A fictional cruiser design develops into a scaled-down York concept with six 9.2-inch guns. The ship begins badly overweight and with poor engine efficiency, so armour is reduced, funnel capacity is added, and bulkheads are removed to recover weight. It retains submerged 21-inch torpedo tubes before entering a trial against an opponent with eight main guns. Four-and-a-half-inch secondary fire appears to contribute to the damage, with torpedoes another possible cause. The design remains a game experiment rather than a historical York proposal.
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A scaled-down York with 9.2-inch guns
A smaller York-style cruiser with six 9.2-inch guns shows how machinery, protection, gun count, and underwater torpedoes compete inside a restricted hull.