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Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles" Book # 1 (1911-1925)
-- (Naval History and Heritage Command Lot # S-584) --
Torpedo Battleship Preliminary Design Drawings
Four of the 211 design drawings in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles" Book treat ships classified as "torpedo battleships", a ship type never adopted for construction The Naval War College carried out studies several years prior to World War I of the potential utility of such a ship, as large as a battleship but accepting sacrifices in main battery gun strength and protection to have a high maximum speed and carry a large number of torpedo tubes. The Navy never requested funds to build such a ship.
This page features those 1911-1925 Bureau of Ships "Spring
Styles" plans that concern torpedo battleships.
For general information on this album, see:
Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles"
Book # 1 (1911-1925) -- General Description.
On the picture data sheets referenced
from this page, click on the thumbnail image (small photograph)
to prompt a larger view of the same image.
The Torpedo Battleship drawings included in this album are:
--Four proposed designs for a Torpedo Battleship, 1912, none selected for construction:
S-584-019: Proposed Torpedo Battleship - May 24, 1912. A drawing of a 30,000 ton ship with a main battery of six 14-inch guns in two triple turrets and carrying eight submerged torpedo tubes and having a maximum speed of 27 knots.
S-584-020: Proposed Torpedo Battleship - May 31, 1912. A drawing of a 30,000 ton ship with a main battery of three 14-inch guns in one triple turret and carrying 12 submerged torpedo tubes and having a maximum speed of 27 knots.
S-584-021: Proposed Torpedo Battleship - May 31, 1912. A drawing of a 30,000 ton ship with no large caliber guns but carrying 18 submerged torpedo tubes and having a maximum speed of 27 knots.
S-584-022: Proposed Torpedo Battleship - August 15, 1912. A drawing of a 35,500 ton ship with a main battery of four 14-inch guns in a single quadruple turret and carrying 16 submerged torpedo tubes and having a maximum speed of 30 knots.
For general information on this album, see:
Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles"
Book # 1 (1911-1925) -- General Description.
NOTES:
To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here
are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded
and used for any purpose.
Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines
citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center".
Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval
History and Heritage Command".
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