Shipbucket

Ok, I'll try and squeeze it in this weekend. I'll email it to you, though, for your approval, if that's ok.

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

oki doki

Upgraded versions look awesome!
So sad they are only imaginary vessels.

my two cents, heuhen
Think intelligence, very large & extense minefields, very large & dispersed coastal artillery, many MTB's but no more, with dozens of torpedo-bombers & escorts-fighters. Keeps Destroyers & Escort-destroyer only for national proud.... , the larger ships are only pure hypocrit folly
Not copy, think only $ and Russian threat...
No, I like your (warships) open-mind
You "almost understand everything", but you misses all
In the postwar (shipbuilding) period (1946-1958, for the Norwegian side), think only newer AAW escort-destroyers (6-8), (dozens) MTB, (few) minelayers, (one dozen) submarines, (many) minefiels & coastal-artillery !!!!
After war, think only US or Bofor weapons (maybe but dubious UK weapons) systems
Look like a 1942-1946 cruiser design, almost obsolete by early 1950's, forget it by late 1956 & give it to scrappers by 1958...
- Laid down by 1948 => commissioned by 1952-1954
- a ASW depth-charge rack aft ! , LOL . On a ship of this size (180+ meters, 7/9000 tons), the ASW rack was fully ineffective (the TOO BIG ship are not enough maneouvrable), remenber your the AA Atlanta cruiser with here ineffective aft ASW rack's....removes them quickly !!!
- anti-ships torpedo-tubes in 1964, with so many soviets ships with a full sensors/radars suit, LOL .
anti-ships torpedo-tubes dubious-usefull by mid 1950's and obsolete by late 1950's/early 1960's !!!
- your retractable very small hangar look EXTREMELY vulnerable/fragile for me in nordic-sea condition.
In the first "very heavy sea" or "storm", you fragile hangar even fly away (or blast away) (toward the north pole ).
- LOL , by 1973, anti-ships torpedo tubes or ASW rack on this LARGE ships are fully obsolete again the russian 1970's systems
a realistic scenario for a ageing (30+ years old) engine cruiser...
EXTREMELY UNLIKELY to see the largest norwegian unit off the korean coast when, at the same time, the soviet threat was extremely heavy off the norwegian coast's during the 1950's !!!!!!!!!

Think:
- Your cruiser was laid-down by 1948
- First Russian A-Bomb test by 1949.
- Russian ability to "atomize" the 3 or 4 largest Norwegian targets by mid 1952.
- First Russian H-Bomb device test by mid 1953.
- By late 1953, the soviet navy can align in the Northern Fleet at least 2 or 3 cruisers (sverdlov class), more than a dozens of Skoriy class destroyers, some others destroyers, many submarines & aircrafts, some minefiels & nuclear-weapons......this situation even be more worse by late 1956...
- First Russian H-Bomb (operationnal) test by late 1955.
- Russian ability to atomize a NATO squadron (without carrier) by late 1956/1957 in the nordic seas.
- Russian ability to atomize a US carrier strike groupe in the barent-sea by 1961/1962...

In any case, your cruisers are obsolete by...1955/1958...
Too big, too expensive (for the small norvegian budget), too "crew" expensive (1 cruiser crew = 6 escort-destroyer crew ?) , too vulnerable to the soviet threat. Better to built more small, cheap & survivable ships.

For the norwegian (largest warships), postwar, think only AAW escort-destroyer
- 6 to 8 ships
- 1650/2350 tons
- 4 or 6 guns (1 forward/1 aft or 1 forward/2aft)
- full AA/DP guns (57mm bofor or 76mm US)
- ASW mortar or rockets, depth charges aft

"prefers the US logistics than the Swedish quality..." (more usefull in the event of World War III...)

you are totally correct if I was drawing it to fit in this world. and not an alternative scenario!! as I stated in one of my post. and what you have written down is in fact how the Norwegian Navy looked like, it was just a lot bigger! I could explain it very good how it looked like. but that need it's own topic.

