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Armaments: 4 x 12"/42 in turrets (fore and aft) 8 x 12"/42 in casements 8 x 6"/50 in casements 1982 configuration additions: 2 x PHALANX CIWS mounts atop A and Y turret 12 x Sea-Wolf (Mk III*) VLS launchers aft of funnels
Specifications: Displacement: 19,000 tons (standard) 21,000 tons (deep load) Propulsion: (As built) 4 x Parsons steam turbines producing 20,000shp 22kts top speed (As of 1982) 4 x Admiralty 3 drum boilers producing nearly 40,000shp 28kts top speed
Sensor suite: (As built) Mk III Barr and Stroud 12ft rangefinder (As of 1982) Mk VIII* Barr and Stroud rangefinder Type 965M (for air) Type 1022 (fire control) Type 184 (surface search)
Rare as it is for love to be a curse, it unfortunately seems to be the case for HMS Methuselah.
Constructed between 1904-1905, the Audacious class was meant to be the Royal Navy's testbed for the upcoming "Dreadnought" class of battleships, with 1st Sea Lord Jackie Fisher foreseeing the catastrophic consequences that the Royal Navy would receive by making every immediate battleship before Dreadnought become obsolete, he commissioned a panic design.
Taking up designs from the former Swiftsure class, the interim ship received a unique main armament layout of 4 12"/42 calibre guns in turrets, accompanied by a further 8 12"/40 guns arranged in large, heavily armoured casements on the ship's side. Due to the large gun layout, the class sacrificed their secondary armaments, only being given 8 6"/50 for defence against torpedo boats and the like.
Methuselah is the 2nd ship in the class, and having been commissioned mere days ahead of Dreadnought, the Admiralty considered her obsolescent. She would acquit for herself however, as she was an active frontline ship, along with her 4 other sisters. In 1916, she served as the rearmost guard of Jellicoe's fleet, serving alongside the infamous 5th battle squadron. Aboard her was the then Prince Albert, future George VI
In the wake of the Washington naval treaty, Methuselah and her sisters were threatened to be scrapped due to the terms of the treaty. However, Prince Albert lobbied for her to be spared, expressing his love for the ship in his published journal detailing his time served in the navy. In support of his son's wishes, Edward VII publicly saved two of the ships, Methuselah and Majestic by calling both of them home from their overseas stations, and using them as the flagships for the international fleet review in 1925, alongside the Hood.
With public interest in the ships, the Admiralty was forced to modernise the ships, upgrading their loading systems and installing newer, more efficient, oil burning turbines, although their top speed did not change.
Upon the outbreak of war in 1939, Methuselah lost her sister, Majestic. On October 14, 1939, U-47 snuck into Scapa flow with the intention of sinking the then flagship, Royal Oak. However, due to the irregularities in Scapa's underwater geography, the torpedo glanced off a sandbar, and was thrown en-route to the moored Majestic, just sitting astern of Royal Oak. The torpedo detonated just below Majestic's torpedo protection, causing the ship to list, fires raged aboard the ship, unfortunately reaching the casemate magazines, detonating them. Royal Oak was damaged as one of Majestic's 12" gun turrets was thrown onto her stern by the sheer force of the explosion. Majestic sank with 698 hands.
In 1940, she was part of a task force the RN sent to thwart the German invasion of Norway, during which her ram-bow proved to be useful, as she rammed a disabled German destroyer that was escorting a ship with German infantry, which was later captured by her escorts.
During the battle of the Atlantic, Methuselah was relegated to an escort role, leading slower convoys and providing protection against surface raiders. She came into contact with Admiral Scheer in the summer of 1941, guns blazing, she engaged the pocket battleship for half an hour, before promptly silencing the German ship with a well placed shot to its turrets, Admiral Scheer was then forced to break off.
Cheering for her successess, the Admiralty assigned her to the Mediterranean, to help in the bombardments for the invasion of Crete.
In 1944, she was then relocated to prepare for Operation Overlord, she was stationed behind Warspite and provided gunfire support for Gold Beach.
At the war's end, she was sent into reserve, acting as a training ship until 1946. There, she was moored beside Warspite, Queen Elizabeth, and Valiant. She was saved from the scrappers however, when King George VI requisitioned her to act as his Royal Yacht, with rhe Vanguard trailing behind her, and even then, she would outlast the Vanguard.
