battle cruiser

Historical Examples of battle cruiser

• The battle-cruiser is a hybrid and, as this war has proved, a most useful war-vessel.

  The British Navy Book

  Cyril Field

• It remains to consider the function of the battle-cruiser in the line of battle.

  Naval Warfare

  James R. Thursfield

• On the occasion of the Heligoland fight, one paper announced in large print that the British battle-cruiser Lion had been sunk.

  Wounded and a Prisoner of War

  Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay

• The silk, somehow, seemed strangely out of place in the gun-turret of a battle-cruiser.

  Pincher Martin, O.D.

  H. Taprell Dorling

• We were then closely engaged with three German ships—a battle-cruiser and two light cruisers.

  The Heroic Record of the British Navy

  Archibald Hurd