Sentence examples for class cruiser from inspiring English sources

Vladimir Monomakh was reclassified as a 1st Class Cruiser on 13 February 1892.

He was appointed on 9 May to command the C class cruiser Calcutta, flagship on the North America and West Indies Station.

Designed as a modification over the previous Northampton class cruiser, the Portland-class displaced nearly and featured heavier armor and armament than previous cruisers.

Canvas and timber were used to alter the cruiser's profile to resemble an Italian Condottieri class cruiser, allowing her to manoeuvre close to Scarpanto during the night of 3 4 September.

HMS Belfast, a Town class cruiser, was launched in 1938 and served throughout the Second World War, participating in the December 1943 Battle of North Cape and firing some of the first shots of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

The Allied cruiser squadron, supported by the battleship altered their course northward, and at 15:20, Sydney opened fire on an Italian Zara class cruiser, 23000 yards distant, but both the Allied and Italian cruiser forces were unable to successfully hit their opposing numbers.

The US navy is in the process of upgrading all its Ticonderoga class cruisers and a number of destroyers to carry the Aegis ballistic missile defence system.

The Admiral Nakhimov class cruisers were a group of four light cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy just before World War I began in 1914.

The three Novara class cruisers were the largest vessels of the former Austro-Hungarian Navy to see service in foreign navies after the war.

They were designed to resemble the British Arethusa class cruisers to aid in their ability to operate off the British coast.

By the early 1920s, the cruisers of the Reichsmarine were old enough to permit replacement; the three Königsberg class cruisers and Leipzig were built in the middle of the decade.