Tag: naval
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British Heavy Cruiser HMS York
British Heavy Cruiser HMS York HMS York was a heavy cruiser of the York class, built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She was the lead ship of her class, which also included HMS Exeter. The York class was base on the preceding County class cruisers, and designed to smaller and cheaper while… Read more
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Japanese Cruiser Tone
Japanese Cruiser Tone The Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Tone was launched on 21 November 1937 and completed on 20 November 1938. Designed as a scout cruiser, she carried six floatplanes in addition to her main armament of eight 20cm (8-inch) guns. To optimise aircraft capacity, all of the four main turrets were concentrated forward,… Read more
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Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mogami
Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mogami The Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mogami was the lead ship of her class class, which were originally built as light cruisers under the London Naval Treaty restrictions. However, they were later converted to heavy cruisers by replacing their 15.5 cm guns with 20.3 cm guns. At the start of the Pacific War,… Read more