Neptune-class cruiser
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Neptune class |
| Operators | Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Minotaur class (1943) |
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| Planned | 5 |
| Cancelled | 5 |
| General characteristics (as designed) | |
| Class & type | Light cruiser |
| Displacement | 18,700 long tons (19,000 t) deep load |
| Length | 662 ft (202 m) o/a |
| Beam | 76 ft (23 m) |
| Draught | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m) |
| Installed power | 108,000 shp (81 MW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 1351 |
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The Neptune class was a proposed class of cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy in the latter years of the Second World War. They were large ships which were to be armed with twelve 6-inch (152 mm) dual-purpose guns and with a heavy secondary armament. Although five ships of the class were planned in 1944, they were cancelled following the end of the war and before construction could begin.