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Saturday, November 6th 2004, 4:25am

And a bombardment ship, for operations on rivers and coasts

Any serious coast artillery will send her away, but she'll probably stand up to field artillery:

Bomb-1, Russia Bombardment Ship laid down 1926

Displacement:
1,625 t light; 1,772 t standard; 2,066 t normal; 2,301 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
344.49 ft / 344.49 ft x 42.65 ft x 9.84 ft (normal load)
105.00 m / 105.00 m x 13.00 m x 3.00 m

Armament:
1 - 12.01" / 305 mm guns in single mounts, 1,038.38lbs / 471.00kg shells, 1926 Model
Breech loading gun in deck mount
on centreline aft
2 - 5.12" / 130 mm guns (1x2 guns), 77.16lbs / 35.00kg shells, 1926 Model
Breech loading guns in deck mount
on centreline forward
16 - 1.46" / 37.0 mm guns (4x4 guns), 1.55lbs / 0.70kg shells, 1926 Model
Breech loading guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
4 - 0.30" / 7.6 mm guns in single mounts, 0.01lbs / 0.01kg shells, 1926 Model
Breech loading guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 1,217 lbs / 552 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150

Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 3.94" / 100 mm 147.64 ft / 45.00 m 9.84 ft / 3.00 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Upper: 3.94" / 100 mm 65.62 ft / 20.00 m 6.56 ft / 2.00 m
Main Belt covers 66 % of normal length

- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 2.95" / 75 mm - -
2nd: 0.98" / 25 mm - -
3rd: 0.98" / 25 mm - -

- Armour deck: 0.98" / 25 mm, Conning tower: 3.94" / 100 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 2,772 shp / 2,068 Kw = 16.00 kts
Range 9,300nm at 12.00 kts (Bunkerage = 529 tons)

Complement:
153 - 199

Cost:
£0.611 million / $2.444 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 128 tons, 6.2 %
Armour: 593 tons, 28.7 %
- Belts: 366 tons, 17.7 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 34 tons, 1.7 %
- Armour Deck: 178 tons, 8.6 %
- Conning Tower: 14 tons, 0.7 %
Machinery: 89 tons, 4.3 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 816 tons, 39.5 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 441 tons, 21.3 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
4,410 lbs / 2,000 Kg = 5.1 x 12.0 " / 305 mm shells or 1.5 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.47
Metacentric height 2.7 ft / 0.8 m
Roll period: 10.9 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 70 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.28
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.24

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
Block coefficient: 0.500
Length to Beam Ratio: 8.08 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 18.56 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 34 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 57
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 0.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 11.48 ft / 3.50 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 11.15 ft / 3.40 m
- Mid (50 %): 10.83 ft / 3.30 m (7.55 ft / 2.30 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Stern: 7.55 ft / 2.30 m
- Average freeboard: 9.33 ft / 2.84 m
Ship tends to be wet forward

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 63.5 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 111.3 %
Waterplane Area: 9,789 Square feet or 909 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 115 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 62 lbs/sq ft or 304 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 1.00
- Longitudinal: 1.00
- Overall: 1.00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily

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Saturday, November 6th 2004, 1:54pm

As long as you don't mind using CDS tonnage on such things, it looks fairly good. ;)

I'd have simmed the 130mm guns as 'quick firing'.

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Saturday, November 6th 2004, 4:30pm

Yes, they're CDS tonnage

I plan to use Russian CDS tonnage to build:

2x ~8,000 ton monitors with 4x 305mm

3x ~6,000 ton escort cruisers with 6x 234mm

3x ~1,800 ton bombardment ships, either with 1x 305mm or 2x 254mm.

and maybe another 1,000 ton bombardment ship with 1x 254mm, just to use up the remainder

That should usefully reinforce coast defenses, safeguard Russian convoys from surface raiders, and give Russian armies a bit of extra punch when reducing fortifications along rivers.