Cruisers in Action, 1939-1945 |
Contents
Contents | 7 |
British Cruisers Development up to 1939 | 13 |
The Role of the Cruiser | 43 |
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6-inch guns 8-inch cruisers AA Cruiser action Admiral Admiralty aircraft Ajax Alexandria anti-aircraft Arethusa armament armoured Attached Cruiser attack August Aurora Australia battle battle-cruiser battleships Belfast Berwick bombardment British cruisers British Pacific Fleet British ships Captain carriers Colombo Completion convoy Coventry Crete Cruiser Squadron Damaged by bombing defence Delhi Devonshire Dido dive bombers East Indies Command Eastern Fleet enemy escort Exeter fire Flag flotillas Force Gibraltar Glasgow Gloucester heavy cruisers Home Fleet intercepted Island Italian January Japanese July June knots Leander Left light cruisers Malta Mediterranean Fleet merchant merchant raider naval Non-operational Norfolk Northern Patrol November numbers October operations Orion Penelope Plymouth Command port Portsmouth Command radar raider range Repairs and refitting River Plate Rosyth Rosyth Command Royal Navy sailed Scapa Flow Scharnhorst Scrapped September 1939 Sheffield shells sighted South Atlantic Command speed steering submarine Suffolk sunk Sydney tons took troops turret Unallocated cruiser vessels warships yards