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USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
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Author:  Karle94 [ November 18th, 2020, 8:36 am ]
Post subject:  USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
In my strive for ever increasing quality and improvement which has been greatly helped with a combination of AU-drawings and feedback recieved on Discord has led me to draw the USS Washington BB-47, the third ship of the Colorado class. She was 75,9% complete when she was cancelled in 1922. She would most definetely have seen service starting in 1923. The drawing was to serve as a prototype for a future upgrade of the rest of the class, and as a base for the Tennessee class, which the Colorado class was virtually identical with. For the most part, she will look the same as the three other of the class. With the exception of lifeboats the four ships will look identical until about the 30s with minor differances in the boat complement and minor elements relating to the superstructure.

USS Washington as hypothetically commissioned in 1923:
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Author:  emperor_andreas [ November 18th, 2020, 6:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
Awesome work!
Author:  Steampower1 [ December 5th, 2020, 7:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
Very nice. We should have finished Washington and scrapped Arkansas.
Author:  Karle94 [ December 5th, 2020, 8:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
I don't know if there would be enough displacement in the treaty to do that.
Author:  emperor_andreas [ December 5th, 2020, 8:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
Steampower1 wrote: *December 5th, 2020, 7:39 pm
We should have finished Washington and scrapped Arkansas.
Actually, Wyoming was older. Scrap Wyoming and use Arkansas as the gunnery training ship.
Author:  BB1987 [ December 5th, 2020, 8:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
The real issue is the fact that Wasington was a 16-inch gunned battleship. The US could not have more than three (like Japan and the UK were capped at two) by treaty.
Author:  Colombamike [ December 5th, 2020, 9:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
;)
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Author:  erik_t [ December 6th, 2020, 3:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
Excellent drawing that I'd somehow missed. Is there reason to think that the portholes in the superstructure would be larger than those in the hull? It seems plausible to me that 18" is more appropriate than 24" for the superstructure as well.
Author:  Karle94 [ December 6th, 2020, 4:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty
Pictures my friend. It seems it was the case for American ships to have larger portholes in the superstructure, probably because they were less of a weakness and if they are flooding, then the ship is already lost.
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