E-Book HSNH52 - Heavy Cruisers of the Royal Navy - Tome I

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They have sailed all the seas of the world, participated in the greatest naval battles in European waters, and in a South American estuary, then escort missions will follow land bombardment operations within the Task Forces of the United States Navy.
The Home Fleet heavy cruisers, the HMS, will be the result of the Washington Naval Treaty negotiations of 1922. Thirteen ships will form five significantly different classes which will be the all-purpose ships of the Royal Navy from 1928 to 1958. In peacetime, they will be present in the various British colonies but, during the Second World War, two of them will disappear under the blows of the Japanese naval aviation, another will be destroyed at anchor by patrol boats of the 10th MAS flotilla, and the best known will be sunk by Japanese heavy cruisers.

The genesis and history of the British heavy cruisers will be brought to you in two special issues No. 52 & 53, bringing together 300 photos, 19 plans, 19 profiles and 7 maps.