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A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships. | A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship. | A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.
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De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser, although modernized as a guided-missile cruiser in the late 1980s, it is the world's last operational gun cruiser.
V, pp. 156-160 One Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were sunk and one cruiser damaged, against one US destroyer sunk with one light cruiser and one destroyer damaged.
The 300 Land Cruiser may not be available to Americans, but Toyota didn't strip the continent of every member of the Land Cruiser bloodline.
As officers exited their vehicles, Fischi allegedly accelerated in reverse striking the state police cruiser, and then drove forward striking the city cruiser.
Faraone’s vehicle, approaching the cruiser from the rear, struck the right rear of the cruiser with its left front.
The officer then called the man back to his cruiser and to put his hands on the cruiser.
Fill the Cruiser Tonight — The Arlington County Police Department is holding one of its three planned “Fill the Cruiser” holiday toy drive events today from 2-6 p.m. at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall.
The conveyor belt on which the cruiser sat then pushed the cruiser into the Toyota.
Alaska class which was a scaled-up heavy cruiser design designated as a "cruiser-killer".
A luxury craft smaller than convert is more commonly called a cabin cruiser or simply a cruiser.
A yacht may also be a "cruiser-racer", which as the name implies is a blend between the cruiser and racing variants.
Cruiser tank 2 pdr-armed Crusader in the desert main A cruiser tank, or cavalry tank, was designed to move fast and exploit penetrations of the enemy front.
For example, gun cruiser USS was converted to a gun/missile cruiser, changing the hull number to CAG-1.
Friedman cruisers, p. 150 The Japanese took exactly the opposite approach with cruiser torpedoes, and this proved crucial to their tactical victories in most of the numerous cruiser actions of 1942.
Light cruiser describes a small ship that was armoured in the same way as an armoured cruiser.
Scharnhorst class, and rumored Japanese "super cruisers", all of which carried guns larger than the standard heavy cruiser's 8-inch size dictated by naval treaty limitations, the Alaskas were intended to be "cruiser-killers".
The cruiser force lost one heavy cruiser sunk and one damaged.
The following Japanese cruiser force had several problems, including a light cruiser damaged by a PT boat and two heavy cruisers colliding, one of which fell behind and was sunk by air attack the next day.
The results of the battle were three American heavy cruisers sunk by torpedoes and gunfire, one Australian heavy cruiser disabled by gunfire and scuttled, one heavy cruiser damaged, and two US destroyers damaged.
With one other Allied cruiser withdrawn for repairs, the only remaining Allied cruiser in the area was the damaged USS.