simplify her reconstruction. By October 1939, she was considered for a modest rearmament with four 6-inch guns in 'A' and 'B' positions forward and 'X' and 'Y' aft, with an option to add additional guns on the wing mountings later; an anti-aircraft armament of three 4-inch guns with destroyer-style fire-control and four single 2pdr guns was proposed, and although the extra topweight was expected to reduce her top speed to 23 knots, it was hoped that the laundry would be converted into fuel storage, which would increase her range. In the event, it was decided that she could be more usefully (and very quickly) refitted as a repair ship, eventually armed with six guns, two quadruple pom-poms, and a number of Oerlikon autocannons. It had also been planned to rebuild Hawkins and Frobisher on similar lines to Effingham, but other priorities prevented this. They were simply re-armed for war with their original guns. Hawkins recommissioned in 1940 with her original main armament restored, and a revised secondary armament of four 4-inch AA guns, two quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" mountings and eight 20mm Oerlikons on single mounts. In contrast, Frobisher never regained her wing guns, and this allowed the gun deck carrying her anti-aircraft guns to be extended out to the ship's sides, and their number to be increased to five (two on each side amidships and the one aft on her quarterdeck); she was at one point supposed to get two quadruple pom-poms, two single 2-pounders, and three Oerlikon guns, but slow progress on her refit meant that these were revised to four quadruple pom-poms and seven Oerlikons before she emerged in 1942. The underwater torpedo tubes were removed, but she now had a quadruple mounting in the open-deck position. Frobisher also lost the catapult-aircraft facilities she had been given in 1935. Both ships received an outfit of centimetric Radar Type 273 target indication on the bridge, Type 286 air warning at the mastheads, Type 275 on the HACS gun director for ranging and bearing and, in Frobisher only, a pair of Type 282 sets on the pom-pom directors on the bridge. Further wartime additions modified the anti-aircraft armament, generally strengthening the pom-pom arrangements and increasing the number of 20 mm guns. A final refit was given to Frobisher in 1944–1945, when she was converted back into a training ship, with three 7.5-inch guns in 'A', 'Y' and 'Z' positions and