Fleet Oiler, laid down 1924
Length, 160.0 m x Beam, 25.0 m x Depth, 8.0 m 22584 tonnes
normal displacement (15909 tonnes standard)
Main battery: 4 x 13.0-cm (2 x 2) AA battery: 8 x 3.7-cm
Weight
of broadside: 128 kg
Hull unarmored
Battery armor: Main, 2.5 cm AA, 2.5 cm shields
Maximum
speed for 19400 shaft kw = 20.00 knots Approximate cruising radius, 29000 nm / 15 knots
Typical complement: 460-598
Estimated cost, $8.525 million (£2.131 million)
Remarks:
Good seaboat; rides out heavy weather
easily.
Magazines and engineering spaces are roomy, with superior watertight subdivision.
Distribution
of weights: Percent normal displacement:
Armament ......................... 35 tonnes = 0 pct Armor,
total ..................... 29 tonnes = 0 pct
Armament 29 tonnes = 0 pct
Machinery ........................
856 tonnes = 4 pct Hull and fittings; equipment ..... 4513 tonnes = 20 pct Fuel, ammunition, stores ......... 7151
tonnes = 32 pct Miscellaneous weights ............ 10000 tonnes = 44 pct ----- 22584 tonnes = 100 pct
Estimated
metacentric height, 1.4 m
Displacement summary:
Light ship: 15433 tonnes Standard displacement: 15909
tonnes Normal service: 22584 tonnes Full load: 27834 tonnes
Loading submergence 3176 tonnes/metre
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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.13
Shellfire
needed to sink: 14003 kg = 459.0 x 13.0-cm shells (Approximates weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship,
not counting critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 3.7 (Approximates number of 'typical' torpedo hits
needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform, 46 percent (50 percent is 'average')
Relative
rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.01
Relative quality as a seaboat: 1.24
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Hull
form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.70 Sharpness coefficient: 0.45 Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 5.68
'Natural speed' for length = 22.9 knots Power going to wave formation at top speed: 46 percent
Estimated
hull characteristics and strength:
Relative underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 63
percent
Relative accommodation and working space: 99 percent
Displacement factor: 188 percent (Displacement
relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 1.00 (Structure weight per square metre
of hull surface: 485 kg)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.00 (for 4.30 m average freeboard; freeboard
adjustment -1.13 m)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.00
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[Machine-readable
parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
524.80 x 82.00 x 26.24; 14.10 -- Dimensions 0.70 -- Block coefficient 1924
-- Year laid down 20.00 / 29000 / 15.00; Oil-fired turbine or equivalent -- Speed / radius / cruise 10000 tons --
Miscellaneous weights ++++++++++ 4 x 5.12; 2; 0 -- Main battery; turrets; superfiring : 0 -- No secondary
battery 8 x 1.46 -- Tertiary (QF/AA) battery Gun-shields : 0 -- No fourth (light) battery 0 -- No torpedo
armament ++++++++++ 0.00 -- No belt armor 0.00 / 0.00 -- Deck / CT 0.98 / 0.00 / 0.98 / 0.00 -- Battery armor
(Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)
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