You must note that this scenario is made for where things is a lot different than in this world: if it was the real world. Norway would have an modern 10" Coastal defense ship in the 120-130 meter size, 6 small and 1 large destroyer, up to 10 new submarines, and 6 old ones and between 15 and 30 small torpedo boats. That was on the order document sent from the government to the Navy in late 1938. thus Navy started to build those destroyers first, the war more important than the coastal defense ship, due to the main gun on the old coastal defense ship was still effective to some grade... and a thousand more words...
Yeah I know, but in this scenario things are a bit different. How Norway economy are, how bigger population due to more of those that moved to USA stayd back home in Norway, (Norway had 3 mill in 1942 population vise). "different scenario, etc. and other bullshit talk from me!"
The text was just trowed out there in an messy way.
You should read my mind at some time. you would get heart attack. but thanks... I think!
That is exactly what Norway did. If people think that just some small islands out in North Norway have small bases, then they are wrong. almost the entire coastline in North Norway is an underground fortress. and the last one of them was finish build last year, for newer be used (cost:130 mill. EUR). There was hidden torpedo bunkers with long range torpedoes. 5" to 8" guns. etc. and they was all in range of each other. for example i one of the guns was taken, an another coatal battery could fire upon it. every single bridge in North Norway is a bit more expensive to build because they was build to be easy to destroy with as little explosive as possible (ready build in explosive zones in the bridge).... and many other things.

but again this is good, but here in this scenario it is a bit different. and in one of my post I told I am going to start an Au with this ships. etc.
Norway had a lot of UK guns, since they recived many destroyers, PT boats and other vessels from UK, but they changed over to Bofors (Swedish), and US weapons over time. mine cruiser is designed with the main weapons from Scandinavian, and some UK and US weapons. Mainly we Scandinavian have to stick together.... "said nobody!"
That design did I drop because I wasn't happy with it. thus why I drew that other cruiser.
I used spare depth charges rack from destroyers that was decommissioned, thus no cost, and crew could have that type of "exercise"
- I didn't remove it, because why bother use and weld torch to remove it. "he said and burned" Nah I forgot to remove those torpedoes... and changed the to small light wight ASW-torpedoes.
-That's why it was removed on that second drawing. and it as more as an tent that was used when there was some work on the helicopter. But it is also placed so high up that it would be protected against the worst of the weather. but most of the time that "tent" would not be there I just drew it in so we can see it.
yeah...
In this scenario there was two cruiser in Norway on sent a way to Korea. During the cold war USA financed the Norwegian military so much that we could amount up an army up to 500000 men/women in an army designed to slow down the russian with help of burnth earth tactic and destroying every single bridges in North. in the Navy said it was an happy story to... the combat Navy was so big that it was... an full size fleet without aircraft carrier. 5 frigate, 2 corvettes (3 never build), at the most 60 torpedo and missile boats PT's, 12 submarines and many other vessels. so at the biggest Norway had under the cold war 81 pure warships at hand (some of them was in service for only 10 years, while other was in service for 40 years!) and with that much economy interst USA had in Norway's military, there would'n be totally weird that if the asked for one cruiser, where they for example sent over 2 destroyers or frigates in it's place, (big gun was an need in Korea)
How cares, we are the Vikings. you don't f**** with the vikings. even in the after life! during the cold war Norway had an agreement with the Russian that "Olavsvern Base" in Tromso in North Norway was as North we could have an major Navy base.

In any case, your cruisers are obsolete by...1955/1958...
Too big, too expensive (for the small Norwegian budget), too "crew" expensive (1 cruiser crew = 6 escort-destroyer crew ?) , too vulnerable to the soviet threat. Better to built more small, cheap & survivable ships.
and that is what Norway did in the start, but after 1960 there come those Oslo class frigate, that after they second upgrade was among the most powerfully vessel for it size at that time... and what you described in the text of weapons is Oslo class.
but then we have that we Scandinavians....