The Viribus Unitis Battleship: 1:25 Model; Main Gun Turrets
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Interestingly, around 1907 triple-gun turrets for 12" guns were being developed by three Navies at the same time (a triple-gun turret then was as high-tech as 5th gen aircraft now, I guess). Orders were placed:
by the Tsarist Navy first;
by the Italian Navy second;
by the Austro-Hungarian Navy third, and last.
What's happened was the respective ships were commissioned in the following order (dates according to wiki):
by the Tsarist Navy first;
by the Italian Navy second;
by the Austro-Hungarian Navy third, and last.
What's happened was the respective ships were commissioned in the following order (dates according to wiki):
- the Viribus Unitis 5 December 1912
- the Dante Alighieri 15 January 1913
- the Sevastopol 30 November 1914
Jura The idiot
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thank you guys for attaching Like to the preceding post! (basically I wanted to put that link "somewhere" and it was great to see there's an interest here in this topic)
the Tegetthoff-class ships had certain obsolete features, now I'll mention ...
Admiral's Veranda (this is not an official name! feel free to tell me what it would be):
(as for the scale here, the windows were almost two meters high, and that anchor: about five meters, weighing 1500 kilos by the way)
attached to the mess for about 80 officers/guests, and connected to private quarters of Commander(s), which didn't always mean Admiral(s), as at the Szent István:
but on the Viribus Unitis, the quarters were even fancier, to accommodate Archduke Franz Ferdinand with Sophie Chotek:
and I believe Franz Ferdinand appeared in Admiral's uniform:
(it's just my picture of his picture in Admiral's uniform)
if I'm in the mood, I'll describe their trip to Sarajevo ... and back :-(
and it was great to see there's an interest here in this topic)the Tegetthoff-class ships had certain obsolete features, now I'll mention ...
Admiral's Veranda (this is not an official name! feel free to tell me what it would be):
(as for the scale here, the windows were almost two meters high, and that anchor: about five meters, weighing 1500 kilos by the way)
attached to the mess for about 80 officers/guests, and connected to private quarters of Commander(s), which didn't always mean Admiral(s), as at the Szent István:
but on the Viribus Unitis, the quarters were even fancier, to accommodate Archduke Franz Ferdinand with Sophie Chotek:
(it's just my picture of his picture in Admiral's uniform)
if I'm in the mood, I'll describe their trip to Sarajevo ... and back :-(
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mine-laying capability was perhaps meant to provide protection while anchored at an unexpected location ... twenty "C 1910" were carried (unfortunately I couldn't find a picture), which were heavy naval mines: according to my source, they were three meters tall, cylindrical in shape, with five spikes on top, 100 kilos of
inside ... a single one ready to sink probably anything that would bump it at that time (for example 30+ thousand tons displacing
took in one thousand tons of water due to the explosion of a Russian mine in 1917); the mines were to be laid from longboats ... but, as you might guess, it never happened in action
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landing operation capability: there were two 13-tons cranes available, which could put into the water the motor-boats:
The "Marines" (they would be the Sailors from the Battleship: there was hardly any space left to accommodate more crew) would embark the motor-boats and could take with them:
- two Škoda 66 mm / 18 landing-guns, and (weapons which follow are notoriously know in Central Europe
- two
- up to 392
- up to 133
While this capability sounds excessive, and was never used, various things happen at War, take just
... I mean I don't try to second-guess here.
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LOL! I took the same picture of a "M.7" Schwarzlose as wiki
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Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was Generalinspektor of the Imperial Armed Forces, and would've assumed their command at War, so he needed to travel. The fastest, safest, and most comfortable way to Sarajevo (there were large exercises around it coming in the end of June) would be to ask the Emperor for his eight-coach train:
(it's inside of it, not kidding you:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/th...del-main-gun-turrets.t7810/page-5#post-383929
would be waiting, and go 265 nm (26 hours at her economic speed of 10 knots) to what now is
to use
afterwards.
Indeed, the couple arrived to Trieste June 24 (I don't know if they used the train I described above), and to Ploče June 25, and went on by a train (don't know if by a regular or special) to Sarajevo; the rest is of course very sad:
the train from Sarajevo took the caskets June 30 to
on the
and they were transferred to the yacht "Dalmat" first, and then, back in Ploče, put below the guns of "D" turret of the Viribus Unitis ...
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... and after not much more than one month since then, most of the World was at War
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it's coming... a moment ago I realized I soon should be getting ready
100th anniversary of Battle of Jutland
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