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Armoured Cruiser IRN Rurik pictured c1913.
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This Brit built cruiser was quite powerful and handsome, well....until the INVINCIBLE!! She still looked good tho ;) DFO
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Bayan Class Armoured Cruiser IRN Admiral Makarov pictured in 1908.Built at Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer Shipyards in 1908,she sailed for the Baltic on May 27th 1908 and reached Tallinn, Estonia on June 11th where she was assigned to the Baltic Fleet.She was detached to the Mediterranean several times before the start of World War I in 1914. She was modified to lay mines shortly after the war began. Admiral Makarov laid mines herself during the war and provided cover for other ships laying minefields. She fought several inconclusive battles with German ships during the war, including the Battle of Åland Islands in mid–1915. She also defended Moon Sound during the German invasion of the Estonian islands in late 1917. She was decommissioned in 1918 and sold for scrap in 1922.
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Armoured Cruiser Gromoboi pictured at Port Melbourne Railway Pier in 1901, she was built at Baltic Shipyards, Saint Petersburg in 1899.... She was designed as a long-range Commerce Raider and served as such during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. When the war broke out, she was based in Vladivostok and made several sorties in search of Japanese shipping in the conflict's early months without much success...Gromoboi, with the other Armoured Cruisers of the Vladivostok Cruiser Squadron, attempted to rendezvous in the Strait of Tsushima with the main portion of the Russian Pacific Fleet sailing from Port Arthur in August 1904. The Fleet was delayed, and the Squadron returned to port alone. On the return, the Squadron encountered a Japanese Squadron of four Armoured Cruisers blocking their passage to base. The Japanese sank the oldest Russian ship, Rurik, and damaged Gromoboi and Rossia during the subsequent Battle off Ulsan. Both Russian ships were repaired within two months. Gromoboi ran aground immediately after completing her repairs and was out of action for four months. Three months after the damage from the grounding incident was repaired, she struck a mine, but successfully returned to port. Her armament was reinforced while under repair, but she saw no further action during the war...Gromoboi was transferred to the Russian Baltic Fleet after the end of the war and began a lengthy refit that was completed in 1911. She was mostly inactive during World War I, but had her armament and protection upgraded during the war. She was placed into reserve in 1918 and sold to a German company in 1922 for scrapping. She was forced aground near Liepāja during a storm en route to Germany and was scrapped in place.
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Two views of GROMBOI after meeting IJN in battle....... :o DFO
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Secondary armament, 6 inch breech loader pictured on Armoured Cruiser IRN Vladimir Monomakh c1885...Built at Baltic Shipyards, Saint Petersburg and completed in 1882. She spent most of her career in the Far East, although she was in the Baltic Sea when the Russo-Japanese War began in 1904. Vladimir Monomakh was assigned to the Third Pacific Squadron and participated in the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. She was tasked to protect the Russian transports and was not heavily engaged during the daylight portion of the battle. She was torpedoed during the night and was scuttled the following morning by her captain to prevent her capture by the Japanese.
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Two views of damaged ROSSIYA....... :o DFO
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Armoured Cruiser Rossiya pictured as she readies to depart from Vladivostok for Peter the Great Gulf to conduct experiments with a reconnaissance kite balloon in April 1905.
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Armoured Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov pictured in Dry Dock at Nagasaki in 1890.
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Armoured Cruiser Admiral Nakhimov pictured in the Hudson River, NYC in July 1893.
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