I modified a concept by Tzoli for an 'Improved' Exeter class some time ago as part of my Falkland Islands AU. I figured it fits the bill for this thread fairly well. Being a descendant of the York class she could theoretically have been built at Palmers of Jarrow, or any RN Dockyard (Exeter was built at Davenport)
The idea is that this is in the 11-13,000 tonne range, with 10 x 8" guns in 5 turrets as primary armament.
PS, don't chastise me over the radar fitout, i know its wrong for the time period i just haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
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That's a good looking cruiser Oberon_706. As you say the radar may need some work. Also the afterbridge where the searchlight, aft director and HACS are very close together and may interfere with each other, you may need to spread them out a bit more. You could lengthen the aft superstructure toward the X turret and give that area a bit more space.
I like this thread and both the drawings and the AU backstories are very interesting.
However, if you allow me a small criticism, it seems for the posters that in South America there are only 4 countries that could host a cruiser in their navies: Brasil, Argentina, Chile and sometimes Peru. I honestly think that other South American countries like Colombia or Venezuela could host more than one cruisers in the navies.
Fantastic work Blackbuck, both of those look very different and offer something unusual.
Nice work Oberon, looks a plausible layout and seems about right if they want to spend some extra cash and get something really powerful.
Peru had a couple of old light cruisers that could have been replaced, Colombia I think in the period had very little of a navy other than some gunboats on the Amazon and two ex-Spanish destroyers brought cheap. Venezuela had an even smaller navy, not until the 1950s did she seek large destroyers etc. I think the war in general pushed a little extra dollars and bauxite and oil profits began to grow then. In the absence of hard cash it was hard for them to fund cruiser, remember with few battleships being built, these are the most expensive export warships of the time.
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This too may be slightly outside the parameters of the challenge, but it goes with some of the other big cruisers. It also satisfies the nine gun cravings of some of the South American countries.
Interesting. I do wonder if something more in line with the original idea for Lützow might be a alternative choice. 12*150mm/60 is still going to cause a lot of hurt among the navies of the Americas.
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I thought about it B.B., but there is already one of those in the archives (real never-were). This way I get to keep my cut and paste skills up to date. Beside I enjoyed making the triples. I will use them on an uprated Prinz Eugen with 12x8".
Hood wrote:Peru had a couple of old light cruisers that could have been replaced, Colombia I think in the period had very little of a navy other than some gunboats on the Amazon and two ex-Spanish destroyers brought cheap. Venezuela had an even smaller navy, not until the 1950s did she seek large destroyers etc. I think the war in general pushed a little extra dollars and bauxite and oil profits began to grow then. In the absence of hard cash it was hard for them to fund cruiser, remember with few battleships being built, these are the most expensive export warships of the time.
But i think that both Colombian and Venezuelan navies could host a light cruiser... After all, the Italian designs were the cheaps if i'm not mistaken...
Naixoterk, I have already done a small cruiser for Peru on Page 2. I also have in mind to do some other small cruisers - destroyer leader sized vessels for the smaller nations.
