Losing one to a torpedo just outside of Scapa Flow will surely lead to more torpedo protection.
Ouch, this was a heavy loss, thats two of Fisher's tinclads sunk, and this might well be getting more alarm bells ringing as more ships are built with similar if not worse protection than the I's.
Losing one to a torpedo just outside of Scapa Flow will surely lead to more torpedo protection.
The weakness shown here is in torpedo protection. Improvements might have to narrow the engine spaces.
A series of test targets; sections of different torpedo defence bulkheads. These could each receive a standard torpedo hit. We might never see tubes added to actual ships' bulges as even spaced vertical layers are proven.
Furthermore the damage control has room for improvement. There is no reason coal doors aren't easier to shut off from encroaching seawater. The hatch issues (plugging and lighting) also need attention.
ASDIC arrays for the home base?
They varied somewhat as the bulge designs were modified (Ramillies was the first major ship to be bulged - before she was completed in 1917). The others were bulged immediately after the war. There were lots of test-tank studies on bulges and they apparently didn't have that much of any effect on speed - about a knot for Renown, 3/4 knot for a QE.Didn't they put some HUGE bulges on the R's in OTL? I remember reading that those fitted with them were reduced to about 18 knots until they had burned off fuel to get back up to 21 knots.
One More Day of Coaling
‘1st of June 1916. Returned to harbour in the forenoon and moored at our buoy. Why doesn’t the Hun come out and fight!
Expect tomorrow will be one more day of coaling.’
I'm glad some one noticed that possibility.Prince Albert doesn't experience Jutland?
Doesn't happen at all ITTL judging by the date!
IOTL the Battle of Jutland happeded May 31st does it happen later here?
Hear, hear ...War is a sorry duty. The admission that politics has reduced to the slaverings of wild dogs. There is no reason to kill men, yet they will kill you and yours if you don't. To read of this young lad eager to scrap with the "Hun", you know he is thinking more of the playground light physical exchange than the grim finality and horrendous toll of battle. He cannot imagine. Once done, never to be undone. Even victory a disaster.
But this gives the Germans more time to prepare their fleet and the RN to built up for the inevitable clash and test of strength between the two navies. Perhaps the Germans are trying to rush their BC's although they'll only have the Hindenberg ready and in service as well as possibly 2 x 15-inch gunned ships, 1 for sure.
I've lost track of the RN's building program but they'll have at least 2 x AU Renowns and the AU Furious ready.
And the RN should in theory have all 5 QE's available too.
But this gives the Germans more time to prepare their fleet and the RN to built up for the inevitable clash and test of strength between the two navies. Perhaps the Germans are trying to rush their BC's although they'll only have the Hindenberg ready and in service as well as possibly 2 x 15-inch gunned ships, 1 for sure.
I've lost track of the RN's building program but they'll have at least 2 x AU Renowns and the AU Furious ready.
And the RN should in theory have all 5 QE's available too.
There'll probably always be a ship or two in refit or repair, however for the RN, perhaps the best news is that there are no R-class ships at all!In addition the RN will have Emperor of India, Australia & at least one more R-class; the Germans should have Konig Albert available, possibly Baden or Bayern.