Protected cruiser

The armor tended to range from 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.5 cm) in thickness.

need origin, usage in other navies

A few protected cruisers have been preserved as museum ships:

• Aurora[?] - St. Petersburg
• HNLMS Bonaire[?] - Delfzijl
• USS Olympia[?] - Philadelphia
• Puglia[?] - La Spezia

Protected cruisers in the US Navy

The first protected cruiser of the "New Navy[?]" was the USS Atlanta[?], launched in October 1884, soon followed by the Boston in December, and Chicago a year later. 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.

The reclassification of 17 July 1920 put an end to the US usage of the term "protected cruiser", the existing ships designated as plain "cruisers" with new numbers (so that the armored cruisers could retain their numbers unchanged).