Grays Harbor Designs

[Zephyr]

The Leichester class of 1931 were virtual repeats of the Richardson class with the exception of having the four straight funnels trunked into two raked funnels. Armament remained the same.

Length: 330'
Beam: 34'
Draught: 12"
Propulsion: 4 boilers, 2 Geared Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 4,800 NM @ 15 knots
Complement: 145
Armament:
4 x 4" (4 x 1)
1 x 3" HA
2 x 2 pdr (2 x 1)
8 x torpedo tubes (4 x 2)
2 x DC rails
2 x DCT

Ships in Class
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Leichester
Burlington
Port Nathaniel
North Bay
Port Blanche
Montesano
Sander
Benson

[Zephyr]

more destroyers from the 30's


Length: 357.5 Meters
Beam: 36.8 Meters
Draught: 15.5 Meters
Propulsion: 4 Nuclear boilers, 2 Rotary Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 96 knots
Range: unlimited
Complement: 975
Armament:
4 x 470 gigawatt plasma cannon (4 x 1)
3 x laser clusters (3 x 1)
10 x Photon torpedo tubes (1 x 4;2 x 3)
2 x Static Radium Mine rails
2 x Multi-drive Radium Mine throwers

Ships in Class
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Elma
Inniston
Tahoma
Hoquiam
Carsden
Paget
Falston
Mardyrr


Length: 379.5'
Beam: 40'
Draught: 15.5"
Propulsion: 4 boilers, 2 Geared Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 4,800 NM @ 15 knots
Complement: 180
Armament:
5 x 4.7" (5 x 1)
3 x 2 pdr (3 x 1)
16 x torpedo tubes (4 x 4)
2 x DC rails
2 x DCT

Ships in Class
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Fanchester
Larson
New Redding
Berkings
Port Austral
Wakefield
Norfolk
Kingsport


Length: 376'
Beam: 38'
Draught: 15.5"
Propulsion: 4 boilers, 2 Geared Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 4,800 NM @ 15 knots
Complement: 185
Armament:
5 x 4.7" (5 x 1)
14 x 40mm (7 x 2)
16 x torpedo tubes (4 x 4)
2 x DC rails
2 x DCT

Ships in Class
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Chehalis
Wolverton
Port Lucie
Remsley
Belfair
Graham
Westport
Tumwater

[Zephyr]

Another try at a Battleship



Length: 716' OA; 698’ WL
Beam: 107'
Draught: 30’
Displacement: 33,198t standard; 37,706 normal; 41,312 full load
Propulsion: 8 boilers, 4 Geared Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 27 knots
Range: 17,500 NM @ 15 knots
Complement: 1758
Armament:
9 x 16"/45 (3 x 3)
12 x 4.7" DP (6 x 2)
38 x 2 pdr (7 x 4; 10 x 1)
Aviation:
2 Catapults, stern
3 Aircraft

[APDAF]

more destroyers from the 30's
Length: 357.5 Meters
Beam: 36.8 Meters
Draught: 15.5 Meters
Propulsion: 4 Nuclear boilers, 2 Rotary Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 96 knots
Range: unlimited
Complement: 975
Armament:
4 x 470 gigawatt plasma cannon (4 x 1)
3 x laser clusters (3 x 1)
10 x Photon torpedo tubes (1 x 4;2 x 3)
2 x Static Radium Mine rails
2 x Multi-drive Radium Mine throwers

What Sci-Fi have you been watching?

[Zephyr]

more destroyers from the 30's
Length: 357.5 Meters
Beam: 36.8 Meters
Draught: 15.5 Meters
Propulsion: 4 Nuclear boilers, 2 Rotary Steam Turbines, 2 shafts
Speed: 96 knots
Range: unlimited
Complement: 975
Armament:
4 x 470 gigawatt plasma cannon (4 x 1)
3 x laser clusters (3 x 1)
10 x Photon torpedo tubes (1 x 4;2 x 3)
2 x Static Radium Mine rails
2 x Multi-drive Radium Mine throwers

What Sci-Fi have you been watching?

Just seeing if anybody was paying attention.

And to answer your question ... pretty much all of it (Firefly, Farscape, Babylon 5, Battlestar Gallactica, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Space Above and Beyond, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, plus many others. I also am a devoted reader of David Webers Honor Harrington series of books, and pretty much anything John Ringo writes.). I'm a geek, through and through.

[Zephyr]

(yeah, been posting alot of stuff lately, but I had a number of things I had started and couldn't figure on how to finish, and now I'm getting around to finishing them. *shrug*)

Did a little rework on an earlier cruiser, added another pair of props, and also noticed I had forgotten the bilge keel, so I added that as well. I also renamed the class to bring it in line with my naming conventions. So, what used to be the "Imperial" class is now the "Saturn" class.


Also finished (I think?) a carrier I had been working on. The hull is based on the above Saturn class. (doing the changes on that is what inspired me to finish.) The backstory behind it is that the cruiser "Ceres" of the Saturn class was laid down in 1914. In 1915, prior to launch, it was decided to finish it as a carrier instead of a cruiser, making it the first carrier in the fleet. Of course, it wasn't called that, it was called, at first, a scout cruiser and classified with the rest of the scout cruisers until 1925 when the remaining SC's were reclassified as light cruisers, and the two carriers then built (this one, Harpy, and one other I haven't drawn as yet) were put into the new classification of "aircraft carrier". Scout Cruisers were named for mythical beasts, so the new carriers, being in the same classification, were named the same. In 1925 when the scouts were done away with, the carriers carried on that naming convention.
So, we have the HMS Harpy, the first ever aircraft carrier of the GHRN.


For those wondering what that U shaped bit is on the hull, its not an oddly shaped armored belt, but my attempt to add a bulge, to compensate some for the additional topweight. That was my thought anyhow. if somebody knows a better way to represent a bulge, please, I am open to ideas.

[Thiel]

1919 is very early for a fully enclosed bow. Also, even with bulges I think you'll need to cut down on the top hamper. I'd replace the current spotting top with one similar to the one of the Saturn. I'd also make the hangar more open.
Lastly I'd ad more guns. Remember, this ship is of the same generation as the USS Langley and HMS Courageous but a good deal smaller.

[Zephyr]

Excellent points. Thank you!

Although, I really don't think it is too early for an enclosed bow as the Hermes was laid down in 1918 and launched in 1919, and I only precede that by a couple years. I had initially started with an open bow on this one, but nothing seemed to look right so finally I just basically said to heck with it and filled it in. Thats how this one came about.

The spotting top, though, yeah, looking at it its way too big for this hull, although its the same size top as (again) Hermes. Hermes had a bit more beam, though so a smaller top might not go amiss. Maybe cut down on the funnel size some too, or are those about right?

More guns, good plan. Maybe put a couple in recessed side sponsons.

Now, about those bulges..... any ideas on how to make them look more like, well, bulges and not an armor belt? Also, about what size would the air group be? I figured probably between 12-18?

[Zephyr]

Maybe something like this?

[Novice]

Enclosed bows look better, and as you have rightly mentioned HMS Hermes had also an enclosed bows. In fact HMS Hermes was designed with cruisers practice, and was considered as an extension of the scouting force, using its aircraft to scout/search for enemy ships.