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List of battlecruisers. The United Kingdom's HMS Hood in Australia, 17 March 1924. Japan's Haruna in 1934, following her second reconstruction. Russia's Kirov -class battlecruisers are the only surviving type. During the first half of the 20th century, many navies constructed or planned to build battlecruisers: large capital ships with greater ...
The Alaska -class cruisers were six very large cruisers ordered on 9 September 1940. [17] They were known, popularly and by some historians, as "battlecruisers", [18][19] although the Navy and at least one prominent historian [17] discouraged describing them as such and gave them the hull symbol for large cruisers (CB). All were named after ...
Battlecruiser. 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 in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes. Battlecruisers typically had thinner armour (to a varying degree) and a ...
Of the battlecruisers built before the First World War, the Invincible class and Indefatigable class all had 6 inches (152 mm) of armour on their waterline, a top speed of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph), and eight 12-inch (305 mm) guns. The more advanced battlecruisers—the two Lion -class ships, Queen Mary, and HMS Tiger —all had an armour belt ...
This is a list of battlecruisers of World War II. A battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century. They were similar in size, cost, and carried similar armament to battleships, but they generally carried less armour to obtain faster speeds. The first battlecruisers were designed in the United ...
The Admiral-class battlecruisers were to have been a class of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers built near the end of World War I.Their design began as an improved version of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, but it was recast as a battlecruiser after Admiral John Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet, pointed out that there was no real need for more battleships, but that a number ...
Decks: 0.75–3 in (19–76 mm) Barbettes: 5–12 in (127–305 mm) Turrets: 11–15 in (279–381 mm) HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built during the First World War. Already under construction when the Battle of Jutland occurred ...
List of battlecruisers of Germany. Seydlitz leads Moltke, Hindenburg, Derfflinger and Von der Tann into internment in Scapa Flow. The Kaiserliche Marine, the navy of the German Empire, built a series of battlecruisers in the first half of the 20th century. The battlecruiser type was an outgrowth of older armored cruiser designs; they were ...