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unusual facts about light cruiser



Design 1047 battlecruiser

The plan for three battlecruisers was authorized in February 1940; they, along with two light cruisers of the Eendracht class


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340th Flying Training Group

A second DUC was received for the destruction of the Italian light cruiser Taranto in the heavily defended harbor of La Spezia on 23 September 1944 before the ship could be used by the enemy to block the harbor's entrance.

Bombardment of Cherbourg

Rear Admiral Morton Deyo, heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (flag), heavy cruiser Quincy, battleship Nevada, HMS light cruiser Glasgow and light cruiser Enterprise, six destroyers: Ellyson, Rodman, Gherardi, Hambleton, Emmons, and British 9th Minesweeping Flotilla.

Hellenic Navy

Both governments embarked on a naval armaments race, with Greece purchasing the obsolete battleships Lemnos and Kilkis and the light cruiser Elli as well as ordering two dreadnoughts, the Vasilefs Konstantinos and the Salamis and a number of destroyers.

HMS Ulysses

HMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean

Japanese ship Kashima

Japanese cruiser Kashima, a Katori class light cruiser operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 until 1947

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Commodore Walter H. Cowan CB, MVO, DSO