Complex sentence: Marder II p.425 The light cruisers "Rostock" and had tried to lead the British ships into the waiting guns of the battlecruisers, but upon sighting the German capital ships, the British cruisers turned south.
Split into simpler sentences: Marder II p.425 The light cruisers "Rostock" and had tried to lead the British ships into the waiting guns of the battlecruisers. But upon sighting the German capital ships, the British cruisers turned south.