The second one looks like a police baton that ate a Liberty Dreadnought.
It's too nice looking. Yes, Liberty isn't brutal or utterly unyielding or any of those things, but it is a warship. The front in particular needs to be more weaponlike- not "weaponlike" as in the early designs for the Imperial Yacht (which was the sort of ship you could impale stations with), but it needs to look less like a spreading knife and more like a weapon. More dramatic, less "contained" by its armor and more guarded by it, etc. Even making the front bigger might help- Liberty ships tend to taper off, perhaps moving the mass up to the front rather than having it in the middle?