* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

She was succeeded by five Victoria Louise class protected cruisers, the last ' protected ', as distinct from ' armoured ' cruiser class constructed by Germany.

In the last sentence, the officer, embarrassed by the distress of the children, turns to look at the cruiser from which his party has landed — a symbol of his own adult war.

* The last ship Cramp's built was the cruiser, launched on April 22, 1945.

One of the last times that weather gage was perhaps a factor in a naval engagement was in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941 where the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen held the weather gage over the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood.

Even though by 1922 the RCN had been cut back to 366 men and had paid off its last remaining cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Navy kept two destroyers donated by the Royal Navy, HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician, until they were replaced in the late 1920s by two other ex-Royal Navy vessels HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver, and thereby maintained ships in service throughout the lean years.

The last Fritz-X attack at Salerno again lightly damaged the light cruiser Philadelphia with two near misses on 17 September.

At the end of World War I, the last three ships of the planned Mackensen class battlecruisers were redesigned and initially known simply as the Ersatz Yorck class, since the first ship was considered to be a replacement for the lost armored cruiser Yorck.

The last success of this squadron was at Souda Bay, Crete, when Buscaglia damaged another cruiser,, despite the anti-torpedo netting surrounding the ship, sending it out of commission for nine months while repairs were made.

The last cruiser in the American column, Northampton, followed Honolulu to pass the damaged cruisers ahead to starboard.

Lawrence's last words are memorialized on the Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Lake Erie ( CG-70 )

Gun cruisers were provided the designation " CA " at this time, but the last remaining gun cruiser, Newport News, was decommissioned in 1975, so the designation was and remains theoretical.

With only three guns still firing, Roope successfully rammed the cruiser as a last gesture of defiance.

St. Paul was the last Baltimore class cruiser providing gunfire support for ground forces.

This led to the last of the cruiser line and the first of the Universal tanks, the very successful Centurion tank.

With little choice, Honor dispatches the light cruiser Apollo to Manticore for reinforcements and prepares her last two ships, Fearless and Troubadour to fight the Masadans.

In this last coordinated action of the Far East Air Force, U. S. planes damaged two Japanese transports, the cruiser, and the destroyer, and sank one minesweeper.

The last car to roll off the line was a turquoise Lark cruiser on March 4, 1966.

He last commanded the Navy guided-missile cruiser Tucson, retiring after a long career in the United States Navy.

* USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1994, the last US cruiser built in the 20th century

Over the last 20 years, the northern bank of Göta älv has undergone major expansion.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.