Sentence examples for cruiser class from inspiring English sources

The car took first place in the World Solar Challenge and won the Michelin Cruiser Class for completing a 3,000 kilometer journey from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia last fall.

They were also the last cruiser class in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) to be equipped with a sailing rig; the subsequent unprotected cruiser was entirely steam-powered.

In spite of the fact that after World War II, most navies abandoned the battleship and battlecruiser concepts, Joseph Stalin's fondness for big-gun-armed warships caused the Soviet Union to plan a large cruiser class in the late 1940s.

Part of a long line of cruiser classes built for protecting trade routes and colonial police work, they were the last two sailing corvettes built for the Royal Navy.

The same year, all corvettes and frigates were re-classified as "cruisers", with Calliope and Calypso falling into the "third-class cruiser" category.

The Duke of Edinburgh-class cruiser was a class of two armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th Century.

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

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.

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 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.