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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/9/2013 7:53:46 PM

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Here's the starting list, based on peacetime AND wartime requirements in Asia as of 1/1/22:

UK: Scouting, Destroyer Leader, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties.

US: Scouting, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties.

France: Scouting, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties, Commerce Raiding.

Netherlands: Trade Protection, Colonial Duties, Destroyer Leader, Scouting.

Japan: Scouting, Destroyer Leader, Commerce Raiding, Trade Protection.

Open for discussion. Remember that the Japs had no torpedo attack doctrine back then.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/9/2013 10:51:38 PM

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You beat me to it, but I like what you started with. I know that Gary wanted the Germans and Italians but I think the best thing is to work up to them say 1935 for the Germans and tie the Italian building to the French and British presence in the Med.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/9/2013 11:43:36 PM

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"Colonial Duties" should be taken to mean showing the flag around the area in question and deterring other powers from muscling in on the territory.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/10/2013 4:23:53 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Here's the starting list, based on peacetime AND wartime requirements in Asia as of 1/1/22:

UK: Scouting, Destroyer Leader, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties.

US: Scouting, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties.

France: Scouting, Trade Protection, Colonial Duties, Commerce Raiding.

Netherlands: Trade Protection, Colonial Duties, Destroyer Leader, Scouting.

Japan: Scouting, Destroyer Leader, Commerce Raiding, Trade Protection.

Open for discussion. Remember that the Japs had no torpedo attack doctrine back then.

So for missions we basically have:

1. Scouting
2. Trade protection
3. Commerce Raiding
4. Colonial Duties
5. Destroyer Leader

So next I suppose it would be useful to sort out what some characteristics are that make a ship most suitable for each of these missions? My guess would be something along these lines:

1. Scouting - high speed, long range
2. Trade protection - long range, large numbers
3. Commerce Raiding - high speed, heavy armament, long range
4. Colonial Duties - long range
5. Destroyer Leader - high speed

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/13/2013 4:09:31 AM

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ORIGINAL: JuanG

Alright, I'm happy to pull together lists like this for each of the 3 major powers;

I've added a few notes:

2x OB Kearsarge (11500t, 2x2 13in/35, 16kts, 337mm / 70mm, 1900)
Totally obsolete due to superimposed turrets - Kearsarge was converted into a craneship before the Treaty was even proposed.

3x OB Illinois (11600t, 2x2 13in/35, 16kts, 337mm / 70mm, 1901)
All decommissioned in advance of treaty

3x OB Maine (12600t, 2x2 12in/40, 18kts, 279mm / 64mm, 1902)
2 of 3 due to decommission, 1 in reserve

5x OB Virginia (15000t, 2x2 12in/40, 19kts, 279mm / 76mm, 1906)
Seriously compromised by superimposed turrets, all due to decommission

6x AC Pennsylvania/Pittsburgh (13700t, 2x2 8in/40, 22kts, 152mm / 38mm, 1905)
San Diego sunk by mine 1918

4x AC Tennessee/Memphis (14500t, 2x2 10in/40, 22kts, 127mm / 38mm, 1906)
Memphis wrecked 1916

To be laid down;
5x BB South Dakota (43200t, 4x3 16in/50, 23kts, 343mm / 89mm)
Should be 6

4x BC Lexington (43500t, 4x2 16in/50, 33kts, 178mm / 57mm)
Should be 6

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/13/2013 4:11:58 AM

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Under construction:
5 x BB/CV Normandie (25230, 3x4 13.4in/45, 21kts, 300mm / 50mm) - I'm thinking these would make a nice class of CVs

One set of turrets is missing (factory taken by Germans), so they can complete a maximum of 4 as battleships

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/13/2013 4:28:15 AM

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Battleships: Colossus, Monarch, Thunderer, Ajax, Centurion, King George V, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, Marlborough, Barham, Malaya, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Warspite, Ramilies, Resolution, Revenge, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign.

