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Re: New Capital Ship: HMS Queen
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:30:57 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> I know you based it on British ships, but it was easier for me to find U.S.
> examples on the web (mostly because I figured I could type in USS (name of
> state) and get results). The HMS Queen is not too far off BB1-3 (Indiana,
> Massachusetts and Oregon) which all fought in the Spanish-American war and
> would be contemporary with the 1894 date for the Queen. ...
Give that man a gold cigar! Or a Cuban star! Or something like that. (Hey, for
the 1898 war, a Cuban would be apropo.) That's actually where the foremast and
bridge arrangement originated--the heavy pole mast is a feature usually associated
with US ships. I figured it'd be easier to render in brick.
> Better bow freeboard,
> and the funnels are closer together than the American BBs (abbreviation for
> Battleship, for those who may not be familiar), but very close, actually. They
> even had 13" main guns - bigger than the 12" you mention as usual at your
> website.
They were supposedly inferior weapons to the British 12" and the German 11"--I
can't recall why at present, but it may have to do with the forging process that
created them. At least European powers never stacked their turrets one atop the
other a la Kearsarge (which IIRC remains the only US battleship with a hull number
that's not named after a state--useless trivia alert! whoop whoop).
Anyways, good eye! The stacks and their arrangement are the primary German feature
on the ship (see late mods of old Braunschweig-type ships, I believe).
best
Lindsay
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| (...) for (...) and (...) associated (...) A friend of mine and I played Avalon Hill's Jutland to death when it first came out. I always wished there had been something in that weird twilight zone when BBs were first developing. (...) They (...) (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I know you based it on British ships, but it was easier for me to find U.S. examples on the web (mostly because I figured I could type in USS (name of state) and get results). The HMS Queen is not too far off BB1-3 (Indiana, Massachusetts and (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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