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On the turn of century cruisers, it's not weird for them to be big - the 'easy' way to make a fast ship is to make a proportionately very long one, so especially as speeds started to push past 20kt or so they were often physically larger than contemporary battleships (usually longer but somewhat narrower) and of equivalent if not larger displacement - the other thing being that the, I guess drag-to volume problem makes it easier to make a big ship fast than a small one - you need less engine relative to displacement. It's particularly more difficult to make a ship that's small and fast and is much use for anything else, so the lighter cruisers of the time kind of drop the expectation of putting up with much gunfire in favour of just cramming in giant reciprocating engines to be fast enough for scouting, then once you get turbines they can either move towards carrying reasonably serious armament again or shrink down even further.
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