Standard v full load
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:51 am
Gentlemen,
Perhaps you could help with something that is puzzling me, standard load and full load.
I have always assumed that standard was 'as built' without fuel, ammo, stores etc and full would mean everything included. So when the Washington Treaty was signed for battleships to be 35000 tons, presumably this was as 'standard load'
I was looking up the 'R' class ships and it seems that their standard weight was around 29000 tons and 21 knots with full load being 33500 tons whereas the ships that they were meant to replace QE's,which were 27000 and 35500 tons respectively and 25 knots which seems strange that the RN built ships like the R''s that were slower and smaller than the ones they were supposed to replace! I realise that some of the QE's were heavily modernised but he difference 2000 tons seems quite a lot. looking at the design specs it appears that the 'R's'had slightly heavier armour so it seems a bit odd that it was the QE's that had their guns elevated and were the ones to be modernised.
Perhaps you could help with something that is puzzling me, standard load and full load.
I have always assumed that standard was 'as built' without fuel, ammo, stores etc and full would mean everything included. So when the Washington Treaty was signed for battleships to be 35000 tons, presumably this was as 'standard load'
I was looking up the 'R' class ships and it seems that their standard weight was around 29000 tons and 21 knots with full load being 33500 tons whereas the ships that they were meant to replace QE's,which were 27000 and 35500 tons respectively and 25 knots which seems strange that the RN built ships like the R''s that were slower and smaller than the ones they were supposed to replace! I realise that some of the QE's were heavily modernised but he difference 2000 tons seems quite a lot. looking at the design specs it appears that the 'R's'had slightly heavier armour so it seems a bit odd that it was the QE's that had their guns elevated and were the ones to be modernised.