Shipbucket

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

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

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.

odysseus1980 wrote: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.

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

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

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.

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

Japan trying to be sneaky as always

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