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Battle Of Jutland: Compared with battleships and ordina cruisers, armored cruisers and battle cruisers si fered very heavy losses in World War I. Thr British armored cruisers were sunk by a su marine on Sept. 22, 1914. A few weeks later, i November 1, two more were sunk off Corom Chile, by two German armored cruisers, vhii in turn succumbed on December 8 to two Briti battle cruisers off the Falkland Islands. The Ba tie of Jutland, the classic dreadnought encounte discredited those big, lightly armored ships; thn British battle cruisers and two armored cruise were sunk, while the similar German cruise were badly mauled.The greatest fight in history (until Leyte Gulf) was an ecisive encounter between those two fleets on y 31-June 1, 1916, in the Battle of Jutland, ch showed that battleships could absorb pun-oent that battle cruisers, with their lighter or, could not. The battleship situation was strongly affected :n the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 ;pted the American suggestion of a naval holi-(in the building of capital ships, with a ratio ive-five-three for the United States, Britain,Science Museum, London The British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought.
The ancient fleets contained far more numerous capital ships than those of later days. Whereas there were only 27 British and 33 French and Spanish ships of the line at Trafalgar in 1805, and similar small numbers in the later great battles of Jutland (1916) and Leyte Gulf (1944), there seem to have been at least 1,000 triremes, and possibly 1,800, in the decisive Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C. At Aegospotami, in 405 B.C., the Spartans captured 171 of the 180 Athenian triremes, whose crews had gone ashore to forage for food. |
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