She was again saved in the 60s, after Vanguard was scrapped, the Admiralty also decided that it was time for Methuselah to go. However, this decision lead to a public outcry, stating that despite the ship's advanced age of 60, it still tells a story. A nationwide fundraising campaign spontaneously sprung up. Admiralty did not want to relent at first, but after the nation raised £1.5 million (£700,000 was granted by the Crown for the preservation of a historic ship), Parliament stepped in (for once) and lobbied the Admiralty to preserve, and keep the ship in service. Admiralty gave in, and sent the ship 3 years into a dockyard, for a complete overhaul to replace all the exhausted systems and to renew her steel and armaments.
After her total overhaul, she was sent across the Empire to retain relationships, often acting as flagship, and with her new top speed of 28kts, she could keep up with the newer British carriers. When Argentina invaded the Falklands, a hasty refit was performed on her, giving her two PHALANX mounts atop her turrets.
Upon arrival, Methuselah got to work, acting as the fleet air defence platform, and shooting down Exocets, she received a bad hit on her number 1 casement on April 23, 1982. The powder charges were set off, fortunately for the ship, a port on the casemate cover was opened, and the flames escaped out of the ship, only causing minor damage and 1 12" gun taken out of service.
In May, she encountered the General Belgrano, which she sunk, causing a controversy. Still, she soldiered on, bombing the outskirts of Stanley and Goose Green before the landings. After the conflict, she was hailed home with a trail of water cannons, with Harriers flying above her.
I know it says Seydlitz but this is supposed to be the second ship of the Seydlitz class according to the random story me and my friend came up with, and yes, drawing dumb shit like this keeps me entertained
armament for those who need it KVS: 4x2 150mm guns 1x5 533mm torpedos 6 depth charge racks and launchers 20x1 20mm guns 6x4 37mm guns
Inflexible: 8x2 14 inch guns 18x1 5 inch guns 24x2 9 inch guns 16x2 vickers Machine guns 4x1 533mm torpedo tubes
Preussen: 7x3 12 inch guns 11x2 105mm guns 150mm guns 24x4 37mm guns 37x1 20mm guns 4x2 700mm underwater torpedo tubes 4x5 533mm torpedos 8-10 attack aircraft
Malta: 8x2 127mm guns 8x2 40mm guns 2x4 40mm guns 90+ aircraft
Original Specifications 1918
Displacement: 32,000 t normal load / 36,000 t full load
Length: 200 m
Beam: 30 m
Depth: 15 m quarterdeck / 18 m forecastle
Draft: 9 m
Installed power: 16 water tube boilers producing 40,000 shp
Propulsion: 4 geared steam turbines driving 4 shafts
Speed: 21 knots
Range: 15,000 km at 10 knots
Complement: 1,000
Armament:
4x3 356 mm 45 calibre guns
16x1 152 mm 45 calibre guns
4x1 76 mm 45 calibre guns
4x1 533 mm torpedo tubes
Armour:
240-360 mm belt
80 mm torpedo belt
80 mm lower deck
40 mm upper deck
120-360 mm turrets
240-360 mm barbettes
120-360 mm conning tower
Modernised Specifications 1938
Displacement: 35,000 t standard load / 42,000 t full load
Length: 200 m
Beam: 34 m
Depth: 15 m quarterdeck / 18 m forecastle
Draft: 9 m
Installed power: 6 water tube boilers producing 60,000 shp
Propulsion: 4 geared steam turbines driving 4 shafts
Speed: 22.5 knots
Range: 15,000 km at 15 knots
Complement: 1,250
Armament:
4x3 356 mm 45 calibre guns
6x2 127 mm 50 calibre guns
6x2 40 mm 60 calibre guns
Armour:
240-360 mm belt
80-120 mm lower deck
80 mm upper deck
180-360 mm turrets
240-360 mm barbettes
Aircraft: 3 floatplanes
The Bismarck but on steroids, a lot of steroids
There's no AA since I'm very much lazy to made one and it's very time wasting. (There were supposed to be lore in here but I accidentally post it without the picture.)
While I have drawn warships from many different era's I now want to learn a bit by exploring an era of ships I have not drawn before, that era being modern warships.
What I was wondering was what the most important things are to keep in mind about drawing modern ships, like what are essentials to such a design and what shapes are used most often? If I need to be more specific, I am looking to draw a Frigate (focussed around ASW and AA support) and a Destroyer (to serve as main line ships, so a overall solid design with a slightly bigger focuss on ship-to-ship combat). Hope you can help me with this and thank you very much for any advice you might be able to provide!
Here is a Cruiser I made for a Math Assignment using Desmos Calculator. I call it CBGN-01 Alaska it’s quite Unrefined in Detail it took 6-8 hours of Equations to make