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#1 Rygar

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Posted 05 April 2004 - 09:10 PM

American Aircraft carrier Yorktown class
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Probably one of (if not) the best pre-WWII aircraft carrier in the world. These three ships were an enourmous help to the USN in the dark days of the Pacific war. Enterprise escorted Hornet for her famous launching Jimmy Doolittle on April 1942. Yorktown, in company with Saratoga class CV Lexington turned back the Japanese invasion fleet bound for Port Moresby, New Guiena. The Japanese sank Lexington and severely damaged Yorktown while they lost light carrier Shoho. Yorktown, after hightailing it back to Pearl, was hurridly repaired in time for Midway. There, these CV's and a handfull of CA's and DD's held the line against the IJN, sinking CV's Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, and Soryu along with heavy cruiser Mikuma while we only lost battered Yorktown, leaving the US with only 3 aircraft carriers in the pacific. (Enterprise, Hornet, Wasp). The latter two were lost in the Solomons and the Big-E was damaged several times. After the war, Enterprise was, sadly, scrapped.

Displacement (max): 25484 tons
Dimensions: 246.74 x 33.38 x 7 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: 9x Babcock and Wilcox express type boilers, 4x Westinghouse geared turbines, 120000 shp
Speed (max): 32.5 knots
Main Armament: 8x 127mm L/38 in pairs around the flightdeck
Secondary Armament: 96x Aircrafts
AA: 40x 40mm L/56 in quad and twin mounts, 48x 20mm L/70 in single mounts
Armour: 76mm (deck), 102mm (belt), N/A (barbettes), 104mm side, 54mm top (conning tower)
Crew: 2702

British aircraft carrier Illustrious class
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The "Illustrious" Class ships were the radical next generation of aircraft carrier which the Admiralty took steps to develop in 1935. HMS Illustrious had along and renowned service history inparticularly during her Mediterranean posting between September 1940 and January 1941. Illustrious is best remembered for her strike on the Italian Fleet at Taranto on the night of 11-12 November 1940. Torpedoes from her Fairey Swordfish aircraft sank one battleship and forced two others to be beached. She also led strike on Benghazi on 16-17 September, was part of Malta convoys between September-October, and again on Malta convoys from November 1940 to January 1941.
The immense strength of the ships stood them in good stead, for their war turned out to be one of air, rather than submarine attack. Soon after Taranto, the Illustrious survived punishment from dive-bombing that would have sunk any other carrier afloat, a performance echoed by the Formidable after Matapan. In the Pacific War most of them withstood one or even two kamikaze strikes without having to leave station. But all these immense blows were absorbed mainly by the ships' horizontal protection and it would seem in retrospect that the vertical armour was bought at an excessive price in operational efficiency even though, in the Pacific, the class worked with something like 60 per cent over its designed aircraft complement. When the Americans copied the armoured deck concept, it was not at the cost of capacity, so carrier sizes began their inevitable escalation. The ships were scrapped in 1956, 1969, 1955 and 1953 respectively.

Displacement (max): 28661 tons
Dimensions: 225.99 x 32.07 x 8.46 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: Steam Turbines (6 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 3 shafts, Parsons geared turbines), 111000 shp
Speed (max): 30.5 knots
Main Armament: 8x twin 114mm cannons
Secondary Armament: 36x Aircrafts
AA: 6x octuple 2-pdr pom-pom AA, 3x 40mm Bofors, 52x 20mm Oerlikon
Armour: 76.2mm (flightdeck), 114.3mm (side), 114.3 (deck), N/A (conning tower)
Crew: 1400

Russian Torpedo boat Tupolev G-5
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In the early 1930s the USSR began mass production of a «mosquito fleet» consisting of aluminum torpedo boats that had high speeds of around 50-55 knots. Development of this project was carried out by the special design bureau of the noted aircraft designer A.N. Tupolev. After building prototype models, series production of the first boats, which were armed with 457mm torpedoes, commenced under the designation Sh-4.
The creation of a new type of boat which was more responsive to the needs of the Soviet Navy was completed in 1933. It was accepted for service under the designator «G-5». This boat was armed with two 533mm torpedoes. Initially, series production was carried out at the «A. Marti» factory in Leningrad, but later on it was also carried out at a number of other factories. Ignoring a number of difficulties which arose during the decade-long production run, more than 200 boats were built to the design specification in several series. The G-5 boats took part in the Civil War in Spain, the Second World War, and the Korean War. During the years of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) boats of this type received various armament configurations, including rockets. Despite the heroism shown by their crews, combat victories scored by these boats were not many in number. They took part in operations in the Baltic and Black Seas, as well as in the Pacific Ocean, where they carried out torpedo attacks, laid minefields, landed troops and escorted convoys.

Displacement (max): 17.84 tons
Dimensions: 19.1 x 3.4 x 0.7 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: 1700 shp
Speed (max): 50 knots
Main Armament: 2x 533.4mm torpedoes or 4x mines
Secondary Armament: 3x depth charges
AA: 2x 12.7 mm AAMG
Armour: N/A
Crew: 9

German Heavy cruiser Hipper class
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These heavy cruisers of the Kriegsmarine were a result of the Washington Fleet Treaty of 1921, so called "Washington Cruisers". Their displacement was not to exceed 10.000 tons and their main artillery was limited to 20,3 cm guns, but in reality they were up to 60% bigger than allowed.

