TzoliDesign VI was the sixth and last in the series proposed for Jellicoe for a new construction battlecruiser. This design despite not the largest proposal but both the heaviest and most heavily armed version with 8 18" cannons mounted in 4 twin turrets. You can sort of call it the Super Hood despite it is a design preceding it because the 18" cannons would certainly hit quite a punch in the enemy battleline. This was the last of the Admiral class preliminary studies and the last capital ship design to my knowledge to feature 18" weaponry till the 1920's with the N3/G3 design process started and all the experiences of the Great War got processed and thought over.
But this was not the end of the big guns in the Royal Navy, while Admiral Fisher still had influence he proposed a Super Furious with single 20" cannons as well as some of the HMS Incomparable studies which also featured this fearsome weapon!
The design had the following characteristics:
Dimensions: 252,98 (pp) x 265,29 (wl) x 268,22 (oa) x 31,7 x 7,92 meters
Displacement: 39.500tons (standard)
Armour: 203mm belt at 10°incline, 25mm over Machinery, 38mm over Magazines deck, 38-38mm slopes.
Engines: 120.000shp Parsons Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Range: 14.200km at 30km/h (7.600nm at 16knots)
Speed: 56km/h (30knots)
Armaments:
4x2 18"/40 (457mm/40) BL Mark I Cannons,
12x1 5,5"/50 (140mm/50) BL Mark I Guns,
2x1 3"/42 (76mm/45) QF HA Mark I AA Guns,
2x1 53cm Underwater Torpedo Tubes
Official documents:
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