 -- Dimensions
0.54 -- Block coefficient
1942 -- Year laid down
32.50 / 12000 / 15.00; Oil-fired turbine or equivalent -- Speed / radius / cruise
100 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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8 x 12.99; 2; 0 -- Main battery; turrets; superfiring
:
16 x 4.53; 8 -- Secondary battery; turrets
:
32 x 1.57 -- Tertiary (QF/AA) battery
:
24 x 0.79 -- Fourth (light) battery
0 -- No torpedo armament
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11.81 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 1.57; 92 -- Belt armor; relative extent
5.91 / 12.99 -- Deck / CT
12.99 / 1.57 / 0.00 / 0.00 -- Battery armor
(Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)
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