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The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating
The Russian armored cruiser Rurik.
Russian armored cruiser General-Admiral.
French armored cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
HMS Orlando
Georgios Averof is a modified Pisa-class armoured cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the f
Armored cruiser
…caliber or less—rather smaller than many of the large armored cruisers. A handful survived in one form or another until World War II. Only one, the Georgios Averof of the Greek Navy survives as a museum ship. The armored cruiser was developed in the 1870s as an attempt to combine the virtues of the armored ironclad…
Georgios Averof as a floating museum in Palaio Faliro, Athens
Right elevation and plan drawing of Georgios Averof from Brassey's Naval Annual 1915
Averof fitting out, summer 1910, in Livorno, Italy
Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, 1920