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The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes.
The Courageous class consisted of three battlecruisers known as "large light cruisers" built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The class was nominally designed to support the Baltic Project, a plan by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher that was intended to land troops on the German Baltic Coast.
The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy.
10 maj 2020 · This video goes over the history of the battlecruiser, from its early beginnings as an armored cruiser to the lone surviving remnant in the Russian Navy. Lik...
27 sty 2021 · WW1 British Battlecruisers. A Veritable Volcano: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Lord Jacky Fisher. Based on Admiral Fisher's idea, Great Britain built 12 battlecruisers, the last completed after WW1.
28 gru 2023 · The Soviet Kirov class "Battlecruisers" by default of a better term, are indeed the most powerful guided missile cruiser ever built so far.
Korvettenkapitan Vollerthun succinctly summed up the differences between Royal Navy and Imperial Navy battle cruisers by terming the British ships “battleship-cruisers” and the German ships “cruiser-battleships”—indeed a farsighted and prophetic characterization.
