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This is a list of Royal Navy cruisers.
Armoured cruisers
HMS Shannon Nelson class - two shipsImperieuse class - two shipsOrlando class - seven shipsPowerful class - two shipsCressy classDrake class - four shipsMonmouth class - ten shipsDevonshire classDuke of Edinburgh class - two shipsWarrior class - four ships (Modified Dukes)Minotaur class
Protected cruisers Iris class - two shipsLeander class - four shipsMersey class - four shipsMedea class - five shipsBlake class - two shipsEdgar class - nine shipsDiadem class Eight shipsHMS Philomel - one ship Apollo class - nine shipsAstraea class - five shipsEclipse class - nine shipsPelorus class - seven ships
Light and Scout cruisers Arrogant class - four shipsHermes class - five shipsAdventure class - two shipsForward class - two shipsPathfinder class - two shipsSentinel class - two shipsBoadicea class - two shipsBlonde class - two shipsActive class - two shipsTown class - twenty-one ships (subclasses: Bristol 5, Weymouth 4, Chatham 6, Birmingham 4, Birkenhead 2) Arethusa class - eight shipsC class - thirty-two ships (subclasses Caroline 6, Cambrian 6, Centaur 2, Caledon 4, Ceres 5, Carlisle 5)Danae class - eight shipsEmerald class - two shipsLeander class - eight ships (subclass Sydney 3)Arethusa class - four shipsTown class - ten ships (subclasses Southampton 5, Gloucester 3, Edinburgh 2) Dido classBellona 5)Crown Colony class - eleven ships (subclasses Fiji 8, Ceylon 3)Minotaur class - two ships
Heavy cruisers Hawkins class five shipsCounty class thirteen ships (subclasses Kent 5, London 4, Norfolk 2, York 2)
Guided missile cruisers
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Battlecruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2639 words)
The result was a disaster for the Royal Navy's battlecruiser squadrons: Invincible, Queen Mary and Indefatigable exploded with the loss of all but a handful of their crews The German battlecruisers were better armoured, although Lützow was damaged and had to be scuttled, and Seydlitz was heavily damaged. After the war the Royal Navy de-emphasized battlecruisers in the orginal sense of the word and all but three were scrapped by the mid-1930s. They were pursued by the Royal Navy and on one occasion, at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the hunter became the hunted.
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