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    An unprotected cruiser was a type of naval warship that was in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought era (about 1880 to 1905). The name...
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    unprotected cruiser of 3,042 tons, with six 6.4-inch guns. The fastest Spanish vessel with a top speed of 16 knots. Castilla, unprotected cruiser of...
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  • list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, protected, scout, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates...
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    Kelsey Bay, on the north coast of Vancouver Island. Battlecruiser Unprotected cruiser Beeler, pp. 42–44 Brown, Warrior to Dreadnought, Warship Development...
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    Marine (Imperial Navy) began building a series of cruisers. The first designs—protected and unprotected—were ordered to replace aging sail and steam-powered...
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    cruisers of World War I List of cruisers of World War II Protected cruiser Unprotected cruiser Beeler, John (2001). Birth of the Battleship: British Capital...
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    A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches)...
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    surface cruisers; 'cruising' distant waters, commerce raiding, and otherwise operating independently. When operating within a fleet, cruisers and cruiser submarines...
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  • a list of cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy built between 1885 and 1945. Note that the four Tsukuba and Ibuki class armoured cruisers were re-classed...
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    "Cruiser No. 1". Only the Montgomery class were unprotected cruisers, all the rest were protected cruisers. The Navy often referred to unprotected cruisers...
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    The second USS Marblehead (C-11/PG-27) was a Montgomery-class unprotected cruiser in the United States Navy, authorized in the naval appropriations bill...
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    Battlecruiser (redirect from Battle cruiser)
    The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar...
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    from colliers that had been on station throughout the Pacific. The unprotected cruiser Geier, which had failed to rendezvous at Pagan, tried to join Spee's...
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    The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range...
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    Milan was a late-19th-century unprotected cruiser in the French Navy. At the time of her completion, Milan was considered by several publications to be...
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    Albuquerque (also spelled as ''Afonso d’ Albuquerque) was a sloop or small unprotected cruiser of the Portuguese Navy. In Portuguese service, she was classified...
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  • Heibetnuma was an unprotected cruiser[citation needed] with a composite hull of the Ottoman Navy, laid down in 1881 at the Constantinople dockyard and...
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    Jean (2013). French Cruisers 1922 – 1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-133-5. Whitley, M. J. (1999). Cruisers of World War Two: An...
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    In the 1880s and 1890s, Germany built nine unprotected cruisers in three classes. These ships proved to be transitional designs, and experience gathered...
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    Alfonso XII, was an Alfonso XII-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy. Alfonso XII was built by the naval shipyard at Ferrol; she and her sister...
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  • Speijk (1842), ex Medusa, corvette; HNLMS Van Speyk (1882), an Atjeh-class unprotected cruiser HNLMS Van Speijk (K3), shore bombardment/escort ship; HNLMS Van Speijk (1960)...
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    cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from DARPA for a class of cruisers in the late 1970s. The proposal was for the Strike Cruiser...
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    Ecole school of naval doctrine suggested that a fleet of fast unprotected steel cruisers were ideal for commerce raiding, while the torpedo boat would...
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    USS Montgomery (C-9) (category Unprotected cruisers of the United States Navy)
    fourth USS Montgomery (C-9), the lead ship of her class, was an unprotected cruiser in the United States Navy authorized in the Naval Appropriations...
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    Navarra was an Aragon-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy in the late 19th century. Navarra was built at Ferrol, Spain. Her construction as...
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    cruiser Merchant raider Protected cruiser Scout cruiser Strike cruiser Torpedo cruiser Unprotected cruiser Escort Aviso Convoy rescue ship Destroyer Destroyer...
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    decommissioned unprotected cruiser Cormoran; the auxiliary cruiser Cormoran, which was the former captured Russian steamer Ryazan manned with the crew of cruiser Cormoran;...
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    from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Unprotected cruiser was a type of naval cruiser in use during the early 1870s Victorian or pre-dreadnought...
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    launch her seaplanes. Another early seaplane carrier was HMS Hermes, an old cruiser converted and commissioned with a flying-off deck in mid-1913. However...
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    USS Reina Mercedes (IX-25) was an unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy which was captured in Cuba in 1898 by the U.S. Navy during the Spanish–American...
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