Crown Colony cruisers belong with the battle fleet

If sixteen Crown Colony cruisers existed, how many would serve on foreign stations?

Probably few before the war, because their screening role would keep most near carriers and capital ships in the principal fleets.

These cruisers served primarily as screening ships rather than independent foreign-station vessels. Their job was to operate around the fleet's high-value carriers and capital ships, so their deployment would follow those assets and the main threat. Before the war, that logic would concentrate a larger class in the Home and Mediterranean fleets. Overseas stations might receive ships when the strategic situation changed, but the class would not be divided evenly around the empire merely because more hulls existed.