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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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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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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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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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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East Asia Squadron (redirect from East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron)
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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USS Marblehead (C-11) (redirect from Marblehead-class cruiser)
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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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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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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ship HNLMS Java launched in 1885 at Rotterdam was a sloop or small unprotected cruiser. The ship was named after the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies...
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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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surface cruisers; 'cruising' distant waters, commerce raiding, and otherwise operating independently. When operating within a fleet, cruisers and cruiser submarines...
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The list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) of Germany...
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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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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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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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The Montgomery-class cruisers were three unprotected cruisers built for the United States Navy in the early 1890s. They had a thin water-tight protective...
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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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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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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...
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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)...
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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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The Schwalbe class of unprotected cruisers were the first ships of the type built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). The class comprised...
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Magon was an unprotected cruiser of the Villars class built for the French Navy in the 1870s. The ships were designed for service in the French colonial...
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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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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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Castilla was an Aragon-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War. She was...
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