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Post by brillbilly on Feb 13, 2012 4:13:30 GMT 10
yeah daz,great call!, if it's a boat it could well be a NOVGOROD or even the bigger one Dubbed POPOFFKA! A second and larger NOVGOROD "Popoffka" -- as the Tsar dubbed the round vessels -- followed in 1867, and was called Rear Admiral Popov in honor of its inventor. This was but a repeat of the Novgorod's features on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither ship proved practical. With no clear bow or keel, the ships spun like a saucer and proved impossible to control at low speeds. The main guns were designed to aim and fire independently, but this too proved problematic in practice When a gun fired, it imparted centrifugal motion to the round hull. Absorbing the recoil, the ship would spin like a saucer in the opposite direction, having no deep keel to hold her in the water. A dozen shallow longitudinal bilge keels were installed to correct this defect (see rear elevation drawing); to no avail. After prolonged testing and many attempted fixes, the ships were relegated to serving as anchored batteries. They would be towed into position and firmly fixed by a triangle of taut anchor chains once there. At least there was no fault with the ships' guns, other than the partial masking of their arcs of fire by placement of the funnels -- a disadvantage readily overcome by careful positioning vis-à-vis target while anchoring. Below decks, most of the space was taken up by boilers, bunkers, and engines; like many early ironclads, the Popoffkas were poorly ventilated. They turned into virtual ovens in the torrid Ukrainian summers. www.cityofart.net/bship/ru_novgorod.html
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2012 6:33:04 GMT 10
It does say both were scrapped, but you know what the Russians were/are like at telling the truth about maritme disasters.
Its not actually the ship I was looking for, I saw a doco on another russian ironclad that they found in the Baltic that had huge round gun turrets, which were both missing when they found the wreck, thought it may have been one of them.
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Post by brillbilly on Feb 13, 2012 8:35:29 GMT 10
It does say both were scrapped, but you know what the Russians were/are like at telling the truth about maritme disasters. Its not actually the ship I was looking for, I saw a doco on another russian ironclad that they found in the Baltic that had huge round gun turrets, which were both missing when they found the wreck, thought it may have been one of them. Still a good call daz,but with a website with a name like www.cityofart.net at the bottom of my post we got no chance to solve ;D
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