[ealgeone]

Main guns are on the lower end for a battleship of those times considering the main guns of the following classes:

KGV class had 14"

Iowa 16"

Bismark 15"

Yamato" 18.1"

Sounds more like a battlecruiser.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The 11” guns fall between a US battleship (14-16) and cruiser (6-8). I believe that they were sometimes called pocket battleships. Battlecruiser does seem to capture it, somewhere between battleship and cruiser, but the term was originally applied to a class of fast ships with big guns (~12-14”) but lightly armored that were intended to run down and destroy smaller, more lightly armed ships by shelling from beyond their enemies’ range.