The Landlubbers Battleship Thread - Now with 50% less cordite

[Andy44]

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe interesting in this context as well, the causes for the collisions of two US Navy ships had been identified and the US Navy looks pretty bad there:

https://www.defensenews.com/breakin...ault-in-fatal-collisions-investigations-find/

Looks like a mix of sensory overload and poor communications in both cases.

 

[Graham2001]

I have just located a blog covering a large number of planned, but unbuilt battleship designs covering the period 1900-1950

https://warshipprojects.wordpress.com/

One of the more interesting ones was a proposed Anti-Aircraft conversion of the uncompleted Iowa Class battleship USS Kentucky (BB-66)

https://warshipprojects.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/warship-projects-profile-no-us003g/

Another is this rather radical proposal for the North Carolina Class.

https://warshipprojects.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/warship-projects-profile-no-us002f/

 

[Graham2001]

Another interesting US proposal from the Warship projects blog. This time the outcome of post war proposals that amounted to trying to fit a quart in a pint pot.

https://warshipprojects.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/warship-projects-profile-no-us001a7/

And from the artist who created the above, his recreation of the 'last word' in Japanese battleship design.

https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Last-Japanese-Battleship-proposal-759738735