monitors with spare cruiser turrets.

[tigercat]

Some British cruisers lost x turret . Due to topweight issues and to make way for extra AA . Now we have spare turrets.  So what to do with it? Small monitors maybe ?

[NARSES2]

River monitors certainly

[Pellson]

The main battle tanks to send the Königstiger to hell with a vengeance? 

[Rheged]

River monitors certainly

A flotilla of shallow draft monitors with twin 6" gun turrets.   Either flog them to the USA as Mississippi  River monitors to quell Kentucky seperatists (if any) or  use them as a Rhine flotilla......even the Königstiger  would pause for thought if confronted with  that turret!!

[dadlamassu]

There were such things in WW1 -


The idea of fitting a triple 6 inch mounting from a Colony Class Cruiser on to a river monitor is interesting. 

[pyro-manic]

If you take a turret each off a whole class, you will have enough to build another cruiser!

[dadlamassu]

If you take a turret each off a whole class, you will have enough to build another cruiser!

They did with battleships - I was once told that HMS Vanguard was built to use up 15 inch turrets because the turrets, magazines etc were a big chunk of the cost.

[pyro-manic]

Yup - the turrets and guns were spares left over from the Furious-class IIRC, in their original guise before the carrier conversions.

[Captain Canada]

That Severn is very nice....I like the idea of river monitors with big guns. Who's going to build one ?

[eatthis]

stick em on a tank!

[PR19_Kit]

They'd make one hell of a rear defence for a Lancaster! That should keep those damned night fighters at arm's length............... 

[eatthis]

They'd make one hell of a rear defence for a Lancaster! That should keep those damned night fighters at arm's length............... 

it would also make it loop da loop over and over again 

[PR19_Kit]

You could install another one in the nose.......... 

[Rheged]

At the risk of being thought  pedantic and boring,  what weight are we talking about for a colony class triple turret?

I do like Kit's idea of mounting one somewhere on a Lancaster. Six  of the crew are  RAF, and   a company of Royal Marines to man the Mid Upper Turret!

[eatthis]

You could install another one in the nose.......... 

youd need longer wings