The Dreadnought Project

Jim Broshot · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:29 am Post subject: War Plan Orange 1907

This might be of interest to list members (although from the predreadnought era)

Orange-Blue Situation, In Case of Strained Relations with Japan, 1906-1907
by United States. Navy. General Board

As found at Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/RG08500101/page/n1

Lots of logistic and technical data on US and Japanese warships, including fuel consumption rates for the US ships

Abramsen · Joined: 22 Apr 2019 Posts: 1

Why do you think the fuel consumption data isn't available for Japanese warships? Were those never disclosed, so to speak?

Jim Broshot · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:51 pm Post subject:

Sounds possible

Although in the 1906 edition of The Naval Annual [which used to be available for downloading from Internet Archive and may still be] there is a two page article "Trials of New Japanese Battleships" covering Kashima and Katori (which were built in England) and there is mention of coal consumption rates.

1143Minsk · Guest

Yes, it's only in our day and age that every measure of performance of every piece of military hardware is available on Wikipedia, it would have been a closely guarded secret back then!
Anyways, it's interesting to compare how these estimations from 1906 sometimes correlate with the Japanese strategy in 1941... I guess there aren't so many ways for the same country to attack the same target through the same ocean!

PS: thanks to the administrators for confirming my account on this forum! I'm a military history enthusiast and am trying to expand my knowledge about navies and warships, as I'm mostly knowledgeable about planes and armour. My main interests in the 1890-1920 period are the Austro-Hungarian and Russian navies, but I enjoy reading about any other topic.