![]() In the end, none of these would be retained. As for the armament, the “weakest” design was armed with three triple turrets with 203 mm guns while the largest (Design I) was carrying three quadruple turrets with 234 mm guns. ![]() enough to start working on what would become the Alaska-class.Īs for the British designs, multiple proposals were made with displacements ranging from 20 500 tons to 23 700 tons. It ended up being pure fantasy but scared the U.S.N. The Chichibu-class was what the Allies believed to be an improved version of the Deutschland-class armed with 410 mm guns. In 1938, the Director of Naval Construction started working on a series of designs to counter the German Deutschland-class as well as the Japanese Chichibu-class.
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