![]() ![]() The chronology focuses on the United States and the United Kingdom because those two navies went the furthest in developing missions and doctrine for battlecruisers that leveraged their new capabilities. The American battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga were later completed as aircraft carriers. The United States Navy began building six battlecruisers-the Lexington class-after World War I but those ships, as well as three British and four Japanese battlecruisers, were cancelled under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. Between 19, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan combined to build twenty-seven battlecruisers. Faster than battleships, with a uniform battery of heavy guns, and thin armor, the new ships set the pattern for a new class of warship that saw extensive service in the First World War. Soon after become First Sea Lord in 1904, Admiral Fisher pushed the development and construction of the first battlecruisers, the three ships of the Invincible class. ![]() This chronology details the development of battlecruisers in the United States and the United Kingdom from their genesis with the British Admiral John “Jacky” Fisher to the Washington Conference in 1922.
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