Daily Doodle 469 / Inktober 05

The first thing that came to mind when I sat down to do this one was HMS Agincourt, only battleship built with 7 turrets, originally laid down for Brazil during the micro-dreadnought race between the South American powers, then sold to Turkey, and finally taken over by Britain at the outbreak of war in 1914.  The ship was regarded as little more than a 'floating magazine with a tremendous volume of fire as her best protection.'  At Jutland, her gunnery officer ordered full broadsides from the 'Gin Palace' to dispel rumours that she might turn turtle if all 14 guns were fired at once; the sheet of flame reportedly looked like a battlecruiser blowing up.

She was 204.7m long, 27.1m broad and drew about 8.2m.  Armour was weak, with a belt and barbettes 22.9cm (9") at their thickest.  She carried 14 305mm (12") guns in 7 turrets, named after the days of the week, as well as 20 152mm (6"), 10 76mm (3"), 2 76mm (3") AA guns, and 3 533mm (21") submerged torpedo tubes.  Best speed was 22kts.

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Ink on paper; scanned area 3.5″ x 5″.  © Avatar Z Brown

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