Don Isidro Artwork

[Local Yokel]

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen



Looks like Don Isidro might need one more pixel line of height, with an additional row of portholes along the main deck.

There is artwork for Don Esteban in Da Babes.

I always think that the amount of freeboard has a bigger effect than anything else on ship's profile view, and on merchant ships can vary substantially according to whether the vessel is in ballast. Having tried out the variation, I think that in Don Isidro's case you're probably right, so here is a further version with added freeboard and another row of scuttles.

Another significant change is an error in previous versions that I hadn't picked up until I saw Pascal's post: the wheelhouse does not extend as far forward as the saloon immediately below it - I've corrected that in this version. A bitmap below, uploaded with .jpg extension.

[Local Yokel]

ORIGINAL: moonraker

ORIGINAL: Pascal

Brown, Boveri & Co along with Sulzer, both referenced in the link you gave, were two Swiss firms that developed marine engines and hydraulic systems.  They did a lot of work for the Germans during WWII.

Oerlikon, another Swiss company, fortunately provided the full plans just as the war started for the famous 20mm AA gun that shows up on almost all the Allied ships.

Brown, Boveri worked on an experimental Gas Turbine locomotive for the Great Western Railway (Later BR Western Region) and Sulzer supplied diesel engines for various locomotives in the UK in the 1950's & 60's after the 1955 modernisation plan was finally put in to full swing. Several survive in preservation.

Yes, well, this is the kind of thing we denizens of Great Western territory are apt to note and point out - see my post #5. Western Region carried on the penchant for iconclasm by adoption of hydraulic transmission for most of its diesel locomotive fleet.

Here's a zipfile with the updated Don artwork:

[Don Bowen]

Thanks again. I think this one captures Don Isidro perfectly.

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen


US Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II has a full broadside picture of Don Esteban.

It also has specs for both Don Esteban and Don Isidro, and the latter appears to be much larger.

Don Esteban: 267 x 37 x 18 feet. 1.616 tons, 2 8-cyl diesel/3,500 hp, Krupp, Kiel 1936.
Don Isidro: 321 x 46 x 20 feet. 3.261 tons, 2 9-cyl diesel/(no HP figure), Krupp, Kiel, 1939.

Don Isidro may be the big brother of Don Esteban.

US Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II

You got a bitchin library Don. Price of the book is way over my budget. Even used (which I normally spend my bucks on) is almost $90.

The same picture, somewhat enlarged, is in Over Seas US Army Maritime Operations, 1898 through the Fall of the Philippines. This book is very affordable and covers a subset of the same subject. Good tables and specs.