light cruiser

I read in Friedman's US cruisers book that it was proposed to modernize the Omahas by replacing their guns with 152mm/47s, among other things. Also, I found from another source a proposal to convert the class to AA cruisers: "In 1940, a project was developed to convert Omaha-class cruisers into...

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/x80zhw/3500_x_2100the_proposed_but_never_built_cl154/ Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser. If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...

At the end of World War Two the RN had the elegant Town and Colony Class cruisers in service and was to add the Minotaur and Tiger classes to them. The cruisers were useful ships but could not be converted easily to missile ships like their US counterparts. They lingered longer than was probably...

Here I gathered all the various cruiser designs and projects proposed for the Imperial Japanese Navy Protected Cruisers: Not found any so far except the cancelled sister ships of the Unebi and Tone classes Light Cruisers: Design C-19 (1912) - A primary mine-layer cruiser design offered before...

Here you have drawings of 'Eskaderledare' (or Flotilla Leader) project made in Sweden in 1947 that may be founde elsewhere on the Internet (I believe they are genuine). The drawings seemquite self-explanatory. The ship's main battery was four twin 'LT' ('Lufttorped' or Air Torpedo) launchers...