Talk:Ship/@comment-135.23.225.8-20150316012752/@comment-24332640-20150317084256

Well in the early years of the 20th century there was still no such thing as a "fast battleship" and battleships and battlecruisers were very distinct classes with different mission profiles. Engine technology just wasn't good enough to make a ship both fast and heavily armored. The classes only became blurred as engines got better so battleships started getting faster and battlecruisers started getting better armor, and eventually there was really no point in distinguishing between them.