Bristol really was and sort of still is a brute. Not much of a looker though!
The inevitable Rothesay and Leander spam is about to start or at least be going on over Christmas.
* Based upon a real proposal for a stretched broad-beam Leander with increased crew accommodation (and I imagine more bunker capacity). Four tranches spread over the best part of a decade for 36 ships.
* The last ones would get Mk.22s for the then strategy of Tartar/SM-1 spam...
* Y.100 > Y.130 > Y.160 as OTL Leanders. Limbo is supplanted by SVTTs as early as possible
* Sea Falcon (AIM/RIM-26) supplants Seacat until the advent of Sea Sparrow
* GCM-AO3-1 (-3 standing in for it for now)
The end result is somewhat of an amalgam of Van Speijk River and Leander...
More to come soon.
~Mark.