After three days of back-breaking work by the three ship's crews, Enrica was transformed into a naval cruiser, designated a commerce raider, for the Confederate States of America.

Over three decades of 'gunboat diplomacy' - sustained as it was by moral, commercial and, most important, strategic motives - naval cruisers captured some 1,000 dhows and saved about 12,000 Africans from the horrors of enslavement.

Corbulo has a light naval cruiser with trusted officers waiting at the spaceport.

Which means Cayleb didn't even have to pay the cost of their artillery out of pocket, much less their entire hulls, to provide himself with dozens-maybe even hundreds-of light naval cruisers.

In 1712, Tordenskjold succeeded in burning 80 Swedish naval cruisers, which played a large part in the outcome of the Great Nordic War (1709-1720).

A6 Iran Marks Grim Anniversary Iranian authorities marked the 10-year anniversary of the shooting down of an Iran Air civilian airliner by an American naval cruiser.

The protected cruiser is a 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.

As large and powerful as a naval cruiser, Glasgow-built Pass of Balmaha was originally intended to prospect for ores.

On the deck of the Taiwanese naval cruiser Lotung a thick fall rain was falling.

Bendra could have told them that it would have been much more effective for the Is-kaldai to use a naval cruiser as his command ship, rather than adapting a luxury yacht for that purpose.