Shipbucket

Sigh... click through to a ten-reply version of a long awaited post only to find no drawings!

You're a damned tease, Hood

Sounds good, can't wait to see the drawings!!!

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My home is kaput But watch this space for the ships I've contributed

Sorry to hear that PB.

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“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

Arggh Sorry, I meant my home p.c., not my home

I gathered that from your other post.
So know you've wrecked your car and your computer. Maybe miss PB should start hiding the fine china.

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“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

Lady Portsmouth is her correct title; or, 'she who must be obeyed'

Anyway, a very modest start: Postwar, the Hunts were refurbished for further service. The Type III's along the lines that were (in real life) applied to the ships in Norwegian service. And in this AU the Type IV's came out with a bigger displacement, and ran to more than the three actually built by Thornycroft. All told we'd be looking at two flotilla's of each type, one in the Med, and the other in the North Sea. Here is what I've come up with:






Hood will be our team leader on this project, so in general terms he will make the decisions regarding the number of ships and classes. It will become more interesting when we begin with the missile age and the new types coming into service. I would also say that where there is a gap, such as cruiser for immediate service, this can be filled in later.

I'd like to add at this point that we've designed this two ways.
1) You can enjoy the entire AU as a complete postwar timeline OR
2) Each ship or concept could be seen as a stand-alone idea to be inserted into the real-world scenario

It all fits together and I'll post some fleet numbers etc but sometimes its nice that folks can cherry pick what they think fits and even if you don't agree with the entire premise at least everyone can take from it what they like.

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English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

I like how the mini-badges look; very neat and cute yet totally recognizable.
By the way, as far as I understand the rules of heraldry, it's ok to stretch the rectangular plate a little to fit a longer ship name. Like so:

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Worklist: Portuguese Navy and Barnegat class seaplane tenders

Thanks for the advice; certainly on the smaller badges this will help And now back to the launch. My 'grey funnel line shipmates' might keel haul me for this, but those Hunts look a bit lonely and not much after all the hype? So I thought I'd flash forward to the first warship to carry early Seaslug: HMS Illustrious, named after the older carrier that was damaged beyond economic repair (in this AU). As you see, she's 'Interesting', and rest assured, this should be the one and only 'odd ball' in the fleet. A lot of us will already have seen various takes on the projected conversion of a carrier into a missile ship (see Hood's earlier version). The rational is that early Seaslug needed a large hull; and instead of the real life Girdle Ness, the decision was taken to convert one of the Majestic class. Understandably ( ) I've had great problems getting this far - and you should see some of the designs that never made it! But I will rest on what I've arrived at here; a warship with good area defence and generous flag and command capacity; admittidly slow, but in its role as convoy escort, amhibious command, and with good asw the new Illustrious would serve - probably in the Med, until replaced by the new generation of missile ships.



A note about the secondary armanent. The guns are dual 40mm Bofors semi automatics, with a gunner in the turret and fed from below; similar in concept to the Breda Bofors. Seacat is also included. There is also 'Bidder' asw torpedo's for self defence, and of course the big bow sonar is included as part of the asw suite. I would imagine, that once Seaslug is defunct, some extra life may be got out of this hull by conversion to a fully amphibious warfare role, with extra helicopter capacity etc. I have six Wessex here as about right; and the Seaslug is using the early triple launcher that was replaced on the later ships with the twin. The blue Seaslug is actually Blueslug, the ssm version - another important assett

I'll now sit back and enjoy the comments - pass me that helmet sailor