Cruisers

Fast, long ranging warships armed more heavily than a destroyer and more lightly than a battleship, built to scout for the fleet, protect trade routes or raid an enemy's commerce overseas. The group runs from the heavy cruisers allowed by the naval treaties of the 1920s to the light cruisers built within their limits. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship, or its class, a heavy cruiser, light cruiser, armoured cruiser or scout cruiser. It excludes battlecruisers, which have their own group, and destroyers or frigates of smaller size. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.