Can anyone (AR?) post a drawing of the arrangements of the forward superstructure of Alaska's design in the phase 1/42-6/42, when she still had her pilot house on top of the conning tower?
In June, '42 the pilot house was moved to a very small location just below the highest level of the tower mast; the space thus liberated was occupied by a 40mm quad (must be absolutely no periscopes in Alaska's CT).
USS Alaska superstructure design 1-6/42
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USS Alaska superstructure design 1-6/42
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Trying to answer my own question, I guess.
The 02 level of Alaska doesn't look hugely different to Baltimore. I wonder if the original 1942 forward superstructure would have been similar to the heavy cruisers (but with some extra length to accommodate the capital ship-like tower).
The 02 level of Alaska doesn't look hugely different to Baltimore. I wonder if the original 1942 forward superstructure would have been similar to the heavy cruisers (but with some extra length to accommodate the capital ship-like tower).
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)
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Re: USS Alaska superstructure design 1-6/42
If you're lucky it's the same place as CV-2's 1942 drawings are.........Werner wrote:Can anyone (AR?) post a drawing of the arrangements of the forward superstructure of Alaska's design in the phase 1/42-6/42, when she still had her pilot house on top of the conning tower?
In June, '42 the pilot house was moved to a very small location just below the highest level of the tower mast; the space thus liberated was occupied by a 40mm quad (must be absolutely no periscopes in Alaska's CT).
