Battlecruisers in a sentence

Aided by superior visibility, Hipper's five battlecruisers quickly registered hits on three of the six British battlecruisers.

Battlecruisers in action The first combat involving battlecruisers during World War I was the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.

With visibility favouring the Germans, Hipper's battlecruisers at 15:22, steaming approximately north-west, sighted Beatty's squadron at a range of about convert, while Beatty's forces did not identify Hipper's battlecruisers until 15:30.

It lacks the battlecruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines that populate the Russian fleet.

Meanwhile in Russia, Moscow is still trying to squeeze life out of its Kirov-class battlecruisers.

On June 8, 1940, the HMS Glorious, along with its two escort destroyers, encountered the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea, leading to one of World War II's most controversial naval battles.

That provocation came in the form of the Soviet’s development and deployment of massive surface warships, such as -class guided-missile nuclear-powered battlecruisers.

The Kirov-class battlecruisers, once envisioned as the crown jewels of the Russian Navy, failed to live up to their formidable reputation.

The -class dreadnoughts helped the U.S. Navy counter backward but impressive-Soviet Navy behemoths such as -class battlecruisers and their predecessors.

The Germans also planned to construct three “O class” battlecruisers of classic design, faster than the battleships but unable to match them in armor.

A British signalling error allowed the German battlecruisers to withdraw, as most of Beatty's squadron mistakenly concentrated on the crippled armoured cruiser Blücher, sinking her with great loss of life.

A chaotic destroyer action in mist and smoke ensued as German torpedo boats attempted to blunt the arrival of this new formation, but Hood's battlecruisers dodged all the torpedoes fired at them.

All but six of her crew of 1,032 officers and men, including Rear-Admiral Hood, were killed. citation Of the remaining British battlecruisers, only Princess Royal received heavy-calibre hits at this time (two convert by the battleship Markgraf).

All of the battleships and battlecruisers on both sides carried torpedoes of various sizes, as did the lighter craft.

Battlecruiser losses The British battlecruisers were designed to chase and destroy enemy cruisers from a range at which these ships could not reply.

Battlecruisers were in many cases larger and more expensive than contemporary battleships, due to their much-larger propulsion plants.

Beatty was given command of the 5th Battle Squadron to replace a squadron of battlecruisers away for training.

Britain's Grand Fleet The first two years of war saw the Royal Navy's battleships and battlecruisers regularly "sweep" the North Sea making sure that no German ships could get in or out.

British battlecruisers in particular suffered heavy losses at Jutland, where their light armour made them very vulnerable to large-caliber shells.

Brooks p. 232-234 *Beatty did not take advantage of the time available to him between sighting the enemy and the start of fighting to position his battlecruisers to most effectively attack the enemy.