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	Info and facts on 'Spruance class destroyer' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USS Spruance cruises in the Atlantic Ocean (The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east).
		The class was originally designed for anti-submarine (additional info and facts about anti-submarine) warfare with only point defense missiles for the AAW (additional info and facts about AAW) role although subsequent upgrades have provided anti-ship and land attack capabilities.
		The class are notable for being the first large U.S. Navy ships to use gas turbine (Turbine that converts the chemical energy of a liquid fuel into mechanical energy by internal combustion; gaseous products of the fuel (which is burned in compressed air) are expanded through a turbine) power.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spruance_class_destroyer.htm (551 words)

	Town class cruiser (1936) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Town-class were a ten-ship class of light cruisers built in three distinct sub-classes, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh classes respectively, each sub-class adding on further weaponry.
		The Town's were designed to the constraints imposed by the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
		As the London Treaty defined a "light cruiser" as one having a main armament no greater than 6.1 inches (155 mm) calibre, all three major naval powers sought to circumvent the limitations on heavy cruiser numbers by building "light cruisers" that were in fact equal in size and power to heavy cruisers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Town_class_cruiser_(1936) (599 words)

	HMS Sheffield - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Three Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Sheffield after the city and county borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
		The first HMS Sheffield (C24) was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1936 that saw service in World War II from the Arctic Circle and the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
		The second Sheffield (D80) was a Type 42 destroyer launched in 1971 and sunk by enemy action on 5 May 1982 during the Falklands War.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Sheffield (221 words)

	Info and facts on 'Dido class cruiser' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Dido class was a class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders) of sixteen (including the Bellona sub-class) light cruiser (additional info and facts about light cruiser) s built for the Royal Navy (additional info and facts about Royal Navy).
		All the class were named after figures of Greek mythology (The mythology of the ancient Greeks).
		The class were intended to be armed with ten 5.25-inch (133 mm) guns in twin turrets, but a shortage of the guns, due to difficulties in manufacturing them, led to the first group being armed with eight 5.25-in guns in four twin turrets.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Di/Dido_class_cruiser.htm (478 words)

	Facts about topic: (Town class cruiser (1936)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Town-class were a ten-ship class of light cruiser (additional info and facts about light cruiser) s built in three distinct sub-classes, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh classes respectively, each sub-class adding on further weaponry.
		The Town's were designed to the constraints imposed by the London Naval Treaty (additional info and facts about London Naval Treaty) of 1930.
		As the London Treaty defined a "heavy cruiser" as having a main armament of 6.1 inches (155 mm) calibre guns, all three major naval powers sought to circumvent the limitations on heavy cruiser numbers by building "light cruisers" that were in fact equal in size and power to heavy cruisers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/town_class_cruiser_(1936).htm (553 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1936.html (578 words)

	Encyclopedia: C class cruiser
		The C-class were light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a number of sub-classes known as the Caroline (six ships), Cambrian (six ships), Centaur (two ships), Caledon (four ships), Ceres (five ships) and Carlisle (five ships) classes.
		The Caroline, Cambrian and Centaur classes were all scrapped by the 1930s (The decade from 1930 to 1939).
		Colombo was finally converted to an AA cruiser in 1942, with its armament consisting of eight 4-inch guns and six 20 mm Oerlikons.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/C-class-cruiser (486 words)

	WW2Ships.com: Town Class Light Cruisers
		Cruisers were formally defined in the 1930 London Treaty as "Surface vessels of war, other than capital ships or aircraft carriers, the standard displacement of which exceeds 1,850 tons (1,880 metric tons), or with a gun above 5.1 inch (130 mm) calibre".
		The Southampton class cruiser was conceived as a light cruiser to fit within the limits set by the 1930 London Naval treaty.
		In common with all ships of their time, the Southampton class was shown to be initially lacking in air defence, although as the war progressed significant improvements were made to the anti-aircraft guns and this deficiency was rectified.
	www.ww2ships.com /britain/gb-cl-001-b.shtml (1310 words)

	HMAS Brisbane
		The first HMAS Brisbane was a Town class cruiser laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Cockatoo Island at Sydney in New South Wales on 25 January 1913, launched on 30 September 1915 by Mrs.
		She paid off at Portsmouth in England on 24 September 1935 and sold for scrap to Thomas W. Ward and Company of Sheffield in June 1936.
		HMAS Brisbane (D-41) was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer laid down by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company at Bay City in Michigan on 15 February 1965, launched on 5 May 1966 and commissioned on 16 December 1967.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hmas_brisbane.html (286 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
		The town was planned with streets in a grid plan, central town square and commonages for grazing livestock.
		The railway of 1881 bisected the town, reducing the importance of river transport and resulting in the development of new commercial centre near the railway station.
		Central town allotments were subdivided in the 1890s for workers' cottages and riverine allotments were developed with grand homes reflecting the wealth and architectural style typical of the gold rush period.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots (9969 words)

