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Vickers Export Design 288 for Argentina

The next of the even numbered designs. Here I've chosen an echelon arrangement of the wing turrets to achieve maximum broadside firepower, though with a twist, as in the RN the turrets of such designed ships had to rotate the long way to fire through the deck, here they had to rotate the short way eg not 270 degrees just 90, though as a result the superstrutures were split and the space which could be allocated for the secondary 120mm guns were drastically reduced, hence I've put two guns on 4 turrets as well as in two twins which were lowered in the deck so the main turrets could fire above them. Otherwise this desig has the same armament as the other even numbered ones.

The design had the following characteristics:
Dimensions: unknown probably 153,62 (pp) 162,25 (wl) x 24,38 x 7,62m
Displacement: unknown, around 20.000tons (standard)
Armour: unknown probably 38-42mm Deck, 229-254mm Belt
Engines: unknown around 21-24.000shp, steam turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 39km/h (21knots)
Armaments:
6x2 12"/45 (305mm/45) Vickers Mk B Cannons,
2x2, 20x1 4,7"/50 (120mm/50) Vickers Mk A Guns,
4x1 457mm Underwater Torpedo Tubes