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My next light cruisers, slightly larger, this one carries an aircraft and a catapult, is better armed than the Dianas and similarly armored.

4 units in the class

HMS Hector
HMS Paris
HMS Priam
HMS Aeneas



HMS Hector, British Light Cruiser laid down 1926

Displacement:
4.813 t light; 5.000 t standard; 5.458 t normal; 5.803 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
456,43 ft / 450,00 ft x 45,00 ft x 17,80 ft (normal load)
139,12 m / 137,16 m x 13,72 m x 5,43 m

Armament:
8 - 5,50" / 140 mm guns (4x2 guns), 83,19lbs / 37,73kg shells, 1926 Model
Breech loading guns in turrets (on barbettes)
on centreline ends, evenly spread, 2 raised mounts - superfiring
6 - 4,00" / 102 mm guns (4 mounts), 32,00lbs / 14,51kg shells, 1926 Model
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts
on side, all amidships
4 - 1,57" / 40,0 mm guns (1x4 guns), 1,95lbs / 0,88kg shells, 1926 Model
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mount
on centreline aft, all raised guns - superfiring
12 - 0,79" / 20,0 mm guns (6x2 guns), 0,24lbs / 0,11kg shells, 1926 Model
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 868 lbs / 394 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 150
8 - 21,0" / 533,4 mm above water torpedoes

Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 1,50" / 38 mm 420,00 ft / 128,02 m 8,00 ft / 2,44 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Main Belt covers 144 % of normal length

- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 3,50" / 89 mm 1,00" / 25 mm 1,00" / 25 mm
2nd: 1,00" / 25 mm - -
3rd: 0,50" / 13 mm - -
4th: 0,50" / 13 mm - -

- Armour deck: 0,80" / 20 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 2 shafts, 66.871 shp / 49.886 Kw = 32,00 kts
Range 8.050nm at 12,00 kts (Bunkerage = 826 tons)

Complement:
316 - 412

Cost:
£1,932 million / $7,729 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 109 tons, 2,0 %
Armour: 491 tons, 9,0 %
- Belts: 198 tons, 3,6 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0,0 %
- Armament: 94 tons, 1,7 %
- Armour Deck: 198 tons, 3,6 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0,0 %
Machinery: 2.141 tons, 39,2 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 2.023 tons, 37,1 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 645 tons, 11,8 %
Miscellaneous weights: 50 tons, 0,9 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
2.983 lbs / 1.353 Kg = 35,9 x 5,5 " / 140 mm shells or 0,7 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1,21
Metacentric height 2,1 ft / 0,7 m
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 52 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0,48
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1,04

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has raised forecastle
Block coefficient: 0,530
Length to Beam Ratio: 10,00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 21,21 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 64 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 50
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 15,00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0,00 ft / 0,00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 24,00 ft / 7,32 m
- Forecastle (40 %): 24,00 ft / 7,32 m (15,00 ft / 4,57 m aft of break)
- Mid (50 %): 15,00 ft / 4,57 m
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 15,00 ft / 4,57 m
- Stern: 15,00 ft / 4,57 m
- Average freeboard: 18,60 ft / 5,67 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 143,3 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 88,2 %
Waterplane Area: 13.405 Square feet or 1.245 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 96 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 77 lbs/sq ft or 378 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0,91
- Longitudinal: 2,30
- Overall: 1,00
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is cramped
Room for accommodation and workspaces is cramped

I like them, nice transistion from the older cruisers, and its nice to see someone else using the 5.5" guns!

So many ships with Greek names, Greek, Atlantian and now British! I suppose the Greeks may start copyrighting the names if we keep it up.

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I suppose the Greeks may start copyrighting the names if we keep it up.

I'll just keep raking in the Royalties and I've got loads of Lawyers who specialise in 'IP'. ; )

Cheers,

BTW, very cool ships Gravina.

What's her intended role?

I like them, too. They look like somebody merged an E-class with a LEANDER-class CL. Overall their layout is pretty much like I had done it.

You also increased the quality of your top views once again. There still some things like the rangerfinders of A and D turret but that´s nit picking.

Belt armor is probably a little bit think but given those ships small size that´s still okay.

Very well done, keep ´em coming.

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
So many ships with Greek names, Greek, Atlantian and now British! I suppose the Greeks may start copyrighting the names if we keep it up.

Don´t forget the RSAN....

Probably a hint of just how much influence greek history has on our real world culture. Otherwise we probably wouldn´t choose so many greek names.

Nice. I agree with Wes - nice to see 5.5" guns in a few places. Armor's pretty limited, but sacrifices must be made on 5000 t.

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So many ships with Greek names, Greek, Atlantian and now British! I suppose the Greeks may start copyrighting the names if we keep it up.

He'll get no royalties from me!

No royalties required here either.

Glad you like these too. I´m still not sure about their role. While they´re small, considering the CLs around in Wesworld, I think they´re capable to fulfill all the tipical missions of traditional cruisers.

Perhaps they´re not the ships I´ll choose to be in a fleet action, but you´ve very narrow limits when you´re working with just 5000t, and I want to have lots of cruisers.

As for the names... well alt_naval still has many names to work with, and there are lots of greek (or trojan like these) heroes avaliable... and I´ve a good number cruisers to name... guess after whom are going to be named the next class of cruisers if you can... ;-)

HI,

I just noticed that the ships forward main range finder might hit the AA RF if turned. Have you checked if there´s enough space?

Regards,

HoOmAn