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Restarting on a modern battleship hull produces a better-balanced baseline, but the main battery, armour, machinery, range, and secondary guns soon consume the available margin.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 5 ·
A brief live question connects the game's stability frustrations with the effects of vertical launch systems on real warship design.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 5 ·
The modern-hull restart remains thousands of tons overweight and badly unbalanced, so further cuts produce too many compromises and the unfinished class is deleted.
From A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 5 ·
A Surrey timber-gathering point shows the inland collection network that supplied the wooden navy before oak reached a dockyard.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A comparison of the G3, Lexington, Amagi, and Tosa programmes asks what navies lost when treaty limits stopped their construction.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The geography of the Thames linked gun manufacture at Woolwich with ship construction and fitting-out at Chatham.
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A history of how seventeenth-century warship dimensions, armament, stability, and political control shaped English naval design.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Samuel Pepys illustrates why an effective administrator can be as important to a navy as a celebrated commander.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
An alternate armament for HMS Vanguard runs into the limited supply and design consequences of British 18-inch guns.
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Post-Pearl Harbor inquiries about acquiring a battleship met the Royal Navy's own acute shortage of modern capital ships.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
HMS St Lawrence was a formidable locally built warship, but the absence of a ship-scale St Lawrence route kept ocean-going ships of the line out of the Great Lakes.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
HMS Victory's lower gunports sat only about 1.4 metres above the water, illustrating a basic constraint on sailing-warship firepower.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The deaths of experienced senior officers before World War II reduced both the Navy's command pool and its ability to manage political leadership.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The 18-inch weapon fitted to HMS Furious had been shortened for the ship, suggesting that the underlying design was longer than the familiar 40-calibre form.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Seven-year apprenticeships produced skilled hull builders while increasingly complex warships encouraged naval architecture to emerge as a scientific design specialism.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The Company of Shipwrights reviewed professional standards, licensed practitioners, and offered sick pay and superannuation to members.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Royal dockyards retained skilled labour through comparatively good pay, material privileges, continuity of work, and a route from shipwright to the Navy Board.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Shipwrights often carved warship decoration, while Portsmouth's carving school and Pierre Puget's Toulon workshop show how the specialist craft was organized.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A practical tour of the adze, axes, saws, chisels, mauls, and caulking tools behind wooden-hull construction.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A question about regional differences in British warship construction leads to the importance of standardized hulls and individual craftsmanship.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A three-barrel trial batch could prove production before later orders supplied a six-gun battery and enough spares for a rotation cycle.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A ship-scale St Lawrence route could have become a combined-arms corridor for Royal Navy warships, troops, and supplies rather than merely a dangerous blockade passage.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The British Army lost some senior leaders before the war, but probably not on the same scale as the Royal Navy's attrition.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
British North America possessed usable ship timber, but seasoning determined whether it could become an effective wartime material.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Without treaty limits, 9.2-inch cruisers could use medium British yards while larger facilities replaced an aging battle fleet.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
USS Chesapeake's weaker reputation reflected differences in construction and reinforcement within an otherwise famous frigate programme.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Shipbuilding and timber architecture share structural ideas: the ribs that make a hull strong can be inverted to support a large building.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Chatham Dockyard, illustrated tool diagrams, and reconstructed teaching sets offer ways to study the material equipment of the shipwright's trade.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Documented steam bending reaches the late seventeenth century, but shipwrights may have used related timber-working methods earlier than the surviving written and physical evidence.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Giving World War I light cruisers a later turreted layout could pull heavy-cruiser size and treaty limits upward in response.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Viking builders may have combined fire, water, and an enclosed heated space to soften timber, even if the process looked nothing like a modern steam box.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Oak was stacked in dry, ventilated stores for roughly three years so lower moisture content and a settled structure reduced later warping in a working hull.
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Seasoning and stockpiling naval timber created enormous dockyard stores that were essential to construction but dangerously combustible.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Bombs fell close to HMS Victory at Portsmouth, but the surviving evidence does not show that German raids singled her out.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A drier climate promised faster seasoning, but insects, transport costs, storage, and security made overseas timber depots risky.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A question on iron frames explains why wood-and-copper construction had to manage the corrosive interaction of different metals.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Oak planted around the Armada era could supply ships built before Trafalgar, making naval forestry an intergenerational procurement system.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Heating the outer barrel and cooling its removable liner allowed a worn insert to come out before contraction fixed a new liner firmly in place.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
The Royal Navy's growing use of teak followed its access to East India Company yards that already built durable teak ships.
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British and American support for steelmaking reflected its temporary but decisive status as a critical foundation of naval and national power.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A forestry department reportedly notified the Ministry of Defence that oaks planted after Copenhagen had finally reached naval maturity.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
After flawed 80-gun ships discredited the type, British designers reduced upperworks, redistributed guns, and refined hull form to produce successful later three-deckers such as HMS Victory.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Ville de Paris, Royal Louis, Bretagne, and the later 110-gun programme restored the French three-decker through reduced upperworks, public funding, and renewed wartime demand.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Spain enlarged Santísima Trinidad upward into a nominal 140-gun four-decker, gaining spectacle and armament at the cost of handling and sailing quality.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
A discussion of live, white, red, and English oak shows why the grain and shape of a tree mattered as much as its name.
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World War II revived large-scale wooden craft construction, but plywood and newer structures changed the timber requirement from the age of sail.
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A reconstructed HMS Hood would likely have received turret changes similar to later Royal Navy modernizations, including greater elevation.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·
Some British oak retains protection so suitable large timbers remain available if the Royal Palaces require them.
From Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built ·