Nelson-class

Nelson-class
Nelson-class
Unit Type
Mass Production Space Battleship
Profile
Ships of the Line	Montgomery, Cassandros, Paris, Ptolemaios
Manufacturer	Earth Alliance
Operator	Earth Alliance Atlantic Federation OMNI Enforcer 7th Space Fleet Peacemaker Force 8th Space Fleet Three Ships Alliance Civilians
Known Captains	Koopman (Montgomery)
Known Passengers	George Allster
General Characteristics
Overall Length	250 meters
MS Hangars	1
MS Catapults	2 (After re-fit)
MS Capacity	6
Movement
Propulsion	6 × Large Thruster 4 × Small Thruster
Standard Armaments
Fixed	3 × Twin Large Beam Gun 8 × Twin Anti-Air Gun Secondary Gun 2 x Triple Space-use Torpedo Launcher Rotary Missile Launcher 16 x Multipurpose Vertical Launch System
Mobile Weapons
TS-MA2 Moebius GAT-01 Strike Dagger GAT-02L2 Dagger L GAT-04 Windam
Real World
Appearances*
Television	SEED: #2 - Episode #50 GSD

The Nelson-class is a class of space battleship introduced in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

As the main warship of the Earth Alliance's OMNI Enforcer, the Nelson-class is heavily armed with an assortment of weaponry, including beam guns, anti-air guns, missile launchers, etc. The ship's crew is housed in an armored centrifuge in the midships section, which is evacuated and shut down during combat operations. Despite its size and armament, Mobile Suits equipped with sufficiently powerful weapons can destroy a Nelson-Class in a short amount of time.

The Nelson-class battleship also carries a number of Mobile Armors, but it does not have a catapult to launch them. Because of this, the standard operating procedure for Nelson-class ships is to launch Mobile Armors at the first sign of trouble and then to advance with them into battle. During the later stages of the First Alliance-PLANT War, the Nelson-Class was modified to carry six Mobile Suits. After the war, Nelson-Class was refitted with a pair of new linear catapults at the sides for more efficient launching of its Mobile Suits. Unlike most other ships, the Nelson-Class launched its Mobile Suits in a prone-position.

By C.E. 75, the ship's weaponry was significant changed, such as adopting the same type of anti-air guns and beam cannons as the Archangel-class. Its radar and sensors were also upgraded to the latest models.

Armaments

• Twin Large Beam Gun

The Nelson-Class has three rotatable twin large beam guns as its primary armaments, two located in front of and behind the ship's bridge and one on the ship's underside.

• Twin Anti-Air Gun

The Nelson is armed with 8 twin anti-air guns, 4 on both its port and starboard sides. These guns are mainly used to protect the ship against enemy mobile suits and missiles.

• Secondary Gun

A rotatable single-barrel solid projectile firing weapon mounted at the front of the Nelson-Class.

• Triple Space-use Torpedo Launcher

Mounted at the front of the ship, the pair of triple space-use torpedo launchers fire missiles that are mainly used against enemy warships.

• Rotary Missile Launcher

Located behind the secondary gun, it is a large cylindrical launch system composed of four 3-tube missile launchers.

• Multipurpose Vertical Launch System

The Nelson-Class is armed with 16 multipurpose launchers used for firing missiles. These launchers are located at the center of the ship, in between the anti-air guns and the rotary missile launchers.

History

First Alliance-PLANT War

Created by the Earth Alliance as its main type of battleship, Nelson-class ships were built in massive numbers. Like the Drake-class, ships of this class are part of every space fleet which the Alliance controls. Sometimes, Nelson-class vessels even serve as flagships of smaller fleets. One such example was the Montgomery, which was the flagship of the advanced force of the 8th Fleet, and was destroyed during the Battle near Junius Seven. Several Nelson-class vessels were also part of this fleet, including the Cassandros, Paris, and Ptolemaois. These ships however were easily defeated by the four stolen Gundams now used by ZAFT during the Battle of Orbit.

Second Alliance-PLANT War

After the First Alliance-PLANT War, the Nelson-class was upgraded with the addition of two linear catapults, making them effective mobile suit carriers. The ship class now carried the more advanced GAT-02L2 Dagger L and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits. Near the end of the Second Alliance-PLANT War, a number of these ships and their crew defected to the Terminal fleet led by the ships of the original Three Ships Alliance and fought to end the war.

Gallery

Anime

Gundam SEED

Bridge Exterior

Bridge (1)

Bridge (2)

Front view

Top view

Rear view

Side view, firing Twin Large Beam Guns, Twin Anti-Air Gun and Secondary Gun

Close up of Twin Anti-Air Guns in action

Firing Missiles

Deploying Moebius

Escorted by two Drake-class

Being resupplied by a Cornelius-Class

Destroyed

Beam fire barrage with Agamemnon-class

Gundam SEED Destiny

Refit Type with Agamemnon Refit Type

Refit Type's linear catapult

Refit Type launching from lunar base

Terminal fleet's Nelson-class ships

Illustration & Artwork

Artwork from Gundam Perfect Files

Games

G Generation Cross Rays

G Generation Cross Rays

Notes & Trivia

• The Nelson-class is named for 18th-century British naval hero Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Several Royal Navy warships bear the same name, named after the same person.
• The Montgomery is possibly named for the British Army Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery.
• The Cassandros is named for the Macedonian king who succeeded Alexander the Great.
• The Paris is possibly named for Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy, who is most well known for his abduction of, or elopement with, Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan war.
• The Ptolemaios is named after Ptolemaios, the commander of Egyptian Satrap after Alexander's death, who took the dead body of Alexander which was in a golden coffin, to Egypt, and buried it in a marble tomb in İskenderiye.
  • The Ptolemaios name got reused in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to refer Celestial Being's main vessels, the CBS-70 Ptolemaios, CBS-74 Ptolemaios 2 and CBS-742 Ptolemaios 2 Kai

Appearances

Television Series

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  • PHASE-02, Its Name: Gundam
    • First Appearance; Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-03, Collapsing Land
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-06, The Vanishing Gundam
  • PHASE-07, The Scar of Space
    • Wreckage Only
  • PHASE-08, The Songstress of The Enemy Forces
    • In Flashback(s)
  • PHASE-09, The Fading Light
  • PHASE-10, Crossroads
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-11, The Awakening Sword
  • PHASE-12, Flay's Decision
  • PHASE-13, Stars Falling in Space
  • PHASE-15, The Respective Solitudes
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-20, On a Calm Day
    • Image(s) Only; Appears in a video
  • PHASE-22, The Sea Dyed Red
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-27, Endless Rondo
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-32, In the Promised Land
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-33, Gathering Darkness
    • Flashback(s) Only
  • PHASE-34, Seen and Unseen
  • PHASE-41, Trembling World
  • PHASE-42, Lacus Strikes
  • PHASE-43, What Stands in the Way
  • PHASE-47, The Nightmare Reborn
  • PHASE-48, Day of Wrath
  • PHASE-49, The Final Light
  • PHASE-50, To a Future that Never Ends
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • PHASE-09, Bared Fangs
  • PHASE-10, A Father's Spell
  • PHASE-22, Sword of the Blue Skies
  • PHASE-44, Lacus Times Two

OVAs and ONAs

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED After-Phase Between the Stars
  • In Image(s): Appears in a News Broadcast

Manga

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
  • Chapter 2, Showdown! Astray vs Astray

Games

• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow

References

Official Gundam Fact File, Issue 70, Pg 29

Official Gundam Fact File, Issue 70, Pg 30

Gundam Perfect Files, Issue 80, Pg 5

Gundam Perfect Files, Issue 80, Pg 6

External links

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