The 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval formation of light cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1925. Originally part of the Grand Fleet, the squadron...
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The 4th Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval formation of Light cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1919. Formed on 15 May 1915 it was then assigned...
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The 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval formation of light cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1922. Formed in 1915, it was part of the Grand Fleet...
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HMAS Sydney (1912) (category Town-class cruisers (1910) of the Royal Australian Navy)
Station, before joining the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron at Greenock, Scotland in November 1916. On 4 May 1917, the cruiser was involved in an inconclusive...
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The 1st Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval unit of the Royal Navy from 1913 to 1924. The 1st Light Cruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy unit of the Grand...
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Courageous-class battlecruiser (redirect from Large light cruiser)
reinforce the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron patrolling the central part of the North Sea later that day. Two German Brummer-class light cruisers managed to...
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2nd Light Cruiser Squadron (United Kingdom) 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron (United Kingdom) 4th Light Cruiser Squadron (United Kingdom) 5th Light Cruiser...
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HMS Yarmouth (1911) (category Town-class cruisers (1910) of the Royal Navy)
assigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, and in February 1915 to 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron. Whilst serving with this squadron, she took...
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3rd Light Cruiser Squadron and named the First Cruiser Squadron, part of the newly formed Light Cruiser Force. It remained part of Light Cruiser Force...
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HMS Black Prince (sunk 1 June): Capt Thomas Parry Bonham † 2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers) Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath HMS Minotaur (flagship): Capt...
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battlecruisers, supported by the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, along with the 2nd Battle Squadron's six dreadnoughts, were to ambush...
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battlecruisers, supported by the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, along with the 2nd Battle Squadron's six dreadnoughts, were to ambush...
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light cruiser HMS Blonde, which was attached to the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet and moved to command HMS Dublin as part of the 2nd Light Cruiser...
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SMS Blücher (category Cruisers of the Imperial German Navy)
battlecruisers, supported by the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, along with the 2nd Battle Squadron's six dreadnoughts, were to ambush...
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2nd and 3rd Battlecruiser Squadrons but this was reduced to the 1st and 2nd BC Squadrons in June 1916. It also included two light cruiser squadrons and...
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the cruiser HMS Cochrane in 1910 and of the battleship HMS Colossus in 1911. He served in World War I and commanded the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from...
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reinforce the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron patrolling the central part of the North Sea later that day. Two German Brummer-class light cruisers managed to...
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reinforce the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron patrolling the central part of the North Sea later that day. Two German Brummer-class light cruisers slipped through...
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HMS Birmingham (1913) (category Town-class cruisers (1910) of the Royal Navy)
the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron, attacking a u-boat on 18 June 1915 without success. She also took part in the Battle of Jutland as a member of the 2nd Light...
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Navy's cruiser squadrons contained a maximum of five to six ships but down as low as two to three ships. From 1914 they were usually designated as Light Cruiser...
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reinforce the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron patrolling the central part of the North Sea later that day. Two German Brummer-class light cruisers managed to...
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battlecruiser action; soon after, HMS Southampton of Beatty's 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron led by Commodore William Goodenough sighted the main body of Scheer's...
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they were designated as Light Cruiser Squadrons then after 1925 redesignated as Cruiser Squadrons. The 9th Cruiser Squadron was first formed in 1912...
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commander of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913 to 1916 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet, commander of the 1st Cruiser Squadron from January...
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German cruisers were the advance screen for Hipper's ships; however, those were some 31 miles (50 km) behind. The 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron – which...
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Squadron. Between 17:48 and 17:52, eleven German dreadnoughts, including Westfalen, engaged and opened fire on the British 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron...
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and 1925, they were designated Light Cruiser Squadrons, and after 1925 re-designated Cruiser Squadrons. The squadron was established in March 1909. In...
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Grosse, and all eight battleships of I Squadron opened fire on several ships of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron; Kaiser, Ostfriesland, and Nassau engaged...
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HMS Dublin (1912) (category Town-class cruisers (1910) of the Royal Navy)
Battle Squadron in 1913 and then to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron in July 1913, operating in the Mediterranean. She was then reassigned to the 2nd Light Cruiser...
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the light cruisers of II Scouting Group began to pass the British forces searching for Hipper. One of the cruisers in the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron spotted...
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