Due to their design, this type of ship was criticized as being not much better than an armed merchant cruiser.

Then they pulled me for a merchant cruiser."

They had some use in countering armed merchant cruisers of a hostile navy.

The armed merchant cruiser Stadion was ahead of the fleet acting as a scout.

She was converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, and refitted with a single funnel.

A British merchant cruiser had been sunk by German battle cruisers.

California was a liner that had spent the first years of the war as an armed merchant cruiser before being converted to a troopship.

At first "Aquitania" was converted into an armed merchant cruiser, for which provision had been made in her design.

Requisitioned three months earlier, the 16,000 ton rawalpindi had been converted into an armed merchant cruiser.

The military authorities requisitioned a large number of ships as armed merchant cruisers or for troop transport.

These three ships had been built as civilian motor vessels and were converted to armed merchant cruisers at the outbreak of war in 1939.

The following day Thor was again challenged, this time by the armed merchant cruiser Cheshire.

In August 1939 she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser, retaining the name Carinthia.

The Armed merchant cruisers were made by requisitioning large ships and providing them with guns and other equipment.

The Moldavia was purchased by the Admiralty in 1915 and converted into an armed merchant cruiser.

"The greatest liner of her day" was commissioned into Naval service on 8 August 1914 as an armed merchant cruiser.

So it had to be one of the Manties' "merchant cruisers," which meant it was far more fragile than his flagship.

At the start of the war, Kanimbla was converted to an armed merchant cruiser at Sydney.

Lemp had mistaken the Athenia for an armed merchant cruiser, which he claimed was zig-zagging.

In World War I, the Carmania was converted to an armed merchant cruiser.

Instead, German naval strategy relied on commerce raiding using capital ships, armed merchant cruisers, submarines and aircraft.

She also unsuccessfully attacked an unidentified armed merchant cruiser south of the Strait of Messina.

And 'armed merchant cruisers,' at that!"

Built in 1938, Canton was converted to an armed merchant cruiser a year later and fitted with eight six inch and two three-inch guns.

She also fired a torpedo at the badly damaged armed merchant cruiser Ural that sank the Russian ship.