Light Cruisers Today
Three light cruisers are still in existence as museum ships, and one is still used in active service by a navy - BAP Almirante Grau of the Peruvian Navy. The three ships preserved as museum ships are: HMS Belfast (1938) in London, HMS Caroline (1914) in Belfast, and USS Little Rock in Buffalo, New York. Similar ships include the protected cruisers Aurora (St Petersburg) and USS Olympia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and the bow of the Puglia (Italy).
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Famous quotes containing the words light and/or today:
“The light was what it was all about:
I would not go in till the light went out;
It would not go out till I came in.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)