The Blake class was a pair of first-class protected cruisers, the first of their rank in the Royal Navy, designed in the late 1880s and built around 1890...

cruisers of the Royal Navy. Construction of three Minotaur-class cruisers (under the names Blake, Defence and Bellerophon) began during World War II but...

HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruiser of the 20th century. She...

scrapped in the 1920s. Nine new first-class cruisers were required by the Naval Defence Act. Although the Blake-class cruisers were impressive ships and powerful...

A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can...

The Minotaur class, also known as the Swiftsure class after the lead ship was sold to Canada and renamed, were a group of light cruisers of the British...

1907 Blake class first class protected cruiser, 9,150 tons, 2 × 9.2-inch, 10 × 6-inch Blake (1889) – Sold 1922 Blenheim (1890) – Sold 1926 Edgar class first...

the United Kingdom reconstructed the Tiger-class cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Tiger into helicopter cruisers, retaining their guns forward but having their...

HMS Blenheim was a Blake-class first class protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1890 to 1926. She was built by Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding...

HMS Blake, named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake, was the lead ship of her class of protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1889 to 1922...

The Orlando class was a seven-ship class of Royal Navy armoured cruisers completed between 1888 and 1889. On 2 December 1884, the Secretary to the Admiralty...

Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers completed in 1953, De Grasse and Colbert completed in 1955 and 1959, and HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Blake completed between...

sold in 1922. The fourth, HMS Blake (C99), was launched in 1945 (but not completed until 1961) was a Tiger-class cruiser. She was scrapped in 1982. This...

HMS Tiger was a conventional cruiser of the British Royal Navy, one of a three-ship class known as the Tiger class. Ordered during the Second World War...

Theseus was an Edgar-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. The Edgars were similar but smaller versions of the Blake class. Theseus was launched...

Admiral-class ironclads Adventure-class cruisers Alert-class sloops Arrogant-class cruisers Astraea-class cruisers Blake-class cruisers Bramble-class gunboats...

HMS Lion was a Tiger-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, originally ordered in 1942 as one of the Minotaur class and laid down that same year...

renamed HMS Blake in 1944, HMS Bellerophon again in 1945 and was cancelled in 1946. HMS Tiger was another proposed Minotaur-class cruiser, initially ordered...

HMS Gambia (pennant number 48, later C48) was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was in the service of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN)...

ships was superior to their main rival, the British Blake class, which were the largest cruisers at the time but had no side armor. Armed with six 8-inch...

HMS Swiftsure was one of three Minotaur-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong...

The name was also to be used for a Minotaur-class cruiser ordered in 1942, but the ship was renamed HMS Blake before construction started in 1944. Subsequently...

Kingdom Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company Leamouth Blenheim Blake-class cruiser For Royal Navy. 5 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Columbian...

intended for triple Mark 25 mountings on the projected Neptune-class cruisers. When the Neptune-class ships were cancelled in 1946, the gun was redesigned to...

Admiral Kornilov was a protected cruiser of the Russian Imperial Navy. She was named for Vice-Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov.[citation needed]...

United States Navy armored cruiser so designated; the first was the ill-fated Maine, which was soon redesignated a second-class battleship. Due to the unusually...

D.F. Attached from 5th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Harwich Force. Attached from 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron. all I-class destroyers, except Ophelia, attached...

a resurgence of interest in cruiser motorcycles, that generally feature a V-twin engine. The idea of an American cruiser styled motorcycle featuring a...

The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named after...

from that of the British Blake-class protected cruisers.[citation needed] The Spanish Navy classified her as a "first-class battleship," but she actually...