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Vickers Export Design 588 for Argentina

Design 588 was a slight modification of the earlier Design 580 I've posted.
This variant traded 4 4inch guns for a further increase of the even superior number of 6inch guns to a final 10x guns.
I've also moved the torpedo launcher amidships resulting in a slight rearrangement of the ship's boats so the design to look slightly different.

The design had these characteristics:
Dimensions: 170,69m (pp) x 17,07m
Displacement: 9.000ons (Standard)
Engines: 55.000shp Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 50km/h (27knots)
Range unknown, probably around 14.000km at 33km/h (7500nm at 18knots)
Armour: unknown, on this tonnage, very thick armour for such ship could be installed, so probably around 203mm belt and 51mm deck
Armaments:
10x1 6"/50 (152mm/50) Vickers Mk R Guns,
6x1 4"/45 (102mm/45) Vickers Mk K Guns,
1x1 3"/45 (76mm/45) QF HA Mk II AA Guns,
2x2 533mm Torpedo Tubes