Coventry statistics Mark I

BASIC STATISTICS 
Class Name:			COVENTRY-class
Classification:			DD
Type:				Destroyer, multi-mission 
Model Number:			I 

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS 
Length:				311 m 
Beam:				208m 
Draft:				66 m 
Displacement:			801,669 mt

COMPLEMENT 
Total Standard:			140
Officers:			11 
Crew:				94 
Marines:			35

Passengers:			10 maximum

PROPULSION SYSTEMS 
Warp Propulsion System 
     Drive Type:		ILN-517 Mark IX 
Number:				1 set, 2 nacelles
Main Reactor:			FRAM-922 
Number:				1

Impulse System
Drive Type:	                CAN
Number:				2 
Secondary Reactor:		FRIF-470 EPS Distribution Network 

Dimensional Warp Drive	
     Drive Type:		Dim-IV-Cov1i
Number:				1		


Velocity 
Standard Cruise Speed:		7.00 
Maximum Cruise Speed:		9.40 
Sustainable for 12 hours: 	9.70 
Maximum Emergency Speed:	9.89 
Core Failure Imminent:		9.96 


ARMAMENT 
Phaser, Type X 
Number:				5 banks  
Range:				300,000 km 
Arcs
  --saucer, dorsal (f/p)	1 (split, one EPS tap)
  --saucer, dorsal (f/s)	1 (split, one EPS tap)
  --saucer, ventral (f/p/s)	1
  --nacelle pylon (a/s)		1
  --nacelle pylon (a/p)		1 
              	             	
       	
Flux Torpedo, Mk III Seeking/Direct 
Number:				3 tubes 
Range:				3,500,000 km (flux) 3,000,000 (photon) 
Arcs					
  forward bow launchers (f/s/p) 2		
  aft launcher (aft quarters)   1

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS
Point Defense Lasers, type III 
Number: 			14 (7 turrets of 2 lasers each) 
Range:				250,000 km 
Arcs		
  mid saucer, dorsal (f/p)      1
  mid-saucer, dorsal (f/s)      1
  mid-pontoon (f/s/a)           1
  mid-pontoon (f/p/a)           1
  secondary hull, fantail(a)    1
  secondary hull, ventral(f/s/a)1
  secondary hull, ventral(f/p/a)1
 
Defensive Shield System 
Type:				FD-8e "Carapace" cocoon-multiphasic 
				     deflector system 
Number of generators:		6
Augmentation:			Enhanced Metaphasic, rapid EM 
				     re-modulation

Passive Defensive System(s)
Type:				Ablative armor plating additions to 
				     key locations of outer hull

DEFLECTOR ARRAY	 
Navigational Deflector
Type:				FNDA-9
Number: 			1
                  		 

OTHER SYSTEMS 
Transporters 
  --Standard, 6-person:		4 
  --Emergency, 16-person:	3 
  --Combat, 12-person:		2 
  --Cargo:			4

Shuttle Bays :			1 General-use shuttle bay 
				     (saucer section, aft) 

Embarked Craft (Standard, specific ships may vary) 

				3 Shuttlepods 
				3 Personnel Shuttle, Large 
				1 Shuttle, D-Warp 
				1 Cargo Shuttle 


Historical Notes

COVENTRY is the representation of a new push by the Federation to work 
under the premise of smaller can be more.  Originally designed as a 
replacement for the AKRIA/MONTU-class light cruisers, the COVENTRY was 
returned to the design phase twice once Starfleet planners opted to 
retain the present light cruiser design and plan for a series of 
refits to bring that light cruiser planform up to date.  The COVENTRY
was redesigned as an augmentation to the AKRIA/MONTU-class but it was 
later decided that the new planform should be a based on a destroyer 
platform, even though little was done to adjust the planform’s 
dimensions.  Given the AKRIA/MONTU-class design and its success, the 
scaled down planform was approved with one major departure:  the 
lengthening of the secondary hull to a more traditional design seen 
in the SOVENRIEGN-class heavy cruiser or in the earlier INTERPID-class 
frigates.  Designers, however, discovered in simulations that the 
vessel would be “tail heavy" and would place a large amount of hull 
stress on the pontoon support strongpoints on the saucer section and 
at the primary/secondary hull junction point.  Designers and engineers 
finally fell upon the addition of smaller secondary pylons, angled 
inboard and anchored near the traditional strongback points on other 
Federation starships.  It also allowed for the builders to move forward 
with the larger impulse engine type they had first envisioned for the 
new destroyer.  The final design encompassed the speed and agility of a 
destroyer class with the  hull mass and armament similar to a rather 
small light cruiser.  Later designs and refits would see the COVENTRY-
class being better suited for multi-role duties: addition of a MMP for 
scientific roles, a version that incorporated a larger number of torpedo 
launchers for a “torpedo boat" variant, and a current refit of the 
design for an escort carrier variant, the KRONSHDTAT-class CVE.  To date,
one KRONSHDTAT-class hull has been put into service. 

The COVENTRY is meant to fill a niche that has long been under represented
in Starfleet. Starfleet has usually assigned a smaller light cruiser class
or a frigate class to cover the role of a destroyer.  This was accomplished
either by simply informing the commander of said vessel that he was part
of a escort or a screen or was to report to the nearest starbase for re-fit
and re-supply.  COVENTRY represents the first design to slide down the ways
as a true destroyer, which is a vessel designed to cover the roles of a
destroyer class.  Sporting a pair of large impulse engines, an enhanced
navigational array and guidance system, and enhanced inertial compensators,
the vessel portrays the destroyer in a sleek and swift response role. 
Armed with type X phasers and flux-torpedoes, she has more than enough
teeth to perform her primary duty: Fleet escort and screening missions.
Given the adaptability and mass of the vessel (a small light cruiser),
the COVENTRY-class hull has been envisioned as a medium range explorer,
a missile boat or DDG, and even a stealth version for covert recon based
missions.  

It is hoped that the COVENTRY will augment the aging HOOD-class and
outdated MIRANDA-class light cruisers in the multi-mission role as well as
eventually replace the FEYMAN-class destroyer in the classic role of destroyer.

Class mantra:  "Duty First!"

Currently Vessel contract assignments:

USS COVENTRY		NCC-81420	GREEN on mission, TACRON 49
USS MANCHESTER	        NCC-81423	GOLD on mission, attached to the 
					USS CIRCE
USS BRYANT		NCC-81424	INDIGO on mission
USS BLACK		NCC-81426	under construction, phase II
USS SINGH		NCC-81429	under construction, final                     
                                        planning phase
USS LISTER		NCC-81443	under construction, phase I
USS CUTCHALL		NCC-81444	under construction, phase II

The COVENTRY-class destroyer is currently being built at the Europa Fleet
Yards, Jupiter, Sol system.