Italy needs some cruisers NOW as she only has 3 which are a bit poxy. These ships are small enough to be rushed into service. They will also be good escorts when i get round to building real CLs.
Varese, Italian Light Cruisers laid down 1921
Displacement:
1,881 t light; 1,971 t standard; 2,206 t normal; 2,386 t full load
Loading submergence 236 tons/feet
Dimensions:
370.00 ft x 37.00 ft x 12.00 ft (normal load)
112.78 m x 11.28 m x 3.66 m
Armament:
8 - 5.12" / 130 mm guns
6 - 1.59" / 41 mm AA guns
Weight of broadside 548 lbs / 249 kg
Armour:
Belt 2.50" / 64 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 93 % of normal area
Main gun shields 2.00" / 51 mm
Armour deck 1.25" / 32 mm, Conning tower 3.00" / 76 mm
Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 12,479 shp / 9,309 Kw = 24.00 kts
Range 10,000nm at 10.00 kts
Complement:
160 - 209
Cost:
£0.467 million / $1.869 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 69 tons, 3.1 %
Armour: 394 tons, 17.9 %
Belts: 167 tons, 7.6 %, Armament: 25 tons, 1.1 %, Armour Deck: 191 tons, 8.7 %
Conning Tower: 11 tons, 0.5 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 430 tons, 19.5 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 889 tons, 40.3 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 325 tons, 14.7 %
Miscellaneous weights: 100 tons, 4.5 %
Metacentric height 1.2
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation & workspaces is adequate
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Good seaboat, rides out heavy weather easily
Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.05
Shellfire needed to sink: 2,792 lbs / 1,266 Kg = 41.7 x 5.1 " / 130 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0.9
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 82 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.39
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.23
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.470
Sharpness coefficient: 0.32
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 8.69
'Natural speed' for length: 19.24 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 51 %
Trim: 67
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 92.5 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 117.9 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 116 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.97
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 64 lbs / square foot or 312 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 1.34
(for 12.00 ft / 3.66 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 0.81 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.01