Blake-class cruiser
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The Blake class was a pair of first-class protected cruisers, the first of their rank in the Royal Navy, designed in the late 1880s and built around 1890.
HMS Blenheim
HMS Blake visiting the United States in the 1890s
HMS Blenheim (1890)
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HMS Blenheim was a Blake-class first class protected cruiser that served in the Royal Navy from 1890 to 1926. She was built by Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London. The ship was
Blake-class cruiser
…of Engines Date of Cost according to Laid Down Launch Completion (BNA 1895) Blake Chatham Dockyard Maudslay July 1888 23 Nov 1889 2 Feb 1892 £440,471 Blenheim Thames Ironworks Humphrys October 1888 5 Jul 1890 26 May 1894 £425,591 See also Carlos V: a Spanish armored cruiser design inspired by the Blake-class…
HMS Blenheim, a print by William Mitchell