Hawkins
Hawkins — British Tier V cruiser.
The pioneering ship that led the way for a later class of heavy cruisers. The ship's layout and silhouette had much in common with the British light cruisers of World War I, but Hawkins surpassed them in size and the caliber of her main battery.
Ship Stats
Survivability
Health: 21,952
Citadel Protection: 5%
Fire and Flooding Resistance: 10%
Damage Reduction: 6%
Torpedo Damage Reduction: 4.50%
Armour
Bow: 38 mm
Stern: 38 mm
Deck: 20 mm
Belt: 76 mm
Maneuverability
Top Speed: 29.45 Knots
Time to Full Speed: 12.11 s
Max Traverse Speed: 7.20 deg/s
Turn Time: 7.50 s
Main Guns (190 mm L/45 BL Mk VI 7x1)
Reload Time: 9.50 s
Rate of Fire: 36 RPM
Range: 10.05 km
Flight Time: 4.93 s
Initial Velocity: 278.18 m/s
Deceleration: 8.68 m/s²
Dispersion Min/Max/Vertical: 66 m / 210 m / 64.80 m
Sigma: 2 σ
HE Damage: 616
Raw Alpha: 3,696
Raw DPM: 22,176
Fire Chance: 7%
Raw Alpha: 35.30%
Raw FPM: 2.12 FPM
AP Damage: 694
Raw Alpha: 4,164
Raw DPM: 24,984
Citadel Chance: 5%
Raw Alpha: 26.49%
Raw CPM: 1.59 CPM
Citadel Damage Rate: 200%
HE Citadel Damage: 1,232
AP Citadel Damage: 1,388
Turret Traverse: 8 deg/s
Torpedo Tubes (553 mm DR Mk II 2x2)
Reload Time: 32 s
Salvo Per Minute: 1.88 SPM
Range: 7.20 km
Time Expire: 25.44 s
Torpedo Speed: 61.13 Knots
Reaction Time (at standstill): 12.47 s
Min/Max Torpedo Spread: 0 deg / 5 deg
Torpedo Damage: 3,248
Raw Alpha: 6,496
Raw DPM: 12,180
Flood Chance: 15%
Raw Alpha: 27.75%
Torpedo Concealment: 1.98 km
Torpedo Traverse Speed: 20 deg/s
Anti-Aircraft Armament
Large Caliber AA Damage: 45
Large Caliber AA Range: 3.30 km
Small Caliber AA Damage: 22
Small Caliber AA Range: 1.50 km
Total AA Damage: 67
Concealment
Surface Detection: 7.50 km
After Firing Guns: 10.20 km
Ship Skills and Elite Bonus
Air Defense Alert I x3
Large Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s
Small Caliber AA damage: +75% for 20 s
Before: 45 / 22
After: 79 / 39
Cooldown time: 75 s
Cruiser Modernization
Ship Hit Points: +2%
Large Caliber AA Damage: +5%
Main Battery Traverse Speed: +7%
Before: 21,952 / 45 / 8 deg/s
After: 22,391 / 47 / 8.56 deg/s
Advanced Turret
Main Battery Traverse Speed: +20%
Before: 8 deg/s
After 9.60 deg/s
Single Fire Torpedo
This ship can choose to fire off individual torpedoes in a launcher
Additional Repair Kit +1
This ship can take four repair kits in a single battle.
Ship Play-style
Hawkins is the worst cruiser at T5. Indeed she's a contender for the worst ship at T5. Hawkins is a sorry excuse for a cruiser, and serves as a deterrent to new players trying to grind the weak British CA line. This ship is characterised by very high fragility, low firepower, and a general lack of competitive stats.
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FIREPOWER
Hawkins has a main battery of 190mm guns, of which she can fire six in a broadside. These guns deal low damage and have woefully insufficient penetration, which cuts her effective DPM in half. The guns are slow to reload and have poor traverse as well. Hawkins will lose to any other T5 cruiser in a gunnery duel, and relies on unfair fights with team support to win.
Hawkins pretends to be an HE spammer, but lacks the barrel count or performance to do this. In addition, she suffers from the "Devonshire effect" meaning her AP shells have such low penetration that they will not overpenetrate destroyers. Throwing AP at destroyers will yield higher damage than HE, so this is recommended.
This ship also has torpedoes, with two launchers on each side. These can be single fired like all British ships. However, the mediocre range and lack of alpha strike mean they are not a viable weapon. Don't attempt to base your gameplay on these.
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PROTECTION
Hawkins has a decent HP pool for her tier, but is let down but low armour values and tiny resistance values. The ship is also relatively big for a cruiser, meaning she catches shells easily. Hawkins takes very high damage from all forms of weapons, so evasion is the ticket to survival. Combined with bad firepower, she cannot fight other ships on even terms.
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EVASION
Hawkins does not boast good evasion. She is slow and sluggish for a cruiser, struggling to make 30 knots. Her acceleration and rudder shift are not special either. Hawkins also lacks a competitive concealment stat, and she is unable to take equipment which improves it. Indeed, there is nothing good present in this category.
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ANTI-AIR
Hawkins is a tier 5 ship with standard tier 5 AA. She cannot contest a CV, despite the presence of the DFAA 1 consumable. Moving on.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
Hawkins is an ominous sign of things to come. She is the early warning to new players grinding towards the British CA line, impossibly hard to play and with very limited potential. This is a bad ship in a bad line. The best thing I can say about Hawkins is that she turns players away before they grind too far up this line. Go play the CLs instead.
Historical Info
Hawkins is a real ship, the first British heavy cruiser. She is largely accurate in-game.