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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.
This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. ... Light cruisers. British Arethusa class. Aurora (1913, ex-British Aurora, transferred 1920) – Sold for ...
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 ...
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 ...
The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors were the light cruiser designs of the 1910s and 1920s; the US 8-inch 'treaty cruisers' of the 1920s were originally classed as light cruisers until the London Treaty forced their redesignation. Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II.
List Click on headers to sort columns. List of cruisers of World War I Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Achilles Royal Navy Warrior armored cruiser 13,550 22 April 1907 sold for scrap 9 May 1921 Adamastor Portuguese Navy unprotected cruiser 1,729 3 August 1897 decommissioned 16 October 1933, scrapped April 1934 Admiral Makarov Imperial Russian Navy Bayan ...
It was originally intended that the Bristol class would be fitted with a main gun armament of unshielded 4-inch (102 mm) guns, but the need to counter German light cruisers (such as the Königsberg class), which were armed with ten 105-millimetre (4.1 in) guns that outranged British 4-inch guns, resulted in the new class's armament being revised.
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