Armored cruiser
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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
Battlecruiser
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The battlecruiser was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes
Armored cruiser
…and steam propulsion. By the 1890s, cruisers had abandoned sail and took on a modern appearance. In 1908, the armored cruiser was supplanted by the battlecruiser, which, with armament equivalent to that of a dreadnought battleship and speed equivalent to that of a cruiser, was faster and more powerful than an…
HMS Hood, the largest battlecruiser ever built, in Australia on 17 March 1924
HMS Shannon, a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser
Invincible, Britain's first battlecruiser
HMS Queen Mary, the last battlecruiser built before World War I