course, this competitive cruiser-building is nothing new. We and the Germans went through the whole cycle before the war.
Our cruiser tonnage grew from the 5,000-ton Minerva class to 10,000 tons in the old County class, to 11,000 in the Devonshire class, to 13,500 in the Achilles class, and to 15,000 tons in the Minotaurs.
There was then a jump of over 2,000.tons, as armoured cruisers turned into battle-cruisers. Then these battle cruisers in turn. began to get bigger, increasing rapidly from the 17,000" tons of the Indomitables to the 27,000 tons. of the Queen Mary.
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