Propellers? In a ship of its size they are too far one from another, either in the transverse or longitudinal axis.
How'd that whole 'turn using the propellers' thing work for the Bismark?
As far as the propellers go, a major danger is that if one blade is hit, the imbalance would result in a good deal of damage from the imbalance before that shaft could get shut down.
ding ding, we have a winner.
as one of the perhaps only freepers who has ever owned a ship...smaller sized cargo vessels from 2-10,000 tonnes DWT I know a wee bit about big boxes of corroding steel that float defying nature and their behemoth diesels and plethora of pumps and compressors
but I don't know jack about military vessels other than the countless times they boarded us NCSA...in the late 80s-early 90s if you left anywhere from Cartagena to the Orinoco you could expect to get stopped by a western warship with Coasties and Customs agents on board...ditto for the Yuck, Windward or Mona passages.
fascinating thread ...who woulda thought Swedes?
are these Volvo diesels?
we always ran Werkspoor, Marine Industrie, Mann, MAK and some folks would run CATs with shaft reducers...all my old drives were direct back then on very low RPM powerplants
Ships can sure last a long time if kept up...and reskinned from time to time