capable of both anti-ship and anti-aircraft fire) was developed into the July 1943 N2 design, armed with four twin 5.25-inch turrets of a new design and displacing 8,650 long tons (8,790 t) standard, and this was approved for inclusion in the 1944 construction programme. A small anti-aircraft (AA) cruiser design with six or eight 5.25 in (133 mm) dual-purpose guns (i.e. In 1942, work began at the British Admiralty as to the requirements for the next class of cruisers to be built for the Royal Navy as a follow-on to the Minotaur class which were based on the pre-war Fiji class. Although five ships of the class were planned in 1944, they were cancelled following the end of the war and before construction could begin. They were large ships which were to be armed with twelve 6-inch (152 mm) dual-purpose guns and with a heavy secondary armament.
The Neptune class was a proposed class of cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy in the latter years of the Second World War. 4 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.
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