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Three cruiser classes in Sarzonia's navy

Sarzonia
09-06-2004, 18:59
These were originally in the Wilmington Shipyard Corp storefront but have been removed. Anyway, these are three ships of Sarzonian design.

The Alliance-class is named to honor the great alliances we have, particularly our close relationship with the United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland. [OOC: It is also named after the Revolutionary War frigate that remained in service for a couple of years after the Revolutionary War. This ship is based loosely on the Alaska class large cruisers, which were built to be "cruiser killers" and sported 12-inch guns. That class seemed to be a send-up of the German pocket battleships.]

The Randolph-class is named to honor the great American frigate that valiantly battled a ship of the line during the [RL] Revolutionary War. Its 9 inch guns are heavier than even the standard deployment of 8 inch guns for most heavy cruisers. [OOC: It's based somewhat roughly on the Baltimore-class heavy cruisers in the U.S. Navy during World War II.]

The new Ithaca-class is a light cruiser that is perfect for your escort needs and can be used to battle pirate ships if needed. [OOC: It's not named after any particular ships; the design is based on the Cleveland-class light cruisers in the U.S. Navy but with three triple turrets of 6 inch guns as opposed to the four triple turrets on the Cleveland-class. The ships are designed to be very tough. Ships from that class withstood kamikaze attacks and the U.S.S. Houston survived being torpedoed twice.]

Alliance-class super cruiser (CB)
Displacement: 28,321 tons full load
Dimensions: 232.4 x 26.9 x 9.6 meters
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 8 600 psi boilers, 4 shafts, 150,000 shp, 33 knots
Crew: 1169
Armor: 4.5-8.5 inch belt advanced steel alloy, 4.5-4.9 inch deck, 5-12.8 inch turrets, 5-10.6 inch CT
Armament: 3 triple 11"/50 cal, 2 dual 5"/38cal DP, 4 Harpoon, 2 5/54, 2 Phalanx CIWS, 6 12.75 inch TT, 2 Mk41 VLS systems.

Randolph-class heavy cruiser (CA)
Displacement: 22,413 tons full load
Dimensions: 217 x 24.5 x 9.1 meters
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 6 600 psi boilers, 4 shafts, 125,000 shp, 34 knots
Crew: 955
Armor: 4.25-8.25 inch belt advanced steel alloy, 4.25-4.65 inch deck, 4-11.9 inch turrets, 4.5-9.7 inch CT
Armament: 3 triple 9"/45 cal, 2 dual 5"/38 cal DP, 4 Harpoon, 2 5/54 2 Phalanx CIWS, 6 12.75 inch TT, 2 Mk41 VLS systems.

Ithaca-class light cruiser (CL)
Displacement: 11,977 tons full load
Dimensions 133 x 21.9 x 8.1 meters
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 4 600 psi boilers, 4 shafts, 100,000 shp, 35 knots
Crew: 788
Armor: 4-8 inch belt advanced steel alloy, 4-4.35 inch deck, 4-11.5 inch turrets, 4.25-8.8 inch CT
Armament: 3 triple 6"/40 cal, 2 dual 5/38 cal DP, 2 Harpoon, 2 5/54 2 Phalanx CIWS, 4 12.75 inch TT, 2 Mk41 VLS systems.
Sarzonia
20-06-2004, 19:45
*bump* for reference
Praetonia
20-06-2004, 19:51
Interesting...

TAG
Sarzonia
19-07-2004, 15:28
*bump*
The freed peoples
19-07-2004, 15:38
bump
West Scotland
19-07-2004, 15:50
Three?

Not bad - they all have a lot of guns. How many VLS tubes does each have?
Sarzonia
19-07-2004, 16:11
Three?

Not bad - they all have a lot of guns. How many VLS tubes does each have?

[OOC: The main armament is nine guns, 11 inch (Alliance), nine inch (Randolph) and six inch (Ithaca). I'll have to work on the VLS tube counts and update that.