The only new design scheduled for the 1905 Brandenburgian budget.
(I will have to re-sim the 1904 kleiner kreuzer and großes torpedobooten, however, as both had units scheduled for 1905 and they are way, way over the new per-shaft HP limits...)
SMS Delfin, German Großes Kanonboot laid down 1905
Displacement:
300 t light; 319 t standard; 322 t normal; 325 t full load
Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
131.23 ft / 131.23 ft x 30.35 ft x 3.61 ft (normal load)
40.00 m / 40.00 m x 9.25 m x 1.10 m
Armament:
1 - 12.01" / 305 mm guns in single mounts, 859.80lbs / 390.00kg shells, 1903 Model
Breech loading gun in deck mount
on centreline forward
1 - 1.46" / 37.0 mm guns in single mounts, 1.10lbs / 0.50kg shells, 1905 Model
Breech loading gun in deck mount
on side aft
Weight of broadside 861 lbs / 391 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 27
Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 0.98" / 25 mm 131.23 ft / 40.00 m 9.35 ft / 2.85 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Main Belt covers 154 % of normal length
Machinery:
Petrol Internal combustion motors,
Direct drive, 1 shaft, 25 shp / 19 Kw = 5.10 kts
Range 500nm at 5.00 kts (Bunkerage = 6 tons)
Caution: Delicate, lightweight machinery
Complement:
37 - 49
Cost:
£0.102 million / $0.407 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 108 tons, 33.6 %
Armour: 43 tons, 13.4 %
- Belts: 43 tons, 13.4 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armour Deck: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 1 tons, 0.2 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 147 tons, 45.6 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 23 tons, 7.1 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
61 lbs / 27 Kg = 0.1 x 12.0 " / 305 mm shells or 0.1 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.59
Metacentric height 1.8 ft / 0.6 m
Roll period: 9.5 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 71 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.59
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.07
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has raised forecastle, raised quarterdeck
Block coefficient: 0.785
Length to Beam Ratio: 4.32 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 11.46 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 15 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 66
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 0.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 8.20 ft / 2.50 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 7.38 ft / 2.25 m (5.74 ft / 1.75 m aft of break)
- Mid (50 %): 5.74 ft / 1.75 m
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 6.56 ft / 2.00 m (5.74 ft / 1.75 m before break)
- Stern: 7.38 ft / 2.25 m
- Average freeboard: 6.32 ft / 1.93 m
Ship tends to be wet forward
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 236.1 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 102.0 %
Waterplane Area: 3,453 Square feet or 321 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 35 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 36 lbs/sq ft or 178 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.55
- Longitudinal: 1.36
- Overall: 0.60
Caution: Hull subject to strain in open-sea
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is extremely poor
Room for accommodation and workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Am I seeing correctly? Is that a 12" gun?!!! :-O
Historically the Italians had a number of boats of this type during WWI - in fact, the 12"-armed ones mounted TWO!
(Which I have had absolutely 0 success 'Sharping, BTW.)
Ahoj!
I suspect the vessel's combat success to be similiar to yours with SS :)
Borys
Borys why do you worry about mounting a 7.5" gun in a 3,000 ton vessel????
Faa Di Bruno for example. equaly Unsimmable.
I see possibilities.
In Nv2.0 these were to be based in Kuwait for future nefarious purposes. Having traded in said "ex-Norman" colony on some shiny new islands these (and some of the FKb types) will instead be assigned to the Rift Valley Channel where they will be performing the occasional spot of wog-bashing...