Type 82 Bristol Class Projects and Design Studies

[XRNWEO]

As a postscript, look at the Type 42 Batch 1 full cut thread, for more details. The Ikara handling system was a tight fit around a 12 75 inch torpedo. It couldn't accommodate the fatter 16.5 inch diameter bomb armed versuon. The only place this round could be handled/inserted was the IAR loading trolley which then fed the launcher directly. I.e a nuclear round thus blocked loading of conventipal rounds, until fired, or removed from the IAR.

 

[Hood]

I believe these are the magazines that you are referring to?

These were part of the Joint Admiralty/Ministry of Aviation Shipborne A/S Weapon System Working Party report of May 1962 (incidentally the same source for these generic A/S frigate drawings which illustrated the various missile options in the report https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...taken-for-rn-type-19-frigate.5525/#post-44227) and note also the use of the CF.299 launcher in some of these proposals.
Source: ADM 1/28451

The last image is Bristol's GWS.40 installation.

 

[XRNWEO]

Hood. Thank you for these. Confirm the last picture is Bristol's magazine 'as built', with the simplified single deck layout. The reserve magazine to starboard, with the air powered house is what would have been the nuclear round hoist and transfer point. The remaining ships layout and bulkheads match the original layout shown in the Warship 2015 article drawings. Your earlier drawings show Ikara aft, in a Type 19 frigate, but still using the two decks high vertical 'mery-go-round'.