A 9.2-inch cruiser for the Great Lakes

What kind of cruiser could emerge from a Great Lakes naval arms race?

A large shallow-draft cruiser with 9.2-inch guns, closer to a battleship among cruisers than to a conventional battlecruiser.

A Great Lakes cruiser would need heavy guns without the draft of an ocean-going capital ship. The suggested design carries 9.2-inch weapons on a large, heavily built hull, making it a battleship among cruisers while remaining distinct from a battlecruiser. Courageous, Glorious and Furious offer useful shallow-draft reference points for such an unusual vessel. Courageous and Glorious are judged the better fits because the lake environment rewards their combination of size and restricted draft.