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Re: Naval Monitors?
Post by SilverbladeTE   » Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:43 pm

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Daryl wrote:HMS Capitan 1869 to 1870.



That's the one and some others with stability problems, too.

Modern computer design and elaborate test tanks etc must make things hell of a lot easier, or at least, safer.
Whole CAD/CAM, CNC route must take years off some projects compared to what our forebears had to struggle though.
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Re: Naval Monitors?
Post by doug941   » Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:49 pm

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SilverbladeTE wrote:
Daryl wrote:HMS Capitan 1869 to 1870.



That's the one and some others with stability problems, too.

Modern computer design and elaborate test tanks etc must make things hell of a lot easier, or at least, safer.
Whole CAD/CAM, CNC route must take years off some projects compared to what our forebears had to struggle though.


To be fair, HMS Captain wasn't a monitor. It was a turret ship that had quite decent freeboard everywhere except where the turrets were. And the Royal Navy had problems with both ships and officers, HMS Victoria comes to mind.
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