Armoured Cruiser

Armoured Cruiser (formerly "cruiser" and then "1st class cruiser" or "1st class armoured cruiser")^{[Citation needed]} is a generic term for a fast capital ship that gained its speed at the expensive of protection and armament.

The name was a contemporary one, and explicitly demonstrates that the diversity of missions and demands for ships of various types had created roles for cruisers that required a substantial degree of protection as well as those that did not. The ones that did, and which would screen the battlefleet most closely in a fleet action were dubbed "Armoured Cruisers".

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See Also

• Battlecruiser
• Light Cruiser