What about British battle cruisers? Like say Hood or does that fall under battleship?
Battlecruisers were Ships of the Line, that is to say, a Capital Ship. The Kongou-class were built off the blueprints of the Lion-class Battlecruisers, and weren't remodelled into Fast Battleships until the mid-1930's
What about British battle cruisers? Like say Hood or does that fall under battleship?
In Washington Naval Treaty and 1st London Naval Treaty, capital ships apply for warships that larger than 10.000 tons in displacement, but the second London Naval Treaty, the limit is increase up to 35.000 tons. Thus only Deutschland class is fall to this catalog, and British call it Pocket Battleship and German classed it as Heavy Cruiser.