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light cruiser
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light cruiser [′līt ′krü·zər]
(naval architecture)
A naval vessel whose armaments consist primarily of 6-inch (152-millimeter) guns.
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This volume comprises 10 feature articles, whose topics include: the training ship Jadran, Italian fast coastal forces from 1934-1986, the Soviet light cruisers of the Kirov class, and weather and warship casualties from 1934-1944.
Warship 2009 by SciTech Book News
On 28 August 1914 British cruisers, destroyers, and submarines descended into the Heligoland Bight and surprised German scouting forces, which lost the light cruisers SMS Mainz, SMS Koln, SMS Ariadne, and the torpedo boat V-187, as well as 1,251 officers and men killed, wounded, or captured.
Osborne, Eric W. The Battle of Heligoland Bight by Herwig, Holger H. / Naval War College Review
One battlecruiser, one pre-dreadnought, four light cruisers and five torpedo-boats were sunk.
Huge Toll by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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