The Tiger class were a class of three British warships of the 20th century and the last all-gun cruisers of the Royal Navy. Construction of three Minotaur-class...
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1960s as Tiger-class cruisers. Two were given helicopter facilities and anti-aircraft missile systems to become "helicopter and command cruisers" during...
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The Neptune class was a proposed class of cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy in the latter years of the Second World War. They were large ships...
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HMS Tiger was a conventional cruiser of the British Royal Navy, one of a three-ship class known as the Tiger class. Ordered during the Second World War...
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Post-war the United Kingdom reconstructed the Tiger-class cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Tiger into helicopter cruisers, retaining their guns forward but having...
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1854. HMS Tiger (1900) was a C-class destroyer launched in 1900. She was sunk in 1908 in a collision with the cruiser HMS Berwick. HMS Tiger (1913) was...
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Vittorio Veneto was a helicopter cruiser that served with the Italian Navy. Originally intended to be a class of two ships specifically designed for anti-submarine...
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HMS Blake (C99) (redirect from HMS Tiger (C99))
HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruiser of the 20th century. She...
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The Sverdlov-class cruisers, Soviet designation Project 68bis, were the last conventional gun cruisers built for the Soviet Navy. They were built in the...
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The County class was a class of heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy in the years between the First and Second World Wars...
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broken up on the slipway. HMS Lion (C34) was a Tiger-class cruiser launched in 1944 as the Minotaur-class HMS Defence. She was finally completed to a revised...
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the Mark V had been redesignated) with the Mark 26 mounting on the Tiger-class cruisers, whose hulls had been built during the war and had since been totally...
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the term first class cruiser being used instead for both armoured cruisers and large protected cruisers. Thus, the first class cruisers built between the...
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of her class. She was sold in 1922. The fourth, HMS Blake (C99), was launched in 1945 (but not completed until 1961) was a Tiger-class cruiser. She was...
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HMS Lion (C34) (category Tiger-class cruisers)
HMS Lion was a Tiger-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, originally ordered in 1942 as one of the Minotaur class and laid down that same year...
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The Minotaur class, or Design Z, was a proposed class of light cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy shortly after the Second World War. Design Z...
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A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can...
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USS Northampton (CLC-1) light cruiser: CL-154-class cruiser (canceled) Mark 6 (British mount) Tiger-class cruiser Restigouche-class destroyer Mackenzie-class destroyer DiGiulian...
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Served from 1946 to 1960. Tiger-class cruiser-Last British Cruiser class. Served from 1959 to 1979.[citation needed] Daring-class destroyer (1949)-Last RN...
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include the British Tiger-class cruisers, Japanese Hyūga-class helicopter destroyers, French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, Soviet Moskva-class helicopter carriers...
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HMS Hermes (R12) Tiger-class cruiser Daring-class destroyer County-class destroyer Rothesay-class frigate Leander-class frigate Rothesay-class frigate Tribal-class frigate...
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two De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers completed in 1953, De Grasse and Colbert completed in 1955 and 1959, and HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Blake completed...
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian Duca degli Abruzzi-class light cruiser, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. After the war she was retained...
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service HMS Tiger Tiger-class cruiser, the last cruiser class of the Royal Navy Tiger-class fast attack craft, a post-World War II class of Bundesmarine...
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HMS Ceylon (30) (category Crown Colony-class cruisers of the Royal Navy)
HMS Ceylon was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the Ceylon sub class, named after the island and British colony of Ceylon (now...
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been named Tiger after the tiger: HMS Tiger - one of 15 vessels of the British Royal Navy by that name SMS Tiger (1887), a torpedo ram cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian...
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Navy ordered the two Panther-class cruisers from Britain. These were used as the basis for the domestically-built Tiger. Toward the end of the 1880s,...
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Type 82 destroyer (redirect from Type 82 Bristol class destroyer)
range AA. The later Tiger-class cruisers were completed too late with unreliable machinery and automatic guns prone to jamming. The Tigers were inefficient...
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HMS Cumberland (57) (category Kent-class cruisers)
HMS Cumberland was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw action during the Second World War. Cumberland was built by Vickers-Armstrongs...
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HMS Swiftsure (08) (category Minotaur-class cruisers (1943))
HMS Swiftsure was one of three Minotaur-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong...
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