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...uisers. In torpedo range before her sister ships, she hit Japanese heavy cruiser, ''IJN Kumano'' and blew off her bow. She then took several hits from 14" battleship and 6" cruiser guns, losing one engine.<blockquote>It was like a puppy being smacked by a

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...8, 1940, came out of a rain squall and confronted a German [[cruiser|heavy cruiser]], ''Admiral von Hipper''. Glowworm tried to hit with guns and torpedoes, b ...headed North. The Commanding Officer at once gave chase. The German heavy cruiser, Admiral Hipper, was sighted closing the Glowworm at high speed. Because of

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...or, when there was a threat from heavily gunned raiders, perhaps an older cruiser or battleship. ...lled a "destroyer leader", and actually had the characteristics of a light cruiser.

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*[http://www.chromeheads.org/ The Chromeheads] R1200C/CL/CLC cruiser forum

...irst World War. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1930, commanded cruiser ''USS Indianapolis'' in 1937-1938, and served as naval attaché in Rome and He commanded a cruiser-destroyer group, under [[Frank Jack Fletcher]], at the [[Battle of the Cora

..., in 1941. It sank 116,000 tons of shipping, including the armed merchant cruiser ''[[HMS Jervis Bay]]''. ...Bismarck'', his flagship. Reducing the scope of the operation, he sent the cruiser back to Germany.

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...l [[naval gunfire support]] to ground troops. Still, the role of the heavy cruiser, in an era when the roar of surface gunfire actions disappeared into the ec | title = USS Salem (CA-139), the world's only preserved heavy cruiser}}</ref>