Then again, it's a 13in gun, so maybe the turrets don't take up that much space? I do agree though that the ship looks a little stocky for a 16 gun ship. They have a turret almost dead center, and one of the rear turrets should be off-setting weight of the massive superstructure. The four ships of the Lyons class were suppose to be Lyon, Duquesne, Lille and Tourville.Īs for weight distribution, the WGing versions seems balanced. Just think of the problems the Germans had with Scharnhorst in heavy seas, due to armor, turret, and machinery weight, and she had a very long forecastle compared to this ship. As is, I have no clue how such a design could keep its bow above water in heavy seas maybe even its forward turret would be awash. Given the realities of four-gun turret dimensions, shell handling, hoisting and magazine space, AND the necessary side and torpedo protection required to keep them safe, this ship needs both more length, and beam. dimensions, it looks like it has the prismatic coefficient of a barge, and I'm not trying to be disparaging. Last but not least, the ship above is a nautical impossibility eyeballing its weight distribution vs. Further, the Lyon design we see is definitely a post-WWI design, with no wing turrets, and multi-gun secondary turrets, rather than the casemate, or sponson designs that were standard for that era. It's entirely possible that an order was placed, but the "Lyon" has data listed as of 1944, which confirms my thinking that the info on the website may be a typo.
They're both called Lyon, so I don't know what is up with that. That said, the line drawing on Wikipedia does not match the layout in-game.
The 16 gun Lyons class was to be ordered on 1 January 1915 for 2 ships, and a further 2 more in April, but the unexpected outbreak of WWI 5 months earlier canceled the project in favor of pooling resources toward the French army.
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