wet navy
I saw this picture today, via an Astral Codex Ten post on distinguishing human art from AI art, but that is not the context in which I reference it: Instead, I merely point out that it would be an accurate representation of what the Royal Alatian (later Imperial) Navy would
Blackjacket's Dictionary
pennant number: The Imperial Navy’s best attempt at a general purpose identification code for ships, other means having proven inadequate. It is generally held that the true identifier of a ship is its name: that is, after all, what is written upon the hull, and with it travels the
Fifth Oceanic Dominance
Kaiju¹-class submarine battleship Builders: * Ethring Iron and Steam Works * Sukórya Graving & Drydocks * Telírvess Naval Yards * Captal Daëntry Naval District * Ambríël Electric Boat Manufactory Displacement: 72,830 long tons (standard) Length: 312 m Beam: 24 m Draft: 14 m Propulsion: * 2 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC “Fluoride Chowder” high-temperature circulating
military
Laurë Isilvieré-class battlecarrier Builders: * Ethring Iron and Steam Works * Sukórya Graving & Drydocks * Telírvess Naval Yards Displacement: 61,620 long tons (standard) Length: 268m (waterline); 276m (overall) Beam: 36m Draft: 12.2m Propulsion: * 4 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC “Neutron Storm” nucleonic boilers (PWR), driving * 4 x 2 Blackstone Industries, ICC
military
On the sea or in space, a battlecruiser is a cruiser putting on the airs of a battleship, and a fast battleship is a battleship cosplaying as a cruiser. This doesn’t become a problem until the types start to overlap. Admiral Brandel Tsurilen, First Shore Lord
Séralámíya-class littoral restaurant ship
Séralámíya-class littoral restaurant ship Builders: (original) Ethring Iron and Steam Works (refit) Captal Daëntry Naval District Displacement: 41,000 long tons Length: 272 m Beam: 34 m Draft: 6.18 m (full load) Propulsion: * 8 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC “Kirchev’s Cauldron” nucleonic boilers, driving * 8 x Blackstone Industries, ICC
Eight Hells
This is Task Force Fourteen, as it steams at a leisurely twenty-two knots steadily east along the rocky southern shore of Míhayll Island, the southernmost in its archipelago. It had passed the entrance to the Míhayll Shallows yesterday at dusk, the shoal offering a back door to Lothell Bay for
Eight Hells
Vice-Admiral Ardelli, TDMS Skybreaker, commanding TF 14. Battleship CAS Antithemis, carrier CAS Antinomos, escorting destroyers, reported moving out Lothell Bay steaming ESE. Suspect attempting transit Adessír Straits tomorrow at local dawn. Heavy weather over Lothell Is. makes it unlikely fly off air cover. All measures intercept and destroy. 1SL, Calmiríë.
destroyer
(In which I noodle around with wet navy designs from the closest to a WWII-equivalent period in ‘verse history.) Ulricik Bancrach (“Hungry Wolf”)-class destroyer Builders: * Ambriel Dock Guild & Company * Consolidated Selenarian Shipbuilding * Ethring Iron and Steam Works * Ryudailai Pier Shipbuilding Cooperatives * Telírvess Naval Yards * Tortelsvard Naval Arsenal Displacement:
Amphisbaena-class battleship
Amphisbaena-class battleship “Half ahe… that way.” – Capt. Olavi Corel, first captain of Amphisbaena Displacement: 125,000 long tons Length: 330 m (at waterline: 316 m) Beam: 84 m (at waterline: 48 m) Draft: 12.1 m Propulsion: 4 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC 64 MW “Fat Salamander” fission reactors 8 x
wet navy
Taking a brief moment to hand out a random factlet, let us turn from space navy to wet navy. Old school wet navy. Did you know that the most widely used rig back in the days of sail, especially by the Alatian fleet, the largest both mercantile and military and