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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

My second Italian-looking light cruiser

I had glanced at the drawing, last night, and though that this design must be like the Muzio Attendolo, or Raimondo di Monteccucoli, but I was wrong. The dimensions are: 575ft x 52ft x 17.4ft (designed). The normal designed displacement was intended to be 6,000 tons with a 7,500 ton full load displacement. The armament surprised me, as it was only 6-6in/50 guns. There are some small patches of 1in armor, with a 1/2in deck. There was room to give the design more power, so I did. The original intent was to make 37 knots. The only thing was, is that it takes more like 104,000 SHP to reach that, rather than the original 67,400 SHP.

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