We are going back now to fill in some of the gaps. Hood has proposed an A, B, and C of anti air cruisers/destroyers, with the previously posted Admirals in the B period for cruisers (with C still to follow). In A position were the four Bellona sub class of the Dido's: Bellona, Diadem, Black Prince, and Royalist; modernised postwar for screening carriers with what was current and with the new 4.5-in replacing the 5.25's. The logic being to have commonality of guns, and the earlier availability of the new mount. These ships had decent anti air for the period, with the two directors offering double the control of contemporay destroyers; the rest being bofors in single and twin mounts, the later being the STAAG mount, which was now being introduced (with mixed results). By the introduction of the bigger Admirals these Dido conversions could have been either further modernised or sold out as they were to foreign navies - still with some life left in them:
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I'll repost on the right thread, then delete here tomorrow.