High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Courageous class battlecruisers were a class of three ships known as "large light cruisers" built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Nominally designed to support Admiral Sir John Fisher's Baltic Project, they were very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. They were given shallow draught, supposedly to allow them to operate in the shallow waters of the Baltic, but this also reflected lessons learned thus far during the war. The first two ships were commissioned in 1917 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. They participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917 and were present when the High Seas Fleet surrendered a year later. Their half- sister Furious was designed with a pair of 18-inch (457 mm) guns, but was modified while building to take a flying-off deck and hangar in lieu of her forward turret and barbette. She made some patrols in the North Sea before her rear turret was removed and another flight deck added. Her aircraft attacked the Zeppelin sheds at Tondern in July 1918.

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