	Royal Navy
		In cruisers, the Royal Navy appeared up to strenght, but a high proportion were the small and obsolescent C and D classes, designed for service in home waters.
		Three of the class were struck by submarine torpedo's during the war but only the Royal Oak, hit by at least two, was sunk.
		This class of five reverted to a smaller 14-in calibre main battery because the Londen Navel Conference of 1936 limited the standard displacement of individual battleships to 35,000 tons.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/uknav.htm (1144 words)

	Leander class cruiser (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The class were influenced by the York class cruiser heavy cruisers.
		The changes that were made to the Sydney class were mostly internal, though the sub-class was actually given a second funnel due to propulsion changes.
		Ajax, Ontario, a town in Ontario, Canada, was named in honour of the ship, and streets in the town were named in honour of the crew.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Leander-class-cruisers/Leander-class-cruiser-(1931).html (690 words)

	HMS Edinburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth Edinburgh, a turret battleship was at first named HMS Majestic, but was renamed two days before being launched in March 1882.
		The fifth Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser.
		Launched at Swan Hunter in 1939, the ship saw extensive war service before being stuck by a torpedo and then scuttled in the Barents Sea in mid-1942.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Edinburgh (248 words)

	Class Struggle, Volume 6 Number 6 - October 1936
		The workers will win these lower middle classes to their side if they make a definite bid for power, understanding at the same time the needs of the many ruined people and trying to keep them as allies not by capitulating to the big employers, as the Stalinists have done.
		The working class cannot for a moment tolerate that the unemployed be made the goats for all this.
		These middle class elements do not holler for work,they cry for $200 a month or $5,000 a year or some such idea that shows that they know there is plenty of wealth around but that it is not distributed to all the people.
	www.weisbord.org /SixSix.htm (17457 words)

	Antics, Airfix 1:600 HMS Belfast Heavy Cruiser WW2 (04212)
		Coming into service at the start of WW2 the Belfast was a Town class cruiser and she was present at the Battle of North Cape when the Scharnhorst was sunk.
		One of the largest cruisers in the Royal Navy during the WWII, HMS Belfast's battle honours include North Cape 1943, Arctic 1943, Normandy 1944 and Korea 1950-53.
		She was recomissioned in November 1942, and in December 1943, with HMS Norfolk, Jamaica, Duke of York, Sheffield and attendant destroyers, sank the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst at the Battle of North Cape.
	www.shipmodels.co.uk /660_1_12457.html (520 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - A World at War / Part 2
		She was also the first British cruiser to carry a twin-gun forward turret, a trend that the Royal Navy would continue.
		In May 1936, Emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia made the fateful decision to seek assylum in England as a result of Facist Italy's attacks on his country.
		The cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk, but miraculously, the Enterprise and two destroyers were able to rescue 1,122 of the 1,546 crewmen of the two unfortunate ships.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych08b.htm (1516 words)

	Albion College/Io Triumphe Class Notes
		We were gratified to have won the honor of being the class with the largest percentage of participation in annual giving for 1995-96.
		Our class was honored with a plaque recognizing that we had contributed the largest sum monetarily to the College during the past year.
		Ann is involved in the Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Michigan, serves on the volunteer council of the Detroit Symphony, is a member of the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and is the founder and past president of the Women's Economic Club.
	www.albion.edu /alumni/io/admin_alum/Winter97.asp (11800 words)

	Balkans, Greece, Crete, HMS, Gloucester, Nubian, Ajax, Fiji, Greyhound, Formidable, Hereward, Dido, Orion, Perth, Barham
		On the 27th, Vice-Adm Pridham-Wippell with cruisers "Ajax", "Gloucester", "Orion" and the Australian "Perth" and destroyers sails from Greek waters for a position south of Crete.
		with a Mediterranean Fleet cruiser force escorting a convoy from Greece to Egypt, is torpedoed and sunk to the southeast of Crete by Italian submarine "Ambra".
		is sunk north of Crete by destroyers "Terpischore", "Troubridge" and the Polish "Garland" of Adm Troubridge's escort carrier and cruiser force.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsBalkans.htm (4141 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall of the Kent class
		In September in the central Atlantic area, a French naval expedition force consisting of the light cruisers Georges Leygues, Montcalm, Gloire and the large destroyers Le Fantasque, Le Malin and L'Audacieux were sent to re-establish the authority of the Vichy government.
		The light cruiser Primaguet with the tanker Tarn had been sent ahead of the French force to Libreville to provide fuel supplies, but they were intercepted by HMS Cornwall and HMS Delhi and escorted to Casablanca.
		In all 1,120 men from the crews of both ships were rescued by the British light cruiser HMS Enterprise and the British destroyers HMS Paladin and HMS Panther.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1184.html (640 words)

