The Cressy class was a group of six armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900, with a pair of 9.2-inch guns and armoured sides that answered criticism of the earlier Diadem class. Cressy and Aboukir were built at the Fairfield yard in Govan, and both were laid down in 1898. The class is remembered for its loss on 22 September 1914, when the German submarine U-9 sank Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir in a single action off the Dutch coast, after the Seventh Cruiser Squadron, nicknamed the Live Bait Squadron, stopped to pick up survivors from the first ship hit.
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HMS Cressy was laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan, Scotland on 12 October 1898
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a class of six armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy
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a class of six armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900
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launched on 4 December 1899
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driven by two 4-cylinders vertical triple expansion steam engines
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HMS Cressy was laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan, Scotland on 12 October 1898
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