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Revised sim thanks to ShinRa's advice to sim the autos as twins with 10 tons misc weight per turret.
I'm liking this design more now.

AACL 5.5, Great Britain Anti-Aircraft Cruiser laid down 1940

Displacement:
7,237 t light; 7,662 t standard; 8,486 t normal; 9,145 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
562.64 ft / 557.00 ft x 56.00 ft x 18.00 ft (normal load)
171.49 m / 169.77 m x 17.07 m x 5.49 m

Armament:
12 - 5.50" / 140 mm guns (6x2 guns), 83.19lbs / 37.73kg shells, 1940 Model
Automatic rapid fire guns in deck mounts with hoists
on centreline ends, evenly spread, 4 raised mounts - superfiring
16 - 2.24" / 57.0 mm guns (8x2 guns), 6.00lbs / 2.72kg shells, 1940 Model
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread, all raised mounts - superfiring
36 - 0.66" / 16.8 mm guns (6x6 guns), 0.14lbs / 0.06kg shells, 1936 Model
Machine guns in deck mounts
on side ends, evenly spread, all raised mounts - superfiring
Weight of broadside 1,099 lbs / 499 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 400
6 - 23.6" / 600 mm above water torpedoes

Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 3.00" / 76 mm 365.00 ft / 111.25 m 9.00 ft / 2.74 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Main Belt covers 101 % of normal length

- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 2.00" / 51 mm 1.00" / 25 mm 2.00" / 51 mm
2nd: 0.50" / 13 mm - -
3rd: 0.50" / 13 mm - -

- Armour deck: 2.00" / 51 mm, Conning tower: 3.00" / 76 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 74,000 shp / 55,204 Kw = 32.58 kts
Range 7,000nm at 16.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 1,483 tons

Complement:
441 - 574

Cost:
£3.997 million / $15.987 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 162 tons, 1.9 %
Armour: 1,330 tons, 15.7 %
- Belts: 410 tons, 4.8 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 71 tons, 0.8 %
- Armour Deck: 822 tons, 9.7 %
- Conning Tower: 27 tons, 0.3 %
Machinery: 1,979 tons, 23.3 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 3,487 tons, 41.1 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 1,249 tons, 14.7 %
Miscellaneous weights: 280 tons, 3.3 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
12,380 lbs / 5,616 Kg = 148.8 x 5.5 " / 140 mm shells or 1.5 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.14
Metacentric height 2.7 ft / 0.8 m
Roll period: 14.4 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 70 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.50
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.38

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has rise forward of midbreak
and transom stern
Block coefficient: 0.529
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.95 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 26.86 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 59 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 51
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 10.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 32.00 ft / 9.75 m
- Forecastle (20 %): 28.00 ft / 8.53 m
- Mid (43 %): 28.00 ft / 8.53 m (18.00 ft / 5.49 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (20 %): 18.00 ft / 5.49 m
- Stern: 18.00 ft / 5.49 m
- Average freeboard: 22.62 ft / 6.89 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 96.2 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 174.3 %
Waterplane Area: 22,212 Square feet or 2,064 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 124 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 91 lbs/sq ft or 442 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.92
- Longitudinal: 2.17
- Overall: 1.00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily

When it comes to simming weapons like that, it's customary to put a notation detailing what's been done in the "Notes" section of the report tab, this way it shows up on the generated report and informs anyone reading the report what exactly is going on; My earlier mounts had the "Automated DP Twins simmed as Triples" note, and now have a "10 tons per turret for Automated DP equipment)" note.

For example, the last report probably had some people thinking you had automatic triple turrets, since there was no notation.

Other than that, it seems a logical update on the Labrador design. At this point I'd assume the RN won't be putting aircraft facilities on these ships, in favor of increased C³ and electronics needs being met.

I'd still go with less armament. If you draw it up there isn't much room left after you've shoehorned 6 large DP onto the hull. You're probably looking at Worcester size, and still a bit cramped then.

Effective AA fire from large calibre guns really needs proximity fuses. It's most likely a better option to mount greater numbers of the 6pdr weapon given the longer effective range than other light AA weapons. Would be nice to have a higher rate of fire, but not really achievable. The UK did try a 3pdr automatic but it got left behind in favour of the 6pdr automatic which didn't work.