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• Pelham Aldrich
  Aldrich was appointed in command of the first-class protected cruiser {{UK-Hawke}} on 16 May, 1893.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official
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• H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)
  The September 1863 intake term added, for the first time, Second-Class Naval Cadetships, which had been authorized by new regulations distributed ...ths seniority, six months for a Second-Class pass, and nothing for a Third-Class. Naval Cadets were supposed to be discharged to a sea-going training ship
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• H.M.S. Blake (1889)
  ...r '''H.M.S. ''Blake''''' one of two [[Blake Class Cruiser (1889)|''Blake'' class cruisers]] completed in the early 1890s. She served as a depot ship in the {{Footer Blake Class Cruiser (1889)}}
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• Kaiser Franz Josef I Class Cruiser (1889)
  ...I Class Cruisers''' were [[:Category:Second_Class_Protected_Cruiser_Class|protected cruisers]] completed in 1890 and 1892. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Devonport Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-Serpent|f=p}}||torpedo cruiser||10 Mar, 1887||Wrecked 10 Nov, 1890 |{{UK-1Racoon|f=p}}||torpedo cruiser||6 May, 1887||Sold 1905
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• Sheerness Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-Barracouta|f=p}}||third class protected cruiser||16 May, 1889||Sold 1905 |{{UK-1Brilliant|f=p}}||second class protected cruiser||24 Jun, 1891||Blockship 23 Apr, 1918
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• Pembroke Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Shannon|f=p}}||armoured cruiser||11 Nov, 1875||Sold Dec, 1899 |{{UK-1Iris|f=p}}||second class protected cruiser||12 Apr, 1877|| 1905
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• Armstrong, Whitworth & Company
  |{{AH-Panther|f=p}}||torpedo cruiser||13 Jun, 1885||Broken up 1920 |{{AH-Leopard|f=p}}||torpedo cruiser||10 Sep, 1885||Broken up 1920
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• Vickers
  |{{UK-Latona|f=p}}||second class protected cruiser||22 May, 1890||Sold 22 Dec, 1920 |{{UK-1Melampus|f=p}}||second class protected cruiser||2 Aug, 1890||Sold 1910
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• Navyphone
  A brass navyphone recovered from a wreck of a Royal Navy armoured cruiser by a Dutch diver in the modern era may loosely be taken as an example. Lik ...the microphone through which the local user would speak; it may have been protected by a light mesh which corroded away before restoration work began. The bra
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• The Cruiser in the Royal Navy
  ==Protected Cruiser== ...ss Corvette (1878)|''Comus'' class corvettes]] in the late 1880s. In this class it comprised a 1.5 inch armoured deck three feet below the waterline stretc
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• H.M.S. Furious (1896)
  ...r [[Arrogant Class Cruiser (1896)|''Arrogant'' Class]] [[Protected Cruiser|protected cruisers]]. {{Footer Arrogant Class Cruiser (1896)}}
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• Cressy Class Cruiser (1899)
  The six [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the '''''Cressy'' Class''' were completed between 1901 and 1904. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)
  The eight [[Protected Cruiser|protected cruisers]] of the '''''Diadem'' Class''' were completed between 1898 and 1903. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Powerful Class Cruiser (1895)
  The two [[Protected Cruiser|protected cruisers]] of the '''''Powerful'' Class''' were completed in 1897 and 1898. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)
  ...1893 and 1896. They were occasionally referred to as the '''''Crescent'' Class'''. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Blake Class Cruiser (1889)
  The two [[Protected Cruiser|protected cruisers]] of the '''''Blake'' Class''' were completed in 1892 and 1894. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Colossus|f=p}}||second class battleship||1882||Sold 1908 |{{UK-1Calliope|f=p}}||third class protected cruiser||24 Jul, 1884||Sold 1951
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• Light Cruiser
  ...compromises: the [[Second Class Cruiser|Second Class]] and [[Third Class Cruiser]]s. ...nated as Scouts, Protected Cruisers Second and Third Class, and Unarmoured Cruiser, would be designated as "Light Cruisers."<ref>The National Archives. ADM 1
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• Armoured Cruiser
  ...ly '''Cruiser''' and then '''1st Class Cruiser''' or '''1st Class Armoured Cruiser''') is a generic term for a fast ship that gained its speed at the expense ...Royal Navy decreed that "Armoured Cruisers" and "Protected Cruisers First Class" should be collectively termed "Cruisers". The new naming scheme was to ap
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• Tenth Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
  The '''Tenth Cruiser Squadron''' was also known as '''Cruiser Force B''' from 1914. <div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Rear-Admiral Commanding, Tenth Cruiser Squadron" nat="UK">
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• Charles Gauntlett Dicken
  He was appointed in command of the first class protected cruiser {{UK-RoyalArthur}} dated 4 November, 1897.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligen
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• North America and West Indies Station
  ...s flag-ship, a first-class protected cruiser, and certain second and third-class cruisers. The Board have decided to withdraw from the station the less eff ...er training.<br><br>Under this arrangement it is estimated that the Fourth Cruiser Squadron will be cruising for 30 weeks, and will be at Home for 22 weeks.<b
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• Robert Henry Simpson Stokes
  ...January, 1899}} He was appointed in command of the second class protected cruiser [[H.M.S. Eclipse (1894)|''Eclipse'']] on 30 May, 1901.<ref>"Naval & Militar
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• George Morris Henderson
  He was appointed in command of the second class protected cruiser [[H.M.S. Sirius (1890)|''Sirius'']] dated 9 November, 1897.<ref>"Naval & Mi ...f the King's visit to Malta Henderson was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) on 27 April, 1903.{{Gaz|27560|3525|2
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• H.M.S. Dido (1896)
  ...d as one of nine [[Eclipse Class Cruiser (1894)|''Eclipse'']] second-class protected cruisers in 1898, she served in the Great War with the [[Royal Navy]] as a ...nt at completion is given under [[Eclipse Class Cruiser (1894)|''Eclipse'' Class]].
