Pocket Battleship
Parent Type: Capital Ships
Quick Facts
- Era
- 20th Century
- Role
- Heavily armed commerce raider
- Notable For
- Compact capital-ship concept
Pocket battleships were compact warships designed to outgun cruisers and outrun battleships.
Related Types
- Aircraft Carrier
- Battlecruiser
- Battleship
- Carrier Strike Group Flagship
- Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ship
- Commando Carrier
- Dreadnought Battleship
- Escort Carrier
- Fast Battleship
- Fleet Carrier
- Helicopter Carrier
- Light Carrier
- Merchant Aircraft Carrier
- Pre-Dreadnought Battleship
- Seaplane Carrier
- Super-Dreadnought Battleship