Light Cruiser
Parent Type: Surface Combatants
Quick Facts
- Era
- 19th–20th Century
- Role
- Medium cruiser
- Notable For
- Screening and scouting
Light cruisers were fast scouting and screening warships with medium-calibre guns.
Related Types
- Anti-Air Destroyer
- Anti-Aircraft Cruiser
- Anti-Submarine Frigate
- Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship
- Armoured Cruiser
- Armoured Gunboat
- Coastal Defence Ship
- Colonial Gunboat
- Convoy Escort Vessel
- Corvette
- Cruiser
- Destroyer
- Destroyer Escort
- Destroyer Leader
- Dispatch Gunboat
- Escort Destroyer
- Escort Sloop
- Fast Attack Craft
- Fleet Destroyer
- Fleet Screening Ship
- Frigate
- Guided Missile Cruiser
- Guided Missile Destroyer
- Guided Missile Frigate
- Gunboat
- Heavy Cruiser
- Hydrofoil
- Littoral Combat Ship
- Missile Boat
- Modular Warship
- Monitor
- Multi-Role Combat Ship
- Ocean Escort Vessel
- Protected Cruiser
- Radar Picket Ship
- River Gunboat
- River Monitor
- Scout Cruiser
- Stealth Destroyer
- Stealth Frigate
- Submarine Chaser
- Torpedo Boat
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer
- Torpedo Boat Destroyer Leader
Classes in this Type Tree
Cold War (1)
- Tiger-class cruiser – 3 built
Interwar / WWII (1)
- Leander-class cruiser – 8 built
WWII (5)
- Arethusa-class cruiser – 4 built
- Crown Colony-class cruiser – 11 built
- Dido-class cruiser – 16 built
- Fiji-class cruiser – 11 built
- Town-class cruiser town – 10 built