What does CL stand for?

Light Cruiser (Cruiser-Light)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Despite their victory in Norway, the Kriegsmarine suffered irreversible losses: 2 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 10 destroyers, and 6 U-boats.

Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940

A stoker in the Royal Navy, Norman was one of 418 from a ship's company of 650 lost when HMS Penelope, a light cruiser, was lost on February 18, 1944, at Anzio.

Picture of sailor reunited with owner

This volume comprises 10 feature articles, whose topics include: the training ship Jadran, Italian fast coastal forces from 1934-1986, the Soviet light cruisers of the Kirov class, and weather and warship casualties from 1934-1944.

Warship 2009

Enthusiast and author Pfenningwerth tracks the career of the light cruiser, including blocking German ships in neutral ports, escorting troop convoys, attacking shore positions in Libya and Syria.

The Australian cruiser Perth; 1939-1942

But there was controversy in the aftermath of the sinking as the light cruiser was outside a British-declared exclusion zone around the islands in the South Atlantic.

THERE WAS A BANG..A CHEER..THEN I THOUGHT CHRIST WHAT HAVE I DONE? 25 ...

The British, in contrast, suffered damage to one light cruiser and three destroyers, as well as thirty-five officers and men killed and forty wounded.

Osborne, Eric W. The Battle of Heligoland Bight

For Joseph Lynch, of Wallasey, who has died aged 93, these cruel seas had an earlier resonance from his heroic rescue of one of his shipmates from the light cruiser HMS Nigeria, while lying at anchor off the capital, Port Stanley, on February 26, 1948.

OBITUARY: Joseph Lynch GC

The last was a 4,650 tonne light cruiser built by Palmer's Shipbuilding company in Jarrow.

Supership to be pride of the Tyne