Alternate Royal Navy #2

[bugsier_060]

Very nice Hood!

[eswube]

They are truly magnificent!

[Rodondo]

Oooh that Albion kindles my fire

[Blackbuck]

The Bays are very much along the lines of thinking for what I'd do. Really nice execution.

[Hood]

Point Class


RFA Hurst Point, 1998


HMS Anvil Point, 2010

Designed to replace the two Round Table-class LSLs during the late 1990s when the structural improvement programme proved too problematic and expensive, the Point-class were conceived as being RFA assets for use as general transports and to augment the main amphibious warfare fleet in wartime. They are a Ro-Ro design with stern and side ramps accessing a large vehicle deck and cargo spaces. The helicopter deck can support types up to Chinook size and the upper deck forward can accommodate a range of deck cargo, including TEUs, or vehicles.

RFA Hurst Point L3016 commissioned May 1998
RFA Harland Point L3017 commissioned September 1998
RFA Anvil Point L3018 commissioned April 1999
RFA Redcliff Point L3019 commissioned June 1999 - sold to Chile in 2010

Displacement: 23,500 tons full load
Dimensions: 653ft (oa), 635ft 6in (wl) length; 85ft 6in beam; 25ft draught (hull)
Machinery: Two 21,700hp MaK 94M43 diesels, two thrusters
Speed: 21kts (deep and clean)
Range: 9,200 nautical miles at cruising speed
Armament: 2x Block 0 Phalanx CIWS, 2x1 30mm MSI-DSI gun mounts
Aircraft: landing platform aft for Westland Merlin HM.3 or Boeing-Vertol Chinook HC.1 to HC.4
Capacity: can carry 2x to 4x Mexeflotes; 130x AFVs and 60x trucks plus up to 8,000 tons of cargo and ammunition
Radars:
2x Type 1007 navigation radars
1x Type 1009 navigation radar
EW/Defences:
Marconi UAG ESM
4x Sea Gnat decoy launchers
4x DLF(3) floating decoy launchers

[erik_t]

Those are quite lovely. I wonder if the bridge wing windows are so large that I'd try to show some darker color to indicate some internal details. I find the lack of hangar sort of surprising.

[eswube]

Splendid drawings!

[Hood]

Iron Duke class


HMS Iron Duke 1978


HMS Iron Duke 1991

This is my third attempt at drawing a dream super-cruiser of the 1960s era and arguably the best one I've attempted so far. Yes its impractical in many ways in terms of economic realism or even of real need, but it is an impressive ship.
The AU scenario is that the Admiralty approves the NIGS SAM system and its associated SCANFAR radar for full development in 1962 for a nuclear-powered cruiser to enter service by 1970. Bottom-bounce sonar is added and the ship replaces the Type 82 with SIGS entirely, three ships being planned, one for each carrier group and one for an amphibious assault group. Rolls-Royce develops the reactors from those designed for the nuclear submarine programme. Sea Dart is added for medium-range targets and Confessor is installed to provide close-in protection. The ASW capability is further widened with guided torpedoes and no less than four Sea King helicopters. In the interim HMS Devonshire is rebuilt as a test ship for the NIGS system (see post on p.12).
Cost rise and developments take longer than expected, the third ship is cancelled to save money but Cammell Laird completes the two ships in 1974 and 1975, somewhat later than planned. Both ships are rebuilt during the late 1980s with an all-VLS battery of GW-30 Sea Dart 2 and GW-27 Active Confessor SAMs as well as multiple CIWS systems and a newer combat system with MESAR radar arrays which kept them operational until their retirement in 1994 and 1996, their operating costs just too much to bear by this time.

HMS Iron Duke C06 June 1974
HMS Tiger C07 July 1975
HMS Black Prince cancelled 1971

Displacement: 16,850 tons (standard)
Dimensions: length 792ft 6in (oa) 765ft 6in (wl); beam 73ft 6in; draught 30ft (over sonar dome), 23ft 6in (hull)
Machinery: two Rolls-Royce PWR1(S) PWR reactors supplying steam to 80,000shp turbines, one Rolls-Royce 24,000shp Olympus TM1 gas turbine as emergency powerplant
Speed: 30kts (deep and clean)
Armament:
1x 4.5in Vickers Mk.8 gun
2x1 20mm Orkileon (replaced by 20mm GAM-BOI in the 1980s)
(during 1980s 2x 20mm Phalanx Block 1 CIWS and 3x Seastreak CIWS mounts added)
2x2 Trident SAM launchers (two 38x missile magazines with up to 16x with nuclear warheads) (replaced by 2x 32-cell VLS for GWS-30 Sea Dart 2 in 1980s)
1x2 Sea Dart SAM launcher (38x missile magazine) (replaced by 32-cell VLS for GWS-27 Active Confessor in 1980s)
2x16 Confessor SAM VLS launchers (replaced by GWS-27 Active Confessor in 1980s)
1x Ikara launcher (20x missile magazine for Ikara ASW missiles and Woomba SSMs)
8x Exocet MM.38 container-launchers (replaced by 2x4 RGM-84C Harpoon in the 1980s)
4x 21in torpedo tubes for Ongar heavyweight guided torpedoes (12x torpedo magazine) (removed in 1980s)
4x 12.75in torpedo tubes for Mk 44/Stingray lightweight guided torpedoes (32x torpedo magazine (shared with helicopter provision)
Helicopters:
Hangar for up to 4x Westland Sea King (replaced during the mid-1980s by Westland WG.34 Merlin)
Radars:
4x Type 985 SCANFAR search and tracking radars (replaced by Type 986 MESAR arrays in the 1980s)
1x Type 967/968 3-D search and tracking radar (replaced in 1980s by Type 996)
6x Type 909C fire-control radars (replaced by 4x Type 909M in 1980s)
2x Type 910 fire-control radars (replaced by Type 912 in 1980s)
2x Type 1006 navigation radars
1x Mk 10 IFF array
1x Type 2011 hull sonar with bottom-bounce receivers
1x Type 984M hull sonar

[heuhen]

impressive

did you get some inspiration somewhere

[StealthJester]

Greetings!

These are truly magnificent ships! Having just finished my first modern combatant for the Modern Battleship Challenge I can say I have a new appreciation for newer ships and the work it takes to do them justice - outstanding!

Cheers!
Stealthjester