Personnel file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West
Name: RSS Brightbell
Type: Light Cruiser
Class: Brightbell-class Cruiser
Role: Escort, Anti-Air, Destroyer hunter, Cruiser Hunter
Nation of origin: The United Provinces of Regria
Year commissioned: 1941
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:Keep the change!Say hello to my little friend!Gender: Female
Character: While she seems like a true soldier-- following orders with little-to-no questions, Brightbell in general tends to be a rather salty and easily irritable girl, though she seems to dislike her own way of thinking due to ‘betraying’ the ‘civilized’ and ‘friendly’ societal norms of the Regrian people. While she grudgingly pushes on, she does not necessarily have much patience, having an ‘itchy trigger finger’, so to speak. A small yet notable quirk of her is that Brightbell will quote popular media such as motion pictures, novels, radio broadcasts, or popular songs in Regria. Nonetheless, she finds a spark of happiness in her passions, among these being playing instruments and singing to crowds of people-- creating a soothing atmosphere to calm her otherwise hot-headed nature.
Special abilities: Annihilator: Brightbell possesses quite frankly a terrifying volume of fire, which only becomes incredibly ridiculous by her 1950 remodel. Upon spotting a single enemy or a close group of smaller enemies (like aircraft), she can shower them with an unbelievable amount of firepower at once, enough to make almost any foe reconsider their course of action... To which this effect only amplifies as the remodels come.
I wanna set the world on fire: If Brightbell focuses on a single enemy enough, she will be able to set said enemy ablaze-- making it so that if she focuses her (quite frankly) terrifying rate of fire on a single foe-- even a battleship, she will be able to set it on fire and cause widespread panic to the enemy in question, as well as the crew. This makes it so that she can heavily damage or even sink large ships-- granted her fire is not diverted elsewhere somehow. (like AA purposes)
Technical Description of the vessel: Commissioned in 1941, the RSS Brightbell was the first ship in the line of Brightbell-class Light Cruisers, a line of five ships developed shortly after the Regrians had successfully verified that aircraft could be used effectively in naval warfare, setting about creating a ship that would be able to effectively counter nearly any aerial foe years in advance.
The Brightbell-class Cruisers were above all renowned and feared for their incredible volume of fire and anti-air capabilities, which only increased as the years went on and more remodels were made until their decommissioning in 1972. With 24 3-inch dual purpose guns-- each gun having a RoF of 35 rounds per minute, the Brightbell-class’s firerate clocked in at an astonishing 840rpm at the time of its commissioning in 1941.
In addition, the ship was designed with only the most advanced technologies and shipbuilding design features at the time, allowing for integrated use of the advanced RADAR and SONAR technologies, advanced fire control for both ground-level targets and anti-air, also incorporating a ‘step-style’ construction which allowed for each turret to be placed in a position which would help with practicality and general balance of firepower.
Remodels were made to Brightbell and her sisters in 1945 and 1950, each one further boosting volume of fire and anti-aircraft capabilities. In 1945, the volume of fire had increased to 1,440 rounds per minute, And finally in 1949, Brightbell’s rate of fire was the highest it had ever been, being clocked in at 2,160 rounds per minute of 3-inch dual purpose shells. This design was found to be so effective in the anti-air role, that the future Summerset-class AA Frigates would be designed with many of the key features of the Brightbell-class vessels, replacing them after their decommissioning in 1972-- these frigates still being used rather extensively even to this very day.
Technical Data
Displacement:
6,758 tons (standard)
8,149 tons (deep)
Length (overall): 165 m (541 ft, 4 in.)
Width: 16 m (52 ft, 5 in.)
Draught: 20.96 ft
Propulsion: 2 shaft, 75,000 shp
Speed:
34.5 knots (39.7 mph, standard)
32.5 knots (37.4 mph, deep)
Complement: 403-525
Armament:
24x 76.2mm dual-purpose in eight triple turrets
10x 40mm AA guns in five dual mounts
10x 20mm AA guns in ten single mounts (8 Shielded)
6x .50cal AA guns in six single mounts
8x 533mm Torpedo tubes (two four-packs)
Armour: 3.5 inch (belt)
Notes: Served as an escort in many fleets,saw several battles, and survived as a museum ship,
Famous for being the only ship (besides Kinloss and Aeternus) to have a band on board,
Was known to be incredibly devastating in it’s role as Anti-Air and a DD/Cruiser hunter,
But wasn't as effective against Battleships in an anti-ship role.
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