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Onno Meyer, 2015-05-04
Wooden-Hulled Destroyer v1.0 (TL5)
Copyright 2015 by Onno Meyer
If one steam engine is good, surely four of them are even better. This
sleek vessel can make 20 knots on a calm sea, at least until the engines
wear out and the hull gets warped. She is armed with five 4-inch rifled
muzzleloaders on pivot mounts and ten naval mines, called torpedoes.
Her inventor would probably sell the plans to a government, at home or
abroad -- if they are interested in a naval vessel without sails. Or she
gets built as a private venture, either to prove the concept or for more
sinister plans of world domination. A destroyer squadron would be hard
pressed to fight a sailing line of battle, but they should be suitable
for a guerre de course if there are enough coaling stations.
The steam engines burn 6 tons of coal per hour. A full load of coal,
ammunition, and provisions is $35,400.
Subassemblies: Body +8, five full-rotation Open Mounts +2.
Powertrain: Two 2,000-kW screw propellers; four 1,000-kW forced draft
steam engines.
Fuel: 14,400-cf coal bunker.
Occ: 2 XCCS, 1 CCS, 99 bunks, 1 cabin. Cargo: 300 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 3/15 3/15 3/15 3/15 3/15
Weaponry
Five 4" RML [OM1-5:F] (100 rounds each) +0.
Equipment:
Body: Voicetubes; whistle; two sets of navigation instruments;
mechanic workshop; 2,000 man-days of provisions. External: 4,000 sf top
deck; ten 500-lb. hardpoints.
Statistics
Size: 240'x20'x30' Payload: 800,000 lbs. Lwt.: 1,600,000 lbs.
Volume: 70,228 cf Maint.: 6 man-hours Price: $366,350
HT: 6. HPs: Body 18,000, each Open Mount 200.
wSpeed: 25 wAccel: 0.5 wDecel: 0.25(0.5) wMR: 0.05 wSR: 4
Draft 11'. Flotation Rating 3,150,000 lbs.
Design Notes
Cheaply made. Body is 70,000 cf, with very fine lines. Open Mounts are
45.6 cf each. Structure is standard, medium. Armor is standard wood.
Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. 250 rounds of 4" solid shot and 250
rounds of 4" SAPLE are stored in the Body. 630.36 cf of empty space in
the Body. Empty weight is 800,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost WPS VPS CPS Ldr. TL
4" RML 1,900 38 $5,300 60 0.4 $12[1] 2 5
Ammo Type: [1] Solid, also fires SAPLE (at x2 cost and x0.67 weight).
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
4" RML solid 16 cr. 6d*7 25 13 940 4,600 1/20
SAPLE 16 cr. 6d*7(0.5) 25 13 940 4,600 1/20
plus exp. 6d*4[10d]
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, July 2010 errata] and VXii (the armor volume rule) with the
text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A larger cruiser, almost as fast.
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