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 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
 Post subject: Re: The Isle of California Posted: July 23rd, 2016, 4:12 pm 

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Five ships of the British Royal Navy would have been named HMS Isis when the purchase happened, after the Egyptian goddess Isis. The first Isis was a 50-gun fourth-rate probably launched in 1744 as Colchester. The second HMS Isis (1747) was the French ship Diamant captured in 1747 and converted to a...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
 Post subject: HMS Isis Posted: July 23rd, 2016, 12:32 am 

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https://i.imgur.com/XWKz4FF.png Isis -class fast battleships Displacement: 36,000 tons normal; 38,250 tons full load Dimensions: 229 x 31 x 8.75 metres Propulsion: Steam turbines, 36 boilers (28 coal, 8 oil), 4 shafts, 100,000 shp, 27.5 knots Crew: 1,693 (war) Armament: 4 dual 38cm/45, 18 single 14...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: US Nicholas-Class Destroyer

Voyager989
 Post subject: Re: US Nicholas-Class Destroyer Posted: July 18th, 2016, 3:21 pm 

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Those... are not illustrations of the same ship design.

The 2200 tonner has 5"/51 guns, a whaleback bow, and a completely different superstructure than what she's drawn, being ten years earlier, at least, from the WoWs ship...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: CVA-01

Voyager989
 Post subject: Re: CVA-01 Posted: March 26th, 2016, 3:35 pm 

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(Photobucket has very aggressive caching of images to save their bandwidth, you may have to clear your image cache for the updated image to show up.)

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
 Post subject: Re: The Isle of California Posted: March 7th, 2016, 2:31 am 

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She has about three feet less freeboard at the stem than Iowa, with more hydrodynamic 'lift' to her bow, but I suppose some wetness at speed will be expected without more sheer. As to the portholes, they're still present on most European designs of the period, at least on the upper parts of the soft...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
 Post subject: HIMS Nargun Posted: March 1st, 2016, 6:33 pm 

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https://i.imgur.com/v3w1LT5.png HIMS Nargun , third of a quartet of battleships designed on the assumption that the naval arms limitation treaties would not long survive the resumption of warship construction. The outbreak of the long-awaited war to the knife with the Empire Japan less than a year ...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
 Post subject: HIMS Nargun Posted: February 18th, 2016, 1:32 pm 

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Depreciated content.

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: The Isle of California

Voyager989
[ Jump to post ] Posted: February 18th, 2016, 3:54 am 

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Depreciated content.

 Forum: Off Topic  Topic: Renovation of a Scottish-Dutch steam engine

Voyager989
 Post subject: Re: Renovation of a Scottish-Dutch steam engine Posted: December 11th, 2015, 12:15 am 

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Impressive!

How long had it sat idle before your group got your hands on it? I assume most of the parts are refurbished, too, with occasional machining of things beyond salvage? That's a lot of bronze bearing surface!

 Forum: Off Topic  Topic: Rule The Waves (PC Naval Design/Sim Game)

Voyager989
 Post subject: Rule The Waves (PC Naval Design/Sim Game) Posted: December 10th, 2015, 8:52 pm 

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I tried searching and didn't see a thread about this before, so. http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo.net/ruwaddo.html Rule the Waves is a graphics-light simulation-heavy game that lets you design your own vessels as a 'Grand Admiral' of one of the Great powers (or user-created nation) during the...
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