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Sunday, April 08, 2007

An anachronistic King Edward VII design

I have a pencil drawing of an anchronistic King Edward VII class battleship that I probably drew in the latter 1980's:

It is a rather bad photograph, but you can get the general idea of what I was doing. The Springsharp design worked out amazingly well. I suppose it was because of the later engine date that made the weight lighter. This is the Springsharp 3.0b1 Beta report:
King Edward VII, anachronistic, Great Britain Battleship laid down 1907 (Engine 1909)

Displacement:
 14,175 t light; 15,000 t standard; 16,606 t normal; 17,890 t full load

Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
 (451.75 ft / 450.00 ft) x 78.00 ft x (26.75 / 28.47 ft)
 (137.69 m / 137.16 m) x 23.77 m  x (8.15 / 8.68 m)

Armament:
      4 - 12.00" / 305 mm 45.0 cal guns - 850.00lbs / 385.55kg shells, 150 per gun
   Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts , 1907 Model
   2 x Twin mounts on centreline ends, evenly spread
      4 - 9.20" / 234 mm 45.0 cal guns - 380.00lbs / 172.37kg shells, 150 per gun
   Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts , 1907 Model
   2 x Twin mounts on centreline ends, evenly spread
  2 raised mounts
      10 - 6.00" / 152 mm 50.0 cal guns - 100.00lbs / 45.36kg shells, 150 per gun
   Quick firing guns in turret on barbette mounts , 1907 Model
   2 x Triple mounts on sides, forward deck aft
   2 x Twin mounts on sides, aft deck forward
 Weight of broadside 5,920 lbs / 5,920 kg
 4 - 18.0" / 457 mm above water torpedoes

Armour:
   - Belts:  Width (max) Length (avg)  Height (avg)
 Main: 9.00" / 229 mm 290.00 ft / 88.39 m 16.00 ft / 4.88 m
 Ends: 5.00" / 127 mm 160.00 ft / 48.77 m 12.00 ft / 3.66 m
   Main Belt covers 99 % of normal length
   Main belt does not fully cover magazines and engineering spaces

   - Torpedo Bulkhead:
  1.50" / 38 mm 290.00 ft / 88.39 m 26.75 ft / 8.15 m

   - Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
 Main: 9.00" / 229 mm 6.00" / 152 mm  12.0" / 305 mm
 2nd: 7.00" / 178 mm 4.00" / 102 mm  7.00" / 178 mm
 3rd: 5.00" / 127 mm 3.00" / 76 mm  5.00" / 127 mm

   - Armour deck: 2.00" / 51 mm, Conning tower: 9.00" / 229 mm

Machinery:
 Coal fired boilers, complex reciprocating steam engines, 
 Direct drive, 2 shafts, 26,827 ihp / 20,013 Kw = 21.00 kts
 Range 4,500nm at 14.00 kts
 Bunker at max displacement = 2,889 tons (100% coal)

Complement:
 730 - 950

Cost:
 £1.377 million / $5.510 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
 Armament: 1,259 tons, 7.6 %
 Armour: 5,420 tons, 32.6 %
    - Belts: 2,211 tons, 13.3 %
    - Torpedo bulkhead: 431 tons, 2.6 %
    - Armament: 1,685 tons, 10.1 %
    - Armour Deck: 967 tons, 5.8 %
    - Conning Tower: 126 tons, 0.8 %
 Machinery: 2,064 tons, 12.4 %
 Hull, fittings & equipment: 5,986 tons, 36.0 %
 Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,431 tons, 14.6 %
 Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
 Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
   23,439 lbs / 10,632 Kg = 27.1 x 12.0 " / 305 mm shells or 3.9 torpedoes
 Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.13
 Metacentric height 4.4 ft / 1.3 m
 Roll period: 15.7 seconds
 Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 73 %
   - Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.76
 Seaboat quality  (Average = 1.00): 1.47

Hull form characteristics:
 Hull has a flush deck,
   a normal bow and a cruiser stern
 Block coefficient (normal/deep): 0.619 / 0.627
 Length to Beam Ratio: 5.77 : 1
 'Natural speed' for length: 21.21 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 %,  25.00 ft / 7.62 m,  23.00 ft / 7.01 m
    - Forward deck: 30.00 %,  23.00 ft / 7.01 m,  21.00 ft / 6.40 m
    - Aft deck: 35.00 %,  21.00 ft / 6.40 m,  21.00 ft / 6.40 m
    - Quarter deck: 15.00 %,  21.00 ft / 6.40 m,  20.00 ft / 6.10 m
    - Average freeboard:  21.79 ft / 6.64 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
 Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 99.3 %
  - Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 137.9 %
 Waterplane Area: 26,130 Square feet or 2,428 Square metres
 Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 109 %
 Structure weight / hull surface area: 152 lbs/sq ft or 745 Kg/sq metre
 Hull strength (Relative):
  - Cross-sectional: 0.90
  - Longitudinal: 2.54
  - 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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