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The Oasis-class ships, at over 225,000 GT, at least 154 feet (47 m) wide, 240 feet (73 m) high, and 1,180 feet (360m) long, can accommodate over 5,400 passengers. [19] Oasis-class ships were surpassed by the first Icon-class ship, Icon of the Seas, at 248,663 GT in 2023. Since 2008, other cruise lines have been ordering 135,000+ GT ships.
These ships were fitted as flagships with improved command, control and communications facilities. These are dedicated ASW ships with significant anti-aircraft capability including both SA-N-3 and SA-N-4 surface-to-air missiles. The specifications for the class were issued in 1964 with the design being finalised in the late 1960s.
This is a list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo , unprotected , protected , scout , light , armoured , battle- , heavy and missile cruisers. Dates are launching dates.
Design 1047, also known as Project 1047, [8] was a series of plans for a class of Dutch battlecruisers prior to the Second World War.These large capital ships were intended to counter the threat posed by Japanese aggression towards the Dutch colonies in the East Indies.
However, in the 1970s, the Soviet Union began the construction of a class of very large guided missile cruisers, much larger than any other surface combatant [N 1] built since the Second World War. This new type, the Kirov -class , although designated as a "heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser" by the Soviet Navy, was generally referred to in ...
The five ships of the Admiral Hipper class were authorized under the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, signed in 1935, which permitted Germany 50,000 long tons (51,000 t) of heavy cruisers. Of these ships, only three were completed; the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 caused work to be halted on the last two ships.
Borodino-class vessel under construction in Saint Petersburg in 1916 Kirov-class missile cruiser at sea in 1986. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russian Naval General Staff decided that it needed a squadron of fast "armored cruisers" (Броненосный крейсер; bronenosnyy kreyser) [note 1] that could use their speed to maneuver into position to engage the head ...
The Invincible-class ships were the first battlecruisers [Note 1] in the world. The design resembled that of HMS Dreadnought , but sacrificed armour protection and one gun turret from the main battery for a 4- knot (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) speed advantage.