Texas was laid down in 1911 but not completed until 1914. Jupiter which became the Langley was completed in 1913. Texas has a good argument, but I've always...
I think you are correct, with USS Constitution taking second, and first place as oldest fit for sea (they take it out in the harbor every now and again). As an...
The best explanation is a book called (IIRC) British Battleships, 1860-88 discussing conventional thought on design. Essentially cruisers especially commerce...
... Very true. For the USN try BB-33 USS Arkansas, launched 14 January 1911. Or for an auxiliary: ARG-1 USS Ogala, launched 29 Jan 1907, sunk at Pearl Harbor,...
... Which supports a notion I've been wrestling with for years: just because a particular weapon can, in theory, fire X rounds per minute does not mean that in...
... No I don't, but I just looked it up and it looks good. I'll add it to my shopping list. Thanks. ... Yup, that's what I gathered. Illustrations in several...
... anyway, was that it's better to focus on to-hit probabilities rather than raw rounds-fired-per-turn. I couldn't agree more. I've been involved in many...
... As you mention, the protective deck concept was born in a time of short range engagements with fairly flat trajectories. As you can see in a drawing, the...
DLF wrote - I'm just scratching my head over where the design philosophy was going. In a nutshell, I'm wondering: did the curved/sloped deck armour provide...
DM wrote - I couldn't agree more. I've been involved in many trials over the last few years featuring weapons with fearsome rates of fire and where the...
There is [IMO] a telling statement found in the after-action report of one of the British CL's that participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight [Nov...
This is something that I've struggled with in terms of armor ratings for SK5 (there's a bunch of messages on protective decks in the SK5 Yahoo groups archive)....
Harry, I agree with your description of the general state of affairs within Russia at that time. There are complaints about poor quality of Russian ammunition...
... ... which illustrates another notion I've been wrestling with: Just because one specific operator/gunner can hit the target X times out of Y rounds fired,...
... Thanks for this explanation. The books I'd been reading, I think, hinted at this but never quite came out and said it clearly. ... This gives me some good...
... Age of sail ships (at least those form the late XVIII to mid XIX centuries) had copper covered magazines for safe storage of powder. Crewmen working there...
Byron: I know that a few of the Russian ships where actual built in both France as well as the United Kingdom, and some where more "modern" than the...
... by the ... had deck ... Just my two cents to the discussion. The outboard ends of the armored deck were often sloped down, this increased the effective...
http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n217/gallopingjack/Art%20Work/ This is my latest painting. It shows the Battleship PARIS arriving at LeHavre in June 1940...
Mal: How much did she contribute to the defense of the city? I've been working on and off over a couple of years on an update of the Europa series game Fall...
Its very difficult to find much information in English Peter. The only references I can find relate to her being given a hasty upgrade of AA ability, along...
There's a few standard rules of naval construction as I understand it. Flat trajectory- ships built before understanding on how plunging fire worked usually...
... The diagram didn't format correctly when the message posted, so I uploaded a file titled 'armored deck' so you can see what I was trying to show. It's in...
Harry wrote - ... well as the United Kingdom, and some were more "modern" than the Japanese. ... not mention it.) left such an impression that the rules I...
