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The light armoured cruiser – light cruiser – succeeded the protected cruiser; improvements in machinery and armour rendering the latter obsolete. The Town class of 1910 were rated as second-class protected cruisers, but were effectively light armoured cruisers with mixed coal and oil firing.
In World War II light cruisers had guns ranging from the 5 inch (127 mm) of the US Atlanta-class and 5.25 inch of the British Dido-class anti-aircraft cruisers, up to 6.1 inch, though the most common size was 6 inch, the maximum size allowed by the London Naval Treaty for a ship to be considered a light cruiser. Most Japanese light cruisers had ...
The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in seven groups known as the Caroline class (six ships), the Calliope class (two ships), the Cambrian class (four ships), the Centaur class (two ships), the Caledon class (four ships), the Ceres class (five ships) and the Carlisle class (five ships).
The Town class was a group of twenty-one light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) of the first half of the 20th century. These vessels were long-range cruisers, suitable for patrolling the vast expanse covered by the British Empire.
Niobe (1897, ex-British Niobe, transferred 1910) – BU 1922; Light cruisers. British Arethusa class. Aurora (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for scrap 1927; British Fiji class. Uganda (1941, ex-British Uganda, transferred 1944) – Renamed Quebec 1952, BU 1961; British Minotaur class. Ontario (1943, ex-British Minotaur ...
Her light anti-aircraft weaponry in April 1944 was twelve 40 mm (3 × 4) and sixteen 20 mm (6 × dual, 4 × single). Dido had four turrets and a 4-inch gun similar to Phoebe . The 4-inch and the machine guns were removed in the latter half of 1941 at Brooklyn Navy Yard , when the "Q" position 5.25-inch turret was shipped and four 20 mm were ...
In the mid-1930s, the Arethusa-class cruiser was the Royal Navy's latest light cruiser design, with the intention that it number six vessels. Following the new, heavily armed small cruisers of the United States Brooklyn and Japanese Mogami -classes , the last two planned ships, Minotaur and Polyphemus , were cancelled and re-ordered as a new ...
HMS Weymouth was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. She was the name ship of the Weymouth sub-class of the Town class.The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1928.