ship stopping distances

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jmardlin

They wouldn't be because reversing engines even at back emergency only uses about 2/3's ships power. So stopping distances should be slightly longer. But not by much because the screws are much more efficient running backwards because of less turbulence in the water.

Drag helps as well. Reversing the engines to stop the ship should make a big difference.

Here are the numbers I promised. The first is a graph made for a naval wargames study back in 1929. Kongo should be in the same area as Repulse.


This is an actual acceleration board from a WW2 aircraft carrier. Sorry I can't remember which one, but at the time I wasn't in a position to record where stuff I was downloading came from.