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• Eclipse Class Cruiser (1894)
  ...of the '''''Eclipse'' Class''' (sometimes referred to as the '''''Talbot'' class''') were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] between 1896 and 1898. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• On the Present Position of Cruisers in Naval Warfare
  In order to avoid exaggerating the importance of any class of war-ship and to truly exhibit the functions it is called upon to perform ...As an example, the ''Vernon'' frigate may be compared with the third-class cruiser ''Pearl'' of nearly the same displacement.
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• H.M.S. Powerful (1895)
  ...ad ship of a [[Powerful Class Cruiser (1895)|two-ship class of first-class protected cruisers]] completed in the late 1890s. ...rtsmouth for the China station on her first commission. She is the largest cruiser in the world on active service. Great importance was attached to her commis
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• Mersey Class Cruiser (1885)
  Four second-class protected cruisers of the '''''Mersey'' class''' were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] between 1887 and 1889. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• H.M.S. Europa (1897)
  ...opa''''' was one of eight [[Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)|''Diadem'' class]] protected cruisers completed for the [[Royal Navy]] near the beginning of the twentie {{Footer Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)}}
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• H.M.S. Edgar (1890)
  ...name ship for [[Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)|her class]] of nine first-class protected cruisers. {{Footer Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)}}
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• H.M.S. Spartiate (1898)
  ...ate''''' was one of eight [[Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)|''Diadem'' class]] protected cruisers completed for the [[Royal Navy]] near the beginning of the twentie {{Footer Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)}}
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• H.M.S. Argonaut (1898)
  ...aut''''' was one of eight [[Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)|''Diadem'' class]] protected cruisers completed for the [[Royal Navy]] at the end of the nineteenth cent {{Footer Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)}}
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• Apollo Class Cruiser (1890)
  The twenty one Second-Class Cruisers of the '''''Apollo'' Class''' were quite old during World War I. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Astræa Class Cruiser (1892)
  The eight Second-Class Cruisers of the '''''Astræa'' Class''' were completed between 1894 and 1896 and were quite old during World War {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Medea Class Cruiser (1888)
  ...uring World War I. They were sometimes referred to as the '''''Marathon'' class'''. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• A Direct Train of Cordite
  On 14 July, 1916, the Vice-Admiral Commanding the [[Battle Cruiser Fleet]], Vice-Admiral [[David Richard Beatty, First Earl Beatty|Sir David B ...rd Battle Cruiser Squadron]] and [[First Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|1st Cruiser Squadron]], passed the whole length of the Battle Line under heavy fire, an
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• H.M.S. Blenheim (1890)
  Britain's protected cruiser '''H.M.S. ''Blenheim''''' was converted to a destroyer depot ship after fif ''Blenheim'' supported 5 D.F.'s [[Beagle Class Destroyer (1909)|''Beagles'']] in the Mediterranean through the entire war,
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• H.M.S. Crescent (1892)
  ...escent''''' was one of nine [[Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)|''Edgar'' class]] protected cruisers completed between 1893 and 1896. {{Footer Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)}}
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• H.M.S. Endymion (1891)
  ...dymion''''' was one of nine [[Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)|''Edgar'' class]] protected cruisers completed between 1893 and 1896. {{Footer Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)}}
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• H.M.S. Grafton (1892)
  ...rafton''''' was one of nine [[Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)|''Edgar'' class]] protected cruisers completed between 1893 and 1896. {{Footer Edgar Class Cruiser (1890)}}
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• H.M.S. Hyacinth (1898)
  ...cinth''''' was one of three [[Highflyer Class Cruiser (1898)|''Highflyer'' class cruisers]] completed in 1899 and 1900. {{Footer Highflyer Class Cruiser (1898)}}
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• Arthur Bromley, Eighth Baronet
  ...} in the same squadron. He passed his Seamanship examination with a First Class and 946 marks, and was appointed an Acting {{SubRN}} on 15 May, 1896. He w ...0 June, 1915, and on 5 July was appointed in command of the armed merchant cruiser {{UK-Columbella}} in the {{UK-CS|10}}.
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• Highflyer Class Cruiser (1898)
  The three cruisers of the '''''Highflyer'' class''' were completed in 1899 and 1900. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Arrogant Class Cruiser (1896)
  The four second-class protected cruisers of the '''''Arrogant'' class''' were completed between 1898 and 1900. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Leander Class Cruiser (1882)
  The four second-class protected cruisers of the '''''Leander'' class''' were completed between 1885 and 1887. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Iris Class Cruiser (1877)
  The two second-class protected cruisers of the '''''Iris'' class''' were completed in 1879. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Pelorus Class Cruiser (1896)
  ...eleven [[Third Class Cruiser|third class cruisers]] of the '''''Pelorus'' Class''' were completed between 1897 and 1901. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Pearl Class Cruiser (1889)
  The nine [[Third Class Cruiser|third class cruisers]] of the '''''Pearl'' Class''' were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1891 and 1892. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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