Hawkins and Emerald class 8 inch conversions

[awhalen61]

The wiki article on the Emerald class has this reference

Brown, David K. (1997). "Re: E's and Super Es". Warship International. XXXIV (1): 7–8. ISSN 0043-0374.

What information is there on these 'Super E's' or was he referring to the Hawkins?

Here's "Super E" A&B from the "E's and Super Es" article - This is when they thought the Germans were building 2x1 210mm armed light cruisers. A is basically Emerald but with 190mm guns, and B dropped .25kt in order to get a 5th 190mm gun.




Readable on JSTOR here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44891764

 

[Tzoli]

Isn't these two are part of the Atlantic Cruiser design series? The first designs to mount the new 7,5" gun?

 

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

Isn't these two are part of the Atlantic Cruiser design series? The first designs to mount the new 7,5" gun?

No, the Atlantic Cruiser series were designed much earlier, in 1914, these developments of the E class were designed in 1918. The Atlantic cruisers had a different appearance, with bows shaped like those of the near contemporary Birmingham, Arethusa and early C class cruisers, rather than the knuckles "trawler bow" that was introduced with the Carlisle and D classes (and was used in the E class). The Atlantic cruisers had their 7.5 inch guns in enclosed turrets with 4-inches of armour protection, and tended to have mixed batteries of 6-inch guns in casemates or shielded mountings and in three of the designs, a tertiary battery of 12pdrs (only Design B3 has a homogenous battery of 7.5-inch guns), whilst the E derivatives had them in open shielded mounts, along with 4" HA mountings (the Atlantic cruisers had no HA armament to my knowledge).

 

[DWG]

Here's "Super E" A&B from the "E's and Super Es" article

Oof, all that effort re-drawing the plans, and then he mis-spells Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourts surname, twice.

(AFAICT the surname is Tennyson d'Eyncourt, not d'Eyncourt with Tennyson as the last forename. It was changed from just Tennyson (yes, as in the poet) by his grandfather as his mother claimed descent from the Barons d'Eyncourt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennyson_d'Eyncourt_baronets).