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- From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
- Subject: Re: WWII Battleships
- Message-ID: <By6J5K.I8o@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- References: <Bxx2Kn.Jr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:27:20 GMT
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- From phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
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- In article <Bxx2Kn.Jr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
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- >Actually "CB" for battle cruiser is consistent with USN cruiser nomenclature:
- >"CL" for light cruisers and "CA" for heavy [formerly armored] cruisers.
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- For the record, the Lexington-class battle cruisers of 1920 were to have
- been called CC1-6. CB (Cruiser, Big?) was a new class for the Alaskas.
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- >I always felt that the ALASKAs were too big and too well armored to be
- >considered merely heavy cruisers unencumbered by Washington Treaty limits
- >on displacement and armament. IMHO the German Panzerschiffe qualified as
- >"post-Washington" heavy cruisers because their gun size and displacement
- >exceeded treaty limits while their speed and [lack of] armor was decidedly
- >cruiser-like.
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- After Jutland, there was a strong prejudice against battle cruisers. The
- Navy went to great lengths to give the Alaskas some other name. Contemporary
- Jane's called them capital ships: the USN called them cruisers.
-
- Phil
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- Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
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