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...hen the advent of better machinery and larger, faster destroyers and light cruisers had already made them obsolete. ...oyal Navy]] ({{langx|it|Regia Marina}}) instead operated a number of scout cruisers (''[[esploratori]]'') from 1912 onwards. Ranging in size from enlarged dest ...

*(cruisers from 1877) ...1879. In 1887, like all the remaining corvettes, they were redesignated ''cruisers'' by the Royal Navy. ...

{{Short description|Class of British scout cruisers}} Like the earlier scout cruisers, the ''Boadicea'' class was designed to provide [[destroyer]] [[flotilla]]s ...

...iser was decommissioned more than a century later. There are no longer any cruisers in the [[Royal Navy]]. == First class cruisers == ...

===Cruisers=== Starting around the time that steam [[cruisers]] became popular in the 1870s, the [[Royal Navy]] tended to organise such s ...

...17 December 1940. {{HMS|Achates|H12|2}} was sunk by two large German heavy cruisers, {{ship|German cruiser|Admiral Hipper||2}} and [[German cruiser Deutschland ...

|11 × light cruisers<br>61 × torpedo boats ! scope="col" | Armoured<br>cruisers ...

''Cruisers'' ...

...the Royal Navy|corvettes]] as "[[List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy|cruisers]]") are listed below. The term "frigate" was resuscitated in [[World War II ...887 all frigates and corvettes in the British Navy were re-categorised as 'cruisers', and the term 'frigate' was abolished, not to re-emerge until the Second W ...

...cruiser]]s, and by Second World War-era {{sclass2|County|cruiser|0}} heavy cruisers. The other Batch 3s, ''Chatham'' and ''Campbeltown'', were Town names, the ...boxer_class.htm|title=Boxer Class Type 22 frigates|website=www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk|access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref> ...

...st=Norman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-uZBgAAQBAJ|title=British Cruisers of the Victorian Era|date=2012-10-29|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=978 ...

...o construct small gun-boats, and dispatched a number of small frigates and cruisers to supplement the squadron. ...

...ommander distant covering force) and {{USS|Washington|BB-56|6}}, the heavy cruisers {{USS|Wichita|CA-45|6}} and {{HMS|London|69|6}} with nine British and four ...tch-keepers. At about {{nowrap|5:00 a.m.}} the visibility improved and the cruisers joined the convoy in pairs between the central columns of the freighters. T ...

* 8 [[Armored cruiser|armoured cruisers]] * 3 armoured cruisers sunk ...

...craft carrier]] {{HMS|Ark Royal|R09|6}}, the [[Aircraft cruiser#Helicopter cruisers|helicopter cruiser]] {{HMS|Blake|C99|6}}, the [[commando carrier]] {{HMS|Bu ...