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battle-cruisers

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  • noun Plural form of battle-cruiser.

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Examples

  • The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 26,000 ton battle-cruisers, were completed in 1938 and it was in that year that the Bismarck and Tirpitz were laid down in the Blohm and Voess shipyards in Hamburg.

    San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

  • Human fallibility, higher up, denied us the mitigation of the disaster at Pearl Harbour and of our humiliation by the safe passage of the German battle-cruisers under the very muzzles of the big guns at Dover.

    The Dangers of the Nuclear Age 1959

  • And then he himself, in the King George V, was in at the death, battleships, battle-cruisers, the fleet air arm, cruisers, and destroyers, all having taken part in the chase.

    The Navy 1941

  • That's all been the luck of the battle-cruisers and destroyers.

    A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • They thus stole a march on Von Tirpitz, who in his book said: "Anyway, I put it over you with those battle-cruisers."

    The Influence of Modern Weapons Upon Future Warfare 1922

  • One of them was the Princess Royal, a magnificent ship, absolutely the last word in battle-cruisers.

    With Canada at the Front 1916

  • There were the great battle-cruisers, Dreadnoughts and their replicas, light cruisers, and a galaxy of torpedo-boats -- the latter swept from stem to stern by the waves.

    The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917

  • In this case our submarines would "chip in", and possibly the battle-cruisers might score with their deadly and accurate long-range salvoes.

    The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917

  • When the boys were on the decks wondering where was the fleet they had expected, they saw seven streaks of smoke on the broad expanse of ocean, and gradually the streaks of smoke assumed form and they saw that they were battleships and battle-cruisers of the Old Mother's navy, coming over to convoy them across the ocean.

    The Prose and Poetry, Reality and Spirit of Canadian Imperial Service 1915

  • The battle-cruisers were recalled just in time -- so it would appear -- to save them from annihilation, and Com. von Hase proceeds:

    A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

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