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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!thornley@uunet.UU.NET (David H. Thornley)
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Subject: Re: CGN/DLGN Classification
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Date: 21 May 91 16:15:47 GMT
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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!thornley@uunet.UU.NET (David H. Thornley)


swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) writes:
>>Actually, "CA" stands for "Armored Crusier", not "Heavy Cruiser."
>
>CA defined as "armoured cruiser" - I can't find anything to support
>your statement. This term might have been used unofficially, who knows?

You have to get into some old stuff for this.  Originally, the Navy
had armored cruisers, protected cruisers, scout cruisers, and peace
cruisers (I refer of course to the New Navy put together in the
1890s).  Early this century, they switched designations to armored
and light cruisers.  The original 8"-gunned cruisers were designated
as light cruisers, since they were indeed a logical outgrowth of the
WWI and following light cruisers; with the armored cruisers gone and
the 1930 London naval treaty distinction between heavy (8" gun) and
light (6" gun) cruisers, the heavy cruisers were reclassified as
CAs.

DHT