Type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from fragments caused by exploding shells above.
Veja mais 1 The protected cruiser is no longer regarded as having a place in the main fighting-line.
2 The protected cruiser squadrons were to sweep round the enemy's flanks, fall upon his rear, and destroy his transports and auxiliaries.
3 On September 20 the German protected cruiser Koenigsberg attacked the British light cruiser Pegasus in the harbor of Zanzibar and disabled her.
4 One of them afterwards proved to be the French second-class cruiser Arethuse; the others were the protected cruiser Chanzy and a torpedo-destroyer.
5 When the first reports of the Yalu battle reached Europe there was much exaggerated talk about the value of the protected cruiser .
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