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Does it bug anyone else that they're not parked in numerical order?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
The Rodney was a weird design, but effective. All main guns forward of the superstructure:

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Probably some Royal Navy doctrine that had all the guns facing forward because no self respecting HM ship would ever need guns out the back. Ever charging forward into battle!!
 
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I guess if turret 3 doesnt keep its guns fully depressed when it traverses .. Turret 2 is in for a little surprise ...


(edit to add .. apparently the three turrets forward was the Design "A" for the North Carolina class battleships as conceived in 1935 ... it was not selected ... but the three turrets were tiered so No. 1 was lowest followed by N0. 2 then No. 3 highest -- they could all fire forward if required... )
 
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Probably built that way to save the weight of armour plating, and weight of one section of powder/projectile stores instead of two. Maybe?
 
skneub said:
Nope , that was his Wife's writing.

There is plenty of other stuff I have that was penciled , then written in ink word for word even.

He never made it home...
Documentation for my Grandma (His Daughter) of what happened to her Dad.
Sadly the small box with his personal effects and a bunch of very old coins ..was stolen years ago.
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You could advertise on the medal collecting sites that you would like to retrieve them. Stuff turns up.
 
Jon. said:
Probably built that way to save the weight of armour plating, and weight of one section of powder/projectile stores instead of two. Maybe?
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putting them all forward made for a shorter armour belt to protect them.

the rodney suffered a fair bit of damage from her own recoil while firing on the bismarck, the deck splintered, the plumbing all was damaged and supposedly most of the lights shattered
 
scott585 said:
putting them all forward made for a shorter armour belt to protect them.

the rodney suffered a fair bit of damage from her own recoil while firing on the bismarck, the deck splintered, the plumbing all was damaged and supposedly most of the lights shattered
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As a "Washington treaty" design she also suffered from a shortage of power for her engines. Her speed was limited to 23 Knots on a good day. Their handling was also poor. They were a comprise design and suffered accordingly.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
Yamato and the sister ship Musashi.
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Not forgetting the third sister which was converted to an aircraft carrier and promptly sunk in home waters by a US sub.

Complete waste of resources, but they wanted to have the biggest guns and ships for emotional reasons: 18.1" bores so that they were just a bit bigger than HMS Furious!

That photo was taken on 20 Sept 1941 so it must the Musashi.
 
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only a few mm smaller .. Wolfe ... quoting from Wiki .."..Wolfe was anchored parallel to the coastline, and at 0732 opened fire on the railway bridge at Snaeskerke (four miles south of Ostend) at a range of 36,000-yard (32,918 m) away. She therefore fired the heaviest shell from the largest gun at the longest range up to that time, and at the longest range any Royal Navy ship has fired in action. During the rest of the day Wolfe fired fifty-two 18-inch shells out of her supply of sixty at Snaeskerke, all landing close to the target."
 
Probably a dumb question, but I've never been on a battleship... would the above ship have rocked a bit when the cannons fired? That must have been an awesome noise, I really can't imagine.
 
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