Examples of 'light cruisers' in a sentence
Meaning of "light cruisers"
light cruisers: refers to a type of naval warship characterized by its speed, agility, and versatile capabilities, typically smaller than a heavy cruiser but larger than a destroyer
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Three light cruisers and eight destroyers.
The design was influenced by the light cruisers.
All following light cruisers adopted these innovations.
The class would be reclassified as light cruisers thereafter.
The light cruisers and had also been damaged.
A subset of the cruiser category are the light cruisers.
Light cruisers are maneuverable support ships featuring good concealment.
They were a compromise between light cruisers and scouting buildings.
It should have been the prototype of a series of new light cruisers.
Garfish light cruisers.
Light cruisers are warships still faster than the battle cruisers.
Cleveland class light cruisers.
Some light cruisers were built specifically to act as the leaders of flotillas of destroyers.
Kolberg class light cruisers.
Light cruisers to the south in the hope that they might escape.
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The amendment authorized three new battleships and two light cruisers.
The three French light cruisers were forced to retreat.
Kaiser and her sister intervened and hit one of the light cruisers.
New Zealand was to provide two light cruisers and an armed merchant cruiser.
All were converted from Cleveland class light cruisers.
An attack by British light cruisers caused the German formation to fall into disarray.
One consequence was to encourage the development of light cruisers and aircraft carriers.
British battlecruisers and light cruisers raided the German reconnaissance screen in the Heligoland Bight.
Natori was the third vessel completed in the Nagara class of light cruisers.
Six British battlecruisers supported a force of light cruisers that attacked the German minesweepers.
Those ships that later sailed with the Allies were classed as light cruisers.
The pursuit of the German light cruisers continued through the afternoon into darkness.
Admiral Ainsworth was sent to intercept this flotilla with three light cruisers and ten destroyers.
See also List of light cruisers of the United States.
The same type of modification also differentiated the Cleveland and Fargo classes of light cruisers.
No British battleships or light cruisers were sunk.
He served on the light cruisers Karlsruhe and Leipzig during the Spanish Civil War patrols.
Class of British light cruisers.
Beatty's light cruisers entered the minefield channels to search.
Simultaneously, the first modern light cruisers began to emerge.
Four light cruisers and thirty-two destroyers were sunk.
I am more at home on light cruisers but I will try.
These modern, turbine powered cruisers are properly classified as light cruisers.
They chanced upon the light cruisers HMS Southampton and Gloucester.
In order not to violate the treaty, countries began to develop light cruisers.
The Tromp class was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
All four light cruisers were straddled by near-misses, but suffered only slight damage.
In terms of armament, they were closer to light cruisers than the typical destroyer.
Nine of these light cruisers would be rebuilt as Independence-class light aircraft carriers.
They were supported by a screening force of 6 light cruisers and two torpedo boat flotillas.
Duca d'Aosta was the namesake of the fourth subclass of Condottieri light cruisers.
Langsdorff thought the two light cruisers were making a torpedo attack, and turned away under a smokescreen.
Nautilus had a clipper bow, while Albatross had a bow similar to contemporary German light cruisers.
Two German light cruisers attacked a convoy of coal-carrying ships and their escort.
He pieced together a group of around sixty ships, including Königsberg and several other light cruisers.
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