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Meaning of "armored cruiser"
armored cruiser: a type of warship with both offensive capabilities and protective armor, often used to describe a specific class or category of naval vessels
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- A type of cruiser (the warship) common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, carrying a small number of moderately-heavy main guns plus a large secondary battery of smaller guns and with armor protecting the sides and upper and lower decks, but lighter and with thinner armor and less powerful guns than a battleship; a mainstay of battle fleets around the turn of the 20th century, but displaced from this role by the more powerful battlecruiser after ca. 1908, becoming obsolescent by the time of WWI.
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The last russian armored cruiser rurik.
The flotilla was reinforced by the elderly pre-dreadnought battleship Canopus and the armored cruiser Defence.
Roon class armored cruiser.
During the battle, British battlecruisers ambushed the German squadron and sank the armored cruiser Blücher.
Pisa class armored cruiser.
The armored cruiser then shifted to Key West where she embarked the Secretary on 23 February.
Ibuki class armored cruiser.
Armored cruiser used as a pontoon for exercises until it was scrapped in 1933.
Scharnhorst class armored cruiser.
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pennsylvania class armored cruiser.
At dawn, the armored cruiser Amalfi crossed paths with UB-14 and was torpedoed.
His flagship was the armored cruiser Kléber.
The exterior filming took place in Yugoslavia and on the armored cruiser Dubrovnik.
It may be urged that an armored cruiser was never intended to fight a battleship.
See also
Torpedo belt Protected cruiser Armored cruiser.
Italian armored cruiser Amalfi.
She also scored one hit on the armored cruiser Nisshin.
Russian armored cruiser Rurik.
Prinz Adalbert class armored cruiser.
SMS "Gneisenau" was an armored cruiser of the German navy, part of the two-ship.
Victoria Louise class armored cruiser.
SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial Navy.
Elba was joined by the protected cruiser Giovanni Bausan and the armored cruiser Carlo Alberto.
SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Empire.
An Austro-Hungarian submarine, U-4, intercepted the Italian ships and sank the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Fürst Bismarck was the first armored cruiser constructed for the Imperial Navy.
His first command was the gunboat Nashville in 1913, followed by the armored cruiser Montana.
Aoba is an armored cruiser.
Infanta Maria Teresa class armored cruiser.
SMS Blücher [ a ] was the last armored cruiser built by the German Empire.
Upon her commissioning, she was the smallest true armored cruiser in the world.
The Division consisted of the armored cruiser, the flagship,, and the light cruisers,, and.
Template, Prinz Adalbert class armored cruiser.
Georgios Averof is the only armored cruiser still in existence.
Template, Victoria Louise class armored cruiser.
Ibuki-class armored cruiser.
In the autumn of 1909, she deployed westward with the Armored Cruiser Squadron.
SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser of the German.
Template, Scharnhorst class armored cruiser.
At around 02:00, Thüringen destroyed the armored cruiser HMS Black Prince in a massive explosion.
In 1920 she underwent a reconstruction in France, along with the armored cruiser Georgios Averof.
The design influenced the planned conversion of the armored cruiser SMS Roon into a seaplane carrier.
Dupuy de Lôme, an early armored cruiser.
These changes eventually manifested themselves in the armored cruiser Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia.
Two Japanese ships-the battleship Hizen and the armored cruiser Asama-had been patrolling in the area.
In the ensuing Battle of Dogger Bank, the large armored cruiser Blücher was sunk.
SMS Sankt Georg was the third and final armored cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
Template, Roon class armored cruiser.
