Cruiser | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:09 1 Early history
00:04:28 2 Steam cruisers
00:06:28 3 Steel cruisers
00:08:10 3.1 Torpedo cruisers
00:08:53 3.2 Pre-dreadnought armored cruisers
00:09:38 4 Early 20th century
00:10:23 4.1 Battle cruisers
00:11:45 4.2 Light cruisers
00:12:19 4.3 Flotilla leaders
00:12:34 4.4 Coastguard cruisers
00:12:57 4.5 Auxiliary cruisers
00:13:53 4.6 World War I
00:14:21 5 Mid-20th century
00:16:20 5.1 Heavy cruisers
00:19:11 5.2 German pocket battleships
00:21:07 5.3 Large cruiser
00:21:49 5.4 Anti-aircraft cruisers
00:24:26 6 World War II
00:27:58 6.1 1939 to Pearl Harbor
00:29:24 6.2 Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean operations 1942–1944
00:32:11 6.3 Pearl Harbor through Dutch East Indies campaign
00:35:57 6.4 Dutch East Indies campaign
00:36:43 6.5 Guadalcanal campaign
00:48:16 6.6 Post-Guadalcanal
00:51:17 6.7 Leyte Gulf
00:56:02 6.8 Wartime cruiser production
00:57:08 7 Late 20th century
00:58:25 7.1 US cruiser development
01:04:06 7.1.1 US Navy's "cruiser gap"
01:07:04 7.2 Soviet cruiser development
01:09:09 7.3 Current cruisers
01:12:02 7.4 Aircraft cruisers
01:14:06 8 Cruisers in service or under construction
01:15:55 9 Museum cruisers
01:17:33 10 See also
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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 usually perform several roles.
The term has been in use for several hundred years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of Sail, the term cruising referred to certain kinds of missions—independent scouting, commerce protection, or raiding—fulfilled by a frigate or sloop-of-war, which were the cruising warships of a fleet.
In the middle of the 19th century, cruiser came to be a classification for the ships intended for cruising distant waters, commerce raiding, and scouting for the battle fleet. Cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the medium-sized protected cruiser to large armored cruisers that were nearly as big (although not as powerful or as well-armored) as a pre-dreadnought battleship. With the advent of the dreadnought battleship before World War I, the armored cruiser evolved into a vessel of similar scale known as the battlecruiser. The very large battlecruisers of the World War I era that succeeded armored cruisers were now classified, along with dreadnought battleships, as capital ships.
By the early 20th century after World War I, the direct successors to protected cruisers could be placed on a consistent scale of warship size, smaller than a battleship but larger than a destroyer. In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty placed a formal limit on these cruisers, which were defined as warships of up to 10,000 tons displacement carrying guns no larger than 8 inches in calibre; heavy cruisers had 8-inch guns, while those with guns of 6.1 inches or less were light cruisers, which shaped cruiser design until the end of World War II. Some variations on the Treaty cruiser design included the German Deutschland-class "pocket battleships" which had heavier armament at the expense of speed compared to standard heavy cruisers, and the American Alaska class, which was a scaled-up heavy cruiser design designated as a "cruiser-killer".
In the later 20th century, the obsolescence of the battleship left the cruiser as the largest and most powerful surface combatant after the aircraft carrier. The role of the cruiser varied according to ship and navy, often including air defense and shore bombardment. During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy's cruisers had heavy anti-ship missile armament designed to sink NATO carrier task forces via saturation attack. The U.S. Navy built guided-missile cruisers upon destroyer-style hulls (some ca ...
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