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Oh geared drive was quite common by then. However, gears have always been one of the main bottlenecks on wartime construction since gear cutting is a fairly costly and time consuming process and everyone needs them.
As for replacing direct drives with geared drives, it's possible but you'd need to redesign the engine rooms, unless you designed them with it in mind from the start. Rebuilding them does let you replace the triple expanding engines with turbines.
Whether it's worth it is hard to say, though my gut feeling is no.
You're dealing with wartime crash construction with all the negatives that implies in terms of build quality and they'll be almost 20 years old by that time.

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Stay with direct drive it is, then. thanks.

EDIT: Although, I just did some checking, and the C Class, all of which went from being laid down to commissioned in 12-14 months during WW1, had geared turbines. I may have to think about this.

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Does your Enterprise class also receive a modernization or stays as is

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It does, I just haven't got to it as yet.

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excellant looking forward to it

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Here they are...
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The two surviving members of this class were given a significant rebuild to permit them to operate as Destroyer Flotilla Leaders. Their main armament was decreased from 7 x 6" to 4 x 6" in twin turrets, but as the guns were a newer mark with a higher rate of fire, not much punch was lost. A single catapult with 2 floatplanes was fitted midships.

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They are handsome, sleek, and would work well in a colonial patrol or destroyer flotilla leader role.
All that I can say is "WOW."
That's it.
WOW.

Mounting a qaud 2pdr on the bows is probably not a good idea. It's wet there, the boats pitches the most at the bows and it blocks the arcs of A gun. You might do better to mount one on each beam abreast the forward funnel or where the single 20mm is now.

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That does sound better. I'd like to see "A" turret moved forward and the quad 40mm put on a bandstand in front of the bridge, but I'm not sure if there's enough room to do that...

Yes, I know its "wet" forward, but I still like to mount light guns there. I'm with Colo on that count. But, here's how it would look with a quad 40 on either side of the forward funnel.

#1 turret really can't go any further forward because of magazine issues, I would think.

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