The armoured-cruiser line Britain nearly continued

The question is why navies stopped building armoured cruisers once battlecruisers appeared, since earlier cruiser types had usually continued alongside their successors. The Royal Navy still discussed a separate dreadnought armoured cruiser rather than treating every large cruiser as a battlecruiser. The illustrative ship carries ten 9.2-inch guns, makes roughly 28 to 30 knots, and enters service around the First World War. A surviving class would still be available in the interwar and Second World War periods. Such ships would give German Panzerschiffe a far more common and affordable hunter than the small number of British battlecruisers, preserving a worldwide cruiser role that later fleets struggled to fill.