light cruiser

Such guns of Marks 9, 10, and 11 were utilized by HNLMS De Ruyter and Tromp. Would anyone offer a plan for Marks 10 and 11, the single mount for De Ruyter and twin mount for Tromp? Relevant info were rare, especially machinery structures.

Project 26, or Kirov class, were influenced by Italian cruisers. In fact, the final design took Raimondo Monteccucoli class as a reference, and cruiser Kirov's machine facilities were made in Italy (Voroshilov's were domestic). An early project in about 1933 showed a cruiser with three twin...

So say that in 1942 Auphan is a bit more pro-active/decisive and the Marine Nationale or a sizable part of it anyway sails away to join the Allies. Fast forward to 1945 and France ends up the war in possession of several more cruisers, destroyers and submarines. To put it in more concrete terms...

I read in Friedman's US cruisers book that it was proposed to modernize the Omahas by replacing their guns with 152mm/47s, among other things. Also, I found from another source a proposal to convert the class to AA cruisers: "In 1940, a project was developed to convert Omaha-class cruisers into...

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/x80zhw/3500_x_2100the_proposed_but_never_built_cl154/ Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser. If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...

At the end of World War Two the RN had the elegant Town and Colony Class cruisers in service and was to add the Minotaur and Tiger classes to them. The cruisers were useful ships but could not be converted easily to missile ships like their US counterparts. They lingered longer than was probably...

Here I gathered all the various cruiser designs and projects proposed for the Imperial Japanese Navy Protected Cruisers: Not found any so far except the cancelled sister ships of the Unebi and Tone classes Light Cruisers: Design C-19 (1912) - A primary mine-layer cruiser design offered before...

This is a question troubled me while I was reading Rebuilding the Royal Navy. At the start of the second chapter, which is the chapter titiled "The Demise of the cruiser", there is a paragraph like this: "The new design had a flush deck, which resulted in a saving of only 40 tons over Design...

Hello all; I recently got my hands on a Storia Militare 'Dossier', the first part of a series covering the Italian navy from 1945 to 2015 (first part being from 1945 to 1970, issue no.14, Sept-Oct 2014) by Michele Cosentino and Maurizio Brescia. Within the SM 'Dossier' there is mentioned, in...

Here you have drawings of 'Eskaderledare' (or Flotilla Leader) project made in Sweden in 1947 that may be founde elsewhere on the Internet (I believe they are genuine). The drawings seemquite self-explanatory. The ship's main battery was four twin 'LT' ('Lufttorped' or Air Torpedo) launchers...