GB/CL/1915, Great Britain Light Cruiser laid down 1915
Displacement:
4,494 t light; 4,643 t standard; 5,250 t normal; 5,736 t full load
Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
(476.68 ft / 475.00 ft) x 49.00 ft x (15.74 / 16.84 ft)
(145.29 m / 144.78 m) x 14.94 m x (4.80 / 5.13 m)
Armament:
8 - 5.00" / 127 mm 50.0 cal guns - 65.00lbs / 29.48kg shells, 150 per gun
Breech loading guns in deck and hoist mounts , 1915 Model
4 x Twin mounts on centreline ends, evenly spread
2 raised mounts - superfiring
4 x Twin mounts on sides, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 520 lbs / 520 kg
4 - 21.0" / 533 mm above water torpedoes
Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 4.00" / 102 mm 345.00 ft / 105.16 m 8.00 ft / 2.44 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Upper: 3.00" / 76 mm 175.00 ft / 53.34 m 8.00 ft / 2.44 m
Main Belt covers 112 % of normal length
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 3.00" / 76 mm - 3.00" / 76 mm
- Armour deck: 2.00" / 51 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 31,471 shp / 23,478 Kw = 27.00 kts
Range 5,200nm at 15.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 1,094 tons
Complement:
307 - 400
Cost:
£0.553 million / $2.212 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 127 tons, 2.4 %
Armour: 1,296 tons, 24.7 %
- Belts: 648 tons, 12.3 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 74 tons, 1.4 %
- Armour Deck: 575 tons, 10.9 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 1,192 tons, 22.7 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 1,939 tons, 36.9 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 756 tons, 14.4 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
8,153 lbs / 3,698 Kg = 130.4 x 5.0 " / 127 mm shells or 1.5 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.18
Metacentric height 2.3 ft / 0.7 m
Roll period: 13.4 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 74 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.32
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.48
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak,
a normal bow and a cruiser stern
Block coefficient (normal/deep): 0.502 / 0.512
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.69 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 21.79 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 53 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 50
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 4.00 degrees
Stern overhang: -2.00 ft / -0.61 m
Freeboard (% = length of deck as a percentage of waterline length):
Fore end, Aft end
- Forecastle: 20.00 %, 24.00 ft / 7.32 m, 22.00 ft / 6.71 m
- Forward deck: 21.00 %, 22.00 ft / 6.71 m, 22.00 ft / 6.71 m
- Aft deck: 44.00 %, 14.00 ft / 4.27 m, 14.00 ft / 4.27 m
- Quarter deck: 15.00 %, 14.00 ft / 4.27 m, 15.00 ft / 4.57 m
- Average freeboard: 17.52 ft / 5.34 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 84.1 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 140.9 %
Waterplane Area: 15,530 Square feet or 1,443 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 125 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 75 lbs/sq ft or 367 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.95
- Longitudinal: 1.56
- Overall: 1.00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
One of my 1980's designs: the GB/CL/1915 with 5in guns
This is a design that I created in the latter 1980's for a 5in-gunned light cruiser. This is sort of a modified Birmingham class ship, except faster, with geared turbines and oil-fired boilers. This ship does not have the machinery error that I have been getting. The armament is 8-5in guns and 4-21in TT. The belt is 4in with a 2in deck. This is the Springsharp report:
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