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USS Boston protected cruiser
HMS Hood
cruiser: Aurora
Japanese cruiser Furutaka
USS Indianapolis at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Oahu Island, Hawaii, c. 1937.
USS Long Beach
Russian cruiser Varyag exiting San Francisco Bay, 2010.
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