The ship’s armament consists of nine 203-mm guns which HE shells have high damage and four quadruple torpedo launchers. Her torpedoes can be launched one at a time.

Sir George Thurston, the chief designer of Vickers, in 1923 published in Brassey’s Naval & Shipping Annual a 15-page essay “The Influence of the Washington Conference on the Design of Warships”, which described the general features of future cruisers. In 1926, in the same magazine, he published three projects for a cruiser for the Royal Navy of Great Britain – project A and project B resembled the County-class cruisers that were under construction, and project C was more radical – it had main battery turrets arranged in a similar way as those of battleship Nelson-on the bow-which, according to Thurston, would contribute to a better concentration of fire. Unfortunately, the Admiralty turned out to be more conservative than Thurston, and such a project was not taken into account in the further design of British cruisers. After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, Great Britain, in need of cruisers, immediately began designing ships of this type.

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