HMS Belfast, one of the last surviving light cruisers. She carries 12 6-inch guns and displaces 11,553 tons – "light" in World War II referred to gun size, not displacement.
A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of the protected cruiser model, possessing armored decks only. While lighter and smaller than other contemporary ships they were still true cruisers, retaining the extended radius of action and self-sufficiency to act independently around the world. Cruisers mounting larger guns and heavier armor relative to most light cruisers would come to be known as heavy cruisers, though the designation of 'light' versus 'heavy' cruisers would vary somewhat between navies. Through their history light cruisers served in a variety of roles, primarily as convoy escorts and destroyer command ships, but also as scouts and fleet support vessels for battle fleets.
A lightcruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that...
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can...
1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the lightcruiser designs of the 1900s and 1910s, rather than the armoured cruisers of the years before...
This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy...
The following is a list of starships, cruisers, battleships, and other spacecraft in the Star Wars films, books, and video games. The Death Star is the...
German fleet were sent to the region. The heavy cruisers Deutschland and Admiral Scheer, and the lightcruiser Köln were the first to be sent in July 1936...
John Saumarez Dumaresq HMS Cochrane: Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham 4th LightCruiser Squadron Commodore Charles Edward Le Mesurier HMS Calliope: Cdre Le...
The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar...
small light tanks to swarm an opponent, instead of a few expensive and unsatisfactory medium tanks. "Light" cruiser tanks (for example the Cruiser Mk I)...
as anti-aircraft cruisers. A United States design for a flight deck cruiser from 1930, was described as "a Brooklyn-class lightcruiser forwards [and] one...
a cruiser, was faster and more powerful than an armored cruiser. At around the same time, the term "lightcruiser" came into use for small cruisers with...
of Pulo Aura in 1804, and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sinking the Australian lightcruiser HMAS Sydney in their battle in 1941, although Kormoran...
armour plate the protected cruiser became obsolete and was succeeded by the lightcruiser. Iris class second class cruiser, 3,730 tons, 10-64pdr Iris...
between "lightcruisers", "heavy cruisers" and "training cruisers". Later "missile cruisers", "anti-submarine cruisers", "aircraft-carrying cruisers", "heavy...
1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the lightcruiser designs of the 1910s and 1920s; the US 8-inch 'treaty cruisers' of the 1920s were...
list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, protected, scout, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates...
number of light carriers by converting cruiser hulls. These Independence-class aircraft carriers, converted from Cleveland-class lightcruisers, were unsatisfactory...
were eight armoured cruisers (classified by the Royal Navy since 1913 as "cruisers"), eight lightcruisers, four scout cruisers, 51 destroyers, and one...
Land Cruiser has been marketed as the Land Cruiser Prado. Described as a 'light-duty' version of the Land Cruiser by Toyota, it features a different design...
of one heavy cruiser, one lightcruiser, and four destroyers. However, the Japanese 5th Fleet had been reinforced by two more cruisers, so that the Japanese...
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