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Photo #: S-584-137

Preliminary Design for a "Battleship Cruiser" ... May 18, 1918


Preliminary design plan for a "battleship cruiser." One of a series of preliminary designs prepared in response to Chief Constructor David Taylor's direction to his design staff on 9 April 1918 to prepare designs that merged battleship and battle cruiser qualities in a new ship type. This drawing -- "Scheme D" -- was prepared by British Navy constructor Stanley Goodall, in parallel to James Bates' preliminary "fast battleship" design "Scheme D" (see Photo # S-584-133), but using British design practices. Goodall was assigned in the U.S. in an exchange billet during the war. No ships of such a fast battleship type were built at this time.
This plan provided twelve 16-inch guns, electric drive machinery, and a speed of 30 knots in a ship 900 feet long on the waterline, 106 feet in beam, and with a normal displacement of 49,500 tons.
Note: The original document was a blueprint (white on dark blue).

The original plan is in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles Book".

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Image posted 11 November 2007