Alaska class hulls
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scratchshipnut
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Alaska class hulls
While looking at pics for my diorama base I noticed these ships left really clean wakes. Was the hull design what would be considered sucsessfull?
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Re: Alaska class hulls
I don't see any reason to believe they were more or less successful than other US cruisers. They certainly required more horsepower for any speed than was predicted, and they were somewhat overweight as completed. These are faults they shared with every US cruiser design of the WW.II program.scratchshipnut wrote:While looking at pics for my diorama base I noticed these ships left really clean wakes. Was the hull design what would be considered sucsessfull?
They were also notorious for their large turning radius because of their single rudder.
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