It was just the same with the light cruisers as with the destroyers.
She was a match for any one of von Spee’s light cruisers, though unable to stand up to the Scharnhorst or Gneisenau.
Two protected cruisers, the D'Entrecasteaux and the Guichen, and 10 light cruisers of no fighting importance completed the list of French ships.
Here the Arethusa and the Fearless were sharply engaged with two German light cruisers, the Stettin, and the Frauenlob (ten 4.
The Heligoland Bight Action On the morning of August 28 occurred a lively action in Heligoland Bight, which cost Germany 3 light cruisers and a destroyer, and seemed to promise further aggressive action off the German shores.
Halcyon off Yarmouth, wounding one man, but were driven off by the approach of other British ships, and pursued by light cruisers, which failed to engage them.
Many of the smaller vessels of the fleet of Admiral von Ingenohl, the German commander, such as destroyers, light cruisers, and scouting cruisers, were sighted.
Necessarily uncertain as to the exact position of affairs, Admiral Hood sent one of his light cruisers to reconnoitre--the Chester, which soon found herself fiercely engaged with three or four of the enemy's light cruisers.
On all sides it is reported that the glorious traditions of the past were most worthily upheld; whether in the heavy ships, cruisers, light cruisers, or destroyers, the same admirable spirit prevailed.
Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau turned to port to engage the Invincible and the Inflexible, the enemy's light cruisers turned to starboard to escape.
Both Jellicoe's and Beatty's forces had their attendant suites of destroyers, light cruisers, and other cruisers.
The paper on Naval Air Policy showed the aim of the Admiralty to be: To provide in sufficient numbers a type of airship which would be able to scout with the Grand Fleet, and, in this respect, to perform the duty of light cruisers.
I was informed that they proved to be a most useful type of vessel for the slower convoys, were excellent sea boats, with a large radius of action, were a great relief to the destroyers, and even to light cruisers, for convoy work.
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