A naval force consisting of a light cruiser, a flotilla of destroyers and another of submarines brought up near Helgoland during the morning.
The Breslau was capable of a similar speed, but was a much weaker vessel, being a light cruiser of only 4,478 tons.
Blunt, the captain of the Fearless light cruiser, in recognition of his repeated vigorous and dashing attacks on the enemy.
But while the Arethusa was engaging her yet another German light cruiser, identified as the Frauenlob, appeared on the scene, and she was quite ready for a duel with her opposite number.
The Arethusa, after she had passed through our light cruiser squadron, came suddenly out of the fog into blue sky and glorious sunshine.
At this juncture there came up out of the mist our own 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, and with its assistance the Mainz was finished off and sunk.
They were followed by a light cruiserand a division of destroyers.
The telescope was levelled at the slate-grey shape of a light cruiser riding at anchor in Haddisport Roads, abreast of the camp.
Farther away there were two British destroyers and a light cruiser.
A couple of the destroyers went past, then a light cruiser.
Just the daily work of a light cruiser on patrol duty in time of war.
She was joined there on August 1st by the Breslau, a light cruiserof some three knots less speed than the Goeben and armed only with twelve 4.
The fourth also contained a light cruiser squadron, a squadron of six gunboats for mine sweeping, and four flotillas of destroyers, each with a flotilla cruiser attached.
On the 5th of September the Pathfinder, a light cruiser, was torpedoed and sunk with great loss of life.
The British destroyers and small cruisers interposed, and a bitter engagement at close range ensued, in the course of which a light cruiser participated.
It was at about this time that the German light cruiser Emden began to gain notoriety.
Highflyer (a light cruiser, used before the war as a training ship for naval cadets) sinks the German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off the West African coast.
Arethusa (light cruiser) is sunk by a mine off the East Coast.
Amphion (light cruiser) is sunk by a mine in the North Sea.
Gloucester (light cruiser) attacks and pursues the Goeben and the Breslau in the Mediterranean.
On 5 September the Pathfinder, a light cruiser, was torpedoed and sunk, and on the 13th the British retaliated by sinking the German light cruiser Hela near Heligoland.
One Dreadnought, the Goeben, and a light cruiser, the Breslau, escaped to play a chequered part in the war.
On 6 August a light cruiser, the Amphion, struck one of these mines and was sunk, and on 3 September a gunboat, the Speedy, met with a similar fate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light cruiser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
