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HMS Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, which served during the Second World War. She was one of the last two Town class cruisers, which formed the Edinburgh sub-class. Edinburgh saw a great deal of combat service during the Second World War, especially in the North Sea and the Arctic Sea, where she was sunk by torpedoes ...
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947 General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 3 passengers Length: 21 ft 4 in (6.5 m) tail up Wingspan: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tail down Wing area: 140.2 sq ft (13.03 m 2) 160 sq ft (14.87 m 2) including wing area projected through fuselage Airfoil: Bellanca B Empty weight: 1,200 lb (544 kg) Gross weight: 2,100 lb (953 kg ...
Ajax was built at Vickers' shipyard, in Barrow-in-Furness, England.She was laid down on 7 February 1933, launched on 1 March 1934 and completed on 12 April 1935. She was commissioned for service with the 8th Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station, [5] but after working up in May 1935, she was deployed instead to the Mediterranean on detached service after the Abyssinian crisis.
Three aircraft with one catapult, removed in 1943. HMS Suffolk , pennant number 55, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy , and part of the Kent subclass. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard , Portsmouth , UK, with the keel being laid down on 30 September 1924.
The nine ships of the Independence class were all converted from Cleveland-class light cruisers building at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey. Initially classified as "aircraft carriers" (CV), all were re-designated "small aircraft carriers" (CVL) on 15 July 1943 while four ships were still under construction.
In 2002, the United States Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. [9] The Navy initially ordered two trimaran hulled ships from General Dynamics, which became known as the Independence-class littoral combat ship after the first ship of the class, USS Independence. [9]
The Courageous-class ships had an overall length of 786 ft 9 in (239.8 m), a beam of 90 ft 6 in (27.6 m), and a draught of 28 ft (8.5 m) at deep load. These were increases of 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) in beam and over 2 ft (0.6 m) in draught compared to their earlier incarnations as battlecruisers.
The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Such ships, with a limit of 10,000 tons standard displacement and 8-inch calibre main guns may be referred to as "treaty cruisers."