a question about steel battleship hull designs of the late 1800's
 

CalifBill wrote:
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Tim wrote:
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These bulbs are designed to help the vessel displace water more
efficiently,
I'm beginning to understand what you're saying...i think.
What are the advantages of a bulbous bow on a frigate or destroyer? It is
an excellent place to put active and passive sonar gear.

But would be a bad place if trying to run over a submarine. Which was a
common tactic. As the early subs surfaced and used cannon fire to sink
ships. Later, they got rid of the deck gun and used torpedoes as the lack
of a deck gun made the sub much faster underwater. The 2 design criteria of
the early and also later battleships were they had to fit under the Brooklyn
Bridge and through the Panama Canal. I fish near the Iowa at times and it
is amazing how low to the water the deck is midships.

My dad was a Naval line officer and did some time as the ASW officer on
a couple of ships. One of his claim's to fame was putting a practice
torpedo into the sail of submarine. The other claim was following a
Soviet flotilla traversing the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean. He
was commanding a DER. Two 3 inch 50's, an ASROC and a couple of torpedo's.