Protected cruisers, a type of cruiser of the late 19th century, took their name from the armored deck, which protected vital machine-spaces from fragments...

1890s, many navies preferred to build protected cruisers, which only relied on a lightly armored deck to protect the vital parts of the ship. However,...

same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of the protected cruiser model, possessing armored...

last cruiser was decommissioned more than a century later. There are no longer any cruisers in the Royal Navy. Armoured cruisers were protected by a belt...

for the battle fleet. Cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the medium-sized protected cruiser to large armored cruisers that were nearly as big...

classifying cruisers changed such that ships over 6,000 tons were simply 'cruisers'. This would have included armored cruisers and 1st class protected cruiser. The...

meant to distinguish these ships from “protected cruisers”, which had become accepted in the 1880s. A protected cruiser did not have side armor on its hull...

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)...

residence of D'Annunzio called the Prioria (priory), an amphitheatre, the protected cruiser Puglia set into a hillside, a boathouse containing the MAS vessel...

list of cruisers, from 1860 to the present. It includes torpedo, unprotected, protected, scout, light, armoured, battle-, heavy and missile cruisers. Dates...

scout cruiser was a type of warship of the early 20th century, which were smaller, faster, more lightly armed and armoured than protected cruisers or light...

is a Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in Saint...

Shichirō in protected cruiser Itsukushima Fifth Division Rear Admiral Taketomi Kunikane in Hashidate 3 Matsushima-class protected cruisers (1 × 12.6-inch...

battleship. As a result, navies preferred to build protected cruisers with an armoured deck protecting their engines, or simply no armour at all. In the...

1890s, the French Navy built a series of protected cruisers, thirty-three vessels in total. Protected cruisers were differentiated from other cruising...

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...

interests in Cuba due to the war, the cruiser USS Maine was dispatched to protect them. Less than a month later, the cruiser exploded while lying at anchor in...

Pallada-class cruisers (often known in Russia as "Diana-type protected cruisers", Russian: Бронепалубные крейсера типа «Диана») were a group of three protected cruisers...

Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) began building a series of cruisers. The first designs—protected and unprotected—were ordered to replace aging sail and steam-powered...

Atlanta (1884), protected cruiser Boston (1884), protected cruiser – Spanish–American War, later Despatch (IX-2) Chicago (1885), protected cruiser Vesuvius (1888)...

auxiliary non-protected ships. Starting in 1892 and up to 1907, all of these ships were divided between 1st rank cruisers and 2nd rank cruisers, although...

(German: Kreuzergeschwader / Ostasiengeschwader) was an Imperial German Navy cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the Pacific Ocean between the mid-1890s...

The following is a list of cruisers of the Netherlands grouped by type. Atjeh class Atjeh (1876) Tromp (1877) Koningin Emma der Nederlanden (ex-De Ruyter)...

HNLMS Sumatra was a small protected cruiser built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 1890s for service in the Dutch East Indies. Completed in 1891...

cruiser Takao (1888) (commissioned 1888) – Protected cruiser in naval engagements. Japanese cruiser Takasago (commissioned 1899) – Protected cruiser;...

Rainha Dona Amélia, later NRP República, was a Portuguese protected cruiser, the first steel warship constructed in Portugal. Launched on 10 April 1899...

the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built or purchased twenty protected cruisers; the earliest vessels were either built or designed in Britain, though...

gunboats: the Iltis, Jaguar, Tiger, and Luchs; and the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth, whose crew was initially divided in two: half...

Varyag (Russian: Варя́г) sometimes also spelled Variag, was a Russian protected cruiser. Varyag became famous for her crew's stoicism at the Battle of Chemulpo...

The three Chikuma-class cruisers (筑摩型防護巡洋艦, Chikuma-gata bōgojun'yōkan) were protected cruisers operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They participated...