Talk:Protected cruiser

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Any info on protected cruisers from "other" navies?

I've read somewhere (can't find the source) that other navies apart from the USN and RN had this type of ship, among them: ARA (built in Italy, I believe), French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Can anyone expand this article including at least some of these "other" navies? Thanks and regards, DPdH (talk) 16:16, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USN Protected and Peace Cruisers

This article states: "A numbered series of cruisers began with Newark (Cruiser No. 1), although Charleston (Cruiser No. 2) was the first to be launched, in July 1888, and ending with another Charleston, Cruiser No. 22, launched in 1904." With no further explanation, it might be concluded that all of these were protected cruisers. In fact, this series of ships included both protected cruisers and peace cruisers, the latter being a glorified name for a gunboat with no armor protection to speak of. Perhaps some clarification should be made... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.61.141 (talk) 15:58, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Opening section; types and successors

Hi! I've re-written part of the opening to this article, mostly to help clarify the end of lineage and succession of the protected cruiser's type and role. As things stood, it was unclear whether the large armored cruiser was the 20thC light cruiser's 'design ancestor' or not. Clearly, it wasn't, so I have removed consideration of it from the final paragraph and tried to lay out the basis of the new 'light cruiser/light armoured cruiser' leading to the 'treaty cruiser' and thus to the 'heavy' & 'light' cruisers of the 1930s and WW2.

I appreciate that the use of two links to the Light Cruiser article may be problematic or redundant, but it's intended to help with reading around the topic and thus understanding for the reader. Please, please do modify this as necessary! If you can re-write that last line, to make it scan better whilst keeping the fundamental facts of the design lineage in there, I would appreciate that enormously, as I want this opening to be as sharp and accurate as possible, but my tired brain is only up to factual accuracy right now rather than good prose.

Many thanks for allowing me to help! 2A00:23C7:3100:B501:5C94:FF21:CD46:CCDB (talk) 02:03, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]