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Below is a short passage from Ian Buxton's Big Gun Monitors (revised edition, page 147) :The Second 15-inch Gun Monitors : Erebus & TerrorExperiments with new forms of bulge construction for...
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@ rlundgren : thanks for the details you provided. Keep it coming if you have more of these !!!Meanwhile, after reading Dornfordyates' post (thank you !), I checked Raven & Roberts' British...
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Questions : 1) My understanding is that the steel tubes (sealed at their ends) were left empty, rather than filled with water. Is this correct ?*** Yes. They were empty inside. The idea was that...
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It hadn't occurred to me before that the tubes added weight to the system; weight that wasn't serving any useful purpose compared to alternatives.
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According to Raven and Roberts the bulges fitted first to Ramillies increased weight by 2500 tons including 773 tons of tubes and 194 tons of wood. Those added later to Royal Sovereign increased her...
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The systems being described sound similar to the Italian Pugliese System, first introduced in the Vittorio Veneto Class and the reconstructions of the Conte di Cavour Class and Andrea Doria Class (and...
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"and which didn't fare very well when tested in action!"Examples? And they seem to have very fast repair times btw.
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MattReloaded wrote:Below is a short passage from Ian Buxton's Big Gun Monitors (revised edition, page 147) :The Second 15-inch Gun Monitors : Erebus & TerrorExperiments with new forms of bulge...
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Dili wrote:"and which didn't fare very well when tested in action!"Examples? And they seem to have very fast repair times btw.At the Battle of TarantoConte di Cavour had a 12 m × 8 m (39 ft × 26 ft)...
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Resolution get a torpedo hit the 25th september 1940 and back in operation maybe in january '42 Ramillies get a torpedo hit the 30th may 1942 and back in operation 14th september 1943 Barham get a...
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Nevada get a torpedo hit and 2/3 bombs the 7th december '41 and back in operation maybe in may '43 California get 2 torpedo hits and several bombs the 7th december 1941 and back in operation maybe in...
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..... I think it is difficult to compare the "repairability" merits of various anti-torpedo systems based solely upon the length of time taken to repair this or that particular ship. Too much depends...
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It is also ridiculous to compare the ships damaged at Pearl Harbor, since they were in peacetime configuration and suffered more extensive flooding than normally would have been the case. The...
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Most of this consideration are valid also for the italian ships (obviously exclusion on peacetime configuration, but was not in allert the US pacific fleet?) or more valid for the italian ship i. e....
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I agree - it is difficult to compare repair times as there are too many other factors that affect how long before a ship is returned to service. As for the effectiveness of the Pugliese system...
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Vincenzo wrote:Most of this consideration are valid also for the italian ships (obviously exclusion on peacetime configuration, but was not in allert the US pacific fleet?) or more valid for the...
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ADP wrote:I agree - it is difficult to compare repair times as there are too many other factors that affect how long before a ship is returned to service. As for the effectiveness of the Pugliese...
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icky it's clear that the italian main bases were relatively near to italian fleet operational area idk how was fitted italian bases or british bases all i can known what were this bases Nelson was...
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Vincenzo wrote:i the Vittorio Veneto belt (3.8m) was not very shallow if i'm right Iowa had 3.2m oh yes KGV had over 7m near all the BB belt was shallow in comparison of thatBismarck had a ~5m belt,...
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Iowa's belt went all the way to the bottom of the TDS.
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