WoWs Cruiser Monmouth

Overview

After the failure of the London Naval Treaty of 1936, the British Admiralty returned to designing heavy cruisers. In January 1938, the lead engineer of the Naval Shipbuilding Office suggested a number of projects for a heavy cruiser with a displacement of 20,000 tons and armament represented by 203–234 mm caliber guns. One of the arrangements included three quadruple-gun turrets. A similar armament option was revisited in September 1939 while preparing preliminary designs for the A-class cruiser.