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DESIGN DETAILS OF HMS SWIFTSURE

Essentially built to a pre-war, treaty-constrained design, HMS Swiftsure was effectively a Fiji class cruiser, updated to squeeze the results of as many wartime lessons as possible into the original hull.

Displacing almost 11,250 tons in deep condition when first delivered,

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