HMS Cressy was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the China Station. In 1907 she...

the name HMS Cressy, after the Battle of Crécy. HMS Cressy (1810) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1810 and broken up in 1832. HMS Cressy (1853) was...

torpedoes. HMS Cressy: launched 4 December 1899, torpedoed and sunk 22 September 1914 HMS Sutlej: launched 18 November 1899, scrapped 9 May 1921 HMS Aboukir:...

(1893) HMS Venus (1895) HMS Diana (1895) HMS Highflyer (1898) HMS Hermes (1898) HMS Cressy (1899) HMS Aboukir (1900) HMS Good Hope (1901) HMS Bedford...

the live-bait squadron), comprising the Cressy-class armoured cruisers HMS Bacchante, Aboukir, Hogue, Cressy and Euryalus, the 1st and 3rd Destroyer flotillas...

undocked in 1860. She was broken up in 1869. HMS Sutlej (1899) was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser launched in 1899 and sold in 1921. She was scrapped in 1924...

commissioned into Royal Navy service. On 25 August 1914, the newly designated HMS Oceanic departed Southampton to patrol the waters from the North Scottish...

HMS Bacchante was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet as...

serving as a midshipman aboard HMS Aboukir when, on the morning of 22 September 1914, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy, three armoured cruisers, were...

HMS Euryalus was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Badly damaged by multiple accidents while fitting out, she was...

HMS Sutlej was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy around 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the China Station. In 1906 she...

aircraft carrier was named HMS Unicorn (I72) and the old frigate became HMS Unicorn II, but in 1941 was renamed HMS Cressy to avoid confusion. During...

slave-trade activities on the North American Station. He also commanded HMS Cressy in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He was appointed Commander-in-chief...

press – the escape of the Goeben and Breslau, and the loss of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue. Christopher Bell writes that Churchill, who had vainly urged...

Royal Navy. The Drake class were enlarged and improved versions of the Cressy class designed by Sir William White, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy...

HMS Pegasus was one of 11 Pelorus-class protected cruisers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1893 under the Spencer Program and based on the earlier Pearl...

(305 mm) of armour. HMS Drake, named after the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake, was laid down at Pembroke Dock on 24 April 1899, and launched on...

(Imperial Shipyard) in Danzig in December 1898. She was launched on 18 October 1899 and curiously, at the ceremony, her name was misspelled as Lux. By the time...

for British morale. Six weeks earlier, the armored cruisers HMS Cressy, HMS Hogue and HMS Aboukir had all been sunk on the same day by the German submarine...

Bussard and Falke there. While en route to Samoa on the night of 23–24 March 1899, Cormoran ran aground on the Whirlwind Reef, north of the western tip of...

HMS New Zealand and Invincible 40 mi (35 nmi; 64 km) to the north-west and Cruiser Force C comprising the Cressy-class armoured cruisers, HMS Cressy,...

range, Weddigen discovered three old Royal Navy armoured cruisers, HMS Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. These three vessels were not merely antiquated, but were...

training off Helgoland, she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS E9. Despite the fact that Hela sank in less than half an hour, all of her...

for the first time. 4 September: The ships Randolph, Sir George Seymour, Cressy and Charlotte Jane ( sailed 4 days later) set sail from Gravesend, then...

Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...

Leggett 20 Sep: HMS Pegasus 22 Sep: HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy, HMS Hogue, Zélée 28 Sep: SMS Cormoran, SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs 29 Sep: HMS Oceanic Other incidents...

introduction of new lighter and stronger armour technology (as seen in the Cressy class, laid down in 1898). The sole major naval power to retain a preference...

Captain D. Atkins and in the company of HMS St George, under Rear-admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, and HMS Cressy, when a gale and heavy seas came up. St...

guns with Welin interrupted screw breeches. Mark X guns were mounted on : Cressy-class armoured cruisers commissioned from 1901 Drake-class armoured cruisers...

Society, sold 1948, foundered 1948, raised and broken up 1953 Cressy class 2-decker, 80 guns Cressy 80 (1853) – sold 1867 Majestic class 2-deckers, 80 guns...