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The Design Z proposals for light cruisers were evolutions of the Design Y ( Neptune class) that were planned during the final years of the Second World War.It was intended to take advantage of improved hull subdivision, maximise commonality with the United States Navy and more advanced AA/DP automatic 3-inch and 6-inch twin gun designs of 1945 than the more incremental guns and turrets and ...
Minotaur-class cruiser may refer to: Minotaur-class cruiser (1906), a class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers launched in 1906–1907; Minotaur-class cruiser (1943), a class of Royal Navy light cruisers launched in 1943–1945; Minotaur-class cruiser (1947), a projected class of Royal Navy cruisers, a design both finalised and cancelled in 1947
The class was originally to have consisted of twelve ships, [1] six were laid down in 1941–1942 and the seventh unit, Hawke, in 1943.Four of the ordered cruisers were cancelled almost immediately, three in March 1942 being replaced by the first light fleet carrier order [a] and another, probably Mars, was cancelled in November 1942.
Minotaur-class cruiser (1947) N. N3-class battleship; Neptune-class cruiser; O. Oceanic (unfinished ship) P. Polar 8 Project; Project America; R. MV Regent Sky; S.
The first of a new Minotaur class, a development of the later Colony class with extra beam and a fifth twin 4 inch turret. Swiftsure was the last Royal Navy cruiser completed during World War II and was the first British cruiser designed around the concept of an operations room and modern radar, with sensor screens and communications positioned ...
Although Superb was the latest of the line of 6-inch gun cruisers to be completed, (the 1943 Minotaur class followed directly from the 1938 Colony and 1936 Town classes), she was also one of the first of this type to be broken up. Plans for her modernisation were abandoned after the 1957 defence review.
USS Stormy Beach – Long Beach-class cruiser, Fireplay by William Wingate, 1977; USS Swordfish – On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957; HMS Sybaris – British heavy cruiser, The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean, 1957; Tai-pan by James Clavell, 1966 Struan & Company. China Cloud – 22 gun China Clipper, flagship of Struan & Co
The Fiji-class cruisers however, like the Minotaur class that followed in the middle of the war, essentially carried the same armament on a 1,000-tons less displacement. The Fiji and Minotaur classes were very tight designs, built largely in war emergency conditions with little margin for any great updating postwar.