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1/600 No.13 (Breyer) Class Midships
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The most popular depiction of the No.13 class, Breyer's drawing represented here, was drawn up before the Hiraga archives containing the original sketches were published. Therefore this depiction is not correct, nor was a final design ever reached for the capital ships.
As the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-8 plan was upgraded in the late 1910s following the US' approval of construction of sixteen new capital ships, eight more battleships were ordered by the nation of the Rising Sun. These became the Kii and N.13 classes.
If the Kii class was the first 'true' fast battleship design (HMS Hood being redesigned multiple times but at the heart still being a modified battle cruiser hull), the N.13 were a revolution in battleship design of the 1920s. They were still not yet ordered in 1922 when the Washington Treaty forced their cancellation, but had they been built, they would have been the most powerful capital ships of the time.
At 47,500 tons the class was the heaviest scheduled to be constructed thus far, with a projected top speed of 30 kn with 150,000 shp; the inclined belt was 330 mm thick, and although not the thickest by far to be envisioned on 'Washington Cherry Trees' designs, it was still good enough to keep out most large calibre shells at long range. The 127 mm deck also provided good protection against plunging fire, and a variety of different main battery configurations were considered, with two different gun calibres: the 41 cm used on previous ships or a 46 cm/50 gun. Even though sparce information on the design was available at the time of writing, nor was a depiction of the design, if compared to the original preliminaries of the N.13 class the following considerations still hold true of these ships.
The ships embodied, like the later Yamato class, the Japanese concept of qualitative superiority against quantitative inferiority: the balance of their characteristics, if completed, would have sparked a new and more intense naval race akin to the building programmes of the late 1900s-early 1910s which gave birth to the superdreadnought design (just think at the 'we want eight and we won't wait' British construction program of 1909).
The N3 design then under consideration had the gun power and armour but not the speed to compete against the unnamed N.13s, while the American South Dakota had 50% more firepower in terms of barrels but of a slightly smaller calibre (406 mm/16'' against 460 mm/18.1'') but did not have the speed.
Breyer wrote: 'from an engineering aspect they were more than ten years ahead of their time because they anticipated the characteristics of the fully developed fast battleship'.
As the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-8 plan was upgraded in the late 1910s following the US' approval of construction of sixteen new capital ships, eight more battleships were ordered by the nation of the Rising Sun. These became the Kii and N.13 classes.
If the Kii class was the first 'true' fast battleship design (HMS Hood being redesigned multiple times but at the heart still being a modified battle cruiser hull), the N.13 were a revolution in battleship design of the 1920s. They were still not yet ordered in 1922 when the Washington Treaty forced their cancellation, but had they been built, they would have been the most powerful capital ships of the time.
At 47,500 tons the class was the heaviest scheduled to be constructed thus far, with a projected top speed of 30 kn with 150,000 shp; the inclined belt was 330 mm thick, and although not the thickest by far to be envisioned on 'Washington Cherry Trees' designs, it was still good enough to keep out most large calibre shells at long range. The 127 mm deck also provided good protection against plunging fire, and a variety of different main battery configurations were considered, with two different gun calibres: the 41 cm used on previous ships or a 46 cm/50 gun. Even though sparce information on the design was available at the time of writing, nor was a depiction of the design, if compared to the original preliminaries of the N.13 class the following considerations still hold true of these ships.
The ships embodied, like the later Yamato class, the Japanese concept of qualitative superiority against quantitative inferiority: the balance of their characteristics, if completed, would have sparked a new and more intense naval race akin to the building programmes of the late 1900s-early 1910s which gave birth to the superdreadnought design (just think at the 'we want eight and we won't wait' British construction program of 1909).
The N3 design then under consideration had the gun power and armour but not the speed to compete against the unnamed N.13s, while the American South Dakota had 50% more firepower in terms of barrels but of a slightly smaller calibre (406 mm/16'' against 460 mm/18.1'') but did not have the speed.
Breyer wrote: 'from an engineering aspect they were more than ten years ahead of their time because they anticipated the characteristics of the fully developed fast battleship'.
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