Over 900 sub announcement!!
Hey there everyone. As you’ll notice my last announcement was deleted from the story list because I decided that request was a little to much so now I’m redoing it with a twist. There’s gonna be a contest! The tip four will have a spot in the next chapter so here are the new requirements
Ship name(or class name)
Length
Width
Height
Displacement
Armament ( still using cannons so the shells are measured by pounds ex 64 pounder canon)
Brief description of the ship be its captain or some of its battle record.
Now keep in mind it is still in early steam and late sail ships so you can use steam or sail. Armor can be iron back by wood like ironclads but the weapons cannot exceed 1890s naval technology they than that have fun and I’ll tell you who wins by the 1000th sub
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The USS Amphitrite BM-2, lead ship of the Amphitrite-Class Monitors
Length: 262ft. 9in.
Width: 55ft.
Draft: 14 ft. 6in.
Displacement: 3,990 tons.
Armament: 4 x 10in guns, 2 x 4in guns, 2 x 6-pounder guns, 2 x 3-pounder guns, 2 x 37mm guns, 7 x 1-pounder guns, and 1 x .30mm colt machine gun.
Service history: The ship saw very little action before the Spanish-American War, after the war began, she was ordered to Key West, Florida, on May 1st, 1898, and from there she was towed to Cuba by the US Battleship Iowa BB-4, as she couldn't carry very much coal. However, once she finally reached San Juan on May 12th, Amphirite and Iowa began to pound away Spanish defenses in the port, though the ship herself was also damaged.
Towards the end of the engagement, the ship lost half of her main battery when an armored hose on the exhaust pipe of the after turret burst, disabling it. After this battle, she was towed back to the US, where she was repaired, and she spent the rest of the war near Puerto Rico, and once the war was over, she was sent north to Boston, where she remained until 1899.
After this, the ship served as a gunnery training ship until she was decommissioned in 1910, though was used by the Missouri, Louisiana and Connecticut militias as a ship to train reservists until early 1917. For the rest of WW1, Amphitrite was used along the East Coast to lay anti-submarine netting. After the war, she was finally stricken from the naval registry, though this was not the end for the ship just yet. For a long time afterwards, even though she was stripped of her turrets and superstructure, she was used as a floating hotel, provided housing for workers building a naval-air station in Elizabeth City, until she was finally towed to Baltimore in 1950. After this, she was used as a floating hotel and restaurant for those building the new Chesapeake Bay Bridge, but slow business had her be sent back to Baltimore in 1951. There were plans to refit the ship for use in Venezuelan oil fields, but these plans fell through, and the ship was sold for scrap in 1952.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Detroit_Photographic_Company_%281027%29.jpg/1280px-Detroit_Photographic_Company_%281027%29.jpg
[Removed due to my brain cells working at 1%]
10043038
Little too far in the future there chap I said not past 1890 but I will allow for subs from 1890 or earlier if you’d like
Umm I like the design but I’m not gonna use the exact ampheitres because they are in Equestria so how bout we call em the wonderbolt class?
10043188
Oh, i didnt notice the 1890s bit, my bad
Ship type: HMS Victorious
Ship name: Majestic-class Pre-dreadnought
Captain: Edmund S. Poë
Length: 421 feet (128 Meters)
Beam: 75 ft (23 m)
Draught: 27 ft (8.2 m)
Displacement: 16,060 tons
Armament:
4 × BL 12 inch (305 mm) guns
12 × QF 6 inch (152 mm) guns
16 × 12 pounder (76 mm) guns
3 pounder (47 mm) quick-firing guns
18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Brief service history:
Laid down 1894
Launched 1895
Commisioned for the royal navy a year later on November 4th 1896 and was in Fleet Reserve at Chatham dockyard and on june 1897 she went into full commission for the Mediterranean fleet, when the Great War started she was stationed at the Humber to defend the British coast; Victorious remained there as guard ship after the 9th Battle Squadron was dissolved on 7 August 1914. In December 1914 she transferred to the Tyne to serve as guard ship there until the end of the war, later getting scrapped on april 1923.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victorious_(1895) for more in depth information
Suggested ship class name: Celestial-class Pre-dreadnought
10043688
Well a little too far ahead in terms of design, BUT I shall allow it to perform an appearence later in the series.
10043703
Thank you,
Cool, congratulations on getting more subs :)
10043930
Want to toss in a ship design? If you want them to appear in the "Special next chapter" It has to be 1860s design or earlier. However I'm allowing designs before predreadnoughts earlier in the series and 1890s will appear at the end of the sereis
10043937
I did leave a comment a fewchapters before about that in great detail but in a nutshell it's about converting a large ship of the line into a casemate steam and sail ironclad... It was done a few times historically
10045752
Don't worry that's happening if you give me a ship name and its IRL counterpart I will allow it
For example you could say the ship is called Commander Hurricane and then say its layout is similar to the HMS Victory but with 2 inch iron plating
ATTENTION:
WE Already have our first few winner s of the Special prize but there is still time to win so keep the designs coming. If you wan the "Special" Prize the requirements is 1860s ocean going vessels. Anything from 1890s-1870s will be in the series at later times so keep the ideas coming!
Disclaimer: This is an airship
Ship name: Death from above
Length 250 meters
Diameter: 30 meters
Displacement: N/A
Armament: 32 pdr cannons, all aimed down, with 5 maxim machine gun/puckle guns (its from before 1860) defending the air
Seeing that this is my own idea, I thought id give some history. It was designed to fight land battles, and as such tends to use shrapnel and grape shot to maximise casualties. It uses steam propellors, and was recently reassigned to naval war
I even made an image. Sorry for my drawing skills
i.imgur.com/RW4yOmR.png
10045785
Well, for the name it should be something that would already be in Equestrian Navy, you can pick any names you but I'd lean towards either Gusty the Great or Draconequis.
As for the ship itself it would be based on 1858 SMS Kaiser after it has been refitted into an ironclad:
Before re-fit: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Kaiser_%28ship%2C_1859%29_-_NH_87010.jpg/1200px-Kaiser_%28ship%2C_1859%29_-_NH_87010.jpg
After re-fit: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Kaiser_%281859%29_-_NH_75928.jpg/260px-Kaiser_%281859%29_-_NH_75928.jpg
The main point is that it's a 92 gun ship of the line reduced to 16 guns guns and armour plate nailed to the wooden hull with additional armoured citadel box fitted within the hull: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Kaiser_%281859%29_-_with_armour_shown.png
Also explosive shells would be a must have against wooden ships. The powerplant can be more basic since you did mention that Equestrians struggle with putting engines on their ships so maybe you can make it with paddles (although that's a bit of a weakpoint maybe not)...
10046214
We already got an airship chosen for the spcial Prize but I'll referecne this one as a sister ship to the other one.
10046393
I'll use the before refit at the beginning but I will try and reference its refit later in the story