HMS NELSON Warship Holds the SECRET to Winning ANY Naval Battle
The salt-laden wind whipped at my face as I stood at my battle station on HMS Nelson. The ship, our floating fortress, trembled with anticipation. The German bombers were out there, their silhouettes dark and menacing against the morning sky. I could feel the tension in the air, thick and heavy. My heart pounded in my chest as I gripped the railing, my knuckles white. We were ready.
The roar of the engines filled my ears, drowning out the fear. Every man on this ship knew the risks. We were cannon fodder, targets in a vast, deadly game. Yet, we stood tall, our spirits unbroken. We were more than just sailors; we were warriors, protectors of our nation.
The enemy planes swooped down, their bombs raining from the sky. We responded with a hail of anti-aircraft fire, a symphony of steel and smoke. The deafening explosions shook the ship to its core, but we held firm. We were a team, a brotherhood, bound by a common purpose.
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HMS NELSON Warship: The Allied Ship That Gathered All Its Firepower for One Epic Shot
Just to point out here that HMS Nelson and Rodney were great ships that while slow outperformed most royal navy and Kriegsmarine warships. Yet they themselves were a heavily watered down version of themselves.
Both ships were developed post ww1 as the N3 design. A large warship boasting 9x 16inch guns, 18 inch belt armour, 28 knots speed and submerged torpedo launchers in the hull.
This warship would have been comparable to the Iowa class, 20 years before the Iowa was ever thought up.
Most ships of the time had inferior armaments and only averaged 23-25 knots.
The design was approved and plane to build it were already under whey when the Washington navel treaty came into being.
As such the design has to be downscaled dramatically. While the ship retained it's 16" guns it's massive engine infrastructure that took up most of the stern of the ship was replaced with something half the size.
Nelson could only achieve 23-24 knots by contrast and the Royal navy had to be creative to justify the heavy belt armour with loopholes in the treaty specification for battleship armour.
We did end up with a capable ship that the Bismarck feared dealing with but lost the true monster of a warship that would have outperformed everything at sea.