Fleet Structure

[Admiral Morgan]

Annapabar

14th Imperial Fleet


Fleet elements Qty Size
Cruisers 6 10-40kt
Lt. Carriers 2-3 10-40kt
Destroyers 7-8 1000-10,000 tons
Escorts 8-10 100-1000 tons
Support Vessels 25-28 varies


There is also a BatRon of Kokirrak class dreadnoughts located in the system. With one Kokirrak dreadnought permanently assigned to serve as the Archduke’s mobile command post in time of crisis.


Imperial Fleets

Named Fleet ( or Sector Fleet)
Is composed of numbered fleets equal to the number of imperial owned subsectors.
Gateway Domain in 993 there is one named Fleet the Lay Sector Fleet.
The Ley Sector Fleet in 993 contains 14 numbered Fleets.

Numbered Fleet ( or Subsector Fleet)
Is composed of:
1 Capital Ship Squadron
1 Cruiser Squadron
several Destroyer Squadrons
a number of escort and patrol vessels
plus support Vessels equivalent to support its deployments.
Known Numbered Fleets in 993 are the 14th in Diamond-Prince Subsector, 124th in Spearhead Subsector, and the 262nd in Frontier Worlds Subsector.


14th Fleet
1 BatRon
4-8 Korirrak class dreadnoughts
1 CruRon
` 6 cruisers
2-3 Lt Carriers
2 DesRon
4 destroyers each
8-10 escorts
25-28 support vessels

In infromation on the 14th Fleet we know that it is one of the few regular fleets that has not been called to fight in the Solomani Rim War.

 

[Admiral Morgan]

The interesting thing if looking at ship tonnage the clasic T Class Patrol Cruiser should be considered as an escort class starship.

 

[RainOfSteel]

Well, given that the Rim War is underway, that would explain the low numbers of vessels quite nicely.

However, what of Annapabar's own SDB/Monitor fleet?

 

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by Admiral Morgan:
The interesting thing if looking at ship tonnage the clasic T Class Patrol Cruiser should be considered as an escort class starship.

The 400 dTon Patrol Cruiser? I rate it as an auxilliary, but it depends on where you want to put your break points for the nomenclature list.

 

[Admiral Morgan]

RainOfSteel,
according to CT Highguard.
200 dTon and less is rated as a scout ship.
300 dTon to 1000 dTon is rated as an escort.
1000 dTon to 10,000 dTon is rated as a destroyer.

I think because of the overlap at 1,000 dTon you find the ships called Escort Destroyers wich are 1000 dTon.

 

[Admiral Morgan]

Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
Well, given that the Rim War is underway, that would explain the low numbers of vessels quite nicely.

However, what of Annapabar's own SDB/Monitor fleet?

There is no listing of the strength of Annapabar's SDB/Monitor fleet or of the active elements of the (1014th / 14th) reserve fleet though it is noted as being fully active.

 

[Antony]

There is even more confusion.
The Fer-de-Lance and Chrysanthemum are Destroyer Escorts ie DEs

Then there are the ED series of Escort Destroyers in Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium. Whose mission I would take as primarily destroying "Escorts" while also providing escort service themselves in Batrons and some Crurons.

Calling any warship of 200dt or less a scout is simply (with all due respect to CT) silly. Size does not make a scout ship, mission and the vessels fit out does. Then there is the 5,000dt Fleet Escort in CTs Fighting Ships etc.

 

[Admiral Morgan]

Antony i inverced the designation by mistake. the thing about ship class is that it has nothing to do with a ships mission or vessel fit out. For a Fleet where it's main fighting ships are its capital class and cruiser class vesseles, it's escorts are going to be in the destroyer class size range ei 1000 to 10,000 dTons. The Fleet Escort just like the T class Patrol Cruiser has it's class name not after what size class of ship it is but on the type of mission it most often preforms.

 

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by Antony:
There is even more confusion.
The Fer-de-Lance and Chrysanthemum are Destroyer Escorts ie DEs

Then there are the ED series of Escort Destroyers in Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium. Whose mission I would take as primarily destroying "Escorts" while also providing escort service themselves in Batrons and some Crurons.

Hmmm, and I had always thought of them as "smaller than nomral destroyers". We all bring out own set of assumptions to the table, I guess.

Originally posted by Antony:
Then there is the 5,000dt Fleet Escort in CTs Fighting Ships etc.

Yeah, I was thinking of them, as well, in relation to the "escort" role.

I should have said: "I wouldn't rate a 400 dTon vessel as an escort in the IN."

 

[Antony]

Actually I would also rate a 400dt as an escort or light patrol ship.

IMTU the type T Patrol Cruiser would become a type T sloop.

Then there were the FASA DEs like the Lucifer which were also 400dt, basically it depends on when the designs were published as to what they were classified as. Look at the Kinunir originally a battlecruiser (the joke usually shows this ship rushing to a starport for an imminent rule change). Now adays I would classify the Kinunir as a destroyer escort, or possible a commando carrier, thouse the TNE version is quite capable.