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Very nice indeed

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Thank ye kindly

Here is Scheme "D" as it "might have been refit in 1937":



A stern catapult and aircraft crane was added.

The aft 5"/51 on the 0-1/boat deck was removed and 6-5"/25s were added along with 6-3"/50s on the 0-2 deck.

The 1pdrs were replaced with 50cal BMGs.

And an anti-aircraft platform was added above the main observation platform.

Stay tuned there is more to come.

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Those midship deck torpedo mounts are a disaster waiting to happen. I can't see the US Navy putting them there.

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Where would you put them then. The ship was originally speced for 6 TTs, 2 submerged and 4 on deck.

I should have removed them during the refit . . . thanks, I think I'll do just that.

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Yup, get rid of them. I think the Germans were the only ones who kept torpedoes with Tirpitz. We removed ours during refits.

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CanisD,

Check out the drawing above . . . the TTs are gone. . . oops, that reminds me I've yet to remove the two submerged tubes. Doing so now.

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Much better. Its good not to have easily "explodey" bits out in the open, especially near the midships where most shells tend to land.

This design always struck me as a bit strange, with the long low hull. To me that would make her quite a wet design in a seaway but I guess weight considerations came first.

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Underwater TTs would have been removed by the mid 30s, so no reason to draw them. The Atlanta class CL was the only class of ships larger than a destroyer to have TTs during WWII. Why have 76mm guns when you have 5 inch guns? No American BB had a combination of the two in the 30s. A few had them instead of the 1.1 inch due to a shortage of the latter. That was in 1941 and 42. And as a sidenote, all American battleships from the South Carolina to the Iowa were very wet ships, especially at the bow.

Very nice work!

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