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unusual facts about armored cruiser



Adam Mohuczy

From 1912 to 1916 he served aboard a training ship, armored cruiser General-Admiral class Gerzog Edinburgski, next, armoured cruiser, Rossiya, battleship Tsarievitch, and submarines Akula, Bars and S-12.

General-Admiral-class cruiser

The General-Admiral-class ships were a pair of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1870s.

Italian battleship Regina Elena

Regina Elena, Roma, and the armored cruiser San Marco were stationed in Benghazi, with Regina Elena recently arriving from Tobruk.

Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser

The Second Naval Law in Germany, passed in 1900, envisioned a force of fourteen armored cruisers intended for overseas service in the German colonies.

Spanish cruiser Emperador Carlos V

Emperador Carlos V was an armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy which served in the Spanish fleet from 1898 to 1933.

Spanish ironclad Pelayo

She was originally intended to be the first of a new class of battleships, but a crisis with the German Empire in the Caroline Islands in 1890 led to the cancellation of these plans and the diversion of funds to the construction of the Infanta Maria Teresa-class armored cruisers.


see also

Almirante Oquendo

Almirante Oquendo, a Spanish Navy armored cruiser that fought in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Charley Barrett

In 1918, he was injured in an explosion on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn in Yokohama harbor and never fully recovered from the injuries.

Iwate

Japanese cruiser Iwate, an armored cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1900 to the end of World War II.

Scharnhorst

SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands

Spanish destroyer Furor

Furor was to be the fifth ship in line during the escape, following the four armored cruisers and with Pluton behind her; while Infanta Maria Teresa sacrificed herself by attacking the fastest American ship, the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, Furor and the others were to avoid action, put on all the speed they could, and run for the open sea.

Spanish destroyer Plutón

Plutón was to be the sixth and last ship in line during the escape, following the four armored cruisers and Furor; while Infanta María Teresa sacrificed herself by attacking the fastest American ship, the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, Plutón and the others were to avoid action, put on all the speed they could, and run for the open sea.