Talk:Tenryuu/@comment-24702213-20180713013416/@comment-25459687-20180713120345

as a note, the "cruiser" classification is not only displacement, but also gun size. Tenryuu had 14cm guns, which put her into the cruiser classification, anong with her displacement. Obviously, after the Treaty system ended, DDs (and everything else) got bigger, so you get late-war DDs approaching 3000 tons, not far behind Yuubari and TenTat.