Armoured Cruiser
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Armoured Cruiser (formerly "cruiser" and then "1st class cruiser" or "1st class armoured cruiser")[Citation needed] is a generic term for a fast ship that gained its speed at the expense of protection and armament relative to a battleship.
The name was a contemporary one, and explicitly demonstrates that the diversity of missions and demands for ships of various types had created roles for cruisers that required a substantial degree of protection as well as those that did not. The ones that did, and which would screen the battlefleet most closely in a fleet action were dubbed "Armoured Cruisers".
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- ADM 1/7377.
- ADM 1/8724/93.
- ADM 116/878.
