Caledonia??

[RegiaMarina1939]

Very cool stuff. That's an interesting funnel design!

[heuhen]

Note: might be some errors and typos, but ehh...

Caledonia Frigate fleet consist of many cheap light frigate, and a handful of large expensive frigates, one of the reason is due to Caledonia consist of many small and large islands and have a long border, and to be able to patrol and protect everything you need ships. The Admiralty that it was better to have something that are fairly large with some fighting value, than a ship that can't handle bad weather, so they went for a ship equipped a bland of leftover equipment that still had some value and new cheap equipment, for their "cheap"-ships.

Young men that was in for there service was often placed on these ships, here in a cramped ship, they learned teamwork and hard work. And in some situation these ships with their hard working team could often bring an "interesting" factor to any exercise, specially when several of them work together.


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City of Marial class Light frigate

Type: Light frigate, escort
Build: 62 ships
Active: 38 ships
Reserv: 22 ships
Lost: 2 ships
Moto: "We are the true Wolf"
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Length: 100 meter+
Beam: 11.8 meter
draft: 5.8 meter
weight: V1: 1.800 tons standard, 2400 tons fully loaded, V3: 2000 tons standard, 2700 tons fully loaded
propulsion: triple steam boilers, two high pressure and one low pressure steam turbine, 40,000 hp
Speed: 35 knots, 39 knots sprint
Sensor: 2D radar (later upgraded to 3D)
Hull mounted sonar (later, a towed sonar was equipped)
Upgraded and totally rebuild light-weight fire director from old Destroyers with added electronic/radar (later replaced with either 1 or 2 modern fire director, sometimes with an additional manual fire director)


F35 Sir Alaman

Among the first design in the line of the City of Marial class light frigate, one of here ting was that she was equipped with 60mm guns from old cruiser, she was the fastest of here sisters with here 41,6 knots top speed, that she managed during sea trial. During an experiment of fuel and how much pressure the engine can endure over long time, she managed to hit 46 knots unofficially, as the engineers said: "she have the power, but she doesn't have the time to reach here last knots!"

Armament:
As build:
- 2 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 3 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment


MLU:
- 2 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 2 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 1 X twin Befer AAW missile Prototype 5 final
- 6 single Penguin launcher
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment (aft station was replaced by towed sonar)



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F45 Master Mrchin

among all the ships, in the City of Marial class, crew felt that the F40 lineup was the best armed ship of their type well F45 was more balanced F48 was more heavily armed

Armament:
As build:
- 3 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 3 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment



MLU:
- 3 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 2 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 1 X twin Befer AAW missile Prototype 5 final
- 6 single Penguin launcher
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment (aft station was replaced by towed sonar)




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F48 Lord Barel

F48 Lord Barel, was probably as an AAW ships the best ared version of City of Marial class, crew used to jokingly say that they could block out the sun. But she had an disadvantage over here sisters, she rolled more in heavy sea. someone said: "The ship, for real seaman..." someone answered: "The drowned one?"

Armament:
As build:
- 4 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 2 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment



MLU:
- 3 x 60 mm single Mangusa semiautomatic gun (with modification, can fire 56mm)
- 2 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 1 X twin Befer AAW missile Prototype 5 final
- 6 single Penguin launcher
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment (aft station was replaced by towed sonar)




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F58 PM Maragul

F58 PM Maragul and here sister of 3 ships was unique, the was armed the heavy 127mm gun as there main gun, it made here bow heavy. But for some reason Special command, and specially commandos loved these 3 ships, they described them as: "she is just like us, small, weird, will get you there, whatever the cost and when she is there, she hit hard... rough and old school just like us".

Armament:
As build:
- 1 x 127 mm twin Befer Mk.34
- 4 x 40 mm single Bofors
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment



MLU:
- 1 x 127 mm twin Befer Mk.34
- 3 x 40 mm twin Bofors and Befer
- 2 x 12,7 mm sinlge
- 1 X twin Shark Mk.6 Befer AAW missile
- 6 single Penguin launcher
- 2 x triple torpedo launcher
- depth charges of various type and equipment (aft station was replaced by towed sonar)



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The Future of Caledonia light frigate


There are many suggestion for what next for Caledonia Navy light frigate fleet. The Navy have started the work for an replacement for City of Marial class, but with new technology and world situation totally changed and economy restrain from the government, the Navy only see need for 15 to 25 ships in the class, the gap will be taken over coastguard ships, radars and other security systems

The Brother class Prototype illustration
Type: Advance Light frigate
Planned: 25
Build: 0 ships
Active: 0 ships
Moto: "Kick me... just once...!"
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Length: 110 meter
Beam: unknown, (Preliminary design show a wide body design)
draft: unknown
weight: unknown, estimated 3000-4000 tons
propulsion: unknown (Navy requirement: enough power for required speed and range)
Speed: unknown (Navy requirement: 28 knots, no slower than 26 knots)
Sensor:
Multipurpose 3D Radar, illustration show Havok industries PHA3 Phased radar for multivector 3D medium range detection and targeting, mounted on top of a type 3 PHA6-ring, small band extreme long range radar for signature detection
Targeting is done by an unknown type of Phased illuminator (speculation says it can paint multiple targets that are in it's view, but also can work as and short range radar in a backup mode)

Armament shown in the illustration is:
2 single 40mm guns
2 8 cell VLS
Angled silo launcher for ASuW weaponry, most likely something that are on the marked already.

[Gollevainen]

really good, and somewhat unique looking ships.

[Hood]

Excellent work with the unmistakable Heuhen touch of originality.

One question, on the F58 PM Maragul MLU drawing, would there enough room for those beam 40mm mounts as it looks a chunky enclosed mount given the likely size of the bridge block?

[heuhen]

Excellent work with the unmistakable Heuhen touch of originality.

One question, on the F58 PM Maragul MLU drawing, would there enough room for those beam 40mm mounts as it looks a chunky enclosed mount given the likely size of the bridge block?

another thing that make these clase unique, is that the bridge block is quite thin. the 40 mm is also build as thin as possible, and mounted far to the edge... but it's so tight that, you can't walk around it!

[reytuerto]

Hi. Interesting concepts and nice vessels. May I ask what is the orange line in the hull?

[heuhen]

Hi. Interesting concepts and nice vessels. May I ask what is the orange line in the hull?

orange rope goes from the bow to the RHIB bay. today lift hold the RHIB in place, but I went for the old system, thus the rope

[sebu]

Good to see you're back in business, with known quality.

[RegiaMarina1939]

More awesome work, keep it up!

[heuhen]

I appreciate everything you lot says