	Town class cruiser (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Southampton-class became the template for the subsequent two sub-classes and had been originally built in response to the powerful US Brooklyn-class and Japanese Mogami-class light-cruisers.
		The Edinburgh-class had it's size increased from 591.6 ft to 613.6 ft, initially to allow the armament to increase, from twelve 6 in (152 mm) guns in four triple turrets in the two previous sub-classes, to sixteen 6-in guns in four quadruple turrets.
		The idea was soon sheleved however, due to the difficulties in actually manufacturing an effective quadruple 6-in turret, and so the class reverted to the original main armament design, though improved for the new sub-class.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/town_class_cruiser__1936_ (463 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire of the Dorsetshire class
		Right after commissioning in 1930 HMS Dorsetshire was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron Atlantic Home Fleet, serving along her sister ship HMS Norfolk, and the slightly smaller heavy cruisers HMS York and HMS Exeter.
		From 1933 until 1936 HMS Dorsetshire served on the Africa Station, and her first recorded docking in the Selborne dry dock Simonstown, South Africa was on 5 January 1934.
		A total of 53 bombers from the carriers sunk the two ships, 1,122 men from a total of 1,546 were later rescued by the cruiser HMS Enterprise and the British destroyers HMS Paladin and HMS Panther.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1185.html (865 words)

	Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser / Raider) - Pinquin
		She was the first of the German Auxiliary Cruisers to be sunk.
		The demolition charges having failed to sink her quickly enough, she was finished off with a torpedo, and Krüder, disappointed that he had been unable to help himself to some of her tempting cargo, took his ship swiftly from the scene.
		Uncertain as to the true identity of his quarry, the British captain spent most of the day shadowing the raider, until late in the afternoon he closed rapidly with her, leaving Krüder in no doubt that there was no alternative but to fight it out.
	www.bismarck-class.dk /hilfskreuzer/pinguin.html (3714 words)

	Encyclopedia: Town class cruiser
		The class were built in a number of sub-classes known as the Bristol (five ships), Weymouth (four ships), Chatham (three RN ships, four RAN ships), Birmingham (three ships) and Birkenhead (two ships) classes.
		They were also the first cruisers to be fitted with an aircraft, specifically the Sopwith Pup, though the aircraft could not actually land back on the ship and would have to ditch into the sea if it was not possible to reach land.
		It must be said that the ships of the class saw more service than is mentioned here, including action against German merchant ships.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Town-class-cruiser (294 words)

	Chatham Class Light Cruisers, Royal Navy
		In 1915 she was sent to the Dardanelles and in 1916 became the flagship of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet until 1918.
		She transferred to the 8th cruiser sqn from 1917-1919 becoming flagship to the 7th cruiser sqn sat South America from May 1919-1920.
		Carl Proctor agrees with Mr Mar that this is a Chatham Class cruiser.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /chatham_class.htm (1644 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Remembering Hood: Leonard C Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She belonged to an obsolete design known as the battle cruiser, and, of course, she was 25 years old.
		In this class of ship, speed and gun power were the main features, consequently, in engaging an enemy of "Bismarck's" calibre, "Hood" had to close the range as quickly as possible to ensure that any hits received would strike the side which was armoured, rather than the deck which was not.
		I am fully aware of the various naval treaties that existed which prevented Britain renewing her navy, but if we were only to be allowed to retain certain units, then it was up to the nation to see that those units were the most modern available.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/bios/LeonardCWilliams2.html (8460 words)

	HMS Belfast (C35) - MindSharer Article Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Belfast (C35) is a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.
		She served in World War II and is now berthed on the River Thames near the Tower Bridge in London and serving as a museum ship.
		She served with distinction during World War II, in which she participated in the sinking of the German battlecruiser (or light battleship) Scharnhorst, the Normandy Landings, and the force of Operation Zipper (intended to eject the Japanese from Malaya but turned into a relief operation by the Japanese surrender).
	articles.mindsharer.com /html/HMS_Belfast (274 words)

	Inventing Europe: Let's Take a Trip (The CD Script)
		It was 1936 before Beryl Markham finally flew from England to the Canadian mainland.
		Towns like this were raising the standard of living and raising expectations.
		The town itself is part of the Polish phrase, "The Great Salt Treasure." We know that salt was taken out of Wieliczka as early as 3500 BC.
	www.uh.edu /engines/taketrip.htm (10845 words)

	VOLTERRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Volterra is a town in the Tuscany region, Italy.
		The town has a history which dates back to the Etruscan Period.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/vo/Volterra.htm (39 words)

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