Two classes of cruiser of the Royal Navy are known as the Arethusa class:
- The Arethusa class of eight light cruisers built in 1912–1914 that served in World War I.
- The Arethusa class of four light cruisers built in 1934–1936 that served in World War II.
Famous quotes containing the word class:
“During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men—that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)