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EMERALD (building ?)* ENTERPRISE (building),* EUPHRATES (building ?).*

* Reported September, 1919, that one ship had been stopped, other two to proceed.

• Displacement, ?? tons.
• Complement, ??
• Length etc - no details available.
• Guns 7 - 6 inch, 50 cal. (Dir. Con.); 3 - 3 inch AA. ? ; 4 - 3 pdr. (Some M.G.)
• Torpedo tubes (21 inch) 12, in four triple deck mountings, above water
• Armour: No details.

• Reported to have 3 funnels, raking, arranged as in Lion with tower for S.L. and AA. guns between 2nd and 3rd funnels. Tripod foremast and stump mainmast. 6 inch guns disposed in same way as 7.5's of Hawkins, but third centre line gun between 3rd funnel and mainmast and 4th centre line superfires over 5th centre-line (quarter deck) gun

• Machinery: Turbines (all-geared) Brown-Curtis or Parsons. 2 screws.
• Designed S.H.P. 60.000 ? = 32 to 35 ? kts. Boilers: 12 Yarrow.
• Fuel (oil only) ? normal, ?? tons; maximum, about 1000 tons.

General Notes.-Begun under Emergency War Programme. All details given are unofficial. Reported that these are a modified Chatham type of about 5000 tons, with same machinery as Hawkins type, but "all-geared" turbines and oil-burning boilers only.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 - Page 73

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