Home | Get eBooks | HMSO Catalogue | HMSO Sold Catalogue | Image Contributors |
Glossary Item: Heavy Cruiser |
Name | Heavy Cruiser |
Description | A type of naval cruiser designed for long range and high speed, more powerful than the light cruisers but not as large and expensive as the battlecruiser so as to be built in sufficient numbers. Advances in naval technology and design meant that the heavy cruiser was overall a more powerful ship type than the armoured cruiser had been. |
There is 1 Book that references this Glossary Item |
|