Posts: 25 Joined: March 6th, 2017, 12:43 pm
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Welcome everybody, as it is my first post here!
After a bit of lurking, I finally decided to try and draw a ship to the bucket's format.
I chose a design of one of my ships from Rule the Waves game link with my mod that added Polish-Lithuanian-Cossack Commonwealth (PLK Commonwealth for short )
This mod assumes that Poland survived end of XVIII century through Kosciuszko's miraculous victory over Russians in 1792. Later PLKC took part in Napoleonic Wars, at first on Napoleon's side (taking what was lost in Ist partition to Austria and majority of Livonia from Russia), and then on Coalition's side, getting it's share of spoils (french colony of Trinidad). Near the end of XIXth century PLKC decided to support kingdom of Madagascar against French, resulting in Madagascar becoming protectorate and fifth part of the Commonwealth.
Ok, enough of backstory. ORP Mazowsze, you see below is a member of 3 ship Inflanty-class (OORP Inflanty, Mazowsze, Litwa). Ships were constructed 1898-1900 in yards in Ventspils, Riga and Gdansk with the help of UK naval architects. All three served with distinction in French war (1901)and Long War (against Austria-Hungary 1904-6) during which ORP Mazowsze became famous for her forays into Adriatic, one of which resulted in Battle of Cape Rodon (14/15 I 1906) where in chaotic night-time engagement she was pitched against squadron of 2 battleships, 3 cruisers and 6 TBDs. Of those, she managed to sink 5 TBDs and damage 2 cruisers, coming back to friendly bases in German Tunisia with only minor damage. Soon after that, in 1907 with first battlecruisers arriving from Vickers shipyards, class was relegated to second line duties and served in such roles in Ist War of Franco-Russian Aliance (1910-14) rarely operating outside Gulf of Riga. After the war, they were left mothballed until 1917, when Inflanty and Litwa were scrapped and Mazowsze became museum ship, permanently anchored in Gdansk.
Is the format ok for ShipBucket guidelines?
I used some of the parts sheets (UK boats, four inch guns etc) and was drawing it using Bombhead's HMS Aboukir cruiser as template for underwater hull (as Cressy-class is the closest in displacement to my ship), I also used part of his secondary casamates.
How should I properly credit him? With &: '(Archelaos & Bombhead)', with '\' or maybe '(Archelaos) (with parts from Bombhead)'?
If you have any comments to ship's design, I'd love to read them!
Edit: stats should be in spoiler tags, but it seem to not work
Design stats, based on the stats in game, but refined in SpringSharp.
[spoiler] ORP Inflanty, PLK Commonwealth Armored Cruiser laid down 1898
Displacement:
10 527 t light; 11 034 t standard; 12 050 t normal; 12 863 t full load
Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
(478,99 ft / 471,49 ft) x 72,51 ft x (23,49 / 24,71 ft)
(146,00 m / 143,71 m) x 22,10 m x (7,16 / 7,53 m)
Armament:
4 - 8,66" / 220 mm 47,0 cal guns - 337,96lbs / 153,29kg shells, 140 per gun
Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts, 1898 Model
2 x 2-gun mounts on centreline, evenly spread
12 - 6,00" / 152 mm 45,0 cal guns - 108,92lbs / 49,41kg shells, 170 per gun
Breech loading guns in casemate mounts, 1898 Model
12 x Single mounts on sides, evenly spread
12 hull mounts in casemates- Limited use in heavy seas
8 - 4,00" / 102 mm 45,0 cal guns - 32,27lbs / 14,64kg shells, 250 per gun
Quick firing guns in casemate mounts, 1898 Model
8 x Single mounts on sides, evenly spread
4 raised mounts
4 hull mounts in casemates- Limited use in heavy seas
Weight of broadside 2 917 lbs / 1 323 kg
2 - 12,0" / 305 mm, 12,00 ft / 3,66 m torpedoes - 0,202 t each, 0,405 t total
In 2 sets of submerged side tubes
4 - 12,0" / 305 mm, 12,00 ft / 3,66 m torpedoes - 0,202 t each, 0,810 t total
In 2 sets of below water reloads
Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 4,92" / 125 mm 341,21 ft / 104,00 m 10,17 ft / 3,10 m
Ends: 2,95" / 75 mm 130,28 ft / 39,71 m 6,56 ft / 2,00 m
Upper: 2,95" / 75 mm 229,66 ft / 70,00 m 8,01 ft / 2,44 m
Main Belt covers 111% of normal length
Main belt does not fully cover magazines and engineering spaces
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 5,00" / 127 mm 3,94" / 100 mm 5,00" / 127 mm
2nd: 1,77" / 45 mm - -
- Armoured deck - multiple decks: 1,97" / 50 mm For and Aft decks
Forecastle: 0,98" / 25 mm Quarter deck: 0,98" / 25 mm
- Conning towers: Forward 4,92" / 125 mm, Aft 0,00" / 0 mm
Machinery:
Coal fired boilers, complex reciprocating steam engines,
Direct drive, 2 shafts, 24 783 ihp / 18 488 Kw = 22,00 kts
Range 4 200nm at 12,00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 1 829 tons (100% coal)
Complement:
574 - 747
Cost:
£1,135 million / $4,538 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 637 tons, 5,3%
- Guns: 635 tons, 5,3%
- Torpedoes: 1 tons, 0,0%
Armour: 2 247 tons, 18,6%
- Belts: 1 067 tons, 8,9%
- Armament: 322 tons, 2,7%
- Armour Deck: 802 tons, 6,7%
- Conning Tower: 56 tons, 0,5%
Machinery: 3 997 tons, 33,2%
Hull, fittings & equipment: 3 646 tons, 30,3%
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 1 523 tons, 12,6%
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0,0%
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
10 352 lbs / 4 696 Kg = 31,9 x 8,7 " / 220 mm shells or 1,4 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1,47
Metacentric height 6,0 ft / 1,8 m
Roll period: 12,5 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 100 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0,38
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 2,00
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has a flush deck,
a ram bow and a cruiser stern
Block coefficient (normal/deep): 0,525 / 0,533
Length to Beam Ratio: 6,50 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 21,71 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 49 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 50
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): -17,80 degrees
Stern overhang: 7,50 ft / 2,29 m
Freeboard (% = length of deck as a percentage of waterline length):
Fore end, Aft end
- Forecastle: 17,00%, 25,00 ft / 7,62 m, 22,16 ft / 6,75 m
- Forward deck: 30,00%, 22,16 ft / 6,75 m, 21,50 ft / 6,55 m
- Aft deck: 43,00%, 21,50 ft / 6,55 m, 21,50 ft / 6,55 m
- Quarter deck: 10,00%, 21,50 ft / 6,55 m, 22,00 ft / 6,71 m
- Average freeboard: 21,93 ft / 6,68 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 124,4%
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 167,4%
Waterplane Area: 23 311 Square feet or 2 166 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 99%
Structure weight / hull surface area: 112 lbs/sq ft or 546 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0,91
- Longitudinal: 2,36
- Overall: 1,00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable, can fire her guns in the heaviest weather[/spoiler]
Last edited by Archelaos on March 12th, 2017, 8:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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