Looking for German Predread plans named brandenberg, beleave sisters were Worth, Kurst Fredrich Willhelm, and a fourth ship that im forgetting, had the twin 11" amidships with 35 caliber length barrels, fought in WWI and also some were sold to turkey....
I have never seen that one and I am pretty much a plan addict. Clark von Tugboat may have one on his hard drive of mysteries but I can not say.
mmmmmaybe You know that I hate to disappoint, or to have the breadth of my archives in doubt. A strange little ship. I have plan, profile, ribs, turret drawings, some other drawings, and even a pic or three. Or 10.
Well since you have never published a finding aid, this archivist did not have anyway to ascertain the contents. Now I considered it likely that you did have them so that is why I invoked the name of the Axis plansmeister! I don't think the Brandenburgs to be strange, I think they are interesting. A few feet longer and they would have nicely prefigured the Dreadnought revolution. It was the 11" 35 cal. guns that messed them up. Would it have upset the Kaiser to stretch the design by 2 meters to make the midships guns match the fore and aft ones?
That is Awesome Tug, I've looked and looked online and never could find more than very rudimentary line drawings.
So long as that hard drive is properly backed up. Methinks you should copy it over to an external HD and mail it to me, just to be safe. Wouldn't want any evil Allied saboteurs sneaking into your computer, would you...
I would purchase a shiny new drive and send it to Kapitan Von Tugboat and cover postage back to me... all in the name of safekeeping of course.
I might just have a 3TB external drive, ready and waiting to store a backup copy of this infamous plans collection. Once I phase up and have more than a 75 mile liberty radius, I'll see about getting down for a build session (study hours permitting)
My health issues last year got me to thinking about ensuring that the accumulation of data is not lost if I go on eternal patrol. James is my designated successor to maintain the archive, I will look into making copies. I need to finish some scaling and cleaning of the plans before I am totally happy, I really must do that before Gascan gets done in Charleston so that I can conveniently pass copies to him for himself and Carl. Other people, I'll announce when I have it ready, and make sure I'm not infringing any copyrights. It will be issued under some sort of general public license type thing, and generally to people who I know from here or real life.
