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Saturday, October 30, 2004

A 36-knot light cruiser

I was curious whether a light cruiser of the size and technology of my 1921 design might be able to reach 36 knots. I had an idea that the answer would be yes, as the Japanese Nagara was a small, 36-knot design. I just did some calculations at a greater power and found that the boiler room and engine room size needed could be accomodated in a 572 ft 7750 ton ship. The boiler and engine rooms would only need to be expanded to 166ft x 42ft x 20ft (boilers) and 117ft x 42ft x 20ft (engines).

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