The Ticonderoga class provides a related example for the second-gun question. Its combat information center layout could leave crew members badly affected by ship motion in rough mid-Atlantic conditions. The ships are characterized as destroyer leaders carrying a cruiser label, partly because the United States needed cruiser-designated hulls for Cold War comparisons with the Soviet fleet. The larger cruiser designs that might have complemented them never entered service. The example connects internal layout and crew endurance with force classification and fleet politics.
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Ticonderoga's CIC layout and Cold War cruiser label
A side discussion connects the Ticonderoga class's uncomfortable combat-information-center motion with its destroyer-leader origins and cruiser designation.