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to day the navy department has announced two 22,000 repalcment cairres for HMAS Horbat each cairre are to be built in the comeing year and will have a wing of 70 aircaft on bored the minister for the mr John black could not be reacht for coment at this time the class cairrers will be named
HMAS Maxwell and Steelwell.





Maxwell class, Australian Cairrer laid down 1922

Displacement:
21,425 t light; 22,000 t standard; 24,351 t normal; 26,134 t full load
Loading submergence 1,047 tons/feet

Dimensions:
700.00 ft x 100.00 ft x 32.00 ft (normal load)
213.36 m x 30.48 m x 9.75 m

Armament:
15 - 4.50" / 114 mm guns
15 - 3.70" / 94 mm AA guns
Weight of broadside 1,063 lbs / 482 kg

Armour:
Belt 1.00" / 25 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 77 % of normal area
Main belt does not fully protect magazines and engineering spaces
Main gun shields 1.00" / 25 mm, AA gun shields 1.00" / 25 mm
Armour deck 3.00" / 76 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Direct drive, 4 shafts, 134,358 shp / 100,231 Kw = 31.96 kts
Range 10,000nm at 15.00 kts

Complement:
974 - 1,267

Cost:
£4.090 million / $16.359 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 133 tons, 0.5 %
Armour: 2,260 tons, 9.3 %
Belts: 179 tons, 0.7 %, Armament: 47 tons, 0.2 %, Armour Deck: 2,033 tons, 8.4 %
Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 4,558 tons, 18.7 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 7,474 tons, 30.7 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 2,926 tons, 12.0 %
Miscellaneous weights: 7,000 tons, 28.7 %

Metacentric height 5.6

Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.06
Shellfire needed to sink: 24,527 lbs / 11,125 Kg = 538.3 x 4.5 " / 114 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 2.8
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 71 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.03
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.27

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.380
Sharpness coefficient: 0.33
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 7.39
'Natural speed' for length: 26.46 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 53 %
Trim: 56
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 96.5 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 148.1 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 125 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.96
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 129 lbs / square foot or 627 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.46
(for 20.67 ft / 6.30 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 2.58 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.01

This cairrer has room on borad for 70 aircraft 30 figther and 30 torpedo bombers with 10 reconses aircarft this two ships of this class are to replace HMAS Horbart