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A '''Light Cruiser''' is a small, fast, sea-going vessel with some small degree of armour protection. It was a maturation of what had formerly been regarded, as their name implies, as budget-friendly compromises: the [[2nd Class Cruiser|2nd Class]] and [[3rd Class Cruiser]]s. | A '''Light Cruiser''' is a small, fast, sea-going vessel with some small degree of armour protection. It was a maturation of what had formerly been regarded, as their name implies, as budget-friendly compromises: the [[2nd Class Cruiser|2nd Class]] and [[3rd Class Cruiser]]s. | ||
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| + | In Admiralty Weekly Order 49 of 31 January, 1913, it was announced that henceforth all vessels hitherto designated as Scouts, Protected Cruisers Second and Third Class, and Unarmoured Cruiser, would be designated as "Light Cruisers."<ref>The National Archives. ADM 1/8327. my thanks to Dr. John Brooks for a copy of this document.</ref> | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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A Light Cruiser is a small, fast, sea-going vessel with some small degree of armour protection. It was a maturation of what had formerly been regarded, as their name implies, as budget-friendly compromises: the 2nd Class and 3rd Class Cruisers.
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In Admiralty Weekly Order 49 of 31 January, 1913, it was announced that henceforth all vessels hitherto designated as Scouts, Protected Cruisers Second and Third Class, and Unarmoured Cruiser, would be designated as "Light Cruisers."[1]
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- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 1/8327. my thanks to Dr. John Brooks for a copy of this document.
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