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 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Salamis - Pre-design

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 Post subject: Re: Salamis - Pre-design Posted: November 30th, 2016, 4:22 pm 

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KonPtol " three Salamis-class battleships,one Lorraine class from France and one Queen Elizabeth class from GB." Five? A lot for Greece. Over what period? Or did Cavvadias mean three battleships? Translation can produce difficulties sometimes.

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: British Battlecruiser Tiger

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 Post subject: Re: British Battlecruiser Tiger Posted: November 4th, 2016, 9:25 am 

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seeker. I agree modernising Tiger had little chance, but you have your decade wrong.
Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929.

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: British Battlecruiser Tiger

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 Post subject: Re: British Battlecruiser Tiger Posted: November 3rd, 2016, 9:50 am 

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@Magus "If they'd kept Tiger around as the training ship instead of Iron Duke" When deciding what to keep as a training ship when complying with London 1930, the RN is looking for economy, not planning what might be converted for a war with Germany and Japan in 1940. Tiger with 100,000shp was a cost...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: British Battlecruiser Tiger

smurf
 Post subject: Re: British Battlecruiser Tiger Posted: November 2nd, 2016, 8:09 pm 

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Remember Tiger was coal fired, and had done much high speed steaming with the battlecruiser force throughout the war.
She would need to be re-engined with oil-firing to be much use, and still had much used 13.5in guns.

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Project 66 Heavy cruiser

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 Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser Posted: October 21st, 2016, 9:18 pm 

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The USSR was also concerned about the high rate of fire of the Des Moines class 8in, which is why they wanted to outrange them.

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Project 66 Heavy cruiser

smurf
 Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiser Posted: October 21st, 2016, 10:18 am 

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If I remember the discussion on the old Warships Projects site, these ships with 220mm guns were intended to outrange the US 8in cruisers, but were abandoned when it was realised that at the ranges contemplated, the magazines would be empty before enough hits were likely to be scored.

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Some British WW1 destroyers

smurf
 Post subject: Re: Some British WW1 destroyers Posted: October 12th, 2016, 12:25 pm 

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There are detailed line drawings to scale from the Ships' Covers in March's book on British destroyers. The original scale plans vary: 1/16, 1/8,1/4in = 1ft. Sadly for Shipbucket purposes the profiles are all (I think) centreline internal, so no help with hull shading, though there are hull cross se...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: King George V class battleships

smurf
 Post subject: Re: King George V class battleships Posted: September 21st, 2016, 3:15 pm 

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My 'competition' comment was a bit tongue in cheek. My real reason for posting was the sentence in the blurb: "His main concentration was on features differentiating ships of the same class and, wherever possible, precisely dating alterations to their appearance, all portrayed in exquisite multi-col...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: King George V class battleships

smurf
 Post subject: Re: King George V class battleships Posted: September 21st, 2016, 10:07 am 

Replies: 38
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You've got competition!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Warshi ... 75D30ZGYWY

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Japanese Destroyer Yukikaze

smurf
 Post subject: Re: Japanese Destroyer Yukikaze Posted: August 24th, 2016, 8:30 am 

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The important things to standardize don't get on to your drawing - ammunition and gun drill.
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