The Edgar class were nine first-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy under the Naval Defence Act of 1889. The class gave long service and...
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The Edgar Quinet class was the last type of armored cruiser built for the French Navy. The two ships of this class—Edgar Quinet and Waldeck-Rousseau—were...
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The fifth Edgar, launched 1859, was renamed Hood in 1860. HMS Edgar (1890), an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1890 and sold 1921. HMS Edgar (51), an aircraft...
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in 1889, and sold in 1899. The sixth HMS Gibraltar (1892) was an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892, made into a depot ship in 1912, and sold in 1923...
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1816. HMS Grafton (1892) was an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892 and broken up in 1920. HMS Grafton (H89) was a G-class destroyer launched in 1935 and...
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Northern Patrol (section Cruiser Force B)
command of the Grand Fleet during the First World War. At first, Edgar-class cruisers were used but these were not built for the seas around Scotland in...
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HMS Edgar was a first class cruiser of the Royal Navy, and lead ship of the Edgar class. She was built at Devonport and launched on 24 November 1890....
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HMS Theseus (1892) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS 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...
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HMS Gibraltar (1892) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS Gibraltar, was an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892 for service in the Royal Navy. She was built and engineered by Messrs Napier of Glasgow. Of...
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Edgar Quinet was an armored cruiser of the French Navy, the lead ship of her class. She and her sister ship, Waldeck-Rousseau, were the last class of armored...
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HMS St George (1892) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS St George was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class. She was launched on 23 June 1892. In 1895 St George was on the West Coast of Africa. Together...
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The La Galissonnière-class cruisers were commissioned by the French Navy in the 1930s. They were the last French cruisers completed after 1935, until the...
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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...
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HMS Royal Arthur (1891) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS Royal Arthur was a first class protected cruiser of the Edgar class, previously named Centaur, but renamed in 1890 prior to launching. She served on...
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HMS Hawke (1891) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After commissioning in 1893, Hawke served in the Mediterranean...
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December of that year. HMS Endymion (1891), launched in 1891, was an Edgar-class cruiser. She served in World War I and was broken up in 1921. This article...
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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...
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HMS Endymion (1891) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS Endymion was a first-class protected cruiser of the Edgar class. She served in China during the Boxer Rebellion and later in the First World War, and...
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Gatineau, Quebec HMS Edgar, ships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom Edgar-class cruiser, a nine-ship class of protected cruiser built around 1891 for...
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The Tennessee-class cruisers were four armored cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1903 and 1906. Their main armament of four 10-inch (254 mm)...
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in 1771 HMS Grafton (1892), an Edgar-class cruiser launched in 1892 and broken up in 1920 HMS Grafton (H89), a G-class destroyer launched in 1935 and...
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HMS Grafton (1892) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS Grafton was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class, launched in 1892. She served in colonial service and in the First World War. Grafton survived...
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The Minotaur class, or Design Z, was a proposed class of light cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy shortly after the Second World War. Design Z...
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The Gueydon-class cruiser was a three-ship class of armored cruisers built in the first decade of the twentieth century for the French Navy (Marine Navale)...
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HMS Crescent (1892) (category Edgar-class cruisers)
HMS Crescent was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class in the British Royal Navy. Crescent, and her sister ship Royal Arthur, were built to a slightly...
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armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the second and final member of the Edgar Quinet class, the last...
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The Neptune class was a proposed class of cruisers planned for the British Royal Navy in the latter years of the Second World War. They were large ships...
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The Dupleix class consisted of three armored cruisers built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) at the beginning of the 20th century. Designed for...
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guns were removed from HMS Gibraltar, an Edgar-class cruiser which was acting as a depot ship for 10th Cruiser Squadron. They were manned by a mixed crew...
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The Powerful class were a pair of first-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1890s, designed to hunt down enemy commerce raiders...
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