Battleship & battlecruiser pre-designs:
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The Austro-Hungarian navy over a two year period between December 1915 & December 1917 came up with 11 preliminary design study types (2 x battleship and 9 x battlecruiser). Listed below are these designs and the statistical information for each. The design study type data below was compiled by Erwin Sieche, a renowned Austo-Hungarian naval historian.
These ship designs will be redrawn in AutoCAD and simple 3D models will also be created. By doing so this will convey to you a better sense of what these ships could have been like. This is a future project currently slated for the year 2010.
battlecruiser designs:
Pre-design: 1a (December 1915)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 9 x 35cm (13.8”) L/45; 3x3 centerline |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 18 x 9cm L/45 (6 as AA) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 1b,c (December 1916)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 1b = 8 x 350cm (13.8”) L/35 |
| (2x4 centerline) | |
| 1c = 8 x 350cm (13.8”) L/35 | |
| (2x2 center, 2x2 offset) | |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 20 x 9cm L/45 (8 as AA) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 1d (December 1916)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 8 x 350cm (13.8”) L/35 |
| (2x4 centerline - 1 bow turret superfiring) | |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 18 x 9cm L/45 (6 as AA) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 1e (December 1916)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 8 x 350cm (13.8”) L/35 |
| (2x4 centerline - 1 stern turret superfiring) | |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 18 x 9cm L/45 (6 as BAG) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 1f (December 1916)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 8 x 350cm (13.8”) L/35 (2x4 centerline) |
| (1 bow & 1 stern turret superfiring) | |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 18 x 9cm L/45 (4 as AA) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 2 (June 1917)
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| Displacement: | 30,000/ 34,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 220m LWL x 29m Breadth x 8.65m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 100,000shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 8,000 nm @ 15 knots / 2,700 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 6 x 38cm (15”) L/45 (2x3 centerline) |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 18 x 9cm L/45 (6 as AA) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 225-350 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 4 (December 1917)
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| Displacement: | 32,000 / 36,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 230m LWL x 20m Breadth x 8.82m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 112,000 shp; 4 turbines |
| 27 single-ended boilers (15 oil, 12 coal) | |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 3,000 nm @ 30 kts |
| Main Armament: | 6 x 38cm (15”) L/45 (2x3 centerline) |
| Secondary Armament: | 20 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 4x150 cal 45 dual purpose in turrets |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 350-225 | |
| AA-turrets = 100 | |
| Torpedo Bulkheads = 20+10 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 6 (December 1917)
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| Displacement: | 32,000 / 36,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 230m LWL x 20m Breadth x 8.82m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 112,000 shp |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Range: | 3,000 nm @ 30 kts |
| Main Armament: | 4 x 42cm (16.5”) L/45 (2x2 centerline) |
| Secondary Armament: | 20 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 4x150 cal 45 (dual purpose) |
| Armour: | Belt = 100/225/100 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 285-450 | |
| DP-turrets = 100 | |
| CT = 270 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
battleship designs:
Pre-design: 3 (June 1917)
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| Displacement: | 30,000 / 32,000 tons |
| Dimensions: | 200m LWL x 20m Breadth x 8.82m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 75,000 shp |
| Speed: | 25 knots |
| Range: | 4,600 nm @ 15 knots / 2,200 nm @ 30 knots |
| Main Armament: | 8 x 38cm (15”) L/45 (2x4 centerline) |
| (1 bow & 1 stern turret superfiring) | |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 14 x 9cm L/45 (dual purpose) |
| Armour: | Belt = 150/300/150 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 320-300-280 | |
| CT = 350 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |
Pre-design: 5 (December 1917)
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| Displacement: | 37,200 / 39,600 tons |
| Dimensions: | 215m LWL x 32m Breadth x 9.5m Depth |
| Propulsion: | 56,000 shp; 4 turbines |
| 15 single-ended boilers | |
| Speed: | 24 knots |
| Range: | 3,000 nm @ 24 knots |
| Main Armament: | 8 x 42cm (16.5”) L/45 (2x4 centerline) |
| Secondary Armament: | 18 x 15cm L/50; 1x18 casemates |
| QF/AA: | 4x150 cal 50 (AA turrets) |
| Armour: | Belt = 150/300/150 |
| Deck = 20+20 | |
| Turrets = 450-300 | |
| AA-turrets = 100 | |
| Torpedo Bulkheads = 20+10 | |
| CT = 350 | |
| Torpedo Tubes: | 6 x 533 (submerged) |