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The keel of Cruiser Number 6 was laid in June 1891 and the ship was launched in November 1892. While the primary construction occurred in San Francisco, the heavy armor plate was constructed back ...
This article was originally published with the title “ Protected Cruiser “Charleston”—Class of Three Ships ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 97 No. 23 (December 1907), p. 411 doi:10 ...
Chattanooga; sea trial. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
Mersey ("Protected" Corvette) Described. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine.
The Edgar-class protected cruiser, the HMS Hawke, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914 in an attack that killed 524 sailors. Divers found Royal Navy crockery still sitting in the ship’s rooms.
The 52-foot aluminum sailing yacht is designed for long-range autonomy, safety, and short-handed cruising. The post Stem ...
Protected cruisers actually formed a new category that fell between the unprotected versions of the warships with no armor and those later stylized as “armored cruisers” that were almost as ...
The protected cruiser USS Chicago. Commissioned in 1885, Chicago was armed with four eight inch guns and could make 14 knots. Cruisers came about in the second half of the 19th century.
The 344-foot-long protected cruiser ideally should have been dry-docked every 20 years for maintenance. Instead it has been dutifully bobbing — and quietly wasting away — in the Delaware since ...
The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is unusual because of the large number of escorts. The cruiser is USS Bunker Hill, the oldest of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers.Bunker ...
USS Cincinnati (C-7) was a protected cruiser in service from 1894 to 1919. USS Cincinnati (CL-6) was a light cruiser commissioned in 1924, on patrols in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, and ...
The planned ship will join others in naval history named for Cincinnati. The first gunboat operated on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the Civil War.. The second, a protected cruiser, enforced ...