Missing Erin and Agincourt

Under construction
Battlecruiser: Hood (added)

Carrier: Furious (under reconstruction from large light cruiser)

Cruisers: Frobisher, Emerald, Enterprise
Missing Raleigh

Being laid down in 1922

Battleships: Nelson and Rodney
Nelson and Rodney were a post-Washington Treaty design, in 1920 the RN was intending to lay down the 4 N3 class battleships and the 4 G3 class battlecruisers.

Cruiser: Adventure
Actually a minelayer

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/13/2013 9:29:54 PM

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I've put my comments in bold to distinguish them, didn't want to have like 10 quotes in one post.

Of note is that my list is as is at 1/1/1920. This means anything decommissioned after that is still listed. Likewise, the 'to be built' is ONLY ships that will be laid down by the end of 1920.

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ORIGINAL: dwg

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ORIGINAL: JuanG

Alright, I'm happy to pull together lists like this for each of the 3 major powers;

I've added a few notes:

2x OB Kearsarge (11500t, 2x2 13in/35, 16kts, 337mm / 70mm, 1900)
Totally obsolete due to superimposed turrets - Kearsarge was converted into a craneship before the Treaty was even proposed.

Kearsarge was used as a training ship in 1919, only decommissioned for conversion in May 1920.
Kentucky was also used as a training ship, decomissioned in May 1920.

3x OB Illinois (11600t, 2x2 13in/35, 16kts, 337mm / 70mm, 1901)
All decommissioned in advance of treaty

All 3 still in reserve at the beginning of 1920.

3x OB Maine (12600t, 2x2 12in/40, 18kts, 279mm / 64mm, 1902)
2 of 3 due to decommission, 1 in reserve

I made an error here, should be 2x OB Maine, as 1 already decommissioned (Missouri in Sept 1919), 2 in reserve.

5x OB Virginia (15000t, 2x2 12in/40, 19kts, 279mm / 76mm, 1906)
Seriously compromised by superimposed turrets, all due to decommission

But none decommissioned as of 1/1/1920.

6x AC Pennsylvania/Pittsburgh (13700t, 2x2 8in/40, 22kts, 152mm / 38mm, 1905)
San Diego sunk by mine 1918

Thank you, missed that.

4x AC Tennessee/Memphis (14500t, 2x2 10in/40, 22kts, 127mm / 38mm, 1906)
Memphis wrecked 1916

Likewise.

To be laid down;
5x BB South Dakota (43200t, 4x3 16in/50, 23kts, 343mm / 89mm)
Should be 6

Massachusetts only laid down 4/4/1921.

4x BC Lexington (43500t, 4x2 16in/50, 33kts, 178mm / 57mm)
Should be 6

Lexington and Ranger only laid down in 1921.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/13/2013 9:43:56 PM

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ORIGINAL: dwg

Battleships: Colossus, Monarch, Thunderer, Ajax, Centurion, King George V, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, Marlborough, Barham, Malaya, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Warspite, Ramilies, Resolution, Revenge, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign.

Missing Erin and Agincourt

Under construction
Battlecruiser: Hood (added)

Carrier: Furious (under reconstruction from large light cruiser)

Cruisers: Frobisher, Emerald, Enterprise
Missing Raleigh

Being laid down in 1922

Battleships: Nelson and Rodney
Nelson and Rodney were a post-Washington Treaty design, in 1920 the RN was intending to lay down the 4 N3 class battleships and the 4 G3 class battlecruisers.

Cruiser: Adventure
Actually a minelayer

It was my understanding that we were doing this as of 1922 (which others have done).

I excluded the Erin and Agincourt because they paid off in 1922. The Hood was in service at this time. The Nelson and the Rodney was laid down at the same time. The Raleigh was lost in a grounding in August of '22, and the Adventure was a cruiser-minelayer.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/14/2013 12:35:17 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

quote:

ORIGINAL: dwg

Battleships: Colossus, Monarch, Thunderer, Ajax, Centurion, King George V, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, Marlborough, Barham, Malaya, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Warspite, Ramilies, Resolution, Revenge, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign.

