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Oct. 4, 2013: among the largest of the visiting warships for the RAN centenary events, cruiser USS Chosin at her mooring - Government House, Canberra.
6677. Here is an interesting comparison for a maritime mathematician, and a comment on the changing nature of modern warships types. Officially, we think the the US Navy's Ticonderoga Class cruiser USS CHOSIN, at 9,800 short tons full load, was accepted as the largest of the visiting warships for the 2013 International Fleet Review in Sydney Harbour, marking the 100th anniversary of the RAN's own first Fleet Entry. It is a position that the USN has always held at international naval events in Australia over the past half century.
On this occasion, however, we can't help noticing that Royal Navy's ultra-modern Type 45 destroyer, HMS DARING, at 8,800 short tons standard displacement, must be just about as big, or perhaps even a little bigger. We make the point not for petty reasons, but to emphasize the phenomenon that destroyers have now become as large, and sometimes larger than cruisers, and now are - we think - replacing them as a warship type. We begiun to wonder whether, in future years, any more cruisers will be built.
We truthfully don't know how to compare the full load and standard displacement tonnages of the two ships, and even their dimensions don't solve the question. USS CHOSIN, at 173m in length than HMS DARING [152.4M] but the latter has a wider beam, 21.2m, compared to CHOSIN's 16.8m beam.
Again, the real point we're making anyway, is that modern destroyers are now the size, and sometimes larger, than the cruisers of recent eras. USS CHOSIN was commissioned in Jan. 1991. Over her bow here we can see the minehunter HMAS YARRA [IV].
Photo: Government House, Canberra, it appears on the Official Govt. House Photostream on Flickr.
Oct. 4, 2013: among the largest of the visiting warships for the RAN centenary events, cruiser USS Chosin at her mooring - Government House, Canberra.
6677. Here is an interesting comparison for a maritime mathematician, and a comment on the changing nature of modern warships types. Officially, we think the the US Navy's Ticonderoga Class cruiser USS CHOSIN, at 9,800 short tons full load, was accepted as the largest of the visiting warships for the 2013 International Fleet Review in Sydney Harbour, marking the 100th anniversary of the RAN's own first Fleet Entry. It is a position that the USN has always held at international naval events in Australia over the past half century.
On this occasion, however, we can't help noticing that Royal Navy's ultra-modern Type 45 destroyer, HMS DARING, at 8,800 short tons standard displacement, must be just about as big, or perhaps even a little bigger. We make the point not for petty reasons, but to emphasize the phenomenon that destroyers have now become as large, and sometimes larger than cruisers, and now are - we think - replacing them as a warship type. We begiun to wonder whether, in future years, any more cruisers will be built.
We truthfully don't know how to compare the full load and standard displacement tonnages of the two ships, and even their dimensions don't solve the question. USS CHOSIN, at 173m in length than HMS DARING [152.4M] but the latter has a wider beam, 21.2m, compared to CHOSIN's 16.8m beam.
Again, the real point we're making anyway, is that modern destroyers are now the size, and sometimes larger, than the cruisers of recent eras. USS CHOSIN was commissioned in Jan. 1991. Over her bow here we can see the minehunter HMAS YARRA [IV].
Photo: Government House, Canberra, it appears on the Official Govt. House Photostream on Flickr.