These ships were also the last armoured cruisers to be designed with sails.

Armoured cruisers could not fulfill these criteria without being built much larger and taking on a different form than they had in the past.

They were less well protected than armoured cruisers which also had a belt of armour along the sides.

She was the last armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy.

Armoured cruisers had proved less versatile than needed to do this adequately.

She is considered by some to be the world's first armoured cruiser and was intended to attack enemy merchant ships.

The only major naval power to retain a preference for armoured cruisers during the 1880s was Russia.

Defence, launched in 1907, was an armoured cruiser sunk at the battle of Jutland.

On the British side, the eight armoured cruisers were deficient in both speed and armour protection.

Only then did the Admiralty finally remove the old armoured cruisers from patrol duties.

Casemates were also used in protected and armoured cruisers, starting with the 1889 Edgar class.

During its last meeting on 22 February 1905 it decided on the outline design of the fast armoured cruiser.

These economies meant that the 1905-6 programme consisted only of one battleship, but three armoured cruisers.

Confusion about how to refer to these new battleship-size armoured cruisers set in almost immediately.

Also, the Germans began to build large armoured cruisers for use on its overseas stations, laying down eight of them between 1897 and 1906.

The Invincibles were essentially extremely large, heavily armed, fast armoured cruisers.

The armoured cruiser Ernest Renan was named in his honour.

Her armour was also much too thin for an armoured cruiser and could be easily penetrated by artillery shells.

Previous large cruisers had been of the armoured cruiser or protected cruiser type.

At the same time the British also developed faster but lightly armoured Cruiser tanks to range behind the enemy lines.

Following them were two armoured cruisers.

The Dupleix was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy.

New ships were increasingly constructed to a standard pattern and designated battleships or armoured cruisers.

Development of armoured cruisers also continued.

The class had a very marked increase in speed, displacement and firepower compared to the most recent armoured cruisers but no more armour.