Japan - Never built IJN ships.

[seeker36340]

Type A is beauty. Interesting that the Japanese retained the seperate trunk for the funnels

[odysseus1980]

I am interested to this :Tamano-class Fleet Oiler.

[eswube]

Great work! Judging by Your work-speed so far I guess we're not going to wait too much for the rest of these ships.

[BB1987]

I am interested to this :Tamano-class Fleet Oiler.

You can do if you want, tough i do not know what her dimensions where supposed to be, so it's not possible to scale the drawing yet.

[emperor_andreas]

None of the books I have give any reference as to dimensions. I'll ask on an IJN forum and see if anyone knows.

[emperor_andreas]

Just got a reply...the Tamanos were to have been 508.5 feet in length overall.

[BB1987]

a little bonus:
Here is IJN tone as initially designed, with 4 triple 6-inch guns on the forecastle, with japan withdrawal from treaty limitations the ships was quickly redesigned and the barbette reworked to house Type 3 8-inch turrets without the need to modify them like it was done on Mogami.

[emperor_andreas]

Wow...never knew the Tones were originally planned as CLs!

[Erusia Force]

Japan trying to be sneaky as always

[BB1987]

here it comes also the Ibuki class Heavy Cruiser.


a further improvement of the Mogami class, based on the hull of suzuya sported a radar suite and aft superstructure similar to that of Tone and a mainmast shifted aft like Takao, torpedo armament was increased to 4 quadruple launchers (it was 4 triple on mogami); the gun's barbettes where designed since the beginning with a roller path of 5 meters (instead 5,7 on mogami, wich was planned as a light cruiser), still the guns of turret 2 cannot be trained below 12° like the older Mogamis.
After the battle of midway it was decided to convert her into an aircraft carrier, and her sister, already under construction, was canceled and scrapped