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unusual facts about protected cruiser



Beiyang Fleet

Another pair of protected cruisers, Chingyuan 靖遠 and Zhiyuan 致遠, were built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1887 at its new Elswick yard.

Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki

Shortly after midnight on 21 November they encountered the Ottoman protected cruiser Hamidiye accompanied by two destroyers approximately 32 miles from Varna.

Vitiaz-class cruiser

The Vitiaz-class ships were a pair of partially protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1880s.


see also

Akitsushima

Japanese cruiser Akitsushima was a 2nd class protected cruiser, launched in 1892, and scrapped in 1927

Avrora

Russian cruiser Aurora (Avrora), a Russian protected cruiser; currently a museum ship in St.

Isla de Cuba

Isla de Cuba, a Spanish second-class protected cruiser in service from 1887 to 1898 that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Isla de Luzon

Isla de Luzon, a Spanish Navy second-class protected cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Naniwa

Japanese cruiser Naniwa, the first protected cruiser built specifically for the Imperial Japanese Navy

Pennsylvania Navy

Ships that served with this militia until the creation of the Naval Reserve included the protected cruiser USS Chicago (1885) which served from 26 April 1916 to April 1917 and the ironclad USS Wolverine (IX-31) which served for 11 years making summer training cruises for the Naval Reserve.

Río de Oro

A British protected cruiser attacked a German auxiliary cruiser off the small Spanish colony of Río de Oro.

Victor Vlad Delamarina

He also participated in tours on the protected cruiser NMS Elisabeta on the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Adriatic.