The Admiralty scaled and rearranged the design between batches. Director of Naval Construction Stanley Goodall relied on calculations he lacked time to check in detail. Some builders corrected the figures they received, while others followed them. The design differences help explain why some ships rode poorly at low speed and had little margin for added topweight. The tally given is 86 built and 23 lost, with none preserved.
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Scaling the Hunt hull and managing topweight
Errors in scaling and weight calculations affected how some Hunts rode and how much equipment they could take later.