I tend to like French ships. But thats largely because they are so crazy.
Driftless
Donor
I like them too, but mostly for the steampunky appearance factor. I go with the masses on the dubious utility of the designs though.
I can't abide the US double-stacked turrets on capital ships of the '00s. Those were just wrong.....
McPherson
Banned
I keep imagining Kirk Douglas chained to a bench with two other guys, cleft chin on prominent display and then a cut shot to (^^^) that thing and suddenly oars appear out of the square portholes a la classical trireme and then on the soundtrack we hear the drums "Thum, thum, thum". and some French actor speaking English badly with an outrageous Parisian accent; "Stroke, stroke, stroke." Cut back to Kirk, and a slave-driver, with a cat-o-nine, lets him have it with a lash across the back and says in evil Hollywood French:
Pull your oar, you pig. We have to catch the English, before they reach the Dardenelles. We cannot let them have all the credit for victory over the Turks.
Its a hotel that thinks is a battleship. That's what I'm seeing with that ship.
Huh, I was thinking Charlton Heston with the slave driver yelling "Ramming Speed!" (Vitesse d'éperonnage?) as they approach a Deutschland class.
McPherson
Banned
1. "Vitesse du ram."
2. Michael Curtiz is the director, so that lashing is for real.
3. I really do not like Kirk Douglas' "acting". Heston, at least, has four facial expressions. Kirk only has two.
4. It is funnier when the English are added, somehow, to a French naval epic.
If we really want to be on the edge of offending the garlic chewers then it becomes
"oi monseur, Le speed le Ram, sacre blue!"
I think I'm like. I am unable to comment on the effectiveness or usefulness of warships.
But I really like the look of this one. It reminds me of the ships you can see in Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle":
I think I'm like. I am unable to comment on the effectiveness or usefulness of warships.
But I really like the look of this one. It reminds me of the ships you can see in Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle":
Feel like Pre-dreadnoughts but with centerline superfiring guns.
Those are what made me think pre-dread (they remind me especially the Russian ships from Russo-Japanese War). Also seems to have tumblehomes.
That's because Miyazaki was inspired by those French Predreadnoughts in the first place.
That must be one of the exceptions to the Japanese use of more curved plates than usual on their ship superstructures.
I am generally not a huge fan of late 1800’s period ships however, the pair of Terrible class cruisers of the Royal Navy are very aesthetically appealing to me. The Victorian paint scheme, high freeboard, tasteful casemate arrangement, tidy funnel layout and turreted main guns are all very nice in a period where a lot of ships look like claptraps.
So question, in the post Dreadnought period (1906-1914) say a navy decides to apply the innovations of that ship, uniform main battery, turbines, and fire directors, onto an armored cruiser. The resultant ship features eight to ten guns in the 200-250mm range, a speed of 25-27 knots, and armor of 200-100mm on the belt. A modest secondary battery is also fitted of 6-10 guns of between 75-100mm, and its range is anywhere from between 6,000-10,000 nautical miles.
Would a displacement of 12-15,000 tons be realistic for this ship?
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Would a displacement of 12-15,000 tons be realistic for this ship?
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I thought Blucher was heavier, but basically yes. I wonder if you could get 12,000 tons by deleting two turrets, or if more would be needed.