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Posts: 3506 ( 8-May-2008 00:02:03) |
The cruiser minelayer-Adventure originally had a transom stern but it was quickly realised that transom sterns and minelaying don't
go well together and she was rebuilt with a conventional stern.
How big a job was that and if a could be done one way with Adventure, could a non transom stern ship be rebuilt with a transom stern? |
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seasick |
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Posts: 4643 ( 8-May-2008 04:09:54) |
Rebuilding a stern is probably a mundane task. You just cut off the conventional stern and put on a transom, or you lengthen the stern and put on a transom.
You probably if your going the other way lengthen the stern and add the conventional bow. But whats so bad about a tramson? shouldn't be to difficult to
put a mine into the water off the quarter deck.
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Posts: 3734 ( 8-May-2008 04:26:29) |
seasick wrote: Apparently (this is what I remember from reading one of the bound volumes of Warship sold in the US by the USNI) the mines dropped into the dead water
behind the transom, and bobbled along in the wake.
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Posts: 3510 ( 8-May-2008 19:34:25) |
According to Brown in 'The Grand Fleet'...
The transom stern was not a success as the severe eddies behind the stern caused the mines when dropped to bounce back into the stern, knocking off their horns. In 1932 she was rebuilt with a conventional stern. It is a pity that a valuable idea like the transom stern should have been misapplied in its first application as, in consequence, transoms were not used again until the Fiji class cruisers of 1939' He also mentions that some early studies for the Kent also featured a transom. |
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Posts: 1740 ( 8-May-2008 23:15:48) |
The german K-class light cruisers were build with transome sterns. The successing Leipzig class was finished with conventional stern, instead. I wonder what
may have caused this decision.
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Posts: 2927 ( 9-May-2008 04:05:34) |
All the German WW2 (and many WW1) light cruisers were expected to carry and lay mines as well, so I would say for the same reason as Adventure's mod.
The 3 "K" class, Leipzig, & Nurnberg all carried 120 mines. |
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Posts: 6487 ( 9-May-2008 18:13:56) |
The german K-class light cruisers were build with transome sterns. The successing Leipzig class was finished with conventional stern, instead. I'd call that pretty good circumstantial evidence that transome sterns and mine laying do not go together. Mine laying was the primary mission of the WWII German CLs. |
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