The first purpose built anti aircraft cruiser was the British , completed shortly before the beginning of World War II.

Range on cruiser, soundman.

The cruiser will be passing any minute.

That cruiser's probably picking up a plane escort overhead.

One heavy cruiser in dock, three outside.

Sounds like a cruiser limping in, destroyers escorting.

Tugboats have contacted cruiser and destroyers.

When I came to I was on a cruiser, and my hands were off.

Entering the city for a decisive battle... the cruiser Aurora .

She's a heavy cruiser, deep in the water, coming home sick, destroyers for nurses.

We're going to take a chance following this cruiser through the minefields.

When I was an ensign on a cruiser, five pounds of cheese was missing.

The Italian missile cruiser Andrea Doria , built in 1964 and decommissioned in 1991.

Only one Spanish vessel, the new armored cruiser , survived, but her captain hauled down her flag and scuttled her when the Americans finally caught up with her.

Here, she participated in extensive training operations with Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser , which lasted until the middle of the year.

Steel also offered the cruiser a way of acquiring the protection needed to survive in combat.

It occurred because the Portuguese cruiser Dom Carlos was going to visit the port of Belém on November 12, 1902.

A steel cruiser could be lighter and faster than one built of iron or wood.

The British battle group Force H, under the command of Admiral James Somerville, whose main units were the aircraft carrier , the First World War era battlecruiser and the cruiser , was ordered to stop Bismarck .

While the Swordfish approached, Bismarck fired her main battery at Sheffield , straddling the cruiser with her second salvo.

Five ships of the Italian Navy have been named after him, including a World War II cruiser and the former flagship, the aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi .

Jefferies' own sketches provide the explanation that it was his 17th cruiser design with the first serial number of that series 1701.

Admiral Fletcher, obliged to abandon the derelict Yorktown and feeling he could not adequately command from a cruiser, ceded operational command to Spruance.

An hour later, the German flotilla encountered the Swedish cruiser the cruiser shadowed the Germans for two hours in the Kattegat.

During the two following decades, this cruiser type came to be the inspiration for combining heavy artillery, high speed and low displacement.

After his promotion to lieutenant commander on December 20, 1893, he served as executive officer on the cruiser and battleship .

Most of the components for Little Boy left San Francisco on the cruiser on 16 July and arrived on Tinian on 26 July.

On June 22, the cruiser Isabel II and the destroyer Terror delivered a Spanish counterattack, but were unable to break the blockade and the Terror was damaged.

In 1910, when Lindemann was 16, his uncle Kapitän zur See Friedrich Tiesmeyer was in command of the light cruiser (October 1909 January 1910) of the Imperial Navy, at that time holding the rank of (commander).

On 9 April 1934, he was ordered to the Wilhelmshaven Shipyard (9 April 11 November 1934) for training in ship construction and familiarisation with the heavy cruiser , under the command of Captain Wilhelm Marschall.

The most pressing were shortages of fuel and the withdrawal of the German destroyer forces to support Operation Cerberus , the movement of the battleships and and the heavy cruiser up through the English Channel.

Military career After Thomaz graduated from the Naval Academy in 1916, he was assigned to the Portuguese coast escort service on Vasco da Gama and later assigned to the Pedro Nunes and the destroyers Douro and Tejo during World War I.

Admiral Günther Lütjens, Flottenchef (Fleet Chief) of the Kriegsmarine, chosen to lead the operation, wished to delay the operation at least until either Scharnhorst or Tirpitz became available, but the OKM decided to proceed with the operation, codenamed Operation Rheinübung , with a force consisting of only Bismarck and the heavy cruiser .

Operation Rheinübung The goal of Operation Rheinübung (Rhine Exercise) was for Bismarck and the heavy cruiser under the command of Lindemann's Crew 1913 classmate Captain Helmuth Brinkmann to break into the Atlantic and attack Allied shipping.

I too share with the honourable member on a personal basis the concern which he has expressed. During the course of my presidency address here in January I clearly spelled out the situation with regard to nuclear submarines dragging down fishing boats in the Irish Sea.

On 1 November 1921 they were taken to the Hungarian Danube harbor city of Baja, made to board the British monitor HMS Glowworm , and were removed to the Black Sea where they were transferred to the light cruiser .

A similar method was used on the Klingon cruiser model, but he made it less well lit to convey a different look than the clean visuals of the Federation the cruiser was meant to evoke an enemy submarine in World War II that's been out at sea for too long .

At 15 48, with the opposing forces roughly parallel at , with the British to the south west of the Germans (i.e., on the right side), Hipper opened fire, followed by the British ships as their guns came to bear upon targets (position 2).

Guam On June 20, a U.S. fleet commanded by Captain Henry Glass, consisting of the protected cruiser and three transports carrying troops to the Philippines, entered Guam's Apra Harbor, Captain Glass having opened sealed orders instructing him to proceed to Guam and capture it.

Towards the end of the day the situation was difficult for the monarchical forces the rebel ships were docked beside the Palace Square and the cruiser São Rafael opened fire on the ministry buildings in the bewildered sight of the Brazilian diplomatic corps aboard battleship São Paulo , whose passenger list included the elected president Hermes da Fonseca.