Adler17 said:
I didn´t saw that this was the Prinz Eugen. Since she was in ww2 I think the use is not so good. As well the casematt BBs were used in the area of 1870, 40 years earlier.
Adler
casemate BB:
"Fictional 1900 era Battleship with Great White Fleet type coloring."
please excuse me for the error, it's a monarch class, not prinz eugen
"Austro-Hungarian battleship class ordered in July 1914, but never laid down. Four were to be built at a cost of 82 million crowns, to a design drawn up by the deputy naval constructor of the KuK Marine, Franz Pitzinger. It resembled the previous Viribus Unitis class, but the displacement of 24 500 tons (22-1/2 % more) gave a margin which allowed for better protection as well as heavier armanent.
The underwater protection was a radical departure from previous Austro-Hungarian practise, and resembled the French system first introduced in the Henri IV and used in later French and Russian designs. A horizontal armour deck was carried inwards from the bottom edge of the belt, as far as the last of the three vertical bulkheads. A new 350mm (13.8-in)/45-cal gun was adopted to increase the weight of the broadside, but to maintain a balance between protection, stability and firepower, only ten guns were provided. The arrangement was unusual, with two triple turrets superimposed over two twins, enabling the metacentric height to be kept high, to avoid excessive heeling if damaged.
The Ersatz Monarch was to have been the Schiff VIII, and the Ersatz Wien the Schiff IX, while Ersatz Budapest and Ersatz Habsburg would have become Schiff X and Schiff XI. The ships would have been ordered from Stabilimento Tecnico, Trieste, Italy, and the navy yard at Pola, but contracts were never allocated.
The KuK Marine followed the German custom of withholding the names of new ships until the launching day, and referred to them merely as replacements for old ships, hence Ersatz (replacement). Several sketch designs were produced, and the final appearance of the ships cannot be known with certainty, but they all had raised forecastles for better seaworthiness. Another noteworthy feature was the provision of lattice towers amidships to carry searchlight platforms, and the 150mm (5.9-in) guns were carried higher than before.
The 350-mm (13.8-in) L/45 was designed by Skoda, and had a muzzle velocity of 820 m/sec (2690 ft/sec). It weighed 74 tonnes and fired a 635-kg (1400 lb) shell about 31 500 m (34 450 yards). The guns for Schiff VIII had been ordered from Skoda's factory at Polsen before the outbreak of the war, but no further orders were placed. Four guns were delivered to the army in 1916-18 for use on the Italian front and the remainder were seized by the French as warloot.
By the end of 1917 all four vessels had been cancelled."
