January 29, 201214 yr About the County class destroyers and the Sea Slug missile, my results about the ships missile-carrying capacity, after a long afternoon of research motivated by the contradictory data about the topic: Originally envisaged to carry 18 or 20 missiles, but magazine enlarged before the ship building. The ships were equipped with: Sea Slug load=24 on the first THREE ships, of them 8 ready to fire (unknown missile-readying time). Sea Slug load=39 on the later FIVE ships, of them 6 ready to fire (unknown missile-readying time). 30 seconds time cycle for two missile salvoes obtained of the 8/6 missiles in the ready to use compartment, beyond the magazine and the flashtight doors. (From British Destroyers & Frigates. The Second World War and After. By Norman Friedman. Chatham Publishing 2006. Pages 181 and sucessives). http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hF8H0D0...ity&f=false
January 30, 201214 yr No doubt some of the obscure info can be difficult to extract and corrorobate. Good work digging! I'd suggest cross posting on the Admiralty Trilogy list, to see what Carlson, Shoe, Grining and others think.
January 30, 201214 yr Author No doubt some of the obscure info can be difficult to extract and corrorobate. Good work digging! I'd suggest cross posting on the Admiralty Trilogy list, to see what Carlson, Shoe, Grining and others think. Very good idea, indeed. I will do it on a while. Complement to the previous link, a reference about the very interesting HMS Girdle Ness, Sea Slug missile test ship: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dytTKHJ...ity&f=false http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?f...S%22&query=
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