Re: Big guns on small ships

At 16:37 16/12/97 -0800, you wrote:

>Rob Paul,
>
>Corageous, Glorious and Furious were The three light 
>BATTLEcruisers, completed as carriers.
>The intended use for these ships; to penetrate into the
>Baltic Sea on raids. 
>
>Bye for now,
>John L.

"Light battlecruisers" is a perfectly reasonable description of these
vessels, but "large light cruisers" is how the RN designated them- their
armour was apallingly thin and scanty, even compared with early
battlecruisers.  C and G saw action in WW1 as supports for cruiser
forces
(and were sunk as CVs early in WW2).  The Baltic raid/invasion idea
persisted into WW2, interesingly enough (Operation Catherine (or
Caroline, I
forget) using lightened R-class BBs amongst others.

Rob

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