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Sunday, December 19, 2004

An amusing exercise: "modernizing ironclads"

I have been looking through my journal for 1999, which contains many ship drawings. One feature of early 1999 were my drawings of "modernized ironclads". "Modernized" almost doesn't do justice to what I did. For example, there is a ship with a tower foremast, a single funnel, flush deck, anti-aircraft guns, and a modern-looking flush decked hull. The bow is flared, and there are two stockless anchors. There is a ship labeled: "Inflexible", as if this were a ship with 4-16in guns (now BL, not MLR), 6-secondary guns, and 40mm and 20mm AA guns. On an earlier page are shps named "Shannon" (like the original belted cruiser) and "Narcissus", another cruiser. Then, there is a ship that looks rather WWII-like, but labelled "Southampton", and obviously a light cruiser built to something like the dimensions of the British pre-WWI light cruiser. The armament is 9-6in/50 guns, with two triple turrets forward and one aft.

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