Between 1935 and 1937 the keels of five of this ships were laid down which belonged to two slightly different classes of ships: The Admiral Hipper and her sister Ship Blücher, the improved second batch consisting of the Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz and Lützow. The last two were originally planned to be big CLs with an armament of twelve 15 cm guns, but due to the lack of guns and turrets and the threat of a new class of Soviet cruisers, the ships were built as additional ships of the Prinz Eugen design. Those ships were designed with the idea of commerce war in mind, they should attack allied merchant shipping and evade allied warships, but it soon got obvious that they were not ideal for this task. With their high-pressure steam engine their fuel consumption was too high and their operational range was not big enough to be used in the North Atlantic. In addition, the complicated engine construction often broke down. Of the five ships, only three got completed at all. The Admiral Hipper was destroyed by her own crew in the final days of the war. Blucher was sunk on April 9th 1940 in the Oslo fjord. Prinz Eugen, often called the "lucky ship" was the only major german warship that survived the war and was sunk after atomic bomb test in the Kwajalein Atoll. One of its floatplanes, the T3 + BH, is now in the Silverhill Storage Facility of the Smithsonian. Lützow was uncompleted sold to Russia in 1940 and was never completed. She was scraped in the late 1950s. The Seydlitz was to be converted to an aircraft carrier, but was never completed, too. The ship was captured by the Russians in Königsberg and scrapped in 1958.

Displacement (max): 18208 tons
Dimensions: 205.9 x 21.3 x 5.83 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: 3x Blohm und Voss turbines, 12x La Mont boilers, 133631 shp
Speed (max): 32.5 knots
Main Armament: 8 x 203mm SK cannons in 4 twin turrets
Secondary Armament: 12x 105mm L/65 C/33 (6x2) cannons, 12x 533mm torpedo tubes
AA: 6x 40mm Flak, 12x 37mm (6x2) cannons, 32x 20mm cannons
Armour: 50mm (deck), 80mm (belt), 105 mm (turretts), 150mm (conning tower)
Crew: 1600

Italian M.A.S. 500 class, 4th. serie
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The end of the Great War saw the Regal Marina come out of it with a new weapon: the MAS (Motoscafo Anti Sommergibile – Anti Submarine Motorboat). This weapon had given to the Italian Navy the most glamorous successes, such as the sinking of the battleships SZENT ISTVAN and WIEN, respectively, by MAS 15 and 9. By the end of the conflict, 422 MAS had been ordered; of these 244 were already in service, others would be completed in the postwar period, and many were canceled or sold to private individuals or completed as civil boats. At the start of war (for Italy 10th June 1940) Italy had in service 46 modern MAS of the "500" class, 25 of the 1st series (denomination from MAS 501 to MAS 525, also if MAS 506, 508, 511 and 524 were sold to Sweden at the beginning of 1940) and 25 of the second series (denomination from MAS 526 to MAS 550), other 14 similar units were under construction ("500" class 3rd series, denomination from MAS 551 to MAS 564).

Displacement (max): 29.4 tons
Dimensions: 18.7 x 4.7 x 1.5 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: 2x gasoline, 2 auxiliary, 2300 + 140 hp
Speed: 43.0 knots + 8 with aux. engines
Main Armament: 1x 20/65 mm
Secondary Armament: 2x 450 mm. torpedoes (2 launchers), 10 depth charges (1 launcher).
AA: 1x 6.5mm MG
Crew: 13

Japanese Aircraft carrier Akagi class
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The Akagi is very similar to the Kaga. The Akagi's keel was first laid down in December, 1920 as a battlecruiser of the Amagi class. When the Japanese signed the Washington Treaty, it wa decided to convert the Akagi to an aircraft carrier. Upon completion as a carrier, she looked very similar to the Kaga, which also had three flight decks when she was comleted as a carrier. Between 1935 to 1938 the Akagi was at Sasebo Naval Base going through a refit and modernization. She was fitted with one flight deck extending the length of the ship, and as something new, her bridge was placed on the port side of the ship along with a single funnel 275 feet long on starboard side. While in the Sasebo Naval yard for modernization the horsepower was increased from 131000 to 133000, four of the 203.2mm guns were removed, and the aircraft capacity was increased from 61 to 91. Later on the long rectangular funnel was removed and a squat funnel very similar to the Kaga's was added. The flight deck inclined downward slightly, fore and aft from a point one third of the length from the bow. The battle cruiser's machinery was basically retained. Smoke discharged via a large, downward-angled funnel supplemented by a smaller, upward-pointing stack further aft. The reason for this was to assist planes getting more speed during takeoff and to help them slow down more during landings. The Akagi served as the flagship of the Carrier Fleet under Admiral Nagumo. The Akagi was sunk by American planes at he Battle of Midway.

Displacement (max): 41300 tons
Dimensions: 260.7 x 31.3 x 8.7 (lenght x beam x draft) mt
Propulsion: 19x Kampon type B Boilers, 4x Gihon Turbines, 4x shafts, 133000 shp
Speed (max): 31.2 knots
Main Armament: 6x203/50mm Type I cannons
Secondary Armament: 91x Aircrafts
AA: 12x 120/45mm cannons, 28x25/60mm cannons, 22x13,2mm cannons
Armour: 71mm (deck), 53mm (flightdeck), 254 mm (side), 163.5 mm (conning tower)
Crew: 2000

Edited by Rygar, 25 March 2005 - 06:17 PM.

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Posted 12 April 2004 - 03:21 PM

updated list
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Posted 12 April 2004 - 06:38 PM

Very nice work indeed

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Posted 12 April 2004 - 07:20 PM

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Posted 14 April 2004 - 12:31 PM

Isn't that picture of the Akagi one of the earlier versions of that ACC? I seem to recall that the Akagi looked different during WW2.

Now doesn't this picture show the Akagi far more impressive?
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Posted 14 April 2004 - 02:09 PM

yes it is, at that moment I cannot find something better with reasonable dimensions, by the way thanks for the picture

BTW: be careful, the picture posted above shows the stern, your pic shows the bow and if you look carefuly they have the same stern
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