JKN
Ensign
Posts:211
 | | 20 Mar 2010 09:09 PM | | This may sound odd but what ships had quad turrets for their main armament? I know of 3 KGV CLASS DUNKERQUE CLASS RICHELIE CLASS probably spell last one wrong. | | | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2182
| | 20 Mar 2010 09:18 PM | | The Normandie class but of course those were never finished due to the First World War. One was completed as the aircraft carrier Bearn. | | | I am prepared to meet my maker, whether He is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Sir Winston- | |
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JKN
Ensign
Posts:211
| | 20 Mar 2010 09:48 PM | | Any others? | | | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2182
| | 20 Mar 2010 10:06 PM | | I have a vague memory of a North Carolina variant with 12 14" guns in 3 quad turrets. I will have to look that up though. | | | I am prepared to meet my maker, whether He is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Sir Winston- | |
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Redthunder
Ensign
Posts:181
| | 21 Mar 2010 12:43 AM | | yep your right it was planed with quad cannons in three turrets but they were planed to be 16" heres a pic http://www.wolfsshipyard.mystarship...a_Quad.jpg theres also some other crazy plans on the same site: http://www.wolfsshipyard.mystarship...united.htm theres one plan of a ship that has six cannons on each turret and it has four turrets be aware that some are actual plans and some are just what the guy that made the site thought might look good ive got a pic of another ship that isnt a richilieu or a dunkerque but is has quad cannons on the front but you cant see the rear cannons, it looks like a North Carolina, ironicly the pic i saved is labled North C 14'', so yeah, probably it was 14'' not 16'', but hay.. who cares its got 12 cannons 
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froggyfrenchman
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2988
| | 21 Mar 2010 02:49 AM | | I think the North Carolina class was originally planned to have 12 14" guns (in three quad turrets).
The French also planned a Lyon class battleship with sixteen cannons (in 4 quad turrets).
Normandies
Lyons
Dunkerques
KGVs
North Carolinas
Richelieus
And possibly the Alsace
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JKN
Ensign
Posts:211
| | 21 Mar 2010 01:37 PM | | I think the picture burnzy pasted is photo job of the North Carolina picture on Battlers Connection.
I am not saying burnzy did the photo job.
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2182
| | 21 Mar 2010 01:45 PM | | It would have to be, as none of the 12x14" North Carolinas were built. When the London Treaty was clearly doomed the USN used the elevator clause and built the ships with 9x16" | | | I am prepared to meet my maker, whether He is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Redthunder
Ensign
Posts:181
| | 21 Mar 2010 07:18 PM | | yeah, i thought it was a photo shop job, as thats the only pic of it and theres no info on it. | | | |
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:884
| | 22 Mar 2010 09:16 AM | | That page displays U.S. ideas that were proposed but never laid down.
There is another site that has never builts from countries other than the U.S.
It even shows the proposed Polish battleship. It would have been built by the French and had only two turrets. (Both Quads) | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
www.mabg.org | |
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Eric Lomax
Midshipman
Posts:5
| | 07 May 2010 12:11 AM | | Its probably a photoshoped picture of the washington. | | | |
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Knight4hire
Captain
Posts:884
| | 07 May 2010 08:35 AM | | Could be.
I do wish that more countries had at least laid down some battleships. It would be nice to see more countries represented on the pond.
One thing nice about Quad turrets, it keeps the cost down. | | | I am from the Government, and I am here to help.
www.mabg.org | |
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crzyhawk
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2130
| | 14 Jul 2010 10:08 AM | | The Belfast class cruisers were designed with 4 quad 6 inch turrets, but the turrets were never built and the ships ended up completed as 12 gun ships with triple turrets. | | | HMS Invincible
USS Salem (CA-139)
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
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Bryan
Veteran
Ensign
Posts:260
| | 27 Aug 2010 05:42 PM | | There is one in our FAST GUN club and it other turret is a front rotate, nice ship, I'll see about a photo  Yes its British....
great ship and great Modeler, and good opponent and friend.
Cheers from Canada | | | Bryan, ~~
Member of the OAF, ~~
Ontario Attack Force ~~
Happy dad to battling sons. ~~
~~ http://ontarioattackforce.multiply.com/
~~ Fleet:
DKM Bismarck
SMS Hindenburg
SMS Scharnhorst
DKM Adm Scheer
DKM Nordmark
~~ Molding:
USN Tennessee
USN Gearing
IJN Mogami
IJN Akizuki
and decks turrets etc.
~~ http://ontarioattackforce.multiply.com/photos/album/18# | |
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