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Description
Length: 705 feet long
Beam: 98 feet
Draft: 31 feet
Installed power: x24 boilers developing 30,000 shp
Propulsion: x4 shafts, x4 steam turbines
Displacement: 34,200 tons
Armament: x15 14 inch guns, x12 6 inch guns, x6 quadruple 20mm AA guns
Armor: 14 inches belt, 2-3 inches deck, 8-12 inch barbettes, 12 inch turrets, 8 inches bulkheads
Speed: 23 knots
Crew: 1,200

(shown circa 1922)

A major advancement over the preceeding two Dignified class battleships, the three Upstanding class ships launched between 1915 and 1917 represented the final arrival of the fully modern super-dreadnaught into the Laurentin naval fleet. With a much more modern turret arrangement than its preceeding class, the Upstanding class ships reduced the amidships guns to a single turret and instead focused the design's firepower onto its bow and stern emplacements, thus mitigating the complicated engineering requirements of arranging powerplants around the large concentration of midship firepower from the class's predecessors. More heavily armed, faster and better armored, these new ships eclipsed all former battleships of the Laurentin fleet, and arguably outperformed contemporary designs from Aerah from the same era.

While succeeded by the swifter, more heavily armed penultimate Pious class battleship of 1919, the Upstanding class remained remarkably comprable to overseas designs, a pleasant change of the typical dynamic of rapid obsolecence experienced by the earlier Honorable , Righteous and Dignified classes. It was not until nearly a decade later that the Aerah Stolz class finally exceeded the class's speed, and almost two decades later that the Briesch class battleships finally reached similar levels of firepower in terms of the amount of ammunition deliverable in a single salvo, by which point the Upstanding class was well senior to these next-generation battleships. By this point the grecken, which had inherited the battleships from Laurentin when the Greater Confederated Kingdoms were established in 1922, had keen interest in retaining the type's potency, as the earlier classes were generally ill suited for modernization but retained due to political policies of refusing replacement for these obsolete ships. Accordingly, in the 1930s the Upstanding class were substantially modernized, recieving spotting aircraft, a dramatically refitted anti-aircraft suite, improved armor and torpedo bulges, higher angle gun emplacements and uprated machinery.

Upstanding class battleship--first launched 1915

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Description
Length: 705 feet long
Beam: 98 feet
Draft: 31 feet
Installed power: x24 boilers developing 30,000 shp
Propulsion: x4 shafts, x4 steam turbines
Displacement: 34,200 tons
Armament: x15 14 inch guns, x12 6 inch guns, x6 quadruple 20mm AA guns
Armor: 14 inches belt, 2-3 inches deck, 8-12 inch barbettes, 12 inch turrets, 8 inches bulkheads
Speed: 23 knots
Crew: 1,200

(shown circa 1922)

A major advancement over the preceeding two Dignified class battleships, the three Upstanding class ships launched between 1915 and 1917 represented the final arrival of the fully modern super-dreadnaught into the Laurentin naval fleet. With a much more modern turret arrangement than its preceeding class, the Upstanding class ships reduced the amidships guns to a single turret and instead focused the design's firepower onto its bow and stern emplacements, thus mitigating the complicated engineering requirements of arranging powerplants around the large concentration of midship firepower from the class's predecessors. More heavily armed, faster and better armored, these new ships eclipsed all former battleships of the Laurentin fleet, and arguably outperformed contemporary designs from Aerah from the same era.

While succeeded by the swifter, more heavily armed penultimate Pious class battleship of 1919, the Upstanding class remained remarkably comprable to overseas designs, a pleasant change of the typical dynamic of rapid obsolecence experienced by the earlier Honorable , Righteous and Dignified classes. It was not until nearly a decade later that the Aerah Stolz class finally exceeded the class's speed, and almost two decades later that the Briesch class battleships finally reached similar levels of firepower in terms of the amount of ammunition deliverable in a single salvo, by which point the Upstanding class was well senior to these next-generation battleships. By this point the grecken, which had inherited the battleships from Laurentin when the Greater Confederated Kingdoms were established in 1922, had keen interest in retaining the type's potency, as the earlier classes were generally ill suited for modernization but retained due to political policies of refusing replacement for these obsolete ships. Accordingly, in the 1930s the Upstanding class were substantially modernized, recieving spotting aircraft, a dramatically refitted anti-aircraft suite, improved armor and torpedo bulges, higher angle gun emplacements and uprated machinery.

Upstanding class battleship--first launched 1915

SCK Upstanding
SCK Esteemed
SCK Revered