This ship is outfitted with mid-war type radar fits and relatively-modern gunnery and fire control systems, but it still ships a large complement of ship's boats (which had been mostly removed by 1942 after disastrous experiences in the Solomons, where several ship's boats had caught fire and provided a beacon for enemy gunfire).
to balance out the lack of boats adding more rafts should suffice, am I correct?
as for drawing the ships evolution, could a straight-ish bow (for the 1930s version, something similar to the Trento class perhaps?) be converted to the current one?