This page is about an early 20th century warship type with rather a explosive reputation, for spaceship appearing in Starcraft games go to battlecruiser.
A capital ship with the armament of a battleship while possessing the armor and speed of a cruiser. Originally an evolution of the armored cruiser, later ones morphed into fast battleships for all intents and purposes. The definition of battlecruiser can be somewhat murky as multiple different nations built/designed them and they all had different ideas of what they should be, so depending on your definition, all, some, or none of the following ships might be battlecruisers: