A design what-if combines Edgar and Centurion characteristics by adding machinery and revising the heavy battery. Edgar's roughly 12,000 horsepower against Centurion's roughly 9,000 suggests that the extra power might have pushed a hybrid toward nineteen knots, though probably not twenty. Crew size, armament weight, and the existing hulls still constrain the result. No claim is made that such a ship was historically proposed. The exercise uses comparative specifications to test a possible design while keeping its limits visible.
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The Edgar-Centurion hybrid as a bounded design counterfactual
A comparison of machinery, armament, hull, and crew asks whether cruiser and battleship traits could have produced a useful nineteen-knot hybrid.