An image of the class shows the six-inch and lighter guns arranged for broad all-round fire. It also makes the armoured midsection and hull shape easy to inspect. Naval-architecture manuals continued to cite the ships as examples of an efficient hull design. Their balanced layout helps explain why the class could remain useful even after policy judged it surplus.
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A balanced hull and all-round fire layout
Inspect the Orlando-class weapons arrangement, protected midsection, and hull form praised in naval-architecture manuals.