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Edgar-class Cruiser
The ''Edgar'' class was a nine-ship class of protected cruiser built around 1891 for the Royal Navy. Nine ships were completed, all of which participated in the First World War. One, , was lost during the war, with the other eight being scrapped in the 1920s. Design Armament for the majority of the class was two 9.2-inch guns one at each end of the ship on the centreline with ten 6-inch guns. Four of the 6-inch guns were in casemates on the main deck and six protected only by shields. For protection against torpedo boats there were 12 QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns. Armament was completed with four 18-inch torpedo tubes. ''Edgar''-class ships main protection was a thick armoured deck starting at waterline level arching up over the machinery spaces. The gun casemates were thick, with shields for the 9.2 inch guns. The conning tower had armour. Four of the ''Edgar'' class were fitted with anti-torpedo bulge The anti-torpedo bulge (also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers resembled armored cruisers, which had in addition a belt of armour along the sides. Evolution From the late 1850s, navies began to replace their fleets of wooden ships-of-the-line with armoured ironclad warships. However, the frigates and sloops which performed the missions of scouting, commerce raiding and trade protection remained unarmoured. For several decades, it proved difficult to design a ship which had a meaningful amount of protective armour but at the same time maintained the speed and range required of a "cruising warship". The first attempts to do so, armored cruisers like , proved unsatisfactory, generally lacking enough speed for their cruiser role. During the 1870s the increasing power of armour-piercing shells made ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
