Russian cruiser General-Admiral (1873)
- Russian cruiser General-Admiral (1873)
"General-Admiral" was a warship of the Imperial Russian Navy, and is generally considered as the first true armored cruiser. [ Beeler, p222 ] She had a sister ship, the "Gerzog Edinburgski".
She was launched in 1873, and scrapped in 1938.
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*cite book |last=Beeler|first=John Francis|title=British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era|year=1997|location=San Francisco|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=0804729816
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