My concept of a good German light cruiser for 1914

My Ger/CL/1914 design seems to have been inspired by the British Arethusa class, but has a very German "look". I believe that the original concept was to have 7-5in QF guns, but that I apparently decided that it needed more guns, so I added a 5in gun on either side of the bridge. Speed continued to be important to me, so I specified 32 knots. The specs are:

• legend displacement: 3,500 tons
• armament: 9-5in QF, 4-21in TT, 40 mines
• dimensions: 430ft x 40ft x 15.9ft
• speed: 32 nots
• power: 60,000 SHP
• machinery weight basis: 45 SHP/ton of machinery
• Cp: 0.56
• Cm: 0.80
• hull weight basis (c): 0.30 (x 10^-4)

I had to rediscover my notation, as I did not remember how my "c" factor was scaled. The way this is used is:

hull weight in tons = length in feet x beam in feet x hull depth in feet x c x 10^-4

• protection: 1in deck, amidships
• oil fuel: 700 tons
• feed water: 100 tons
• machinery weight: 1,335 tons
• hull weight: 1,500 tons
• armament: 103.5 tons + 6 tons of mines
• full load displacement: 4,305 tons