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Understanding Light Cruisers: A Quiz on Naval History

Test your knowledge of light cruisers and their historical significance in naval warfare with this engaging quiz.

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1 Both ________ and light cruisers were classified under a common CL/CA sequence after 1931, hence there are some missing hull numbers, see List of light cruisers of the United States.

2 ________ construction was phased out in Britain, France and Italy during the mid 1930s.

3 Four light cruisers are still in existence as museum ships, and one is still used in active service by a navy - BAP Almirante Grau of the ________.

4 Light cruisers were defined as cruisers having guns of 6.1 inch (155 mm) or smaller, with ________ defined as cruisers having guns of up to 8 inch (203 mm).

5 The adoption of oil-fired water-tube boilers and ________ engines meant that older small cruisers rapidly became obsolescent.

6 In the ________, light cruisers have the hull classification symbol CL.

7 The four ships preserved as museum ships are: HMS Belfast (1938) in London, HMS Caroline (1914) in ________, USS Little Rock in Buffalo, New York, and the more modern Colbert in Bordeaux.

8 Similar ships include the protected cruisers Aurora (St Petersburg) and Olympia (________), and the bow of the Puglia (Italy).

9 The term is a shortening of the phrase "light ________", describing a small ship that carried armour in the same way as an armoured cruiser: a protective belt and deck.

10 The first small steam powered cruisers were built for the British ________ with HMS Mercury launched in 1878.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27, 1942, in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship.
  • the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • the only American ship larger than a destroyer to survive the Dutch East Indies campaign was the light cruiser Marblehead (pictured).
  • the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material.
  • the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle (pictured) was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria harbour.
  • all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser (pictured), designed in 1895–96.
  • during the Battle of Jutland, the German dreadnought SMS Posen accidentally rammed the light cruiser SMS Elbing, which had to be scuttled due to the damage.
  • in the early 1940s, HMS Ceres (pictured), a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland.
  • World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training.
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