Talk:Pensacola-class cruiser
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Apologies if I step on toes, never proposed a change before. The text implies that there are only two other classes of ship that used different turret layouts, KGV and Nevada class battleships. There were several other cruiser and destroyer classes that used a mix of single and twin turrets and the Italian battleships of the Cavour and Dora classes used mixed twins and triples.109.157.109.89 (talk) 21:57, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
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Placing heavier turrets above lighter ones allows for finer lines for a given length, however this causes top heaviness and reduces stability.
may be made clearer by adding something like "because a very fine hull is not large enough at the positions 1 and 4 to house here a triple tower".
For the different-size towers, I feel that the only battleships and MAJOR cruisers not mentioned in the text were the italian Cavour, Doria and Garibaldi classes. One might add the HMS Enterprise, but this is a minor point. Also the swedish Tre Kronor, that has a certain importance, and the project of the dutch De Ruyter with 10/152 (later built with 8). Superfiring larger turrets appear in the definitive project of the austro-hungarian Ersatz Monarch class.
More interesting are the polish destroyers Grom and Blyskawica with 7/120-mm guns in an 1-2-2-2 geometry, probably for the same reason.
Also the spanish cruisers of the Cervera/Galicia classes had heavier superfiring turrets.
For the original rating as light cruisers, this probably was a consequence of the fact that immediately before and after WW I all (almost all, to be precise) the cruisers with turbines were so rated to distinguish them from the disappearing armored and protected cruisers with reciprocating engines - a designation historically rooted in the fact that the turbines were first tested on small cruisers. The italian Trento class were originally rated g.i.l. (grandi incrociatori leggeri).