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  2. Battlecruiser - Wikipedia

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    The battlecruiser was developed by the Royal Navy in the first years of the 20th century as an evolution of the armoured cruiser. [5] The first armoured cruisers had been built in the 1870s, as an attempt to give armour protection to ships fulfilling the typical cruiser roles of patrol, trade protection and power projection.

  3. List of battlecruisers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The treaty forestalled any further development of battlecruisers for the next decade and a half. A number of countries experimented with "cruiser-killer" ships in the late 1930s that were designed to destroy the post-London Naval Treaty heavy cruisers. These designs were all roughly equivalent being scaled-up versions of heavy cruisers, being ...

  4. List of battlecruisers of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The first battlecruisers were designed in the United Kingdom, in the first decade of the century, as a development of the armoured cruiser, at the same time as the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. The original aim of the battlecruiser was to hunt down slower, older armoured cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire.

  5. Truck bed rack - Wikipedia

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    Original Truck Bed Rack Prototype, Invented in 1960 by PIERCE METAL PRODUCTS, Inc. Even though bed racks have gained great popularity over the last decade, the first bed rack was introduced in the 1960s by Pierce Metal Products Inc. [1] Its primary purpose was defined as to build the sides of the carrying box of the truck adjustable to the side of the cargo and to the type of the vehicle.

  6. Palletized Load System - Wikipedia

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    Oshkosh Truck Corporation was awarded a five-year contract for PLS in September 1990, with production commencing in 1992. [3] The original contract award was for 2626 PLS trucks, 1050 M1076 PLS trailers, and 11,030 M1077 PLS flat racks. Under the initial PLS contract, between 1992–1997 Oshkosh delivered 2905 PLS trucks and 1534 PLS trailers.

  7. List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the first class cruisers built between the Orlando class (1886) and the Cressy class (1897) were, strictly speaking, protected cruisers as they lacked an armoured belt. The first class cruiser was succeeded by the battlecruiser in the Royal Navy. Shannon first class armoured cruiser, (1875) 5,670 tons, 2×10in, 7×9inch Shannon (1875 ...

  8. Alaska-class cruiser - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska-class were six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy (USN), of which only two were completed and saw service late in the war. The USN designation for the ships of this class was 'large cruiser' (CB), a designation unique to the Alaska-class, and the majority of leading reference works consider them as such.

  9. List of types of naval vessels - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft carrier. Anti-submarine warfare carrier; Helicopter carrier; Air-cushioned landing craft; Amphibious assault ship; Battlecruiser; Battleship. Pocket battleship