Royal Caledonian Navy

Battleships

Caledonian battleships are named after historical ruling monarchs.

Prince Stuart IV and Ross III Classes

These 320,000 class TL12 battleships are the latest in the fleet. Verging on dreadnaught size, but much more agile, seven squadrons of these behemoths are based at the Principality's Class A starport naval bases.

Prince James IX, John XXIV and Kevin II Classes

Weighing in at 240,000 tons, these older battleships are the mainstay of the battle fleet. 80 are in service.

King Ian XII Class

While most of these 160,000 ton TL 11 ships have been scrapped or sold, 16 remain in service, mostly escorting and providing fire support for the Marine Landing forces.

Carriers

Caledonian carriers are named after desirable or ominous attribute adjectives.

Indomitable and Victorious Class Fleet Carriers

These 160,000 ton fleet carriers are heavily armored, and carry large fleets of 80 ton heavy fighters.

Collossal Class Light Carriers

These 36,000 ton light carriers are mainly designed to escort convoys, provide air support for landings and system defense forces, and serve as a platform for flight training.

Assault Landing Ships

LSM

The "Landing Ship, Marine" is the backbone of the Marine landing forces. These 40,000 ton vessels carry 1-3 battalions of troops and enough equipment and supplies to support them in action for two weeks.

Frigates

A "Frigate" in Caledonian service is the equivalent of a "Cruiser" in Imperial parlance. Heavy Frigates primarily serve as screens, scouts and covering forces for Strike Task Forces. Light Frigates are largely patrol, scouting and commerce protection vessels. Posting to a light frigate on frontier patrol duty is highly prized by young officers - and they are often used to groom young captains who are intended for bigger and better things.

Heavy frigates are named after counties on the various planets. Light Frigates are named after Cities.

Antrim, Sunderland and Gareloch class Heavy Frigates

268 heavy frigates from these three classes are currently in service, including a number of Gareloch class, refitted from TL12 in recent years. These ships - around 36,000 tons apiece - serve with each of the major battle squadrons.

Dunfermline, Edinburgh, New Carlisle, Glasgow and Harrow Class Light Frigates

A total of 322 of these versatile 20,000 ton ships - including a few dozen TL11 Harrow class refitted to TL12 - currently serve.

Destroyers

Caledonian destroyers are named postumously after Caledonian naval and Marine heroes, and historical Admirals and other prominent officers

McKenzie, Hall, Coleridge, Burns and Herrick class Destroyers

These 5,000 ton ships provide screens for the battle fleets, stripping away enemy fighters, light ships and missiles from the battle fleet.

McClaren class Destroyers

24 of these obolescent 3,000 ton TL11 class ships serve as escorts to the Marine Landing force, and are due to be replaced soon.

Sloops

"Sloop" is the Caledonian term for a light escort ship. It's analogous to a Patrol Frigate, Escort Cruiser or Escort in other navies. They are usually built to TL11 standards; they are slower than most warships, but more heavily armed than most buccaneer ships. They also feature high endurance; they are designed to remain on station in a zone for eight or more weeks, patrolling for pirates, Reavers or other bandits.

Bird, Castle, Flower and River class sloops

Over 2,000 of these workhorse vessels - mostly equipped with TL11 power plants and drives, but many refitted with TL12 weapons - serve throughout the Principality.

Fleet Replenishment Ships

Fleet Replenishment Ships carry supplies - and above all fuel - to units operating away from fixed fleet bases.

Mountain Class Squadron Replenishment SHips (AOR-B)

These ships accompany units of the fleet in the field. A group of four AOR-B ships carry enough power plant (not jump) fuel and consumables - everything from food to sandcaster sand - to support a battle squadron on station away from base for a month. Groups of four will rotate between the squadron and a base (or the Forward Supply Area - see below) to keep a steady stream of fuel and supplies going to the fleet. These vessels have self-defense armament.

"Duke" Class Strategic Tanker (AO-JB)

These huge tankers have one purpose; provide battle squadrons enough fuel to make a big jump. When a large squadron needs to operate away from a base, groups of these enormous tankers will relay from bases, gas giants or forward supply bases to provide the massive amounts of fuel needed. 4-8 of these vessels contain enough fuel to allow an entire battle squadron to jump 2 zones.

AOR-L

These smaller replenishment ships provide fuel and logistic support to smaller squadrons and "FOBs".

"Regent" Class Station Tankers (AO-Stn)

A Station Tanker is basically a semi-mobile fuel dump. Equipped with J1 and M1 drives, the Station Tanker is intended to hold a huge supply of fuel in place for other ships - AORs and AO-JBs - to haul to other places. They are found at major starports, FOBs, and the Fleet Train, where they serve as an immense mobile fuel dump.

Fleet Tankers

"Baron" class Transport Tankers

In wartime, these ships haul fuel from the bases or gas giants to the FOBs, or to the Station Tankers of the Forward Supply Area.

"Trade" Class Fleet Auxiliaries

These are modular ships - essentially "spines" with jump drives, to which pre-fabricated or custom modules can be attached. With the proper modules, these auxiaries serve in a variety of supporting roles - repair, small-craft depot, ammunition storage, refinery, accomodation/barracks and hospital ships, among many, many others.

AX-H

208 of these 20,000 ton auxiliaries serve in a variety of support roles.

AX-L

441 of these 2,000 modular auxiliaries serve in a dizzying variety of capacities.

Scouts / Dispatch Boats/ Couriers

Thousands of these small ships serve as frontier scouts, as well as fleet and system dispatch boats providing communications between fleets and headquarters.

Dispatch Boats

The Navy owns roughtly 800 "dispatch boats". These are the equivalent of Scouts (indeed, most of them are Fairmile Model G/C vessels, close cousins of the Scouts definitive Fairmile G/R scout platform). They provide the communications between fleet bases, stations and units in the field.

System Surveillance Ships

The Principality maintans an immense network of surveillance ships to provide early warning of incursions or pirate activity. This network covers every non-system zone (hex) within the Principality, and every zone within two parsecs of the Principality's formal border.

The key to this surveillance is the fleet of roughly 500 or so surveillance platforms. They are equipped with J1/M1 drives - but their goal is not to maneuver, or fight for that matters. These ships - buffered asteroids ranging from 5,000-10,000 tons - are intended to be invisible, or to appear as space junk to all but the closest observation. They include hangar space for two Dispatch Boats, intended to carry word of any incursion or other news back to higher headquarters.

Every non-system zone inside, and within two parsecs of, the Principality has a number of surveillance ships, working three months rotations watching the area for incursions.

System Defense Ships

These non-jump-capable ships serve as local defense vessels for the Principality's various constituent systems.

Monitors

These 50,000-60,000 ton ships are essentially non-jumping battleships, designed for close-in defense of the various systems.

Corvettes (SD)

These 1,200 ton vessels are non-jump-capable intra-system escorts and screening ships.

Minor Support Ships

These ships - both commissioned naval ships and civilian reserve vessels called back into service - serve myriad utility uses; personnel transports, cargo-haulers, ambulances, and all the other slogging, unglamorous jobs a big fleet needs to have done.

Medium Utility Vessel (AU-M)

A militarized Far Trader, in both TL11 and TL12 varieties. Nearly 1,800 currently serve in the fleet.

Small Utility Vessel (AU-S)

A militarized 200 ton free trader. Almost 2,600 currently serve the fleete.