Re: Amphibious landing with 1910s tech level


"Russell Wallace" <russell.no.spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Science fiction setting where the largest naval power has new models of
warships with oil-fired turbine engines, somewhere around 1910-1915
equivalent tech level perhaps.

They're going to have to make an amphibious landing on two islands out
in the equivalent of the North Atlantic. One to destroy it, but the
Guardian carrying the four-ton steel canister [1] to the cargo entrance
through it and down the corridors will need assistance. One to seize
intact.

There'll be tough resistance, driven by much higher technology, so apart
from the Guardians, they need to bring as much weight of metal as they
can. Landing ships haven't been reinvented yet. Suppose the fleet at one
island consists of the fast/new-models, say one battleship, three
cruisers, half a dozen destroyers (the latter a little of an anachronism
as blue-water vessels apparently, but one already showed up at the
battle of Whiterock, so I figure the name tag just gets attached to a
larger model than it did historically).

I gather they'll have to use wooden boats (rowed? would an outboard
engine or suchlike be available?) for the landing.

Given the example fleet above, how many marines could be landed? Assume
men are available and transport is the limiting factor; how many boats
could be carried? how many men per boat?

What if any heavy weapons would be landed? I can envisage Maxim guns and
two-inch field guns (both of which have already been used) being lugged
out of landing boats, but would they have clear lines of fire up the
beach? Standard infantry issue is .30 caliber rifle with bayonet, pistol
and/or knife as backup weapon.

Thanks.

[1] They had Outside Context assistance with the uranium refinery. I
think the rest of a Little Boy is within reach of 1910 tech.


read up on gallipoli. the landings in particularyou'll get all the info you
need. that was the level of technology they had.


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