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light cruiser

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meanings of lightand cruiser


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light
adjective
uk /laɪt/ us /laɪt/
not weighing ...
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cruiser
noun[C]
uk /ˈkruː.zər/ us /ˈkruː.zɚ/
a large fast ship used ...
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Examples of light cruiser


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The modern frigate is not much smaller than the lightcruiser of another era, but it is immensely more powerful and enormously more expensive.
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A lightcruiser has a speed of twenty knots and a visibility of fifteen miles.
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There is the lightcruiser squadron consisting of four ships with another admiral and the third cruiser squadron with another admiral.
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That one carrier would have been an easy victim of any lightcruiser with a speed of 35 or 40 knots.
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I cannot answer that, but the modern lightcruiser is not suitable for the service.
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In the same way, the answer to a destroyer is not necessarily another destroyer; it is very likely a lightcruiser squadron.
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I do not think it is necessary in the case of a lightcruiser, whose chief duty is the defence of the trade routes.
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She is in all respects equal to a lightcruiser.
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Everyone knows that the battleship is a more powerful instrument of war than the lightcruiser.
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Secondly, a very fast lightcruiser was designed, and eight of them were included in the programme for the year.
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They are a new type of lightcruiser.
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For combatant purposes the life of a lightcruiser is 15 years and for a destroyer 12 years.
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There is no information as to another lightcruiser having been ordered to replace her.
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A lightcruiser could do that work just as well.
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They are over 5,000 tons and in the lightcruiser category.
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The largest destroyer extant is 2,600 tons, and the smallest lightcruiser is 3,500 tons, so that cruiser and destroyer have now approached to within 600 tons of each other.
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Experience has shown that in estimating the life of a lightcruiser or destroyer one year's war service must be taken as equal to two years' peace service.
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Has the practice of fitting every lightcruiser with one fighter been departed from, or are they still able to carry them and the machines are available?
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These destroyers are virtually what would have been looked upon as a lightcruiser 20 years ago, and they are indeed the last word in destroyers.
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Not long after that operation, the lightcruiser steamed south for yard work.
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