Hello,
This is a proposal of the USS North Carolina (BB-55) as proposed in 1937, the year she was laid down:
![[ img ]](https://i.imgur.com/vCrM1St.png)
Any mistakes, please do tell!
Thank You!
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| Author: | dalamace [ February 22nd, 2021, 5:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | US Never Built Battleships |
Hello, This is a proposal of the USS North Carolina (BB-55) as proposed in 1937, the year she was laid down: Any mistakes, please do tell! Thank You! |
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| Author: | eswube [ February 22nd, 2021, 7:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
No idea about mistakes, but the drawing looks impressive. Keep up the good work on the US never-weres. |
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| Author: | Rob2012 [ February 23rd, 2021, 12:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
Are those 18inch guns? |
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| Author: | dalamace [ February 23rd, 2021, 9:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
Thanks! And those are 16" guns, the same one that has been adopted in the real ship. Here is the proposal with the 14" guns as proposed. I have realised and misread the blueprint. The rest should be exact or at least similar. ![[ img ]](https://i.imgur.com/NQsHhLG.png)
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| Author: | dalamace [ March 31st, 2021, 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
Hello, New ship, this time a probable napkinwaffe type design as envisioned by apparently Admiral King and Admiral Nimitz. This is an Iowa-class battleship as redesigned in 1946 to increased anti-aircraft firepower. ![[ img ]](https://i.imgur.com/ZiYdO6N.png) Thank You! |
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| Author: | emperor_andreas [ March 31st, 2021, 1:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
I love that design...the length and beauty of the Iowa hull combined with the squat superstructure of the SoDaks. That big funnel is awesome! |
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| Author: | Hood [ April 4th, 2021, 8:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
That is an interesting proposal and not bad looking at all with the single funnel. Plenty of AA firepower too. |
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| Author: | erik_t [ April 4th, 2021, 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
One wonders if this rather more cramped arrangement would have as long an active career in the postwar US Navy. |
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| Author: | dalamace [ April 5th, 2021, 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
The looks of it is certainly more handsome but I think there would be lower amounts of modernisations capabilities beyond simply just tearing the whole thing apart or rebuilding structures. |
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| Author: | Steampower1 [ August 31st, 2021, 11:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: US Never Built Battleships |
Interesting. I always thought the US should have built a pair of "Fast Battleships after the London treaty expired. A fast North Caroline with 9 x 14" guns. Something to beat S& G or a captured Dunkirk. Same armor but at least 30 knots. Also I checked "US Battleship"s by Norman Friedman. Page 263 shiows the NC design with 12 x 14" in three turrets but a single funnel set back from the conning tower |
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