Hello everybody, I'm the moderator/administrator of the Ship Design Drawings collection on the Webarchive. This is a collection of plans for warships & merchant ships, found in the public domain and uploaded to the Webarchive to keep those plans in the public domain.

And what better way to introduce myself than to link to plans for the 2011 BOGP for CV-67 USS John F Kennedy???

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PS: An index spreadsheet for the collection can be downloaded here

00 - cover photo

01 - contact sheet 1

02 - contact sheet 2

03 - contact sheet 3

I've been a longtime fan of Drachinifel, and I think he does a great job at covering the subjects I'm interested in in the detail I'm interested in, but I'm interested in learning more about periods after his channel covers. Ideally Youtube channels or podcasts, but I'd be happy to read books too. I have pretty minimal knowledge about specific advances in technology and design, and how navies changed first I presume due to overwhelming power of carriers, then the introduction and development of missiles. Of course as we move forward, more and more is classified.

Hi everyone, I am a volunteer for battleship cove in Massachusetts. We are the custodians of a Gearing class destroyer the Joseph Kennedy Jr. It has a FRAM 1 modification. The state has asked us to perform an oil abatement survey so we can remove any residual oil from the hull. We believe the remaining oil to mostly be lubricating oil for compressors, turbine, etc. I believe they want this done in preparation for a tow to drydock for maintenance. We are having trouble locating a tank diagram for the ship, as none of the remaining ships documents include the blueprints. Any help from the community would be appreciated!

The County/York classes of heavy cruisers were very much products of the 1920s, with high freeboard, early turrets designs, and the light upper works of the period. Their machinery and armament looked decidedly retro by the outbreak of war, and it’s always puzzled me why the RN didn’t build any more vessels of this type in the late 1930s and during the war. The US really went to town in this sort of class, and of the Japanese did too.

I guess you might say light 6 inch cruisers (especially with the triple turrets) could do the job, but I’d have thought that situations like River Plate showed early in the war the value of harder hitting ships.

Thing to the left

Has anyone ever launch a f-4 phantom off a ski jump carrier?

If not, could they and be effective?

I had an idea to take the autoloading 8-inch guns from USS Des Moines and putting them in dual purpose twin mounts. Is this possible? How effective would they be?

Edit: In hindsight, I should’ve clarified that I was asking about its effectiveness as a post-WW2 weapon (more specifically as an alternative to the armament of Des Moines class heavy cruisers)

Hi everyone,

I'm curious about the legacy of Japanese aircraft carriers from World War II. Out of the many carriers Japan built and operated during the war, which one do you think is the most famous or iconic today, and why?

What do you think?

Edit: Looks like the Zuikaku has won.

I was thinking about the USS Nimitz CVN-68 and USS Eisenhower CVN-69, both of which are approaching their decommissioning in the next few years. Watching Chowdah Hill, it appears that the Ike is still in pretty good condition. Maybe it's a bit of a maintenance hog, but I don't know that personally. I'm under the impression that the Nimitz is similarly in fairly decent condition. Whereas, the USS JFK (CV-67) and Kitty Hawk (CV-63) were both reported to be in poor material condition not long before their decommissioning. I thought I had read that the JFK had at least one catapult not working, and the Kitty Hawk picked up the nickname "Sh1tty Kitty."

Are we taking fundamentally better of our late-in-life CVNs than we used to do for our supercarrier CVs? Is there something with the deployment cycles that left the JFK and Kitty Hawk in poor condition near the ends of their careers? How were the other conventionally powered CVs doing near their decommissionings?

I was looking at a comparison chart of the PLAN and the USN and noticed there are no cruisers listed in service.

This chart included ships laid down and planned to launch by 2030 so it should include any doctrinal shifts to peer conflict by the USN.

Have these roles been simply assumed by larger destroyers?

I know Russia maintains several missile cruisers and even finally did a massive refit of one Kirov class for hypersonics. Does the geography of the Pacific and Marine Corps focus on island hoping and building missile sites in the Pacific eliminate the need for missile cruisers?

Is that why China has a similar planned naval force composition?

When you compare British carriers at the start of the war compared to American and japanese carriers they were smaller and carried half the aircraft, the ark royal was the best carrier being able to carry 50 but this was nothing compared to the 80 odd the best Japanese and American carriers could carry. The illustrious class were good carriers and arguably the biggest workhorses of the royal navy’s aircraft carriers in ww2 but they again were small and carried half the aircraft compared to japanese or American carriers. The glorious carriers are the same. On top of all this the aircraft carried weren’t very good at the start of the war. It wasn’t until 1944 with the new carriers that they had comparable carriers.

I know the US Navy changed the designations of their DLG to CG in 1975.

however was there much of a difference in how they were used ?

Can the 20 round magazine be loaded from the Ammunition stores while the gun is being fired?

It’s my friends birthday in February and she really likes battleships but I know almost nothing about them. Apologies if this is the wrong sub, but do you have any gift ideas I could sort out within a month or so? I know she likes the idea of model battleships but I don’t know where to start there either haha

I am thinking the Iowa-class battleships had MK-144 cluster shells did they use them in combat. I believe I heard something about them back in 1991

Hey guys! I saw this picture while browsing in an antique shop today. I’m guessing it was taken on a US standard battleship, but couldn’t find any information in the photo or on the back of the frame. Would you guys be able to help me identify the ship in this photo? Thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/ioeqyxty82ce1.png?width=1145&format=png&auto=webp&s=24ae8280ac673146aba1dde69d79e217c3184131

can somebody tell me what this soviet aircraft carrier?

I get confused between the Monarch and the Lion Class and for how big you the G3 ships were before 2WW. And critic or help to add stuff to present information would be appreciated.

I understand how accurate these shells are, but does anyone know what the kill radius is?

A saw a post recently on here of naming the Scharhorst front turrets Anton and Bruno but I know Bruno was also Bismarck's turret? (Thanks to Tamiya 1/72 model of it) then thinking about it I don't ever hear anything about British or American dreadnoughts/super dreadnaughts turrets being named?

Alpino frigate italian navy