List Of Cruiser Classes Of The Royal Navy
This is a list of cruisers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom from 1877 (when the category was created by amalgamating the two previous categories of frigate and corvette) until the last cruiser was deleted more than a century later. There are no longer any cruisers in the Royal Navy.
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