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The battlecruiser was developed by the Royal Navy in the first years of the 20th century as an evolution of the armoured cruiser. [5] The first armoured cruisers had been built in the 1870s, as an attempt to give armour protection to ships fulfilling the typical cruiser roles of patrol, trade protection and power projection.
British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleship and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-817-4. Roberts, John (1997). Battlecruisers. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-068-1. OCLC 38581302. Taylor, Bruce (2008).
British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleship and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-817-4. Roberts, John (1997). Battlecruisers. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-068-1. OCLC 38581302. Schom, Alan (2004).
British experience during the Battle of the Falkland Islands in late 1914 and the Battle of Dogger Bank the following year, where British battlecruisers caught and destroyed German armored cruisers, confirmed all these capabilities. When Congress authorized a large naval building program in 1916, six Lexington-class battlecruisers were included.
Battlecruisers. Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-German Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974; Unprotected cruisers. Lütf-ü Hümayun (1892) - BU 1911; Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911; Feyzâ-i Bahri class. Feyzâ-i Bahri (unfinished) Şadiye (unfinished) Hüdâvendigâr class. Hüdâvendigâr (unfinished) Selimiye (unfinished) Protected cruisers ...
The first battlecruisers were designed in the United Kingdom, in the first decade of the century, as a development of the armoured cruiser, at the same time as the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. The original aim of the battlecruiser was to hunt down slower, older armoured cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire.
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The G3 class was a class of battlecruisers planned by the Royal Navy after the end of World War I in response to naval expansion programmes by the United States and Japan.The four ships of this class would have been larger, faster and more heavily armed than any existing battleship (although several projected foreign ships would be larger).