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View submission: The Olympic class if better technology where available
Now that i think of it the stock Olympic class the coal burning, 46,000 HP combination liners only needed one thing
A bulbus bow. They can go both ways same speed for less power thus less fuel consumption or more speed for the same power.
If 10 to 12.5% efficacy bulbs existed then.
At 10% Olympic could go from 650 tones of coal a day to 585 tones of coal a day, or the more likely option increase the speed from 21 to 23.1%. Same as Aquitania's service speed .
At 12.5% , down to 568.75 tones of coal a day or boos speed to 23.625 knots for the same power, option c for 12.5% could be a mix, down rate the boilers and engines to bring the speed back to 23 knots for both higher speed and less fuel.
Regardless if it's the 10% or 12.5% bulbs Olympic and titanic get faster improving their economy, and in the long run use less coal regardless due to less time at sea, also Titanic at 23 knots would sail thru the ice field in broad day light. Which is enough to save her from that.
Britannic how ever might be her own class based off of the Olympic class general arrangement. The full quad screw direct shaft turbine system was growing more viable rapidly so Britannic could being enlarged to a similar length and beam as Aquitania, modified to have a cruiser stern like Aquitania and being finished with quad screw turbine engines like Aquitania. The QSTS Britannic could be design for a base speed of 24 knots higher up front cost but could grow into equilibrium with Olympic and Titanic unless... a they use 12.5% bulbus bow to increase QSTS Britannic to 27 knots would offset the extra cost.
The larger hull if used with the same general superstructure design as IRL Britannic then that could push her past 48,000 GRT maybe up to 50,000 or slightly higher. If that Britannic survives the war and is converted to burn oil she would be a force to be reckoned with, although Aquitania might also end up like that to engine power for 24 knots + 12.5% from a bow bulb to reach 27 knots.
After oil conversion the UK would have a 2 ship service with 27 knot QSTS Britannic and Aquitania.
Now that would be a time line.
Comment by JohnnyRC_007 at 30/01/2025 at 22:49 UTC
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Oh to live in a time line where they simply didn't scrap Olympic.