Missing Erin and Agincourt

Under construction
Battlecruiser: Hood (added)

Carrier: Furious (under reconstruction from large light cruiser)

Cruisers: Frobisher, Emerald, Enterprise
Missing Raleigh

Being laid down in 1922

Battleships: Nelson and Rodney
Nelson and Rodney were a post-Washington Treaty design, in 1920 the RN was intending to lay down the 4 N3 class battleships and the 4 G3 class battlecruisers.

Cruiser: Adventure
Actually a minelayer

It was my understanding that we were doing this as of 1922 (which others have done).

I excluded the Erin and Agincourt because they paid off in 1922. The Hood was in service at this time. The Nelson and the Rodney was laid down at the same time. The Raleigh was lost in a grounding in August of '22, and the Adventure was a cruiser-minelayer.

Pretty sure we started off as 1920, Gary did the French and Germans as 1922 since they were fairly static.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/14/2013 12:08:07 PM

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ORIGINAL: Terminus
It was my understanding that we were doing this as of 1922 (which others have done).

I'm just kibitzing as I've done a fair amount of reading around this period and there are a lot of changes that would have happened with or without the Treaty (such as the RN and USN battleship retirements), but which were claimed to be due to the Treaty as part of the general horsetrading ('we'll scrap all these battleships so long as you let us do X'). Some of the USN BBs scrapped were obsolete in 1914, never mind 1920. Whether you set the start point before the treaty or after makes a huge difference in both current status and future plans.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/14/2013 12:15:43 PM

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ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1
I believe the British (and almost everybody else) considered the "Hawkins Class" to be an abberrition.

The one exception being the USN's Navy Board, who saw the range as suiting it to the Pacific, the RN would have been much happier keeping cruisers at 4-6,000 tons, because of the numbers they needed.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/14/2013 5:22:23 PM

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I picked 1920 just because.....

The main points are no treaty, no great depression. How would this affect the major powers with their ship development.

Here are some of my thoughts;

Keep Germany to historic builds because of the treaty. If Gary wants to amend that we will work them up too. But lets face it, they would never be able to out build the Brits in numbers of hulls so its raiders and subs.

I thoughts on the US, build 2 of the BC because of the Hood. Continue planned scrapping of the OB's through the 1920's along with the AC's and PC's.

In the 1930's scrap the South Carolina's, Delawares, and Florida's. Convert the Wyoming's to training ships. Go with the planned historical construction of the BB's and light cruisers. I would like to add the change in history that the Navy see's the threat that Billy Mitchell showed them and they use the other 4 BC's hulls as carriers. Skip the Ranger and in the 30's build the Yorktowns.

The "heavy cruisers" are a challenge, but I see their mission as Asiatic squadron and showing the flag in the America's. As such they would be large cruisers which would stand up (with numbers)to any old BB they have in South America or the older Japanese ships in the Pacific. By the 30's they would be built along the lines of hunting the Graff Spee (fast, /w large caliber guns) or built with weight of broadside in mind and have 8 - 12 8" guns. Another thought would be they look at the Hawkins class and decided its the right direction and build a better ship.

Destroyers I would go with historical builds.

If I had a better feel for the British post WWI idea's I think it would be better if we designed the British navy first since I think the rest of the major powers would react to Britain.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/27/2013 3:13:09 AM

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ORIGINAL: oldman45

Keep Germany to historic builds because of the treaty. If Gary wants to amend that we will work them up too. But lets face it, they would never be able to out build the Brits in numbers of hulls so its raiders and subs.

How about this for Germany. Germany scraps all her old battleships and light cruisers in the 1920s and builds 6 Deutschland class pocket battleships, 1 Emden and 5 "K" class light cruisers by 1930. No old junk for the Reichsmarine.

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RE: Hijacking Gary's two threads into one - 5/27/2013 4:20:23 AM

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How about this for the German Navy's first baby steps after WW1.

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