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 ...

BIDS FOR NEW WARSHIPS; Four Offers Received to Construct Three Protected Cruisers. To be the Most Powerful Vessels of Their Class -- Cramp and Union Iron Works Not Represented.

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 ...

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 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 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 ...