![]() ![]() Due to their strange design choices, they were nicknamed the Outrageous-class, or "Lord Fisher's hush-hush cruisers", due to the secrecy surrounding them. However, the Baltic invasion never happened, but the ships were built anyway. ![]() As such, these ships were allowed to be built, with Fisher justifying their existence as necessary for his "Baltic project", a planned naval invasion of Germany's Baltic coast. Because the Exchequer banned building new ships larger than light cruisers, Admiral Jackie Fisher got a bit creative and called these ships light cruisers, arming them with battlecruiser guns but protecting them with light cruiser tier armor. The Courageous-class "large light cruisers" were a British class of light (battle)cruisers built during the First World War. ![]()
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