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 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 23rd, 2014, 3:47 am 

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Ok. (Real reason, i didn't like the way it looked.)

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 23rd, 2014, 1:47 am 

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These 3 cruisers, the Savage, Fearless, and Grizzly classes, were designed primarily as escorts for merchant vessels and support ships, and to a lesser extent, commerce raiding of their own. When acting as escorts they were frequently the flagship of the escort group made up of DD's and smaller vess...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 21st, 2014, 3:46 am 

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Fearless reimagined. Essentially repeats of the Savage Class with 4" secondaries removed, 2-pdr replaced with 40mm, and the forward main changed from 1 x triple 6 to 2 x twin 6

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 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 20th, 2014, 4:15 am 

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I don't know why you want to move the catapult to the deck, there's a reason why most navies had them amidships. USN practice kicked it to the fantail because of a lack of priority for it, in part because not only did we have carriers fairly early on, but some pretty large ones (other than escort c...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 20th, 2014, 3:27 am 

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My biggest question is, if you need to move the catapult to the fantail because of the trunked funnel, why bother with the trunked funnel in the first place? The whole point is to free up deck space, not sacrifice it. Because I wanted to find a reasonable reason to move the catapult? And like trunk...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 20th, 2014, 12:36 am 

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After the Savage Class, an slightly enlarged version was built in 2 different styles, one class with 5 x 5"/38 twin turrets and one class with 4 x 6"/50 twin turrets. With the trunked funnel, the single catapult was moved aft, the first GHRN cruiser with the catapult on the stern instead of midships...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 16th, 2014, 2:10 am 

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next up, try and do a springsharp on it and see if I have a warship or a brick. yeah, I know, doing it backwards.

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 12th, 2014, 4:09 am 

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Modernizations - yes. Top view - probably not. I rarely do top views.

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 12th, 2014, 2:36 am 

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a bit more

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 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Grays Harbor Designs

Zephyr
 Post subject: Re: Grays Harbor Designs Posted: April 7th, 2014, 12:55 pm 

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Yes, it is rounded. And you're right, they should be. Somehow I managed to forget that. Getting old sucks. LOL I'll fix that.
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